stevegrant

Or they just make them up. Which is precisely why, in my opinion, they feel the need to keep on the club's side. The Echo probably needs SFC more than SFC needs the Echo.

I think you'll find Leon Crouch was the chairman at the time of Burley's departure. I have vague recollection of the Echo (might have been Simon Carter specifically rather than the paper as a whole) being banned by SFC for a short period of time when they suggested that Burley was on the verge of being sacked around this time last year, so it's got nothing to do with who is in charge really. FloridaMarlin's excellent post above sums up the situation very well for me. Basically, it's not "the Echo are being censored by SFC", it happens with every single newspaper/football club relationship across the country.

As per the subject... have they actually fixed any of the ever-so-slightly fundamental bugs that were in the demo?

That said, he's putting on a reasonable score himself... would have been nice if he'd allowed KP to stay there with him!

It's ridiculous. He plays with such maturity for Essex and the Lions team, yet whenever he gets a(nother) chance with the full England team, he does something stupid like that.

85 players have played a league game for SFC since relegation: Baird Bale Baseya Belmadi Bennett Best Bialkowski Blackstock Brennan Chaplow Cork Cranie Dailly Davies Davis Delap Dyer Euell Folly Fuller Gillett Gobern Guthrie Hajto Hammill Higginbotham Holmes Idiakez Ifil James John Jones Kenton Miller Kosowski Lallana Lancashire Licka Lucketti Lundekvam Makin Madsen McCann McGoldrick Mills, J Mills, M Niemi Oakley O'Halloran Ormerod Ostlund Pahars Paterson Pearce, A Pearce, I Pekhart Pele Pericard Perry Poke Potter Powell Prutton Quashie Rasiak Robertson Safri Saganowski Schneiderlin Skacel Smith, P Smith, R Surman Svensson Thomas Thomson Viafara Vignal Walcott White Wise Wotton Wright, J Wright, R Wright-Phillips

1024x768 is still by far the most popular. I've just tried the OS at that resolution and it does fit the full width of the screen. Looks like they've fixed the blank box problem (now PaddyPower advert). The alignment at the bottom is a tricky one because IE and the other browsers handle the display of tables so differently. In Firefox, for example, the league table snapshot looks as though it should fit another two rows in to make it line up, whereas in IE it'll only fit one more. There's an add-on called AdBlock Plus.

Depends on the screen resolution, I guess. I think it is wider than the last version, although it doesn't quite fit the entire width of the screen on my PC. It does look a lot better in IE, mainly (as someone else has already pointed out) due to the lack of an advert blocker.

We don't get any say in the scheduling of away games, sadly. Otherwise, I'd have thought we'd have vetoed the Palace game being moved. That said, there's not going to be any advantage to either side as we both play on Saturday at 3pm so both teams have the same recovery period, and it will then give both teams an extra day's recovery for the following week's games against Burnley and Doncaster respectively.

The weekend's games are now there. Sorry about tonight's FA Cup game, didn't realise there was a replay being played so soon!

I think I still have the signed VfB Stuttgart shirt I bought at that auction about 9 years ago

Computer components are so inconsistent that it's hard to pin a timeframe on their life span. That said, unless you've been absolutely hammering the hell out of it for the last year, it should last longer than that...

Didn't realise it was tonight. What time does it start and are there tickets available on the night?

It won't even be up to Lowe. Barclays will be aware of offers made and will apply pressure accordingly.

They do have creativity in the form of a) Rory Delap's throw-ins and b) Liam Lawrence who, in my opinion, is a physically stronger version of Surman who also happens to score more goals. Stoke's style of play is very much geared towards strength, size and set-pieces, and so far it's not doing them too much harm in the Premier League. If/when someone figures out a decent way to defend those throw-ins (there must be a way, surely?), then they might have to look at other avenues, but while that tactic is working - and it's worked against some good teams (e.g. Arsenal, Villa, Everton, Pompey, etc) - they won't change it. It's tried and tested at Championship level and it's tried and currently working pretty well at Premier League level.

He's not really a Stoke sort of player, and there's no way they'll modify their style of play just to suit one signing. I can't see any mileage in that rumour, to be honest.

I think Lee would have got in the squad anyway. It was Darren Anderton who took what should have been Le Tissier's place, despite having played the grand total of 15 times that season thanks to various injuries (surprise, surprise).

I would have thought you'll be able to get the £9 difference per ticket back from the ticket office.

The revenue the likes of United and Arsenal bring in directly through the turnstile is actually about the same (if not higher) than the broadcasting revenue. Liverpool and Chelsea are probably a bit behind on that front, simply due to the number of people they can fit into their grounds.

Is that figure just the one in Peter Kenyon's deluded head? I could conceivably accept that there may be that many Liverpool or ManYoo fans worldwide, but Chelsea?! They've only been a big club for 5 minutes.

No we won't. The massively significant difference between us and clubs like Liverpool and Manchester United are that they can call on millions of fans across the world to put money into the club's coffers in exchange for whatever crap merchandise product is available at the time. For every 3000 ManYoo fans who decide they don't want anything more to do with the Glazer idea and go away and support FC United of Manchester, there will easily be another 3000 waiting to buy their season tickets, even if the prices have just gone up 25% on the previous season.

Everything looked to be going ok until the 89th minute of his first game against Middlesbrough... 2-0 up, looking comfortable. Two minutes later, 2-2 draw. The following week was simply awful, a 5-1 defeat at Tottenham. Interestingly, we didn't actually lose a home league game under Redknapp until April (against Chelsea). Unfortunately while we beat Liverpool and Spurs in that time, we also failed to beat Middlesbrough, Charlton, Fulham, Everton and Arsenal, all of whom (Arsenal excepted) were very much winnable games. As the Churchill dog would say... oh yes!

It's only one game that they're running this offer for, so the overall cost per game is still massively discounted with a season ticket.

He's admitted himself that he doesn't know what he's done to change their fortunes. Spurs have one of the best squads in the Premier League (and one of the most expensive). They bloody well should be collecting 10 points from 12 on regular occasions during the season. There really must have been something seriously wrong in that dressing room under Juande Ramos for them to be as utterly hopeless as they were. That said, they do seem to be getting the rub of the green a little bit more. Against Hull, they lost to a 25-yard free-kick that found the top corner, having played well and done everything but score at the other end. They were the better side for most of the game against Stoke, even with 10 men. Against Arsenal they were decent for half an hour, utterly rubbish for the next hour and then took advantage of Arsenal's bizarre loss of composure and concentration in injury time to get a draw, and Liverpool should have been out of sight before they turned it round. The one thing I've really noticed in the media whenever anyone's asked to comment on "what Harry's done", they've all said that he talks the players up all the time which gives them confidence, etc. They've had comments along those lines from former Bournemouth players, former West Ham players, former Pompey players and people close to the current Spurs players. Strangely, they've not had any similar comments from former Saints players...

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