Roman

16. No Woman, No Cry. Jimmy Buffet (or Jimmy Cliff) ??

Who's leaving?

And so far - I think - every penny of Abramovich's largesse remains on Chelsea's books as debt. If Roman walks away, it'll be fun watching Chelsea racing past us into League 1.

8. Nina Simone. I Cast a Spell on You.

Well I'm not blessed with ITK-ness, but unless I missed the press release, Leon Crouch is still a major shareholder, and, so it seems, still active behind the scenes. Whether this amounts to anything in the end - who knows?

I imagine the 'present circumstances' include the fact that, contrary to the implication behind this thread's question, Crouch is still here.

Apostrophe after the t.

Thought Surman showed a real poacher's touch for the second. He drifted practically onto the goal line without any PNE defender seeming to notice.

And yet they still queue up to get into the Emirates in a way that we can only dream of. My son, an Arsenal fan, was told that more than ten years of cadging as many tickets as he can to see about fifteen games a season, he's now officially on the ST waiting list. His position in the queue is 33,425th. And his expected acceptance date is 2054. The Emirates may be dull, quieter even than the Highbury library, but it'll never be empty.

Still, at least we're not repeating any mistakes from last season.

Thanks, but as I say, any real evidence?

Exactly. And I seem to remember he was carrying a number of niggling injuries while he played last season (not the cruciate one obviously!). Seven months means realistically he's not going to be available at all this season. He'll be missed.

I remember the enormously long thread about it at the time on TSF. I also remember that it contained not a single piece of checkable evidence that CM was Nigel Pearson's agent and that LM personally profited from the deal. I also recall - though I'm a bit more hazy about this - that Pearson himself said that CM was not his agent. It's just that if we're going to accuse one of our most successful managers of being corrupt in the appointment of Pearson, it would be nice if we were right. Can you point towards, say, an agency website that states: CM is Pearson's agent? And to anywhere in the club's accounts that shows that LM took a cut of the deal?

Just a question: wasn't this the rumour going around at the time, which turned out to be false?

Schneiderlin.

Dammit, Crab Lungs! I've just spent the last ten minutes looking for the original post of someone registered on here as 'One of the numpties...etc.'

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Bang! Damned rabbit.

Well, in this case there's a bit more to it than that, I think. But as I say, best to leave this one alone.

Well, in this case there's a bit more to it than that, I think. But as I say, best to leave this one alone.

And on the face of it, that just isn't going to happen, especially with the club as close as it is to the cliff edge. Will be interesting to see what the highly financially creative Salz can do to square the circle.

And on the face of it, that just isn't going to happen, especially with the club as close as it is to the cliff edge. Will be interesting to see what the highly financially creative Salz can do to square the circle.

I sort of agree with you nick. I really DON'T think LS should be outed - this is not scooby we're talking about, but someone who's passionate and serious about the club and has had a long association with the place. He certainly does have a lot of ammo, but as I say, these things can go from bullets to boomerangs easily.

I sort of agree with you nick. I really DON'T think LS should be outed - this is not scooby we're talking about, but someone who's passionate and serious about the club and has had a long association with the place. He certainly does have a lot of ammo, but as I say, these things can go from bullets to boomerangs easily.

Not doubting HIS good intentions, ESB, just think he's using his previous inside track on what was going on at the club in a way that may land him in hot water.