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Have a geet good happy birthday mate

Yes it does. We signed Shearer for a World Record fee at the time, do you think we had the cash lying around? did we shite, we borrowed it and used sponsorship money to pay for him. This whole bollocks put about by Ashley on how bad it was to use the NR money paid at the start of the sponsorship deal to buy a player is exactly that...bollocks. What else would you have preferred was done with it? put it in the bank and gain interest? pay it off some other loan? Still at least those days are gone, now we merely mortgage off payments we havent even received yet to cover an overdraft we never should have had in the first place.

cant find the mains charger but I do have the car one, give me a shout to pass it over

Bung the file over to me and I'll take a neb for you.

Times are hard, the countries desperately in debt and yet again another Tory voter looks to fiddle the system. Fuck right off, notice the words right course of action. You want to sell your belongings and give it all to Cameron, feel free. Right course of action in this case being "for yourselves" not the country, how many free school meals could have been purchased with the tax paid on that property? 5 4 3 2 1

Because it means all of their success was built on an unsustainable business model. Which taints their achievements. It taints their achievements aye. It doesn't complete negate them though. That's basically what I've been saying anyway though. You're the one saying you judge them on where they finished up and the mistakes they made. I'm arguing for a more balanced overview. I don't think spending future income to achieve a couple of seasons in europe is anything to shout about at all though. In fact I think there's a few decent premiership sides that could probably go down that route now but choose not to, and that's why they were above us when Shepherd left. Ahhh good old hindsight again, tbf Shearer, what a waste of cash he was too after all we won nowt when he was here

Times are hard, the countries desperately in debt and yet again another Tory voter looks to fiddle the system.

whaaaaaaaat?

How fat is Barnes looking in the Mars advert? Anyway, fuck all that....its Friday!

new club surgeon by any chance?......

Its sounds a daft one but have you tried hoovering the fan covers? Its amazing how much dust and stuff accumulates around them and a quick blast with the nozzle will help cool the machine and increase performance.

oh god hes on the slippery slope, chasing losing bets.

I would have thought that raising PAYE by a mere 0.1% would easily have covered this being extended, Id happily pay that extra tiny bit more to see this continue. Handing out Child Benefit is one thing but that doesnt even help those kids most at risk, Id rather see them halve CB and give all school kids free breakfasts, milk and dinners. Ensure that every kid in the country gets a good start to the day, some additional calcium etc from the milk and a hot meal daily. That way you'll ensure that those most at risk ie the really poor or those with parents who would rather spend the CB on beer, tabs or drugs at least eat. It would also help the school system in giving more reason for these kids to actually attend school. Totally agree, can you not hack Camerons computer and set this as his wallpaper. Yet you have no problem at all in backing the closure of a pilot which would go some way towards that because we "need to save money".

I would have thought that raising PAYE by a mere 0.1% would easily have covered this being extended, Id happily pay that extra tiny bit more to see this continue. Handing out Child Benefit is one thing but that doesnt even help those kids most at risk, Id rather see them halve CB and give all school kids free breakfasts, milk and dinners. Ensure that every kid in the country gets a good start to the day, some additional calcium etc from the milk and a hot meal daily. That way you'll ensure that those most at risk ie the really poor or those with parents who would rather spend the CB on beer, tabs or drugs at least eat. It would also help the school system in giving more reason for these kids to actually attend school.

His cracks starting to go bald????

Is this really a loophole though - I am pretty certain this is already illegal. Sounds like one of those things that is really cost inneficient to pursue aswell. Maybe loophole is the wrong wording to use. As for cost inefficient I dont think it would be, off the top of my head (without use of any valid data of course) you could make it self policing. Basically, when a legitimate business is asked to do work in this way and then doesnt get the contract then they pass the details of the customer onto a department in HMRC. That department would then check out of the work had been carried out and who by, they then do a quick compliance check of the books to see if that job is recorded. If not, hefty penalty on both the supplier and customer. Just the threat of this happening would be enough to make many many more businesses fall into line. The compliance check could even be a random sample telephoned and asked to confirm that the work has been carried out, this then recorded and used in any future action. Receiving the telephone call would be enough to make the supplier add the work to their books, just in case. This means they've done work at a loss and therefore would be less likely to accept another of those jobs. It would also be possible to police the work via the planning permission route, when applying for permission the customer must name the builder, details of all planning permission data is then passed to HMRC and used in any future compliance investigation. A lot of anti-fraud measures are more scare tactics than actual investigation, put the fear into suppliers that they'll lose thousands if they do this and they'll refuse the work. Make it known that the customer will also have to repay the VAT plus a hefty fine and many will simply not bother asking in the first place.

More interesting with adverts are the small print they flash up, womens cosmetics and hair products are the worst. Things such as "70% of 229 women agree" which means that 68 women didnt think that it worked! Or the classic that appears on the Cheryl Cole ad is when they say about how it makes your hair something like 50% shinier...... the small print then says "compared to unwashed hair". Seriously? washing your hair makes it cleaner??? wow!

There was an interesting point made on News at Ten last night, they were talking to a carpenter who pointed out the money that could be raised simply by closing off the "cash in hand" loophole. What he was saying is that, as a small business hes regularly told by people that he wont get the job unless he does it cash in hand to save the VAT, as a legit business he refuses and therefore loses the work. What he then pointed out was that as the cuts deepen and more people become unemployed then you'll get a load of new tradesmen setting up on their own and agreeing to this. The resulting VAT loss already is huge but will be much, much bigger as times get harder. Close that loophole with big penalties for those that flaunt the rules and you'll get a lot more VAT in and at the same time increase the likes of PAYE/NIC as a consequence because these backhander jobs are therefore adding into peoples profits/ hours worked etc. Seems like a sensible logic and again, as I mentioned yeserday we currently have thousands of staff in HMRC who dont have proper jobs (3,500 was the figure I heard mentioned earlier today) who we could move onto this literally overnight.

Fuck the adverts completely. What should be hanging there is the lifeless bodies of a fat man and a greasy casino manager... either side of the club crest. FYP

Quite right too, toilets they need to be clean.

Alive and well seemingly, twitter seems to disagree though. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/south_y...re/10268581.stm

By the end of the year. And so it begins http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/10266501.stm Does this affect Mr G?

those fucking big posters from the concourses next season. I hate being reminded of good times by seeing pics of Given, Shearer, Ferdinand and Ginola with the words "Nothing is impossible".

Are we to assume that the same fate has befallen the Guardian following the "racist Newcastle fans protested against Cole"? Im guessing not because that doesnt affect the fat man.