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Like Surman and DMG you mean? I do agree with the previous poster though. This has a ring of deja vu about it regarding Pinnacle. Just a few legalities that need ironing out. what if they can't be ironed out? There still seems to be some doubt about where the actual finance is coming from, so I can't see the PL approving the deal. They can't carry out a FAPPT if they don't know who the main investor actually is.

I looked at the photographic evidence supporting the hoax claim a few years ago, and while some of it is quite compelling, there is overwhelming evidence to prove that the landings were definitely not faked. There is equipment left on the surface that can be seen from earth with a telescope for starters. If that isn't enough evidence for some people then there is no hope for them. Add to that the laser reflector left there for distance ranging and the rocks they brought back (both from the first mission I might add) and the hoax theory dies on its arse. As to why we have not been back. Why? What would be the point? It would cost $billions to get there and it's nothing but a big rock floating in space. There is no value in any further scientific study of it.

Agreed. When I first watched this film the ending actually moved me to tears, and that is the first time a film has done that since I first watched Watership Down as a child. Can't recommend it highly enough.

I remember going to Top Trainers there once as they had Gary Mason (ex British Heavyweight champion boxer) doing an appearnce cos of his sponsorship deal with Troop (remember them?) This must have been about 1990 and Lennox Lewis was just making a name for himself as a professional boxer. This lad just in front of me in the queue to get his poster signed asked Gary if he wanted to fight Lennox Lewis, and his reply was "don't be stupid, I want to be world champion". Ha ha. Gary retired shortly afterwards after losing his british title, and we all know what happened to Lewis. I also remember a story about somebody buying some locusts from the pet shop and letting them loose in the shopping centre.

Not exactly a surprise. They were talking about this happening all weekend on BBC on their coverage of Nurburgring last week. Let's see how this Alguersuari chap gets on in Hungary. On another note, I know that Hungary isn't renowned for exciting races but I'm looking forward to it. It's always a lot hotter in Budapest this time of year, so hopefully Brawn will be able to overcome the tyre temperature problems that have plagued them for the last two races and Button can get his title charge back on track. I think he likes this track!

Very interesting to read some of the comments on there. Not so long ago, pompey were on the verge of relegation to tier 3 and financial obscurity, and we all know now how that feels. Yet some of these fans are still able to get 'angry' about the fact that some of the massive debt on which their recent success was built now needs to be serviced. Instead of complaining, perhaps they should be grateful for some of the relative success they have enjoyed over the last few years, and accept that sometime the people that funded that success would need to be repaid.

Love some of the sarcastic comments under the article. Most of them would be hilarious if they weren't so true. I have to say though, Southampton - European City of Culture?

I finally got round to watching this film recently, having been meaning to for ages, and I cannot recommend it highly enough. It's a heart-wrenching true-story. What really caught my attention was the bits where he was interviewing his old comrades who witnessed the massacre and although I don't understand Hebrew, it sounded as though the director had taken actual recordings of interviews with the real veterans and incorporated them into the film to give it that extra sense of realism. Superb film-making. I liked the dark humour, like the bit where he is wandering through the airport in Beirut, which added a whole different dimension, and the real-life video footage at the end (won't say any more in case I give too much away) is quite harrowing and really brings home the message that this atrocity actually took place in our lifetimes. I don't think I could ever give a film 10/10 but this must come close to being not just the best animated film I have ever seen, but up there among the best films of any genre, so it gets a 9.5

I was out riding my bike the other weekend round Rother Valley Country park near where I live in Sheffield, and there was a hovercraft racing event going on at the lake. As I was riding I heard an engine noise that just didn't sound like any racing hovercraft I have ever seen so I stopped and looked around, only to see one of these beauties fly right over my head... Not sure if it was supposed to be overflying the hovercraft race on the way to an airshow (Waddington was the same weekend I think and is not far away) but he completely missed it, as the lake is the other end of the country park. Was a fantastic sight (and sound) anyway.

I don't often buy a newspaper but when I do it's usually the Independent due to it not being aimed at people with a 2-figure IQ like the Sun/Mirror/Star/Sport; not full of rabid, right-wing scare-stories like the Mail/Express; and small enough to read in the car unlike the Times/Telegraph/Guardian.

Bit of a strange article - there is no direct quote from Strachan saying he is not interested in the job, just speculation based on previous statements. Anyway, WGS has unfinished business at Saints. Does anybody else remember when he said "this will be my last job in football" when he was here last time?

Alive - Bill Bailey without question. Weirdo, eccentric, musical genius and extremely funny in everything he does. Dead - has to be Bill Hicks (Goat boy!)

OK point taken, but do you really believe that we can extract all of the natural resources this planet has to offer (ie gas, oil, wood, coal) without in any way affecting the natural balance of our environment? The latest idea regarding coal-fired power stations is carbon capture and the proposal to bury that carbon that is reclaimed deep underground where it cannot enter the atmosphere. Does anybody actually believe that this will have no negative impact on the Earth at all?

The point about climate change though is that the earth survived perfectly well for billions of years before us, and it will still be here long after mankind has become extinct. We need the planet more than the planet needs us. Most wildlife lives in perfect equilibrium with the planet, but our species is like a parasite draining it of all of its resources. It's no surprise the planet is making it harder and harder for us to exist here - just like the immune system of the human body does what it can to repel viruses and other infections.

wasn't it Ronnie Barker? Anyway, I'm really struggling to work out the relevance of this post to the thread. :smt102

Ah, OK. Must have missed that bit.

He is still technically a director of SFC until any sale is completed, as is Lowe.

Precisely. There are plenty of people at work who I don't personally like, but I have a healthy professional respect for them nonetheless.

I don't believe for a second that Hoddle would be the slightest bit interested in giving up on his academy (in spain is it?) to manage a L1 club. He has stated in the past that he is more than happy where he is. Sorry, as happy as I would be to have him at saints, I just can't see it. Not calling anybody a liar as I'm sure this is being passed on in good faith, but it doesn't add up to me.

Now there's a surprise

Agreed, I thought Madness were superb. I saw them at the MEN Arena in Manchester a couple of years ago and their songs just get everybody bouncing. Thought Bat for Lashes were really good too.

Really? My memory really isn't what it used to be! Anyway, the point I made is still valid... Their early stuff that they wrote themselves was actually alright (King was a decent song as well), but they lost any credibility when they started doing nothing but covers.

Yep

UB40 - The most successful covers band in hiostory. Their first single - One in Ten - was a protest song about the level of unemployment in the 1980s, and was actually very good. Then they decided they weren't going to bother writing their own songs any more and would just do dinner-party-reggae-light versions of classic songs instead, and they went seriously downhill after that. To compare them to The Specials (Ponty) is beyond contemptible. Shame on you.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/football-league/keegan-not-only-option-says-le-tissier-1712809.html