NJS

It depends - would this apply to all other sports, all other demos and all other pubic events eg Notting Hill carnival. If its not universal then fuck off. Also if the clubs were paying for it they should have a say in numbers deployed - I'd expect a small bill when we play Fulham etc.

If you mean wallets with coin pouches then I'm with you - it's a purse FFS!.

People who wheel luggage around inside crowded pubs instead of picking the bloody things up. (I was disgracefully accused of being a fascist last Friday for voicing this view after a stupid bitch had ran over my toe)

He thinks he has the fans on his side - unfortunately for him his performances this year have wakened people up to the fact he isn't as good as likes to think.

My boss is Irish but is of course a Liverpool "fan". We've always had good banter about thieving scousers etc which continued last week as he prepared to go to his first game at Anfield ever vs the Two Headed Vermin. He'd been in the place an hour before he realised his blackberry had been nicked. How I laughed. We'll lose next week as we always do at Anfield.

Violent crime is down - there are many, many countries more violent than the UK. Lets emulate the US where 1 in a 100 are now in jail - that'll work. Nice link to immigration btw - the Mail would be proud.

Film you watched at the Cinema: This is going to sound sad but I think it was the x-files movie - 99ish album you got: Don't really buy CDs anymore - fuck the industry Was probably This Hungry Life by Tanya Donelly as I had to get that mail order and wanted to make sure she did get the money. DVD you got: Evening with Kevin Smith II Book you read: Non-fiction: Blood of the Isles - Brian Sykes - a DNA analysis of the British Isles - we aren't as mongrel as I thought. Fiction: re-read the Hyperion/Endimyion series by Dan Simmons - my favourite ever Sci-Fi.

I didn't know that but I remember Gullit came close to signing for Ipswich and Arsenal. That's what he told me and my Dad anyway. The club weren't interested I remember in 87/88 there were rumours we were going to sign Maradona They brung out a new newspaper about the toon called "United" and the headline on the front page was "NO guarantees about Maradona but....." Says it all really. I can remember when Leeds were after him too. Top PL clubs wouldn't be out of the running for the likes of him now I suppose. No chance back then though for the clubs in the English top fligh. I knew a kid at University who was a Sheff U fan. He reckoned when they signed Alex Sabella (78ish) they were offered a 16 yr old Maradona but the board hadn't heard of him so didn't bother - smacks of urban myth but still quite funny.

A midfield of Pat Heard, John Trewick and Wayne Fereday does it for me - the rest don't really matter after that choice.

Agree - still think he'd lost it but the timing was terrible (which led to the replacement imo).

Two I remember were one by Shilton for Forest from Paul Goddard in 88 I think and one by Pav in 95/96 against Everton when we were down to ten men - sadly the way we ground out the 3 points that day completely convinced me that we were going to win the title and I got into one of the top 3 drunken states of my life and fell down the escalators at Central Station Metro unscathed apart from a sprained wrist - happy days.

A thread that has tenuous connections to religion and NJS comes out of the woodwork again. Tenuous? What about the woman the bastards are holding for witchcraft? (I don't mind the dig btw)

I hope you like being unemployed then, our economy (especially in the NE) is built on Saudi oil and arms exports. The oil is bought globally by corporations - possibly nothing can be done about that. Arms are over-subsidised by tax payers money - I'd end the industry tomorrow with no conscience pangs whatsoever. You're having a laugh if you think the govt can do nothing about oil imports. And end all the arms trade you want, just make yourself available to the thousands of unemployed geordies it would produce. Thousands? Aye. Care to elaborate? The building of warships is dead which as far as I know leaves Vickers or whatever they call themselves these days.

I hope you like being unemployed then, our economy (especially in the NE) is built on Saudi oil and arms exports. The oil is bought globally by corporations - possibly nothing can be done about that. Arms are over-subsidised by tax payers money - I'd end the industry tomorrow with no conscience pangs whatsoever. You're having a laugh if you think the govt can do nothing about oil imports. And end all the arms trade you want, just make yourself available to the thousands of unemployed geordies it would produce. Thousands?

I hope you like being unemployed then, our economy (especially in the NE) is built on Saudi oil and arms exports. The oil is bought globally by corporations - possibly nothing can be done about that. Arms are over-subsidised by tax payers money - I'd end the industry tomorrow with no conscience pangs whatsoever.

Without trawling through the kids, Beye and Faye are the only ones I'd definitely keep. Some of the others are decent but I don't care if they leave.

At heart I'm an optimist and I agree - I just wish it had been Boro as time is running out. Having said that I've been a bit heartened by looking at the mackems remaining games - I know they've picked up at home recently but they have some tough games left after Derby next week - I don't think they're as "safe" as they think.

At several dark points over the last 15 years I have toyed with the wish to see relegation "sort out" some of our fans but my head knows it would be horrible.

How can a business with no debt and the benefit of a huge parachute payment go into administration? The parachute payment isn't exactly 'huge' is it and it only lasts for one or two seasons doesn't it? I'm more referring to the spiral of players/staff leaving, lack of season ticket renewals and failure to get promotion again. I'm no economists, but I know that relegation isn't exactly economically sound! Then we'd better have a manager who has got something like 3 teams promoted pretty quickly then - oh wait.

The mackems last time around got £25m - thats before new TV deals.

How can a business with no debt and the benefit of a huge parachute payment go into administration? If Ashley cuts the purse strings, sharpish. If the reports are correct that he has simply repaid the debt rather than reassigned it to his company then I think you're wrong. Even reduced ST income + parachute - reduction of wages through getting rid of deadwood would see us clear of that kind of trouble.

How can a business with no debt and the benefit of a huge parachute payment go into administration?

No offence but you're too young to realise what an absolute holocaust relegation is. The cure to the malaise is an owner willing to spend a lot of money and a manager who has a decent record of doing that - scrape together enough points to avoid disaster and I think we'll be okay.

The pisser is we haven't been that bad - outclassed obviously and several players who aren't good enough but should be enough against lesser teams. BTW Its only when we play them that I remember why I hate them so much - their every player, official and fan is a complete and utter cunt.

The masturbation thread shows that the Abrahamic religions have an obscenely dense fascination with sex and this illustrates how much they supress and chain the most natural of human behaviours. It's all about control of course but I'd love to know how they explain how much their stupid dogma is so at odds with how we were "created" by their God. On a practical note I'd actually like to see the government apply at least one of their manifesto promises (11 years is enough surely?) and operate an ethical foreign policy which would mean no contact or business with stone age, barbaric bastards like the Saudis. Stupid I know.