NJS

The idea of reducing the wage bill seems double edged to me - surely selling "assets" should reduce the price anyway and that's without thinking about the football side - ie it reduces the chances of a successful season which the future depends on.

I thought the summer just hadn't happened - a performance identical to so many last year - spells where you think we could have a half-decent team followed by frustration at shitness beyond measure. Harper is still average at best, R. Taylor is still garbage, Enrique is a half-decent defender who can't pass to a teammate no matter how ludicrous the fucking strip is, Collocini is still a fanny, Guttierez is still toothless and Shola is still the shittest piece of shit in shitsville. Smith was canny though. Given that we've lost our only half-decent players and have nobody new, frankly I'd be more worried if I was a West Brom fan - what's their excuse for being shite?

I think the idea of Ashley "doing his best to give the club a fighting chance" might actually be true - forgive me for feeling generous I know but it feels somehow to make sense right now.

Slightly concerned by the notion of him "struggling" to attract investors. If there is truth in this story I wonder how Moat gets on with Shepherd and Hall? I think both of those owe a moral debt (I know, I know) to the club and should be tapped for investment imo.

I'm starting to move from apathy to amusement - surely its the usual Kinnear bullshit though.

If its "no man's land" I'd guess it will belong to the Crown (or the church) they have a habit of having sly laws that benefit them.

Later beaten by Sir Les. Aye I remember him screaming at/looking daggers at Mirandinha on many occasions when the daft twat went for goal at the wrong time.

Agree - there was a "he's too short" reaction when he first played but I remember one of his first games was against Wimbledon and he did well against their shite - especially Fashanu. Looking at these photos also reminded me of what a fine player Paul Goddard was for us.

Despite what I said above I would say his is the most saddening "famous" death I can remember - though the death of Stuart Adamson out of Big Country was probably as bad for me.

I know it's the thought that counts but black armbands or even captains made out of insulating/medical tape always look crap

Don't really read them as a rule but the one I enjoyed the most was Jackie Milburns. Also enjoyed Stephen Fry's first one, Lance Armstrongs and Billy Braggs (technically an authorised biog).

Watched the new Indiana Jones last night on Sky - I really wanted this to be one of those "surely the critics must be wrong" things but it wasn't - it got worse as it went on. I would still kill for 5 minutes with Karen Allen though.

On the "not a bad word" thing - I watched that tribute on BBC last night and theres some journalists out there who I presume are still working who need to beaten with the hypocrisy stick for their outpourings of praise this week.

I'm not having a go on an individual level Craig - I accept the "each to their own" pov - I just feel as a general trend its something I find a bid strange.

I agree with that 100% but I'm starting to feel things are getting stupid. The rise of the death cult a la Diana/Goody/Jackson which now includes Bobby shows a desperation of people needing to grieve over people they don't actually know which I think is very unhealthy. I'm sad the man is dead but the way people are talking here about crying their eyes out/being devastated etc can only lead me to think they've never suffered the loss of someone close - or if they have I think they should re-evaluate what should be the appropriate difference between the two.

RIP Amazed he lasted this long - and I mean that as a tribute to the man.

When Biffa introduced me to Niall I did tell him that I'd assumed he was an imaginary friend. I think their take is that message boards are not worth the hassle and they spend enough time just doing .com (I mean from a running one pov).

If selling someone means it keeps the immediate wolf from the door (no pun intended) or it greases the wheels in the sale somehow then I'm happy it's Martins rather than Beye or Bassong.

Don't get me started on the levels of fuckwittery at channel 4 on programming - they completely messed up Babylon 5 first time around - not showing it for weeks, sometimes out of order and then showed the final 5 eps of a meticulously plotted arc which had been building for 5 years at 9:30am as part of "the bigger breakfast" one xmas holidays - complete with the bigger breakfast logo on the screen and moronic voiceovers around all the ad breaks. I honestly came the closest I ever have to contemplating murder which says something as I harbour a lot of dark thoughts as a rule. Another shout out goes to Andi Peters who some fuckwit gave a job to at channel 4 and he proceeded to buy Angel and thinking it was just like Buffy scheduled it a 6pm hacked to ribbons. Cunts the lot of them. PS I forgot how much they messed around with The West Wing as well showing they haven't improved.

I think what is more likely to be holding things up is the price of the club, the size of the overdraft and the debt owed to Ashley. Keith Harris being away for a long weekend isn't going to hold up anything at all. I realise that - I just expect the twats to be on the case 24/7.

What pissed me off in that (otherwise spot on) was the note that Harris had been away "on a short break" - if that has held anything up its a fucking disgrace and the twat should lose money for it.

A mate of mine has a full A-team collection but actually revels in how ridiculously shit it is.

Anyone else remember trying to swim like he did? - fucking impossible

Easier by category: Cult/Sci-Fi: Babylon 5 Angel Buffy Dark Angel SG-1 Roswell Drama: The West Wing House Weeds Alias 24 NCIS Comedy: The Simpsons Men Behaving Badly Red Dwarf Coupling Brass Absolutely

Off the top of my head: Dogma Grosse Point Blank Stargate