saint si

turns out that in the checkatrade draw we drew the second place team in the Reading/Yeovil/Pompey group. If Reading had beaten Yeovil last night ... we would have been hosting Pompey...

No idea, but i quickly Googled and found this... http://www.factcheck.org/2008/02/the-reason-for-the-electoral-college/ thought this passage was quite interesting given current climate in UK... (but i'm in the wrong thread) James Madison worried about what he called “factions,” which he defined as groups of citizens who have a common interest in some proposal that would either violate the rights of other citizens or would harm the nation as a whole. Madison’s fear – which Alexis de Tocqueville later dubbed “the tyranny of the majority” – was that a faction could grow to encompass more than 50 percent of the population, at which point it could “sacrifice to its ruling passion or interest both the public good and the rights of other citizens.”

Each state has a number of "electors". Larger states (by population) have more electors. It's adjusted every so often to keep it roughly in line with the populations. So California has the most electors for example. Other big population centres also have high number of electors ... New York, Florida, Texas. If a candidate wins a state they get ALL of its electors (putting to one side the idea of the "faithless elector"). Doesn't matter if they win by 1 vote or 1 million votes. The winner of the election is whoever gets 270+ electors (out of 538 total). So a really tight race in California (for example) would see the loser still get a lots of popular votes, but zero electors. Meanwhile they could win a couple of small states by a landslide and still only get a small number of electors. Just like California in the example above, Gore lost the whole of Florida in 2000 by just a few hundred votes and that swung the whole election.

can only assume to avoid being cuptied

Let's see what MPs are made of. It's career vs principles time.

only - so yes.

that touch to bring it out the air and under control was as good as the finish itself

CD32

Vague memory from somewhere that Lloyd Isgrove is supposed to be one of the fastest in the PL. Obviously not in an actual match...

The Eric Black statement is there at "13 hours ago". Just keep scrolling down the main page. Search facility is the little magnifying glass on the right hand side, under the (partial) league table.

Check your spam... that's where i found mine.

I hear Sammy Lee might be looking for work?

• Community shares cannot be traded and they cannot go up in value but may go down if the Club incurs sustained losses. Oh dear! source: http://www.pompeytrust.com/userfiles/file/PST-JKP.pdf

Jones did all of 97-98, 98-99 and part of 99-00 before he had to go on gardening leave and Hoddle came in.

Yep - we are the pompey of Europe.

The first ref that actually sends a couple of players off for this in a single match will get savaged in the media (by all the ex-players working as pundits) for being a petty jobsworth who just wants the limelight, doesn't understand what it's like to actually play the game at the highest level and won't let the game flow.

January 28th

Next you'll be saying that the match was too big for the referee and he was overawed by the passion of the England supporters? :-)

you mean apart from the one on the pegs behind them?

Looks legit to me ... seems like a fairly standard UA design feature

Maybe we should get him to write it in giant letters on a bus and stand next to it.

So he's going to try and bankrupt them again?

Think it's France ... only due to the dip in the relative value of Sterling. I vaguely remember we overtook France once before due to Sterling appreciating.

Quite smart approach by the official leave campaign (Boris) and the "shadow" leave campaign (Farage). They have effectively run two separate campaigns focusing on different issues and taken steps to distance themselves from each other (in public at any rate). So anti-immigration voters got their voice, and the more "moderate" pro-brexit voters also got their voice.