Mao Cap

The poppy means peaceful, apolitical remembrance of the victims of wars to us in England, yes, but it comes with more baggage in Northern Ireland and parts of Scotland; there, like everything else, it just gets used as another excuse for republicans/loyalists to wind each other up with the same old childish sectarian fascist sh*t. So whilst I don't agree with the actions of the Celtic fans (just be the bigger man FFS) there is more logic behind their actions than appears from the point of view of us in England.

A more reasonable compromise would be to demand that they have a white poppy on the kit, as that doesn't have the Unionist connotations of the red poppy. TBH I can see their point, but they've made themselves look like w*nkers by just being blindly oppositional rather than looking for a solution that's best for everyone.

They are scum, that's for sure. Not even hard or anything, just...scum.

Cracking first episode. Not generally into horror much, but always had a penchant for zombie stuff - beats hell out of all that stupid vampire bullsh*t anyway

The annoyance factor works best for little-known websites like GoCompare, Comparethemarket etc., advertising is hugely important to them because making the public aware of them is the main thing, not worrying about pishing people off. Hard to see how this approach works for a large financial instituion, however. Everyone's heard of the Halifax. There's doubtless some clever reasoning behind it, but.

Chuffed about that result, well done Dover

Numbers 2 and 33 in particular are crackers! Luckily business-speak is more of a joke than a genuine annoyance to me, because I only hear it a couple of times a year (when the corporate types come in to tell us unsuited nightshift proles how the company's doing with loads of charts and stuff). Living like a badger does have its advantages sometimes

Phew, then I'm OK. Next time I'm in a classy joint like Nando's I'll know that the respectable folk aren't looking down on me. Off for lunch now, MAO HUNGRY MAO WANT EAT

I have never heard of a right way to hold utensils. Give us a guide, I want to know whether I should feel smug or mortified at the next posh dinner party I go to.

Deppo banned? If anything, he must have prevented the suicides of half a dozen posters by breaking up the walls of bile-splattered text from the usual saddos with some humour!

Notts managerless and missing a couple of key players? 2,000-strong Saints following brimming with expectation? It's a foregone conclusion I'm afraid. Saints to bottle it and lose 1-0

500ish. Tuesday night game though, so not really a true reflection on their usual away support which I've heard is pretty good.

Come on Dartford or Webfeet away!

Yes I've heard he's very highly thought of

I won't be absolutely made up or anything, but I imagine I'll meet the deaths of Thatcher and Blair (same f*cking thing really) with a smile and a mumbled "good". Brown, whilst not up to the job and responsible for some major mistakes, always struck me as a thoroughly decent man. As for anything else, there's not much point in endless tit-for-tat. History shows that the current approach never works; the events of the next parliamentary term will prove this once again more effectively than any words. Still, the Tories and their yellow lapdogs will enjoy themselves immensely tormenting penniless oiks in the process, so at least some of us will be having fun.

Maiders went at them right from the off and gave Hendon a bit of a shock, scoring on about 25 and missing quite a few chances to get a second (which would come back to bite us in the arse later). However, in the second half Hendon started to show why they're up the top end of the table, ripping our defence apart on a regular basis and getting a goal from a corner, then a penalty. This'd be the usual signal for Maiders heads to go down and either collapse or huff and puff and get nowhere a la Saints on a bad day, but they surprised everyone by getting one on 80 - had to bugger off to work a couple of minutes from the end, but we probably looked the more likely to score. All in all pretty encouraging, first Maidstone game this season where it's looked as if the team might have it in them to stay up.

http://www.maidstoneunited.co.uk Now under new ownership and hopefully on our way to a new ground in the town after many years as nomads. On my way to Hendon at home just now as it turns out - going to be a wet one...

Meh. The simplistic, 1930s economics-for-morons that dominates public debate now (the debts and deficits of a nation of 70 million people is totally the same as one guy using a credit card, you know) can be easily torn apart. But there's not much point arguing, the disaster that will unfold over the next few years with this discredited economic strategy will speak for itself.

The "Mankbusters" t-shirts sold by Pirate Paul following our third victory against them at the Dell. Pretty much lived in it until I had a growth spurt at 15 and it became too small. When we beat Villa 4-1 during one of those desperate April-time games, and they went on the pitch and pulled the Archers end goalposts down (and pwned the Saints blokes who went on to oppose them ). The blue blanket of fag smoke hanging around under the Dell floodlights during night games. Dave Beasant swapping dirty jokes with the crowd. The always unbelievably tedious and crap games whenever we played QPR or Wednesday. Away fans having a sing-song outside the Winston. Getting knocked out of every cup going by Fulham during the latter part of the decade.

I got a meat and spud one, but "spud pie" would have been a more accurate description I think the highlight for me was Lambo actually jumping for a couple of high balls. Mind you, that could have been what gave him the concussion.

I think that's just because we tend to concede last-minute goals, not score them... Camara v. Norwich in 05 and Fernandes v. Everton a year or two before that were pretty special ones I can remember going in at the Chapel End

What I've never understood about the casual label blokes is that if you're there for a good punch-up, why go in your smart expensive coat and probably get it all bloody/muddy/ripped up so you can't wear it out that evening (or any other evening) and use it to help your chances when cracking onto skanks in scabby nightclubs? Seems like a lot of money down the drain to me. And why wear flimsy trainers when a pair of big steel-toed boots will hurt someone a lot more? Also, some sort of colour scheme should be in order IMO - in all the football fights I've seen I've never had a clue which were ours and which were theirs, half the time you must end up belting another Saints bloke. They skinheads had the right idea, if you ask me. If the Yoof want to start climbing that league table, they should go retro

That's a shame. Always enjoyed his posts in the Arts forum

You chaps should get on that there "Mumsnet" or some similar site and start cutting loose with this sort of material. Hilarity would ensue in the brief period before you's got banned