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I blame sky. It's just sabout to produce it's 2nd generation of fans who think they're all entitled to a completely arbitary opinion and are all entitled to voice it at the match , or to David Craig. Or their mates who treat going to the match the same as watching a match on a 37 inch plasma, something to be observed and not actively particpated in. The rest of us old fuckers have been anaesthetised into a slumber as well by anyone of a combination of events, chief of which a far as I can see is the saturation coverage of football by Murdoch in his attempt to have more influence on more households in the world than any other person who's ever lived, the fuckin cunt.

Can I vote "despite the long term deals handed to 4 players this transfer window looks no further into the future than May 2010"?

Don't go to Austrailia...its full of twats from here constantly slagging this country off.Before I went I didn't realise that the worlds most fuckin annoying twats are those whose chief obsession in life is how sunny the weather is. And theres about 3 interesting things to see in the entire country. If you want to see an interesting country buy an Amtrak pass here and fly to the USA and bum around there for a few months. Best thing I've ever done, fuckin brilliant time.

How ironic I'm Scottish? Deflected as exepected. You know fine well what's ironic about your post. Well I've got no disease, what you on about now Craig? You get the benefit of deflecting things more than Frank Lampard you anyway. keep it going man.... Well am I the one who wears the opposition shirts of teams playing Scotland. Normally I want them to win. Murray is a disgrace. The thing is they do it just to get a reaction like this, fuck knows why you let it bother you. Murray made the greatest ever player play some of his best tennis..fair play to him. He'll never be forgiven by some for an of the cuff remark he made as an 18 year old......do you stand by everything you used to say at that age?

He's gone to the highest bidder, which appears to be Wigan. Given Palace's financial state, the club who offered them the most money were always likely to get him Mike Ashley agreed 3 long term contracts last week.....he's probably lying down in a darkened room in the Priory as we speak

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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Football-Against-E...r/dp/0752848771 Yeah the superclassico is very much social division fought out on grass as opposed to ethnic hatred

Caransa?...named after this gadgie no doubt, Maup Caransa, a big player behind the Ajax sides of the 60s & 70s: http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl...ADBR_en___GB328 so can I...when we played Herenveen one of our lot thought it might be a good idea to try and get in there to be fair he'd been drinking Warsteiner for about 8 hours....

Manchester derby the biggest? For me, and I take Stevie's points completley about Boca v River Plate (these things are entirely subjective), this is the daddy: This is where a decade of civil war in the Balkans started, Dinamo Zagreb v Red Star Belgrade...obviously a lot more to it than football; WW 1 starting in nearby Bosnia and all the history of the peoples of the Ottoman Empire being at each others throats.....Serbia's traditional support of Russia and Marshal Tito, leader of Yugoslavia from WW 2 till his death in the late 80s....the subsequent collapse of communist power in Eastern Europe in general and the old emeneties and hatreds re surfacing....which all led to this game in 1991. The Red Star Ultras basically became the warlord Arkan's paramilitary militia " The Tigers", similarlary the Dianmo's "BBB's" (Bad Blue Boys) went off to join the Croatian army. This game kicked it all off. Couldnt find any footage of the Dinamo players having it with the Belgrade riot police, but theres a legendary shot of one of them doing a flying kick into a fully armoured goon and flattening the fucker..Bosko Balaban? Don't know if you'd call this a "derby" (as I say very subjective) as such but there was a terrific rivalry between these clubs during the years of the Yugoslavian league and at it's culmination it kicked off a decade long civil war. Thats wat I call a derby (If anyones interested, Simon Kuper's "Football Against The Enemy" gives a very good account of what happened)

I think Ashley likes someone who owes him a favour, or is grateful for the job...see also JFK. Makes them easier to manipulate, or easier to "persuade" to see things his way, accept budgets etc. And there is this talk of a player's "comittee" (Smith,Nolan...anyone else?) Caulkin and Bird have both alluded to this, and Hughton is quoted as saying he likes to do the job with a "light touch" in the changing room. All of which suggests to me we've got a yes man who is largely cowed by the players he's supposed to be in charge of. As someone has said we're top in spite of not because of him. So how much better could we be if we had someone else in charge?...Shearer?.....Mark Hughes?....

Raylor isnt suspended for the rest of the season and simpson will be back soon too as for enrique, we have to wait and see Danny Fox from Celtic if you beleive that nutter who runs newcastle united blog.....is he any good?...premier league player?

This is canny and the best named hotel in western europe : http://travel.ciao.co.uk/Cok_City_Amsterdam__Review_5042864 If you want a bit of history, try a snoop around whats left of the jewish quarter in Amsterdam Sud. The Synangogue is stunning, and the Schouwburg Theatre will break your heart when they tell you that it was where they kept the jewish folk before they were put on the trains for Auschwitz. The red light area has loads of whores and cheap dope mind...its fuckin great

Lovelyhands has done his ankle, I think. Think he was able to run it off This streams great at HT......Local Hero then Busker

Any stream? cheers.

have you still got a turntable? (must have a headphones socket). 1. get audacity off the net. its free so dont worry 2. run a lead from your headphone socket to your pc mic input (small jackplug) 3. run audacity. go into project and select 'new stereo track' 4. start the record and press the record button in audacity.(make sure the input level is ok) 5. do the same for side B you'll have to split the tracks manually but its a piece of piss to do. make sure you use the 'export as Mp3' option when saving the individual track. hope this helps edit: just remembered you'll also need to download something called the 'LAME mp3 encoder'. it explains how to do it on the audacity site. (iirc) Still got my Technics so all is good.......all I need is a lead.I'll give that a go thanks very much mate

Money making scheme: Purchased one of these bad boys: http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?module...CFcJd4wodhUSRuQ got tons of vinyl, a lot of it on the rare-ish side, so thought I'd get ot all backed up on to a hardrive and flog the lot for ££££s However, It is currently annhilating "headache" by Frank Black; the recording is beyond tinny with no depth whatsover and the stylus is just scratching the fuck out of my vinyl making the recording barely listenable I realise I've gone for the cheapest possible option, has anyone else given this a go and acheived good quality recordings?...if so what kit did you use? Cheers.....

Iiiiiinteresting. Yeah.....so's this.... hope he's not come here expecting a quiet life

According to the Palace fan at work he's lobbed £36m of his own money into the club during his ownership which is considered to be most of his own personal wealth. Tit he may be but you can't fault him from supporting the club - it's more than our owner has done. Lot of vitriol is aimed towards Noades by all accounts as he walked away with a nice tidy little sum when he too was staring administration in the face. I'll tell you now I hope he ends up in a Dulwich highrise on the dole. He is the definition of a cunt. This man burned a £50 note in someones face. Anyone who does that type of thing, no judge, no jury, death, straight to the death chambers. Without question and hesitation one of the biggest arseholes English football has ever known. Jamie McLen lit a cigar in Hign Pit club in Cramlington with a 20 pound note when he was playing for the reserves the ludicrous fuckin cunt Didn't Noades say that "black players cant defend" or some other such bollocks?

Swansea's gone now as well

According to the Palace fan at work he's lobbed £36m of his own money into the club during his ownership which is considered to be most of his own personal wealth. Tit he may be but you can't fault him from supporting the club - it's more than our owner has done. Lot of vitriol is aimed towards Noades by all accounts as he walked away with a nice tidy little sum when he too was staring administration in the face. I think Noades owns the ground too....he kept hold of it when he sold out to that other dick Goldberg who let Venables fleece them too. Poor fuckers.

I saw Simon Jordan outside Valentinos in Puerto Banus last summer drinking with Alan Stubbs and Beppe from Eastenders.....someone went up to Beppe and said "you were fuckin brilliant in Emmerdale mate" Jordans another cockney twat whos ego demanded he become a nationally known figure by ruining a football club. Shame for the fans.

Yeah...8 clubs before he's 26 year old leaves me thinking he may well be a fast running fuckin idiot

Comparing Burns to Shakespeare is like comparing Stephen Caldwell to Bobby Moore. Difficult to compare a playwrite to a poet though shirley? Shakespeare can in some ways be viewed as a propagandist for the post reformation monarchy. Canny writer,no doubt about it, but as a man basically bought and paid for. MacBeth is a character assination of the last truly "Celtic" (and obviously Roman Catholic) king of Scotland, written to curry favour with Henry VIII's Protestant descendants. Burns lived in different and less turbulent times, but was his own man.His works were more observational, less contrived and without any real agenda. You may prefer Shakespere's works to Burns, fair play. But theres always for me been an unpleasant whiff of kissing the ruling elite's arse about Shakespere's stuff. I dont know Burn's work to argue but i'll take your word on that. Might not be wholly fair on the bard though/ Shadowplay by Clare Asquith is a very scholarly account of the hidden political messages in Shakespeare's work. The church of England and the Queen were his political overlords, yet his work has many elements of catholic sympathy (if you buy her argument). These sympathies are coded into the text and Asquith argues that these codes, whilst a bit obscure to us, would have been much more obvious to those with sympathies on the losing side of the religious divide. Yeah....Shakesperes time was a strange one, the country was virtually a police state if you were a catholic, and its strongly rumoured that a lot of Shakesperes family were. I've not read the account you mention but I'm aware of his alleged religious sympathies, which makes his attitude to the crown and c of e a bit hyporcritical if you ask me. Hyopcritical? Or sensible? Marlowe was killed because of his beliefs. yeah...as I say for anyone with catholic sympathies it was an horrific time. But why suck from the royal teet if you had a completely different agenda? He couldve sat in Warwickshire and made gloves with his old man and took mass from a priest coming out of his priest hole once a week if he wanted to be true to himself.

I can tell you weren't mate but Stevie may have missed the point slightly Shakespere and Burns had a lot in common in that they both tell us a lot about the human condition but they did it in different ways. Burns wrote in the lowland Scots dialect, which has led to claims (which I'm not completely in disagreement with) that it was little more than doggrel by those a bit sniffy about the Scots in any case. Shakespere was a lot more formal, and with his sponsors being establisment institutions he was always a lot more likely to be celebrated than a Scots poet born only 14 years after the Stewart dynaties' last effort to rise up and put a catholic on the throne of Great Britain. History is written by the winners. Burns life coincided with American independance and the French Revolution so he lived in intersting times and sometimes (not explictly) refers to some of the themes of revolution eg mans liberty in the poem "a mans a man for a' that" which was an inspiration to later liberal and labour movements. But he is more famous for romantic songs and ballads and long form colloquial verse such as "Tam o Shanter".