Park Life

Really

Great comeback regardless of the sending off. Well done all, never gave up and Pardew takes some credit for that. Barton and Nolan inspirational and Tiote...Well he is a monster.

Got a point like. These threads are gayer than Meenz in eurodrag. If Mrs P ever sees one of these threads the games up and that's a fact.

Eat like a pack of gays. OoooooOOo just one and a half thin slices with my hand poached eggs with fresh ground seasalt. Jeeesus.

I love any seeded bread, favourite is granary. Trouble is my family prefer white so I end up having to buy too much. I have to have white in the mornings, nothing too complex.

Rumours spreading pro-democracy might march on the Palace. Kind of a deadlock right now. 5m on the streets of Egypt. 300,000 in an around Liberation sq.

Get a bread machine. Just stuck stuff in and go to work. Ready when you get back or start it before you go to bed and so on... You want little bits of dried toms in the med loaf....But not loads.

The jewel of the midlands before A-dolf as the yanks no doubt call him, went to town. Yeah, really grim now man. Local highlight is someone who collects Star trek memorabilia or summink...

Coventry.

Yeah too join the dots to really be good.

Make my own pizza prep time is literally 10min.

When's this back?

Think we have Stevie's apprentice here. I love Newcastle with all my heart, its my favourite place in the world but i find it very hard to see Newcastle with more character than Paris. Aesthetically, its a bit backwards to compare the two. However, if people make places, then they both have a point. I don't think Paris is any easier on the eye than London to be honest, London has nicer buildings in my view, I just didn't like it. I think in terms of character and charm I know what Mac means, I'd rather see some old timer sat making a rolly on them seats outside the Black Garter with a £1.50 pint of John Smith's by his side, than some fat Frenchman sat outside a cafe on Champs Elysee drinking 15 euro cups of coffee reading the deaths page in "Le Monde". Thats just nonsense Stevie, Paris is broadly accepted as one of the most beautiful cities in the world. There isnt much in London to compare to The Louvre, Musee D'Orsay, Grand Palais etc. I say that as somone who lived in London for 10 years too, so i know it better than you do. The fundamental difference (and the argument your are looking for if you ever discuss this with a frog) is that London was demolished during the Blitz because we had the balls to protect Europe from facism, whereas Paris is a museum piece that retains its early 19th century splendour because the cunts preferred to surrender than have their city destroyed. Both cities have amazing river views but Paris edges it as its still standing from when they first renovated it in the early 1800s. Paris is lovely, my fav city if I was pushed. I quite like Berlin now and Milan was suprisingly good. Prague has an interesting vibe.

Should be a porn star with a name like that. you know she was Head of MI5 ? Aye, I know who you're on about. The name just tickled me, so to speak I'm halfway through that Brian Clough book you told me about, it's v.good [read a few novels since I got the Clough book] and will read the porn star Stella's novel soon. First one I've read by her. The main character seems to be an MI5 agent called Liz Carlyle, don't know which football team she supports. Glad you like the Clough one. I thought it was excellent. (Duncan Hamilton one for anybody who fancies it). It is. The book "With Clough by Taylor" is the best I've read, and this one comes pretty close. Spooky they are both about Clough, but he was different. I quite liked the one by Alex Ferguson too, and the Kevin Keegan one [obviously]. I got the Bobby Robson one for Xmas but haven't started it yet. Thought you were against books and suchlike?

The organizational skills of the ultras, fanatical Cairo soccer fans, are emerging as opponents and supporters of embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak determine the fate of the 82-year-old Egyptian leader’s 30-year rule. The influence of the ultras, supporters of bitter Cairo rivals Al Ahly Sports Club and Al Zamalek, is evident in the battle tactics employed by Mubarak’s opponents in the struggle for control of Tahrir (Liberation) Square in downtown Cairo. With an estimated fanbase of 50 million supporters, Al Ahly is one of the largest, if not the largest African soccer club and certainly its most crowned. The ultras’ experience is also reflected in the setting up of social services for the mass of protesters camped on the square in tents behind barricades and the introduction of a division of labour among them. Egypt’s passion for soccer was on display on the square with protesters playing football as a pastime until the eruption of deadly violence with the appearance on Wednesday of pro-Mubarak forces determined to dislodge them. At least 13 people are believed to have been killed in the last 24 hours. As organizations, the ultras distanced themselves from the protests from the outset. Yet they also made clear that they had no objection to their members applying their skills to the effort to topple the Egyptian leader. Al Ahly ultras In a statement last week, Al Ahly’s ultras said they were determined to remain non-political but that the group’s members were free as individuals to participate in the demonstrations. “The group emphasizes that its members are free in their political choices,” the group said in a statement on Facebook. The experience the ultras bring to the protests and the confrontation with the Egyptian leader’s supporters is evident in a 2009 video posted on YouTube. A founder of Al Ahly’s ultras recalls the group’s employment of pyrotechnics already in the group’s early days. “The biggest game of the season for our ultras is the away trip to Ismailia, which is considered to be the most dangerous game in Africa due to the hatred between the two sets of fans and the political problems that go back to the 1960s,” the ultra leader, who insisted on anonymity, said. “We decided to organize the biggest pyro show in the history of Egypt: pyro wasn’t widely used in Egypt and not more than two or three at a time, as it was banned by the police and they would arrest you on the spot if you use anything.” While not certain of the precise identity of the protestors he was watching on video emerging from Egypt, soccer writer Davy Lane noted their degree of sophisticated organization and battle tactics. “There were designated rock hurlers, specialists in turning over and torching vehicles for defensive purposes and a machine-like quartermaster crew delivering projectiles like clockwork on cardboard platters,” Lane observed from afar. Much in the way that a municipality would organize services, protestors assigned tasks to various groups, such as the collection of trash. They wore masking tape on which their role, for example medics or media contacts, was identified in writing. Street battle-hardened ultras, meanwhile, joined those patrolling the perimeters of the square and controlling entry. In a reflection of a trend towards greater religiosity evident in Egypt for years, entry to the square is separate for men and women. In many ways the contrast in sophistication that the ultras bring to the organization and battle tactics of the opposition with its lack of a clearly defined leadership reflects the fact that the driver of events in Egypt, as well as the wave of protests sweeping other Middle Eastern and North African countries, is youths who initially often rallied around a Facebook group rather than an ideology. Established in 2007, the ultras—modelled on Italy’s autonomous, often violent fan clubs—have since proven their mettle in past confrontations with the Egyptian police, who charge that criminals and terrorists populate their ranks. The ultras' key role in the rebellion against Mubarak’s rule extends a tradition of soccer’s close association with politics in Egypt dating back to when the then-British colonial power introduced the game to the North African country in the early 20th century. Founded about a century ago as an Egyptians-only meeting place for opponents of Britain’s colonial rule, Al Ahly, which means The National, was a nationalistic rallying ground for common Egyptians. Its players still wear the red colours of the pre-colonial Egyptian flag. Dressed in white, Zamalek, which first was named Al Mohtalet or The Mix and then Farouk in honour of the then-hated and later deposed Egyptian monarch, was the club of the British imperial administrators and military brass as well as the Cairo upper class. The clubs’ bitter feud was no less political once Egypt became independent. Reflecting Egypt’s popular mood when Israel attacked Gaza in late 2008, Al Ahly striker Mohamed Aboutrika, Africa’s 2006 best player of the year, was slapped with a yellow card during an Africa Cup of Nations match in Ghana for wearing a shirt that read "sympathize with Gaza" in Arabic and English. With approximately half the clubs in Egypt’s national league sponsored by government ministries or state-owned companies, Egypt’s is a different game of soccer. Alongside Islam, soccer was, until the revolt against Mubarak’s rule, the only legitimate arena where pent-up emotions and anger could be expressed. “There is no competition in politics, so competition moved to the soccer pitch. We do what we have to do against the rules and regulations when we think they are wrong,” says an El Ahly ultra after his group last year overran a police barricade trying to prevent it from bringing flares, fireworks and banners into the stadium. “You don’t change things in Egypt talking about politics. We’re not political

CHRISTIANS PROTECTING MUSLIMS AT PRAYER

With no clear or single leadership, this is one of the most exciting moments in any revolutionary movement. Four or five different groups are helping to organise and energise this core rise of the people who in the most are just fed up with the economic situation and the ongoing repression. It is quite a new thing also that a lot of the information and organising was done over facebook and twitter and mobile phones as the state apparatus and formal media was completely bypassed. Big day today. Big day for the future of the whole middle east. Bid day for the future of mankind.

As long as it isn't cheap shit like 10 quid.

Still sticking to my pre season prediction of 12th.

There is currently a window of oppurtunity to create a new and more favourable timeline.