GideonShandy

Very good.

Benjamin Arthur?

Only 30 million, as I recall. 35 million would just have been ridiculous. ;-))

We played Arsenal four times in a season once, including twice in a week and three times away. Got them away in the League Cup (lost 2-0), got them away in the FA Cup (lost 3-0) and then lost 3-0 in the league game four days later. Played Birmingham three times within 10 days in November/December 1973. The games got progressively more violent. One was the game when Jinky Jim Smith got sent off after 57 seconds for breaking an opponent's leg. And yes, I am that old.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3844508/Alan-Shearer-46-shows-incredibly-hunky-physique-joins-stunning-bikini-clad-wife-Lainya-sun-drenched-Barbados-break.html Piece of first-rate journalism from the Daily Mail, mistaking Shearer's daughter for his wife.

We started similar last time. 12 games in we'd won 6, drawn 3, lost 3. Chances are we're going to have more points at the same stage this season as that one. Don't think that's quite right. According to the archive on .com, after 12 games in the 2009-10 promotion season we'd won 7, drawn 3, lost 2, and were top with 24 points. And we only lost 2 more games the whole season. After 9 games (where we are now) we'd won 7, lost 1 & drawn 1. Top with 22 pts.

Oxford University doesn't have a "campus." Even Matt Ritchie could tell you that.

Was generally reported that Southampton paid QPR only 4 million for Austin.

Like cream cakes.

So it's more likely than not that four teams will be relegated this year? Not sure I agree with that, like.

Interesting story in the Daily Mail Online today about a woman "accused of having intimate relationships with six Newcastle players." Her explanation was that she "did not regard them as footballers."

You think it'll be even more than they got from beating Spurs and Liverpool?

Even if we do get promoted, with Ashley it will then just be back to the soul-destroying routine of trying not to get relegated again -- trying to do (and spend) the minimum necessary to stay in the Premier League and collecting the television money, getting maximum exposure for his Sports Direct advertising etc. Short term, a season of winning games in the Championship might be a welcome change in some ways. Long-term, the misery never ends until Ashley decides he's had enough.

Drunk sports fan assaults police horse. Only in America. Or not. http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-villanova-police-horse-ncaa-championship-20160405-story.html

Most of them already have.

No way in hell we get 13 more points out of 8 games -- 4 wins & a draw, or 3 wins & 4 draws.

What about Norwich?

Another victim of the Zika virus. Expect De Jong will be next.

Not dropped from the France squad. Deschamps can't have been paying much attention.

Savvywoman.co.uk

Really? Even if it says so in Savvywoman.com?

4 home wins: Bournemouth, mackems, Swansea and Palace. Not impossible by any means. We've won less than 25% of our home games so far. 3 out of 13. So not impossible but highly unlikely.

Oliver Cromwell. So maybe it repeats twice.

Deserts. Just one S in the middle. As in "deserve." Unless you're predicting that he'll have a fatal encounter with an apple crumble or tiramisu or something. Which I wouldn't mind at all, tbh.

One group has to be the Group of Death. Pretty sure that's in the UEFA rules somewhere.