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Alan Bennett's debut for me too.....very clearly out of his depth. Reading only paid around £200k for him. He lasted a year with Reading. He shone when he played for Cork and if anything, it shows the difference between levels of football leagues.

All I want to say is that we were never ever going to beat Man City today. This match is not representative of us at all. Last week's draw (and previous games) is the concern....no proven goal scorers at this level.

I always respected Frank Field. Still do. Can't believe anyone could call Corbyn anti semitic unless the refined definition of anti semitism includes as anti semitic anybody, such as me, who finds the Israeli govt policies towards Palestinians offensive....

It was my suggestion to have this a few years back......Monk K Billy and Guan were 3 decent posters. I would like to give exclusive access to them and others.....not us lot who thirst for knowledge and info!!!

I saw Springsteen last year at Wembley and the sound was diabolical. Saw the Stones at ST Mary's and the sound was excellent. The Stones were magnificent.

Boufal against West Brom, surely!!!

I have decided that I can't help you....I enjoy friendly debate and I am happy to concede whenever I am wrong, but you are just rude. I did say neither of us could win a bet because we will never know the facts.

You don't think the Russian public should hear from her? What is the game?

Just said the same to my wife......

Care to elaborate.....elaborate means to go into some detail?

One more for you Verbal http://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/04/the-best-explanation-for-the-skripal-drama-is-food-poisoning.html#more

I get it Verbal. Everything you say is right and anything I say is wrong. As the drama unfolded – and early wild speculation unravelled – slowly but surely the forces of law and order upon which we all rely established the core truth behind the infernal Russian spin machine. All became clear as the authorities shared with us: Top Secret Aerial photographs of Russian buildings whose sole purpose was, undeniably, the production of Novichok…a deadly nerve agent that kills people, and then cruelly brings them back to life…but murders house-pets indiscriminately Reports of a raid upon a Russian passenger plane foiled by fiendish cabin staff loyal to the despot Putin Expert forensic examination of a front-door handle so toxically deadly, two unprotected policemen were posted to guard it round the clock Thorough examination of Mr Skripal’s BMW motor car which proved conclusively that the nerve agent had been pumped into the air-conditioning system Exhaustive tests upon Ms Skripal’s attache case showing how Putin fanatics in Moscow had, without a shadow of a doubt, placed the nerve agent in it when she wasn’t looking Comprehensive briefing of a Court of Protection judge enabling him to conclude that the Skripal’s Russian family were all fakes, whose evidence would thus be of no value Condemnation of Russian espionage elements in Salisbury Hospital, the local police force and Porton Down, who stuck though thick and thin to the ludicrous story that nobody in Salisbury was ill at all as a result of the brutal Putin-inspired attack The backing of those EU leaders who, throughout the Brexit negotiations, had shown themselves to be unstinting supporters of plucky Britain’s desire for self-determination as an alternative to life under the steel-tipped jackboot of the Red Army which pretends not to be Red any more but of course we know better. German TV interviews where Mr Johnson was asked a lot of impertinently direct questions, and opinions offered by unrepresentative Porton Down spin doctors about whether the nerve agent Novichok was involved, and where it might not have been manufactured. But in a tolerant society, this is the price we must pay for our freedom: there will always be those Useful Idiots who prefer the word of our enemies to that of our protectors. With no evidence at all, they persist in ignoring the mountain of evidential proof that Russia is guilty of the most heinous Peace Crime in modern history. And so, let us steel ourselves to our task. We shall fight them in the media, we shall fight them on the websites, but we will never surrender. For if the Special Relationship should last for a thousand years, later peoples will say, “This was its darkest hour”.

I suggest you go onto Craig Murray's website and listened to the 10 minute interview he did with Sky....me personally, I think it was false flag attack....by perpetrators unknown.

We will never know for certain...but more and more it looks like a false flag attack......Craig Murray has been on the money, the UK has known for weeks and weeks that there was no PROOF that the nerve agent could only have come from Russia. Why let the truth get in the way of anything.

Please God give us a victory today...

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/03/boris-johnson-a-categorical-liar/ https://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2018/03/26/brexit-bojo-why-johnsons-role-in-the-skripal-hysteria-confirms-his-membership-of-the-military-industrial-complex/ Worth a read as I doubt anything will be said in our media....

And you know all this as fact.....with the world cup coming up....complete ******** if you ask me.

get in

You sent me a link to a chemist....not THE chemist....you have have not caught on to the fact that neither of us will never KNOW who did it....the Russians will continually deny involvement and the UK will insist it was them, so our bet cannot be completed. New scientist article was interesting What are Novichok nerve agents and did Russia do it? By Alice Klein The poison used to target ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury was a Novichok nerve agent, UK prime minister Theresa May revealed yesterday. The chemical was identified by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down, May told the House of Commons. Novichok nerve agents – also known as the “N-series” – were secretly developed by the former Soviet Union beginning in the 1970s. They followed the “G-series” of nerve agents made by Germany in the 1930s and the “V-series” made by the UK in the 1950s. Novichok means “newbie” in Russian. The small amount that we know about these agents is based on reports from Russian chemist Vil Mirzayanov, who exposed the development programme in 1991. Novichoks work in the same way as other nerve agents, which disrupt nerve signals to the muscles by inhibiting an enzyme called acetylcholinesterase. The gaps between nerve cells become flooded with acetylcholine, causing continuous contraction of the muscles. Symptoms include convulsions and difficulty breathing. According to Mirzayanov, some Novichoks can be eight times as deadly as VX, the V-series agent that was used to kill North Korean exile Kim Jong-nam last year. Just 10 milligrams of VX on the skin can be lethal. There are no previous reports of Novichoks being used in battle or assassinations. However, Andrei Zheleznyakov, a Russian scientist involved in their development, reportedly died not long after being exposed to a small amount that leaked out of a rubber tube in the lab. The most potent members of the N-series are reportedly Novichok-5 and 7. We know these are chemicals that contain carbon and phosphorus like the G-series – which includes sarin, tabun, soman, and cyclosarin, and the V-series – which includes VX, VR, VE, VG and VM. However, their exact structures are a mystery. According to Mirzayanov, both are binary agents, meaning they are made from two precursor chemicals that are mixed together just before use. These precursors could be made at pesticide or fertiliser manufacturers without arousing suspicion, he says. The use of a Novichok in the attack on the Skripals makes it highly likely that Russia was involved, because no one else knows how to make them, says John Lamb at Birmingham City University, UK. “The Novichok family was specifically created by Russia to be unknown in the West and as such it’ll be one of their most tightly guarded secrets,” he says. But why would Russia employ such an incriminating nerve agent? “It could have been a demonstration of capability,” says Lamb. After allegedly poisoning ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium-210 in 2006 without serious consequences, they may simply have felt that they could get away it, he says. Novichok precursor chemicals are also safer to transport and handle than ready-made nerve agents, he says. However, Russia has denied any involvement. Identifying the Novichok agent would have been a painstaking process, says Martin Boland at Charles Darwin University in Australia. If someone shows signs of nerve agent poisoning, the first thing to do is to check for decreased acetylcholinesterase activity. This reveals if a nerve agent has bound to the enzyme. Next, the specific nerve agent must be identified. A telltale sign of poisoning with sarin, for example, is unnaturally high blood levels of fluoride, which is used to make the nerve agent. Because no standard test exists for Novichoks, defence officials may have taken fluid from the Skripals’ spinal cords, isolated the acetylcholinesterase enzyme, and analysed the structure of the nerve agent attached, says Boland. Western intelligence agencies probably have knowledge of the exact Novichok structures, allowing them to detect a match, he says. The Skripals are probably receiving the same treatment that is given for other types of nerve agent exposure, says Boland. This includes atropine to block the effects of acetylcholine, pralidoxime to restore acetylcholinesterase activity, diazepam to stop convulsions, and ventilation to assist breathing. Their survival so far suggests the Novichok poison was designed to be slow-acting or to be absorbed through the skin, because this route of administrations takes longer to cause symptoms than inhalable nerve agents like sarin, says Lamb. Parts of Salisbury – where the attack took place – are still cordoned off, and Public Health England has advised anyone who was close by to wash their clothes. This precaution is necessary because we don’t know how long Novichoks persist in the environment, says Boland.

An interesting post Guided Missile, well thought out.

Who do you use as a source? The Telegraph?, the Mail? I try to get a multiplicity of views on events such as this....I had deep suspicions about the WMD pretext for going to war. I was right to be suspicious. I have similar suspicions with this interpretation of events around this attack. I have a friend who attacks any alternative messenger I quote him but never refers to the content of the message, sounds a bit like you. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/929085/Russian-spy-poisoned-attack-latest-Vladimir-Putin-Sergei-Skripal-nerve-agent Does Annie Machon get similar short shrift from you as well?

I read that the UK has both this chemical and its antidote at Porton Down, a mere 10 miles away from Salisbury. My money is on our secret services having done this. As Craig Murray said the notion of our secret services good and Russia's bad is questionable. Russia has the world cup coming up and the last thing they want is to give anyone an excuse to not attend. It is not as if the secret service are bumping off one of our own, is it? I also read something along the lines that there are far less obvious ways to assassinate someone than the use of this substance. Corbyn is right to ask for some proof......if it is the Russians then we have something akin to a cell amongst us, that's a great concern to me.

Lord Duckhunter is right. He was the most highly rated left back in the Championship before he signed for us. He was great for us, but Luke Shaw came along and was a major improvement. To say Fox was in any way poor is plain wrong.

I think Les Read has done well over the years....whether he takes credit for the astute buys such as Alderweirald (sp), Mane, Pelle Van Dijk ....he has got top dollar for the sales of players, apart from Mane. The decision on the appointments of the last 2 managers were poor, especially the current holder. Who decides on the sacking of a manager? The committee?

After the Burnley game...I was so angry, I haven't been back. It's not the defeat and I stood by the team in their darkest hour. It was the manner of the defeat.