Dr Gloom

The London Metro, perhaps not the most reliable source, are reporting this morning that Debucy will join us this week and West Ham have agreed a deal for Carroll but he wants to stay and fight for his place.

post of the year so far

Can't say I'm sorry to hear the news; he's been dragging this place down for years. Though I've had him on ignore the last couple of years, even I've seen an improvement in his behaviour through the decrease in how often I've had to read people quoting him about the glory years under shepherd. Seems odd that he's gone now when he was at the height of his wummery earlier in the year. Something radge must have kicked off that I missed.

Agreed. I'm not the most patriotic lad in the world but i thought Boyle nailed it. It showed the world everything that's great about Britain. A rich, culture, history and sense of humour. I was holding back tears of pride on more than one occasion. He deserves a night hood.

couldn't compete with bejing on the grand spectacle scale (their import costs are non existent for one), so we played the rich history card. and what a card. no other country can compete with that.

i've been enjoying all the minority sports today: badminton, archery, shooting.

1984 LA games. seb coe in the 1500m, steve ovett in the 800m. daley thompson winning the decathlon. carl lewis winning everything else

quite enjoying the badminton

nice moments of humour too to balance out the patriotism.

i'm not one to get schmultzy but i thought the whole thing was bloody brilliant. i was choking up on more than one occasion. such a good production and a reminder of why we should all be proud to be british.

who the fuck are you like?

since when were "the" and "a" big words?

Too late. We have already started the descent into a second great depression

Most of the deficit reuction is supposed to come from recovery, not from cuts. yeah, that's what i meant. it's economics 101. you don't get the growth needed to reduce the deficit from savage austerity measures

this window has been fairly underwhelming so far. not losing any key players is the priority though and that hasn't happened yet, which is a bonus.

Curtis B Good

the deficit needs to be reduced, but the the speed and aggressive nature of the austerity was always going to result in a double dip. gordon brown was right about that. borrowing is also going up under the tories, ironically. sharp cuts in government spending are leading to economic contraction, which in turn is widening the deficit.

Marvellous scenes in London Bridge station this morning. Wall to wall blart. Where do the hotties hide all year?

29 degrees, blue skies, happy days. Long lunch break on the cards. Back down to below 20 at the weekend though.

Agreed. Second episode of the newsroom was pretty awful. Shame, after a promising start looks like it's set for a double helping of Gorgonzola.

Good read in the FT on this http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5b3f1df0-d40e-11e1-942c-00144feabdc0.html

This is a spanking

afternoon session rained off. shame t was engrossing stuff. jimmy getting the ball to nip around nicely.

it's a simple equation really. more people kill each other with guns in america than they do here because pretty much any psycho can walk into a shop and buy one.

quite a good contest so far. england dominated with the bat on day 1. SA coming back into it on the second day with some good seam bowling under cloud cover. even stevens at this stage.