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Not exactly... the match did happen, and FC Start beat Flakelf (a team made up from the Wehrmacht, not the Luftwaffe) 5-3. Subsequently some of them ended up at Syrets, a labour/concentration camp, and in total 6 died either there or at the hands of the Gestapo. But there's no real evidence to suggest that the two were linked, they just suffered the same unpleasant fate as a lot of their community. Actually primary anecdotal evidence suggests that after the match the players were treated with respect and support by the local garrison, and it wasn't until 10 days later that the Gestapo (a very separate organisation to the Wehrmacht) scooped up three of them suspecting them to be members of the NKVD.

Well, there are searches and searches. And missing persons are very different to murders. Having said that, it transpires that following the initial search (which would have been a 'look round'), it was subsequently searched by a specialist team, and then a dog, so it seems *very* odd that it wasn't found at that point. Either someone hasn't done their job properly, or the body was moved. The latter seems the only logical conclusion (after all, a dog doesn't know how to do a bad job), but rationally it doesn't make a lot of sense.

...what? They should just ignore rules of procedure when it's a poor/small house?

That, and all the other excuses given for Cook's non-selection, are toilet. It would be akin to the Swiss not picking Federer because the men's tennis matches were three sets, not five. The real and simple reason for Cook's non selection is the green eyed monster. GB TKD is a very insular organisation, it receives very little attention and funding. It got very upset that, as a result of being the best in the world, Cook started receiving more attention on his own than the rest of the sport put together. The final straw, so to speak, was when Cook left the GB training set up and moved to his own gym. Their response was not to select him for the Olympics. Basically, they ruined his own chances of success, and their own, to prove a point. TKD in the UK as a sport is ripe for a root and branch reform at all levels of organisation, with a properly funded and managed elite GB team at the top, similar to what the cyclists have done. Unfortunately with the incompetent self-serving cretins who currently head it up, that won't happen any time soon.

£900PCM is in my experience an unrealistic budget for a decent 1 bed in a decent area. You will end up with a hovel in somewhere nice, or a nice place in a horrible area. By the way all tube lines are not created equally... If you're stuck on Central or Picadilly Lines, blue wins over red every day of the week. But then again, if it were my decision, I'd take the hit of a few extra minutes and find somewhere on the District Line. Cooler, quieter, less packed, and it actually goes to nicer places. And I'd seriously consider sharing. 900 sheets all in will get you half of a very decent place in somewhere like Putney. Or it will get you all of a studio flat in somewhere like Mitcham. Not a difficult choice. Oh, and it goes without saying, but avoid ex-council like the plague. And avoid (99% of) Lambeth like something even worse.

Fog on the Tyne, presumably?

Don't know, but iplayer + shazam should..?

I'd echo that. Ask for lots of details about the travel element. What airline will you be using, where is your departure point, is it regular flights to the same destination(s) (which ones?) or will you be flying all over, what provisions have they made for travel/accommodation either end, etc. They are all valid questions, if you will be travelling very regularly than it's an integral part of your job, as much as something like your hours of work, and you wouldnt take a job before knowing those. If it all checks out, then make sure you get air miles!

Why should we jump at the chance? Because he's been 'rated at £3m' (whatever that means)? Because he wants to play in the Premier League? Because Villa think he's good enough? None of those are particularly convincing reasons to try and sign a player. He's arguably not particularly good, was singled out on Football Weekly as the weakest of weak links in the Dutch Euro 2012 squad before a ball was kicked, and lived up to billing. I'm sure that our manager and scouts are well aware of the existence of Ron Vlaar, as much as they are of a hundred other players who might be suitable. If they're not interested I'll trust their judgement and expertise. Trying to jump on the back of someone else's failing transfer, for no particular reason other than we need someone, anyone to play that position, is not really the sound tactical basis our transfer policy should be based on.

Because no one on here uses any defamatory terms relating to war crimes, child murder etc in reference to Pompeys recent owners, do they...

Hans Liebherr (who the first para apparently refers to, presumably on the basis that he was in the Luftwaffe - which doesn't make him a Nazi, but it's a common enough mistake) is dead as well. Let's put it this way, if that formed the basis of an action, I'm pretty confident I could get it dismissed on day one. And I haven't touched defamation in about a decade. That's the difference between armchair lawyering and real lawyering.

Except for the fact that you can't libel the dead, of course... Seriously though, who cares what some keyboard warrior thinks? By the vitriolic reactions all everyone is doing is going him what he wants. Don't feed the trolls.

Could be this year's Craig Mackail-Smith...

It's no different to any other club, any other organisation, in fact any other group of people in the world. The nature of a community of any kind is that it is fluid. Members come and go, and establish a form of hierarchy or structure which is often constantly changing. How any individual reacts to that is largely down to their personality and standing within the community. In short: it depends.

Listen to Christian O'Connell on Absolute instead. Not only is he far more amusing than Moyles, he doesn't have a ridiculous ego either. Oh, and he's also a Saints fan.

Surely if it was perfect it wouldn't be so easy for us to catch?

Not at all, To some extent, Very much so, Don't know.

Call, but only as a precursor to written correspondence. It's very easy to deny what was said over the phone. On paper, not so much. So in your phone call, restrict yourself solely to informing them that you are disputing the damage and that you won't be paying the amount. Insist you returned the car undamaged. You might find that they accept it's a mistake at that point and write it off. If not, don't argue the point, just tell them that you disagree and that you'll be sending them a letter.

Been half a dozen times, at various times in my life and in various circumstances. Definitely worth a visit, but you will get far more out of it if you meet up with someone who lives there. There is so much more to Manhattan than Times Square and Central Park... and you could happily spend a week in Manhattan without having a sniff of the other boroughs. Plus, ime, the women there love an English accent.

It's their job to prove that there *was* damage, not his job to prove that there wasn't. If they haven't done a walk-around with you and gotten you to sign for the damage, they have no hope. Dispute it, and eventually they will give up. For starters, ask to see digitally timestamped photographs of the damage, and a copy of the damage report and assessment, which of course will need to be dated the same day you dropped the car off as that's when they sent you the letter.

Full of chavs and paupers

Quelle surprise, it now transpires that Barton was arrested as well. Funny how the QPR press office neglected to mention that...

Vlookup would automate the process... It's difficult to explain in words, you're best off just working through the Help on vlookup. Or upload (a sample of) the spreadsheets so that someone can download them and show you. You could equally do it with a database using queries, but it sounds like a relatively simple formula so its just as easily done in Excel.

Where's your sense of perspective man?? He said they were speeding! I bet one of them even used a bad word!