Chicken With A Banjo

You think they're incredibly dull? Really? YOU????? The guy that trawls the internet for pictures of t shirts, each ever so slightly different from each other, year upon year upon year? I suppose the fact that a grown man has an obsession with garish, obscenely expensive and morally dubious clothing is kind of interesting on a freak show kind of level but ultimately it hints at a dreary lack of imagination.

Is this really the sort of America we want? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVXZAbqzBrs I prefer America with guns.

In most places I have worked and outside of my closest group of friends and family, I find that it is awkward to discuss income. It's just not the done thing. I know that there are websites out there specialising in this kind of thing e.g glassfloor but I've found that these all have flaws. I thought it might be interesting thanks to the relative anonymity of this website to see how the experiences on here compare to the mainstream perceptions. I feel like (and statistics tell me) that I earn a good solid salary but judging by the cars people drive, the clothes people wear and the houses they live in I sometimes wonder whether something fishy is going on. Do people get paid more then I think, are they on the fiddle, are they massively in debt or is it just a symptom of the way that property and inheritance has become the key determinant of wealth nowadays with salary becoming a marginal contributor. So if you don't mind maybe you could provide your own data below: Job: Industry: Approx Annual salary before tax without bonus: Typical bonus: Approx take home after tax: Approximate location: Years of working experience directly relevant to your job: Level of education: Additional job perks e.g. company car/shares: Typical hours worked per week: Many Thanks!

Maybe its a way of cheaply assembling a team to get us through through the season that doesn't lumber potential new owners with players and liabilities they'd rather not have.

Slightly different scenario I got a £125 fine from a private clamping company in Shirley a number of years ago. They clamped the car and took the money on the spot as a release fee. I thought the £125 was an unreasonably high penalty, there were mitigating circumstances with respect to signage and the people who issued the fine were downright intimidating and nasty. I decided that £30 was a reasonable fine since this is roughly what the council was charging for parking fines at the time. I wrote to them asking them to pay me back £95 or I would start a small claim against them. They wrote back and refused my offer. I started a small claim against them for £95. Within days I had a cheque for £95 and they had to pay the cost of me starting the small claim which was also approx £30. so £120 fine turned into £30 and I got the satisfaction of knowing that the intimidating ****s didn't earn anything from me.

Speculation: Pochettino sacrificed the cups to concentrate on the league because no matter how remote the possibility, a Champions league place finish and the associated rewards was realistically the only way the squad would have been kept together.

Think we will be trying again for Memphis Depay. Suspect he will hold out for an offer from a bigger club. So will join later if at all.

Upon researching it, it looks like you are right. Strange trick of memory or possibly erroneous reporting in the media. Perhaps I'm thinking of a different youth game of that era at St marys , but in any case thanks for the correction.

Lallana is irreplacable as far as I am concerned. Far more so then any other Southampton player. I remember going to watch the home leg of thr FA youth cup final we lost against ipswich expecting to be dazzled by Walcott, who was rumoured to be atttacting the interest of real Madrid at the time. It was a front 3 of Walcott, dyer and lallana. Lallana was playing wide left and he was the standout performer for me. Walcott and dyer looked ordinary in comparison. Since then it has been clear to me that Lallana is a really special player. We won't replace him with like for like as it just doesn't exist.

What a flocking bunch of hysterical c%nts you all are. He bit someone, the referee missed it and he stayed on the pitch. He should've got a red card. He didn't get one. That's where it should end. None of this retrospective action crap. Worst of all is the dehumanisation of the guy and the media scavenging frenzy which is about to ensue. This frenzy itself is the more shameful animalistic behaviour not the bite. What is so horrific about a little bite during a high stakes physical encounter. He didn't bite his ear or his finger off or sever a major artery. He gave him a little bite because the Italian player was being a c%nt. I can't believe the sh%t I read on here. Most of you people are another species to me it's clear.

No, I would prefer you to be upfront and identify yourself as a knobhead right from the start as you have done. It wasn't a criticism, sorry if it came across like that.

It is an awful national anthem. I've not yet come across an anthem with worse lyrics, and the tune is a dirge. The people in the UK are free to believe in god or not they are also free to support the monarchy or not. That goes for the England players too. Personally I would like the monarchy and the religious organisations in the country stripped of all their wealth and power. "England manager Roy Hodgson expects his players to show pride at representing their country by singing the national anthem at the World Cup." htttp://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/27658211 Neither the England manager nor the fans have any right to make such demands of the players. If I was a player I would be furious with the manager making those comments.

I'm confident that you are a knobhead because you choose an obnoxious character from an American tv show as your avatar on an internet football forum.

Ex defender who scored a lot of goals and stood out at the highest level is someone Shaw in particular should be keen to learn from.

Two of the most popular choices mentioned so far missed off the poll in favour of the likes of Adkins Dyche and Sherwood. No wonder Koeman is running away with it.

Or Yakin?

Why isn't Rangnick on the poll?

I'm not speculating that there was a conspiracy, I'm suggesting that Manchester United decided to play the long game and took a strategic gamble on Buttner, relying on the fact that we had probably gone to a lot of effort profiling buttner for our team and would retain our interest in future. They were also of course relying on shaws future progression into an outstanding left back. Plus they got some reasonable cover at left back in the meantime. It remains to be seen whether we are still interested in buttner, Adkins has gone, pochettino changed our direction and buttner hasn't covered himself in glory at united.

Speculation: When it became clear we were chasing Alexander Buttner in the Summer 2012, Luke Shaw and his agent kicked up a fuss on the basis that Buttner would block Shaw's route to the first team. Manchester united expressed their interest in Shaw at this point. Saints decided to drop the buttner deal and offered shae the left back spot. United subsequently stepped in to purchase buttner with the intention of sweetening a future deal for Shaw.

Speculation: Osvaldo was not keen to come to Southampton but reluctantly joined once it was clear we were the only ones willing to pay the fee. The only thing attracting him to the offer was a promise of future champions league football. When Cortese handed his notice in shortly after Osvaldo signed, Osvaldo felt betrayed and his whole relationship with the project was soured. Scrap was his way of forcing an exit. Club did not sack him because they recognise that they played a part in creating the situation.

Pretty sure Bewildered is Dibden Purlieu Saint.

If the CEO wages were expressed as a percentage of the average first team player wage and ranked accordingly for each team in the league, I suspect Cortese would be way down the rankings. His salary is not worthy of discussion. The obscene money and coverage associated with the sport as a whole is what needs to be addressed.

Actually it was pretty much the first thing Martinez said when he got the job. http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/22787805

Russia: They have most of Eurasia (China included) by the balls not because of the gas they produce but because of the monopoly they have on the gas pipelines. They produce loads of gas, they produce a bit less oil but is their unique ability to shift other peoples product around as well as their own that puts them in such a strong position. They do not have a monopoly on oil, but on gas they really do and as it happens, due to liberalisation of energy markets Europe's energy mix is now hugely dependent on gas. Europe can do nothing about it. They tried to plan their own pipeline, Russia outmanoeuvred them with bribery and the European project failed. Liquefied natural gas is uneconomical. If Europe won't buy the Russians gas, China will. The Russian government is phenomenally wealthy. They have huge cash reserves of all sorts of foreign currency (all the currencies in which their gas is bought) to call on for whatever purpose they see fit. A wobble in the rouble won't effect them at all. Even the ordinary people of Russia are now relatively wealthy. Many own their properties outright whereas Westerners generally have huge mortgages. Wherever you go on holiday in the world now, you will find Russians there spending money because they have nothing else to spend it on. If you think the world is going to impose sanctions, not buy Russian supplied resources and stop Russians spending their money, you're utterly mental. The US and the UK should be ashamed of their part in this. The fact is, the uprising started because some Ukrainians were disappointed that the president rejected an offer from the European Union to bail them out of the debt problem they had got themselves into. Copied from elsewhere: The EU Deal: A tenuous free trade deal with the EU was offered, with no clear path to EU membership as a whole. The IMF offered $4 billion, provided that Ukraine double prices for gas and electricity to industry and residents, they lift a ban on private sale of Ukraine's agricultural lands, devalue their currency, and slash state funds for school children and the elderly in order to balance the budget. The Russian Deal: $15 Billion in loans to assuage impending bankruptcy, and a massive (33%) discount on Russian gas (Russia is by far the largest supplier of gas in Ukraine). There was no requirements of the Ukraine that were publicly known, but it seems likely they would have joined the customs agreement between Russia and Belarus and Kazakhstan. Basically a free trade area, much like NAFTA. The Russian deal was clearly the right deal to take in the interests of the average Ukrainian person. People protesting either didn't understand the deal or were inciting a situation with ulterior motives, undoubtedly the US were involved in this no doubt ourselves too. We have stirred up a hornets nest in Russia's back yard, and Russia is perfectly entitled to deal with the situation. So far they've dealt with it extremely well, and I see only hypocrisy from the Western politicians and media.

Happy birthday Bearsy.