Happy Face

I want the SSN cameras there live the day Ashley goes to witness some local radgies burning their "boycoutt" blankets, pulling down that sign like a Saddam statue and hitting it with their shoes.

Turnover £256.2 Debt £699.0 Wage Bill £121.1 Profit -£44.8 Interest £69.0

44,000 people turned up last night....and will do for 4 more games than they did last year....at the same price. He's made £24M in the transfer market this window. He's got a £20m parachute payment. He's taken £40m off the bank He still has a £50m+ commodity if he is serious about selling at any point.

I'm now convinced everything is going as planned for Ashley (or change of planned once keegan went). Over 3 months without looking close to a sale. He's clearly saying one thing (I'm gonna sell) and doing another (not selling) like he always has. As fans, we want to be up there with Chelsea or Man U. But look at the operating loss they've most recently posted (07/08), £85m and £44m respectively. Does an owner, using his own money want that? Being succesful costs, and is all about the gamble of maintaining success until you can sell a high revenue company (not necessarily a profitable one) in a stronger market than you bought it. Which club should you try to emulate to make a profit without any risk? Only 5 clubs reported a profit in the most recent accounts. Blackburn (7th), Spurs (11th) and Fulham (17th) all earned about £3m. But West Brom earned over £11m...in the Championship. If you want to be profitable, you just have to maintain a championship squad that can occasionally go up and guarantee a pay day and a parachute when you fail to invest again.

Of course, it'll also give just as much encouragement to Ashley that he could afford not to sell. Championship wage bill, Premiership attendances. The most profitable clubs in football are the ones that yoyo between the top two divisions.

Someone mentioned to me last night how Shearer highly recommended Bassong to Redknapp. The lad telling me took it as a turncoat thing to do, but i suppose it could equally be seen as driving for a high price.

Swan Lake - A hand at Dusk I like pianos

not really a freedom issue, more along the lies of politicians pay. So are for or against overtime, Chris? I hadn't realised there was an overriding theme to your anti-police threads. Fop the freedom fighter. I'm against the abuse of overtime.

Pretty much agree with that. ..having not seen it of course.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...h-overtime.html

"Are you gonna bark all day little doggy? Or are you gonna bite?"

Why do I STILL get THIS nervous before a match. I'm 30 for christs sake. Grow up

Get to fucking fuck you fucking piece of fucking fuck I fucking hate fucking shite like this fucking shite. GaaaaAAAAAAAAAAHRGH!!!!

On the other hand.... http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/aug/19...entin-tarantino

Japandroids - Post-Nothing loud

Which in itself is a display of intelligence though. Some people work their arses off for 2 years and come out happy with a B.

Cheers, looks like a good range and very reasonable. We have a winner.

They serve Steer in Manchester? Where where where? Gaucho Grill Ooooh! We're booked in there a week on Saturday. Anyway, anyone got any suggestions for Newcastle. Blackfriars is closed, Francescas is too far out and The biscuit factory has been poo-pooed.

Is the job is surrounding a castle to prevent attack?

Who'd have thought they'd bash state education, when they provide private fee-paying schooling. A monkey can be trained to answer ANY question. They trained one to fly rocket ships. Ban resits...are they for real? While we're at it lets limit people to a single driving test. If at first you don't succeed, give up, you're fucking thick. What's the position now with resits though? It used to be you could only resit once every 6 months, and this entailed repeating everything, all in written-exam format. Now I get the impression you can resit individual aspects or course work, just to improve your grade? Surely that's not right, you can't do that in your final year of your degree, can you? Somehow this grade inflation has to stop. It's simple really, test students against their peers rather than lower the bar or make exams easier, year in, year out. It's not about criticising students, it's just common sense. Either that or in 30 years we'll be having students achieving 10 A***s at A level, what does that achieve? All they've done is move the bell right along the x-axis. C used to be the average grade so the majority got a low pass while the outliers were either excellent (A), or not (E or worse). Now the average grade is a B, A* is excellent and D or worse is shit. The way it should work is that the grades are set once all the papers have been scored, in order to retain the old school A-E grades which are, after all, arbitrary. But the government have moved every pupil up a grade just so they can say they've improved schools. I don't see why this precludes university's from distinguishing between the top performers or highlights any drop in standards other than from a government addicted to the numbers game. Because of top end grade pile up. C could do better. Grades have been awarded on marks rather than on proportion of candidates for 25 years now. So I don't think that's a new problem. Though I can see it would only get worse with time. Changing the existing percentiles might sort it, but only temporarily (like A*). I can't fathom why they went this route in the first place. Like Renton says, you have to be graded in comparison to your peers sitting the same exam.

That's the term that was on the tip of my tongue.

Who'd have thought they'd bash state education, when they provide private fee-paying schooling. A monkey can be trained to answer ANY question. They trained one to fly rocket ships. Ban resits...are they for real? While we're at it lets limit people to a single driving test. If at first you don't succeed, give up, you're fucking thick. What's the position now with resits though? It used to be you could only resit once every 6 months, and this entailed repeating everything, all in written-exam format. Now I get the impression you can resit individual aspects or course work, just to improve your grade? Surely that's not right, you can't do that in your final year of your degree, can you? Somehow this grade inflation has to stop. It's simple really, test students against their peers rather than lower the bar or make exams easier, year in, year out. It's not about criticising students, it's just common sense. Either that or in 30 years we'll be having students achieving 10 A***s at A level, what does that achieve? All they've done is move the bell right along the x-axis. C used to be the average grade so the majority got a low pass while the outliers were either excellent (A), or not (E or worse). Now the average grade is a B, A* is excellent and D or worse is shit. The way it should work is that the grades are set once all the papers have been scored, in order to retain the old school A-E grades which are, after all, arbitrary. But the government have moved every pupil up a grade just so they can say they've improved schools. I don't see why this precludes university's from distinguishing between the top performers or highlights any drop in standards other than from a government addicted to the numbers game.

Who'd have thought they'd bash state education, when they provide private fee-paying schooling. A monkey can be trained to answer ANY question. They trained one to fly rocket ships. Ban resits...are they for real? While we're at it lets limit people to a single driving test. If at first you don't succeed, give up, you're fucking thick.

Canny night on the sauce Leazes?

Why? He's livin' the dream, baby ! He's on a coach's rate for doing a managers job. People in Sports Direct are used to it like. If I recall correctly staff are expected to do overtime for free aren't theyy? It's cunt features money saving technique.