Dr Kenneth Noisewater

I'm reading the book that's based on at the moment. Didn't know it had been tv-ified.

They've taken the reviews down / aren't updating it any more.

I think I agree actually and maybe my problem is just with the semantics of the word 'pride'. I'm not really opposed to a National day but not overly keen on being based on Old George, especially as it happens in a period already congested with public holidays. Let's have one in June or July I say. There was talk of having a 'Trafalgar Day' in October to help bring our bank hol quota up to some of the other european countries. I bet that would go down well with our french and spanish cousins.

Who came out on top tonight then?

Definitely should be a bank holiday, but then there are too many crowded around April and May already. I propose that St. Georges Day bank holiday is implemented and some of the others are spread out. I'm pretty sure we have a lot less bank holidays than most of the other european countries.

I voted for Carroll because he knocked fuck out of Steven Taylor. (Joke).

Make your way to Kings Cross station in London. Trains for the north-east leave from there. Might be expensive if you're buying on the day. It also may be quite full http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/

Make your way to Kings Cross station in London. Trains for the north-east leave from there. Might be expensive if you're buying on the day. It also may be quite full

Fivelive? He should've gone on 1Xtra.

Tremendous scences but, and maybe it's just me, I can't compare them to what we saw at Blundell Park, Grimsby back in 1993. That was something oh so different.... I felt the same. Great appreciation for what they've achieved and very happy, but the night at Grimbsy and that season was in a different league to this. Where we'd been for years, Keegan, the football we played, the genuine optimism at where we were going etc. will never be repeated, but as i say the players and staff have put the effort in for us this year and it was well deserved. Likewise. Respect to the players and manager for what they've achieved, but it doesn't get the blood pumping like '93 did.

Fuuuuck.

Get the fuckers off the pitch (our fans). Fuck sake. Ah the game's over, they're doing no harm. Would you run on topless and stick your face into the camera? I'd cockslap it tonight

Fair play to them, extremely sporting of them to indulge us, especially as they've just been relegated. I wish them all the best for next season and hope they can get themselves back up.

I think the black cats was the nickname given to the gun battery that protected the Wear during wartime. I'd never heard it used in association with the football team until about 10 years ago. I think they may even have had a competition to come up with a new nickname.

Don't know if this has been posted (ie can't be bothered to back and check):

Tis true. Can't be shown til after the election, since Sir Al became the governments 'enterprise tsar'. Also, Margaret Mountford has retired. Karen Brady is taking her role. And Luke, they do have to call him Lord Sugar

Isnt that known as a "career oppurtunity" as The Clash may have said?...someone may fill his shoes in the short term? what do you do?...has he not got a blackberry?....seems thats all bosses need nowadays...conference calls etc etc....lots of ways to keep in touch... or has the unthinking so and so got the keys to the canteen? He's an optician. If he's not here testing eyes we're not making money. The alternative is to get a locum in, but they charge top dollar.

My boss is stuck in Florida for a week at least, maybe a fortnight. If he can't get back we're fucked.

*cringes*

Bearing in mind the law courts are in there, I'd presume thats a building a lot of scousers are familiar with.

First I think TR. Bizarre incident, I've never seen anything like that before. Surely strengthens the argument for in-season testing to return. The cameraman is fucking lucky not to have been killed - prototype testing should not be restricted to GP weekends which it effectively definitely is!

Les Ferdinand turned them and Villa down to sign for us. Players are fickle if we were above them in the league over a three or four year period, we'd be seen as just as attractive a proposition. Who wants to live in that shithole anyway, I can never get my head round it. Do Liverpool FC have a redeeming feature? Fans? Players? Ex Players? Area? Tell me if they do, I need educating about the endearing qualities of this club. We had Keegan then though, who was a massive draw for players of that era. Anyone could see we were on a roll then and who knew where or when it would stop? The wallpushers on the other hand, were in a lull by their standards, Roy Evans was their manager ffs, charisma of a soggy dishcloth.

First I think TR. Bizarre incident, I've never seen anything like that before.

Really? Or am I being whooshed? Agreed, particularly the bolded.

Enjoyed it, couple of funny lines in that.