Kitman

you missed out on Harrow. tons of chinese live there. No. Harrow is what they say when they meet each other You mean Hallow. It's rubbery. OK, I'll get me coat.

I can confirm the Chinese list of 10 world famous British cities is Rondon Riverpoo Manchester Chersea Wembrey St Andlews Wentworth Aintlee Ascot Heathlow

I don't, he seems to me like the kind of guy people want to play for I'm sure Neale McDermott thinks otherwise And Ross Gardner and James Beaumont. Let's hope he's better for the experience. Mind you very few players seem to make the step up from reserves to the first team anyway....

Agree with all that. The problem with pinning it on the Republicans and Bush in particular is that people think things are going any better under new leadership, which is not the case at all. The Democrats have thrown more money, more soldiers and more drones at Afghanistan. They've killed more civilians and as a result created more resentment and more jihadists among the population. The White House have tried to spin the leak as a Republican problem too. Arguing that they only report up to December 2009.....when Obama had been in office for a year. Far from fixing the problem, the house today voted they would throw even more money at it, while ignoring domestic hardship.... http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/07/27/...in6718896.shtml I guess the problem the Democrats have is that unless they're seen to have won the "war", any withdrawal looks like capitulation. And a humiliating Vietnam syle withdrawal would be political suicide. I expect the strategy is, as you say, blame the mess on the Rebuplicans, throw enough money at it to get some progress over the Taliban, then get the hell out claiming credit for sorting it out and hoping Karzai can survive long enough for it all to have some credibility. If they say they've won...they've won. There's not an opponent in this war that can surrender. There's not even an organised, cohesive resistance. Attacks come from people with no alliances to any group at all, just pissed off people that look up 'bomb making' on the internet when they see their wives and children indiscriminately killed. Declared active jihadists are limited to a hundred or so people in the mountains, that's enough to say "we've incapacitated terror networks and now plan to work on reducing recruitment by withdrawing from the country" . Instead they've allocated another £59 billion to fighting that 100 odd strong army while cutting every other government department. Permanant war is a profitable business the people that own Washington like to maintain. Interesting viewpoint, not sure I wholly agree....I don't think it's the sort of look the Democrats want and I don't see Obama as the crusading type either. Time will tell I suppose.

What a pompous self important arsehole. I was hoping he was announcing his immediate retirement....oh, the disappointment.

Agree with all that. The problem with pinning it on the Republicans and Bush in particular is that people think things are going any better under new leadership, which is not the case at all. The Democrats have thrown more money, more soldiers and more drones at Afghanistan. They've killed more civilians and as a result created more resentment and more jihadists among the population. The White House have tried to spin the leak as a Republican problem too. Arguing that they only report up to December 2009.....when Obama had been in office for a year. Far from fixing the problem, the house today voted they would throw even more money at it, while ignoring domestic hardship.... http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/07/27/...in6718896.shtml I guess the problem the Democrats have is that unless they're seen to have won the "war", any withdrawal looks like capitulation. And a humiliating Vietnam syle withdrawal would be political suicide. I expect the strategy is, as you say, blame the mess on the Rebuplicans, throw enough money at it to get some progress over the Taliban, then get the hell out claiming credit for sorting it out and hoping Karzai can survive long enough for it all to have some credibility.

The best you can say about it is the whole thing's seedy as fuck. Imo it's as mcuh to do with the desire to conceal the mess that's been made from the American public as preserving the security of operations. This strikes me as Iraq Mark 2, where the American administration has executed a poorly thought out campaign, got into terrible trouble and has tried to dig itself out of the shit by a combination of throwing money at the problem and trampling over human rights and international law. It also seems to me that the Allied Coalition is losing in Afghanistan. But any student of history will tell that was always going to happen anyway. The British couldn't win in the 19th century, and the Russians couldn't win in the 20th century, so heaven knows why the Yanks think they can win in the 21st. It's corrupt, feudal, anti-Western, sectarian, fragmented, funded by drugs and comprised of and surrounded by factional interests, the terrrrain is impossible to fight modern warfare in or keep supply lines open in and so on. Added to that there's vested interests in the American military and industry, the numbskulls at the CIA, and the fuckwits in the Republican party that either want to get rich from war or prosecute some kind of holy crusade against a third world country. The whole "war on terror" has been a political and humanitarian disaster imo and this Wiki Leaks thing doesn't surprise me at all. I don't trust the American or British governments to get it right on our behalf and I don't think they've served the interests of democracy or world security well at all. It sounds like the WikiLeaks material shows they don't deserve our trust either. The thing that strikes me most about the American govenrment, particularly under George Bush, is their stupidity and arrogance; under the circumstances I can understand their panic that the American public will now wake up and smell the coffee on how their tax dollars have really been spent.

Perhaps you shouldn't get involved if you can't get it right. Even when you have google to help you out. Mick Jones was the centre forward. Wasn't sniffer Alan Smith's nickname at Leeds? Or am I wide of the mark? Smudger iirc. Or was that the Arsenal one? Think you're right, I've probably got the wrong Alan Smith

Perhaps you shouldn't get involved if you can't get it right. Even when you have google to help you out. Mick Jones was the centre forward. Wasn't sniffer Alan Smith's nickname at Leeds? Or am I wide of the mark?

This reduces my estimate of Bertolli's age to 8 years old.

I've obviously strayed into some kind of developers forum.....

It's a bit sad

Greetings. You're not related to Bertolli are you?

Sunderland is in the north of the country, Titus. Did you turn the wrong way out of Wigan? na i was born in durham but live in london where I be chillin n gettin jiggy wiv me bitches yeaaaaahhh dog

* Sigh *

Is it the school holidays in the UK by any chance?

The George Best of snooker perhaps? When you consider the players that were around originally - Thorburn, Reardon, Davis, that welsh bloke with the poofy hair - they were all pretty boring with their methodical grinding safety play and no risks approach. Higgins played like he was pissing around in a snooker hall on a friday night - unpredictable, exciting, extravagant use of spin - he played like he came from a different planet. When he was on his game he was unstoppable and he deserves all the accolades he's got. The shame was he was such an unhappy person, iirc he treated his friends and family very badly and pissed away all his earnings. I think was ill and alone for a long time before the end came. I don't think the game looked after him when he was on the way down either, but then he made a lot of enemies along the way. Surprised he made it to 61. RIP.

Sounds about right. Presumably an illegible offer scrawled on the back of a Pizza Hut serviette wasn't enough for them

Pretty much sums up how I feel. Plus he's injury prone, so he's incapable of building consistency.

'Arry usually likes to have a really big squad, mainly because he keeps buying expensive players but can't/won't sell unwanted ones. Haven't looked at their squad lately but wouldn't surprise me that, if they get knocked out of the CL, they struggle to fund wages and transfer fees.

Can't understand why he's still around, 28 years old and he doesn't cut it. Maybe he sucks a mean cock.....

I'm looking forward to another big year for Shola. I was hoping it would be with a championship team however......

Telegraph: Ameobi's goal-scoring exploits in a Newcastle shirt may have been erratic but his club's return to the top flight following a year in the Championship holds no fear for the former England Under-21 international. "I know I can score goals in the Premier League," Ameobi said. "There's not really an established pecking order at the moment, which maybe wasn't always the case in the past when someone like Alan (Shearer) was around. "I was chosen to start last season and I scored a hat-trick in my first home game, but Andy (Carroll) got into the side and finished as top scorer. Things like that happen. "Nobody knows what's going to happen this season; you just have to make sure you give your all and make sure you're in the best possible shape to show the manager that you're ready for the task ahead." The 28-year-old Nigeria-born Ameobi, who has scored 42 in 208 appearances for Newcastle over the last decade which has been blighted by injury, is relishing the start of the new season which kicks off for his side at Manchester United on Monday, August 16. "It's going to be a big year for me personally, but then every year is a big year," Ameobi added. "It's been one injury after another for me in the last couple of seasons, but I can't do anything about that. "It's not as though there's a weakness there that's affecting me – it's been lots of different injuries that I haven't been able to do anything about. "I approach every season exactly the same. I want to put myself in the best shape to go out there and do my best as soon as the season begins." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/...ier-League.html

Chez should be doing this. Before reconsidering the Blues, the former Lyons man must first concentrate on his future with the club. Claimed to be leaving for Newcastle or Werder Bremen, the Clamart native said "do not believe what is said or written in the papers about the transfer window". That doesn't interest me. Those that make lines are like weather vanes, they sing your praises then pull you down 3 days later."