ChezGiven

Category 6. Mother born at Newcastle General, Dad from Blyth, me in Wallsend.

Nice is just as close to Genoa or Turin as it is to Marseille.

How many generations does it last then? Does my dad pass his working class background on to me? Not sure he does, I don't consider myself working class at all. I watched that Paul O'Grady thing on the working class last night. He reckons they still exist, I thought he sounded like a sentimental old queen hankering after some bygone era. Social mobility exists in this country which renders the old concepts of class redundant. The old class system started to die with the end of the empire and was fully dead by the end of the miners strike.

League 1 football is nothing like reserve team football tbh. Similar standards perhaps but that's where the comparison stops, its more competitive, more physical and more pressure. What he needs, just a shame its not a better club / team obviously but there may be a consideration of not moving away from home etc.

I get my sky through the company that supplies all the pubs and bars. The company act as a middle man between the customer and sky based on (I assume) fake addresses in the UK. Not sure how this is going to work out but it will probably be expensive.

I need to know this too. I've got the sky sports package already.

The idea that he hasn't turned matches and has done nothing to deserve reverential treatment is completely unfair.

Too much merguez tbh.

Me and him are in Brady's bar right now on a Leo Sayer.

Sounds familiar.

For the record I'd probably wear a Serge Gainsbourg t-shirt.

No encouraging you to look into Barclays a bit more was not an attempt to insinuate they do anything the same on a business front, it was the extent of their immoral lying and profiteering in the Libor scandal i was referring to. That's how moral arguments work isn't it? You assert equivalence or difference and judge accordingly.

In fact Pud, if you want a constructive angle for the meeting then surely that's it. If Wonga want to push themselves into the mainstream via an institution of a traditional working class area then they should work towards a suitable regulatory framework that ensures those who are most in danger from falling into serious financial difficulties are taken account of and protected.

Argue for tighter regulations then, who are you to dictate what sort of market can and can't exist?

Cutting.

I think you'll find plenty of examples of alcohol advertising in plain view of public spaces where alcoholics drink. I'd also have a google of Barclays if I were you Scooby doo.

I'd be fucking livid, you have my sympathies ewerk.

It doesn't get me misty-eyed with pride nor give me a warm fuzzy glow that a brand of just-so cultural value sponsors the club but I can't help but feeling those looking for that in a commercial partner need to grow up. Like everyone i'd prefer someone else but any moral argument falls away as soon as you apply that moral value to other sponsors who are all over modern football. What Ant said basically.

St Cuthbert's?

I suppose 'The Pond Life' wasnt the most enticing of names

Why is it called the Lakeside?

Of course ambition is the key factor but Southampton can be in stronger financial position quite easily. Its not hard to work out.

Been a bit exasperated with people not getting this. Imagine a business with a turnover of 200 million, its a failing business with bad credit, shit contracts, poor margins, bad invoicing, cash flow issues and huge overheads Now imagine a business with a turnover of 100 million, growing, no credit, great contracts, good margins and low overheads. Now if you still have trouble understanding why a club with a lower revenue might have more disposable incomes, give up.

What an utter cunt of a man. PSG were formed in 1970 the cheeky frog shitehouse. PSG are an anti-semitic cult built on the wastelands of the desolate Parisian suburbs with no history in a town most famous for a rugby team that plays in Pink. Fuck off Laurent

Get some reefers on the go instead, you could even dig out your old Ruud Gullit wig. Obviously spend the day speaking like Michael Holding. Should be a right laugh and you can still drive home.