Matt

Kirin is lovely. A bar over the road from work has it on tap, but charge something eye-watering for it.

Afraid of getting wedged in tight corners, like? The first time I drove through the Tyne Tunnel heading north I nearly shat myself, winding back up with oncoming HGVs coming straight at you.

Had one of these with my lunch. Lovely stuff

It will change my route to work, I'll need to pop round to the newsagents to pick up the loot.

Does that not grant favour to those more dispositioned towards violence or hatred?

I would rather this country allowed the police to remove these sort of people before anyone had a chance to take notice. Laws to protect some kind of decorum during such events are hardly a grave imposition on free speech. Why can we never draw the line. We just let these scrotes enjoy our freedoms while their zealous bile in turn rejects them as sacreligious. The whole affair is also manna from heaven for fringe groups like the BNP (although they would probably choose a less Jewish way of phrasing that). This is not a reasonable form of protest IMO- it is disrespectful and there should be laws in place to prevent it. What is the kid who climbed the cenotaph during the protests getting charged with? Will he be done for more than £50? And if so, why?

I won £6.30. It's a start.

What would the punishment for Koran burning be? Would that be classed under inciting racial hatred? Would it be OK if you burnt all the main religeous texts at once? Letting this happen was a disgrace and an affront. These blokes are knackers and represent British muslims like Fred Phelps represents Christianity. The police are quick enough to get handy with people protesting against government cuts, but less than willing to get stuck in to this crowd. You can't say this is 'freedom of speech'. We have laws against saying things that are meant to be deeply offensive and hurtful to groups of people who have suffered. Why can't fallen servicemen be afforded the same?

Christ, that's horrific. Mind you, I could see our mob doing something similarly hideous.

Fish, you can spend that voucher now.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/t...ton/9411208.stm

Lads round me were slating him for it and rightly too. Absolutely brainless. Reminded me of Nolan's one against Everton.

Sleep-focused birthday? Perfect- have a good one!

Pretty sure that's not correct like. I'm coming off the three year deal and have been offered the 10% discount. I hate Ashley etc but it's a fucking good deal. The 10% is if you had a ST in the Champsionship, isn't it? YNH's post is spot on, and it's for that reason that it was so depressing to send in the renewal when I'd more or less convinced myself I would go match-by-match next year. I'm a mug.

It won't. You can move abroad and have it written off under the current system- but there is no way to judge that this is any more a deliberate avoidance act as opposed to natural movement between borders.

UEFA's rules have some fairly tight wording around related party revenues.

The problem is (as I can testify), you wont go as much. Because you havent paid you'll either go to the pub to watch it, go shopping or go for a nice day in the hills etc. I've only been to half the games anyway, last one was Fulham, so I'm paying about £50 a time in effect anyway.

I always rated Bradley Orr

I've been intending to not renew and go match-by-match for a while (mainly due to travel costs when games get shifted for TV) but I think this stunt more or less seals it.

Membership with a get out is no form of guaranteed income, so I don't think it's for financing purposes- at least not from a bank. I suspect this is some kind of pricing psychology. Lock in your price and if you don't renew in 3 years- that's fine, but you'll have to pay the going rate at that time. People will not like the idea of having to pay more in the future (as football is inherently blessed with a naive optimism) and will hold onto their tickets even if under normal circumstances they would jack it. People are loss averse and do not want to be the mug paying twice what everyone else in their block is in 2017. Just like the three-year deal, a club expecting positive progress should be able to count on future support (and higher prices) on the back of on-field success. A club trying to lock these things in clearly does not expect to be able to use attractive football to bring in the punters, so will use gamblers' mind tricks instead.

Ashley has no interest in ambition though, we know that. He wants to keep us in the league, claw back as much of the cash he lost through his own stupidity and try to reduce the wage bill to the point where a new owner can start afresh with a low cost base. We're in PL purgatory. Our inability to sign a striker in the summer or Jan, then to sell our only decent one beggars belief. I reckon anyone on more than £30k is a target for sale this summer.

shame you don't compehend ambition when it stares you in the face. We will not get back into the Champions League ie near thetop of the league again until we get owners like the Halls and Shepherd again. No we won't. The game has moved on to such dizzying heights that we it takes more than a couple of reasonably successful local businessmen to get a club up and running. Nor would we have the benefit of 'riding the wave' of the early PL years. It's a mature market now, with firmly established big hitters. Man City have demonstrated the wedge required to make even half an impact. We won't be in the CL any time soon- not just down to the failings of our slapstick owner, but the depth of the pockets of others.

It might not have been the model to start with, but now it's all about how whatever he does, fans will still show up because of loyalty to the club.

If you like knife crime. Stratford is horrible. The commute from Kent will be a ballache as it won't be easy to go out as much after work with a long train journey ahead and if you're only down for a month you might as well go for somewhere reasonably central.

The club will have insisted on this. No need to negotiate a termination payment and saving the club £2-3m. Nearly done now.