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Cheers Mush! You're right: I've taught UAE cadets and they certainly don't make a thing of being from wealthy families (and in this context they probably aren't), but my goodness.... Heh, heh

DubaiPhil.. as I don't hang around the pubs in Soton, as you will see by my address, and as I'm sooo very discreet.. I'd love it if you could PM me an occasional juicy bit from Dubai about Bin Trump et al! [or get me a lucrative English teaching job, for that matter, I'm not fussy!:-)]

ps: guess who I thought about when I saw this video about property in Dubai... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8249313.stm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/oct/01/portsmouth-wages-peter-storrie-no-money "last updated 5 minutes ago" ....

I think you are right, but Saints are still hard work though. Let's hope this game is a wake up call, but that the attitude at the end of the game can carry forward.

That made me laugh! I have to admit I forego concourse catering, but more than make up for it in various local hostelries before or after the game, and sometimes both... was it against Brentford when I had my first pint at The Platform at 11.15?.... But oh, a decent pint would be so nice.... Hopback GFB is a tasty quaffer. I've been footie training 3 times a week recently so the results of my visit to the UK is gradually being burnt off!

Heh heh, a man who likes to live dangerously.... We enjoy it as much as the next fan... although it being Saints there may well be a large S&M component to it! This whole thread has really made me smile. anyway, if you fancy a pint pre/post match you could do worse than The Junction at St Denys: garden and childrens' room [known by locals as The Myra Hindley room] although a bit of a walk along St. Denys 'beach'.. *Halo* - don't forget to knock on the kids' bedroom door next chance you get and say "knock knock"... your sister may not appreciate it though!

Um, I don't think there'll be a queue.... In fact although I have sometimes been annoyed with the hyperbole of some posters I'm beginning to feel sorry for some of them, they are just so over the topwith their comments. That, or they make me laugh out loud!

Not many have commented about that, t'would be magic, and would mean the ground being extended too! I know I don't live in Soton, or even in the UK at the moment, but it's the sort of thing the city needs to get off it's arse. Did nobody ask about Lallana's corners?

Nor me, distance counts a lot! However if we get to the playoffs I might make an exception to that and drive over to Geneva to get a Flybe flight to Soton.:-)

Thanks dubai, and thanks for your previous explanation for your reticence.... it all adds up. It's great, I get to feel sympathy for Pompey and their long-suffering supporters (and all supporters are in it together in that respect), but then I also get to s****** and stiffle a giggle at their expense.

I wasn't there, so have no specific observations on the game (cough, cough) but that seems like a very likely situation. I know that when I made my debut of the bench for my women's side here in Italy my heart was going like mad and I rushed around madly. Too old and experienced and slow to be caught offside, though.:-) If we can just harness that speed and enthusiasm it sounds like he'll be useful. Thank goodness winter pitches don't get heavy and claggy like they used to.

How would you notice that? Were you actually there? apologies if you were.

We don't know who you mean! My personal problem having just returned from 3 different bars, is how to continue celebrating, given that I've decided cooking is now out!

weeee - enoteca here I come....

'sfunny Eric, when I watch them live I've normally had "quite a few"© pints... but seems wrong at home somehow...

I'm still tense, think I'll go and change so I can rush to my favourite apperitivo bar at full time... I'm not like those drunken sots EricA and DubaiP... I can just about manage to wait until after the game.;-)

Why am I still nervous. Think I'll go and read my IKEA catalogue....

We do, we do... hehehheeh

Well, if he is we won't be surprised.

Nah, only the rich ones, not us poor English teachers.

Obviously not. I was just offering a desperate alternative...

A poet notable for such classics as Jason and the Arguments, Earwig O and Dachsunds with Erections Can't climb stairs... (and many others)... EARWIG O (Les Barker) Little Mrs Earwig, she had a little son. She called the baby Earwig A, for he was number one. The second she called Earwig B. Earwig C came next. D and E soon followed, then F as you'd expect. G and H were subsequent. I and J came then. K, L and M were triplets, but who followed Earwig N? Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O. In the Insects league cup final, he gave the crowd a treat. He gave the stick insects some stick. Earwig O could not be beat-o. His first goal was a header, and his second sewed it up. His third made it a hat-trick. Epsom Earwigs won the cup! All the grasshoppers were chanting, all the spiders hand in hand in hand in hand in hand in hand in hand in hand, As they sung the Earwig anthem, and it echoed round the stand: Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O. Little Mrs Earwig, I wonder if you know That your fifteenth little offspring is the famous Earwig O? "Earwig O" they sing at Wembley, "Earwig O" at White Hart Lane, At the Oval, and Old Trafford, "Earwig O Wig O" again. "Earwig O" they chant at Chelsea, and the Royal Albert Hall. Some talk of Alexander Beetle, but the greatest of them all... Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O. Little Mrs Earwig, does it fill your heart with joy? When they sing about your son-o, do you whisper "That's my boy"? Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O. Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O, Earwig O.

Gawd, early drinking and Les Barker have a lot to answer for! :-)

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