PaddockLad

Did you have anything to do with the rings on the Tyne Bridge?

Chelsea's hands were tied by the potential court case. I'm not sure if they could make any public comment about it even if they wanted to. The difference between the two cases is that there was no complaint to the police about what Suarez is alleged to have said. Alex Ferguson knew it was a matter for the ref and then the FA to investigate, not the police. Fergie took Evra to the refs changing room after the game where the ref took a statement. Correct decision by Fergie iyam. Ferdinand and/or his girlfriend went to the police.

What you are I think about his guilt is irrelevent as we're not trying him. Once you've got a law you've got to stick to it, good or bad. This is PC predjudice of the worth kind iyam, the law was introduced for and by the likes of you who see the world in a purely black and white way, if you see what I mean. Perhaps you think you can legislate away problems like this. OK then, what legislation largly removed widespread racial chanting in English football grounds in the early 90s? Its not perfect even now, but its massively, hugely improved on the 70s and 80s situation. So what act of Parliament caused the massive sea change in behaviour? Dont worry, I wont hold my breath for an answer thats actually reflects something on the statutue book.

Fuck off man, he's not even been convicted yet. Heard all the evidence have we? No? jog on..

How much money is the sheik likely to spend Wolfy?

So, Wolfy old son....can you give us the benefit of your no doubt extensive knowlegde of how the sheik may operate at NUFC; how he might "sheik up" the club (can you see what I did there? ) so we can make an informed choice? Because I know about as much about him as I do the large hadron collider/higgs boson gig in Switzerland...ie its been in the news, but what the fuck is it all about? Thanks.

I was abroad when all that carry on with Mutu kicked off...did he fail a drugs test?...were the law involved after that?..

If it was a better written law by the clowns we vote into Westminster he wouldnt have got near court. If Chelsea FC and football in general treated players as employees instead of superstars he'd be looking for a new job as well, which would bring at least as much shame to his door.

Think I've seen all our games in Holland in the last decade or so...the pre season tour they did when Sir Bob was mananger was fuckin brilliant. Heerenveen was good too, Breda and Alkmaar were a bit wild due to our old friends from Feyenoord coming to visit. Reading away on the 19th, not missing much there. Do you know how easy it is to get tickets? Italy is almost impossible for tkts now, youve got to be registred with the Italian FA and have your piccy on the tkt.

QPR are offering 60k a week apparently. Dont know if thats an accurate market value or not. We'll likely find out if he has a good season with them.

Am off to Den Haag for the friendly if/when its confirmed...cloggie games are great, cheap and easy to get to and The Netherlands itself is so small you can base yourself in Amsterdam and sample all the delights that fine city has to offer

Your auntie was probably too old for Wyman if she'd left school by then My mates old man is scouser and was big muckers with Ringo Starr before the Beatles hit the big time and used to regularly hang out at the Cavern Club in the band's early days....we got him pissed at my mates wedding and he let slip that hed shagged this ginger bird from Glasgow who was hanging round with them...next time he saw her was on top of the pops..Lulu

Pardew also saying it'll cost a huge amount of cash to persuade NUFC to part with any of the players that are being linked with moves away from SJP....not exactly the same tactic as stating "xxxxx is not for sale at any price" to drive up the price or start a bidding war but it does amount to the same thing. AVB basically said the same thing about Modric yesterday too. This appears to be a new honesty about it which is in a way quite refreshing,basically telling the fans that they shouldnt be under any illusions that the whole squad is up for sale at the right price.

Can't disagree with that.....in his day though I think he was very original, pity his day was 30 years ago. I don't think any of us are the people we were 30 years ago...I was 12, so thats good

Steve Wright's original Radio 1 "posse" was a work of genius as it was the original one. All those freaks in one studio & all the characters calling in...fuckin great iyam

Just come back off the ship and was chatting to one of the sparks on there, not sure what part but he's from Newcastle....we were talking about one of the other sparks when he uttered the immortal line.... "that cunts fuckin radged" My mate from Rotherham was listening to us and had to ask what it meant

Radio 2 was canny good until that other utter wanker Evans got the Wogmeisters gig. Self regarding cretin. I love radio, always have done. Its not much diffferent nowadays content wise to years ago though, theres some you'd pay money to listen to e.g. for teenagers in the 70s and 80s Kenny Everett and Steve Wright were brilliant. I used to tape the Steve Wright show if I was off school, the funniest thing I'd heard as a young un. You had to pick and choose your presenters then as well, as you say DLT and Bates were fuckin dinasours, carrying on the same old shit theyd don since the 60s when half of their alleged audience were getting off their tits every weekend at raves etc...."quack quack oops" fuck me, that was awful Nowadays 6 music is good, some of the specialist shows on radio one are worth a podcast blast, interesting docu stuff on radio 2, five live is great too. Lots of choice in the digital age. But I pity the youth of today getting musical pointers from Ferne fuckin Cotton and Reggie Yates etc..

Hes playing Herod in ALW's latest production of "Supermac Jesus Christ Superstar"....incredibly, this is actually true Radio one changed forever in the 90s, aiming for the 16-24 year olds. Moyes was part of that, so now he's basically DLT with a better PR team. He's always been, without exception, fuckin dreadful. Don't care how old you are, at any stage of his radio career you care to mention he's been unlistenable. Didn't like football, joined radio one, discovered football was popular with his audience, decided he was a Leeds Utd fan, culminating in that other cunt Peter Ridsdale being interviewed live on Radio One and singing "Leeds United Calypso" live on air. What a pair of fuckin cockmonkeys.

Carragher's old man is alleged to have shagged her whilst away at a WC or Euro's

ex lovers I take it?

Yeah, but thats down to the CPS deciding whether theres enough evidence to make a case. There plainly is according to them, ot theyre getting off on the publicity. As I say, if found to have comitted the act he'd have been sacked by any other corporate company. That would have been enough, no need to bring the law into it. And its only a law because of politicians' agendas.

i'm not saying there shouldnt be legislation against it, I'm saying this particular piece of legislation is just plain bad law. In a case such as you've highlighted I think there are other public order offences that would cover it. I think the law was introduced by the PC brigade to prove a point and so they can put people into little boxes with labels on, which is what they like to do. That is why some people find it strange it got to court in the first place. Employment law couldve been used in this case, talk like Terry is alleged to have to anybody from a different company in firms time and you're looking at the tin tack. But of course football's "different". Still doesnt detract from the law being shite though.

Agreed. But the debate has been on here "is this really a criminal offence?" and thats where the grey area is, not the ins and outs of the case. The law is wrong iyam. You cant legislate against someone calling someone else a name, however offensive. Its bollocks.

Ok, so what is proved if John Terry is convicted of the charge he's up for?

theres folk my age I know use "ower thonder" to mean "over there", or "thonder its" for "its over there"....a lot of thats dying out though. The kids on the Scottish side sound like theyre from Edinburgh nowadays, coming out with "Aye, ah pure went tae the pub eeehh?" sort of bollocks. When I was at school it was the same words on both sides of the border spoke with diifferent accents, but the shared "language" of the border seems to be sadly dying out, and it was a lot closer to Geordie than how they talk in Glasgow for instance.