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The BNP member down the end of my road is glad this debate has shifted to the use of the 'N' word instead. Incidentally he only uses it in an 'ironic sense' and believes that's OK, apparently his colleagues in the police agree with him.

Ha ha, makes your heart bleed when poor old Raymondo can't afford to live in this country. Tell you what Ray, why not just **** off? The tax burden on the rich is less than the poor yet this over paid jumped up thesp thinks he's too good to pay tax? Constantly talking about working his ******** off doesn't help either - yeah being a 'one trick pony' actor must be sooo hard. Anyway these celebrities with an opinion never live up to their promises. I'm still waiting for Frank Bruno and Paul Daniels to leave us alone.

That's a good article. Not sure about comparisons with MLT as I can't really recall seeing him (Cassono) play, and I don't think MLT would ever feign injury or refuse to play. The philosophy might be right though. It's refreshing to hear a footballer talk about enjoying the game even if, and maybe because, he doesn't push himself too hard. He comes across as pretty ordinary and the kind of bloke you could have a pint with. He's probably a throwback to a lot of the players around in the 70's and that's no bad thing. Sadly I can't really remember that era but it sounds a lot more fun than the robot footballers with zero personality and bank balances longer than telephone numbers that we get these days.

Yes, Witter was below par in that fight (hadn't his Dad just been diagnosed with cancer?) but the light welter division doesn't have a huge amount of talent left. Unless he can persuade any of the welters to move down. Maybe a better move is to go for Manny regardless of the result against DLH, it could definitely be made at 140lb and financially would make sense for both and give them both a decent chance of winning too. Selling the fight won't be a problem either. Such a shame that Hatton can't cut it at 147 because there's still some cracking fights out there but what's the point? He's just not big enough to cope at that weight.

Good showing by Hatton but very disappointed with Malignaggi. Outside of the first round he didn't show very much at all and his constant holding was frustrating. He seemed a shadow of the fighter who fought Cotto. The change of trainer seems to have been good for Hatton. I'm a bit worried that he's talking of moving up to welterweight again and I'm not sure it's a good move for him to fight De La Hoya (if DLH beats Manny). Personally I'd like to see Hatton have a shot at Timothy Bradley who looked good against Witter.

I think Hatton will probably win this one on points. It's a tough one to call though and an in form Malignaggi could do to Hatton what Calzaghe did to Jeff Lacy. There's a lot of similarities to that fight. Hatton comes in straight lines and Malignaggi has the ability to outbox Hatton. That said Malignaggi, like Hatton, has not been impressive recently. Indeed since the Cotto fight he's been pretty disappointing. I'm not sure he can get the form of the Cotto fight back but if he can then he'll win. As for Calzaghe I'm not sure there's much out there for him now. If Pavilk had beaten Hopkins then yes but the manner of the defeat means it's unlikely. For Pavlik to win I think the fight would have to be down at super middleweight as well. After that I guess a rematch with Hopkins is the most realistic. However, JC was a bit lucky in the first fight and I think Hopkins would be much more dangerous this time around. The sensible thing for JC is to retire undefeated.

Scientists discover something that was there all along. Doubt I'll sleep tonight now....

I was away for the first part of the week so this is my first chance to actually listen to this. I thought it reasonably funny but probably a bit bad taste. IMO it's a complete over reaction led a by a media intent on proving they can incite moral outrage again.

Naturally I guess I'd prefer 30,000 fans. However I don't really care what the footballers would prefer. I'm not staying away because of Lowe - I'm staying away because we're crap, the games are crap, we'll probably lose and it's too expensive. Lowe has said that football is a 'results led industry' and he's right. Until we stand a fair chance of competing better than we can at the moment then I'm not shelling out and wasting time on something I won't enjoy. Obviously this makes me a 'plastic' fan or a glory hunter which is fine and I can live with that.

He's running out of conspiracy websites though isn't he? If he doesn't post a link to Obama being a facist, nazi, cross dressing, black/white/eskimo martian then it's going to be disappointing.

Excellent point....what would Saint George make of that?

But in a nation like the US (you know built on immigrants etc), the american dream etc then it seems anachronistic.

On the flip side you're suggesting that there's never been a traitor against their country of birth? Saint George is going to bring up Bill Ayers!

Are there rings around Uranus? Sorry, someone had to do it.

The points I was making were that the claims probably won't stand up - it's a conspiracy theory for desperate republicans. After the fierce fought democratic battle with Hillary I'm fairly certain that if there were any truth in the allegations then it would have been proved then. In any case McCain was born in Panama wasn't he? Don't see you frothing at the mouth at that one. The second point was that it's a fairly trivial and discriminatory article - where he or anyone else is born is irrelevant. If it's OK for Arnie to be governer of California (what is it 7th largest economy in the world?) then why not president? The link with Ayers is tenuous and again smacks of desperation - they served on 2 charity boards together. A few republicans were also on those committees. Ayers also tried to raise some money for Obama. Who knows whether that was with Obama's consent? Does it matter? Ayers is a leading Chicago citizen and respected university professor - he's not cowering in a cave and plotting the destruction of the country. Obama isn't guilty by association. Anyway, Obama has been publicly supported by Ted Kennedy and he's a catholic. The head of the catholic church is the pope. The pope used to be in the Hitler Youth. Ergo Obama is a Nazi. That's the kind of twisted stupid logic you're using. It's lazy.

I think they call it pocket money and not wages.

Unfortunately Saint George I don't include you as being one of the more intelligent Americans. That link is a bit like clutching at straws...I'm willing to bet it won't hold up. The election would never have got this far if the allegations were true. One thing though...if all you've got is that Obama might not be a 'proper American' (just like you) then isn't that a bit discriminatory and against the 'American Dream'. Ironic that McCain lauds the ideal (you know anyone can make it blah blah blah) and holds up Joe the Plumber except of course anyone can 'make it to the top' unless you weren't born in the US. In the face of massive economic problems I'd have thought that not being born in the US would be a small and petty argument. Thankfully it's not a big deal except for Saint George.

Yes, I've been pleasantly suprised by the level of debate displayed by both candidates. That's obviously driven by the public wanting more than just rhetoric. I know there's been the usual rubbish spouted by their equivalent of the tabloids and also hot air but if you look at the debates themselves then for a large part they were actually talking about policy. It was encouraging if nothing else. I think we're too quick to characterise Americans as being thick and myopic. A lot of them probably are but no more so than over here. I just hope that the thick ones don't outnumber the rest of them (and for the record that doesn't mean anyone who votes republican is thick - just the republicans who vote without an awareness of the issues and that goes for democrats too).

Yes, he's a fully paid up republican and does owe taxes. He'd also benefit under Obama's tax plans. His dream of buying the business he works for is as fanciful as any of us buying saints.

Done.

The Socialist States of America have limited interweb access to all comrades.

It's possible. I think it's probably been blown out of proportion a bit but in essence it seems to stem from the fact that the merger of the two schools is perceived to be ill thought out and not working. Protesting about a fall in education standards is a pretty good thing isn't it? Naturally not having a riot but bringing the issue to the fore anyway. I'm guessing you live in France? A nation never known to riot, strike, burn British sheep or anything like that? I don't think Britain, and Southampton in particular, is really any different to many other countries. I do think we've got a higher percentage of ex-pats who are probably more prone to moaning about the old country though.

I'm sorry, what's your point? That riots in a school are caused by a 'degenerate hedonistic money obsessed society'?

No, it's one of those damn foreign films with subtitles. Madness! These foreigners seem to have a different word for almost everything and it's so infuriating. Sometimes I wonder why they bother with other languages - it's not as if they're going to catch on or anything. Still, if you can get past that then it's a good film.

Well I haven't been to the cinema for a while but the last film I saw was 'The Orphanage' which was exceptional.