Hockey_saint

-- spoiler alert -- I agree; I went through a bit of a marathon of episodes to catch up and it's like the flippin bible....it takes ages and the bugger dies in the end :s ....he had to though didn't he? there was no real coming back.

Sir Alf Ramsay...he was a saints player....he made a world cup-winning England team

Did someone say chickens?..... (in seriousness, the "Moon god Zin" reference is concerning the line that one Salman Rushdie went down about how...and gaining a fatwa in the process, it's mentioned that god told Mohammed to lie and say that the traditional Arab pagan moon god Zin was in fact god and that would make the transition much easier and it suggests that they are not an abrahamic religion at all but rather a pagan one....seriousness out)

To be fair, he wouldn't be the first goalkeeper to score against us before we signed him....and we know how good the other one was.

It's gonna be expensive any way you go but that does sound like more fun.

"In over 40 years of watching Pompey I have never left before the end of a game; that changed yesterday. There is something very wrong at the club" In other news.....the sky is blue and the pope does indeed shyte in the woods.

I would book beforehand...it's soo damn expensive in Oz that you'd probably get them cheaper here. For example, I once took the train from New York to LA (4 days worth) and it was not even a 1/4 the price they quoted me to go from Sydney to Alice Springs (and that was STA Travel out there, one of the cheaper companies).

Bugger...I always get get these saints aficionados confuddled! still one of the best one worded responses I've ever seen...and highly worth watching.

I still love how, whilst collecting soundbites as to saints fans views of whether they'd want to save pompey someone made the momentous clanger of asking the one and only godfather of this thread (I'd assume no research was done)....with such a succinct response it's a shame no one can find it perchance....just for old time's sake

It should be....I got a reasonable mark at A-Level on the subject of Modern history, specialising on the scramble for africa, particularly around the Limpopo river. But he could be right in the fact that the views of people like Jan Smuts (whilst being one of the founding fathers of the UN) was at best, paternalistic towards black Africans and at worst a horrible racist too and the same if not worse for Ian Smith (who was just an outright racist...and idiot too...but unlike Mugabe, not corrupt) and to mention them in context is always a bit of a dodgy thing as they are not particularly nice and often have BS reasons and stories. For example,Smith always stated that the Mashona tribe (mugabe's) would have been wiped out by the Ndebeles (matabeles, an offshot of the Zulu tribe...their leader had a falling out with the Zulu cheif) who were escaping Britain's wars with the said Zulu and that if the whites weren't there to "protect" them...with their maxim guns...theyd have died and Mugabe wouldnt be around today.......which is absolute boll0cks. So for those reasons perhaps that could be considered wrong. BUT it is a FACT that the San/Khoi/Bushman people WERE in that part of Africa BEFORE the Bantu tribes and were pretty much displaced (Nelson Mandela actually looks a bit San) by them so my argument that it wasn't technically most black South African's land is also Technically true.....in a manner of speaking (this is obviously ignoring the blending of tribes as it were. I think it was more my "they didn't want the western society until late" bit. but I say again, cars, technology, modern laws. The Bantu culture didn't create these so without whites, the country would look a whole lot different, for better or worse and it's just silly to ignore this for PC purposes.

Slightly pedantic, but '89? they knew it was coming but it wasn't completely dismantled until about 96 so you could suggest it was thanks to the end of apartheid...ergo...Mandela but the for CSSA states? that's just a technicality since, independently, they were never nuclear capable (in that they didn't try to build them on their own. But, I hold my hand up, on a technicality with the former Russian states you are right. But since the nuclear ditterent for RSA was intended to stop countries like Cuba from attacking thanks to white rule and then them knowing it was coming to an end...you could suggest Mandela had a large part to play in that.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the ONLY country to step down and completely nuclear disarm is post apartheid South Africa (since it's comment knowledge they were building nuclear weapons....it's a bit more worrying they got the technology off the Israelis who supposedly were not nuclear capable at the time (early-mid 80's).

The only reason I know this is because I'm friends with a reasonably attractive (but incredibly vicious and really enjoys violence ....when sparring) female solicitor who knows most of the tricks in the book when it comes to injuring someone and walking away with it....conversely, she also knows all the little bits and pieces you can be picked up for. She's still hot though.

The problem I have with that rationale is that, yes, some cats might do that. But remember, cats do generally have speed and superb acrobatic skills (something most drunk chavs don't) on their side. It's kinda cliche I suppose but I just think that the hard people (you know, the really hard ones) don't generally walk around like that...most don't get into fights or gesticulate like that at all.....but you wouldn't mess with them.

This sort of chavish behaviour does make me laugh. Even Silver back gorillas put themselves into a ball, huddled up when their frightened or about to kick off (the only way after all from that is out)...I'm pretty sure the only animal on this planet who, whilst trying to show aggression, displays all their lovely and oh so precious organs as if to say "please, no please, go ahead, disembowel me!". Morons.

Under the law, spitting at someone is attempted ABH...if it lands, well, it is Assault. Think about that if you ever spit on the street.

The reason I threw up Ethiopia was simply because it was the only country in Africa not colonised....and look at it, tribal warfare, famine..... Is this what South Africa would have looked like without the whites? No, I haven't read any nationalist propaganda and I know the pass laws were created by the British Government in the 19th century to circumvent the Boars...I am also aware of the rich culture in western African, the Ashanti people for example, who incredibly advanced and civilised people; the fact is, the tribal Bantu displaced the nomadic San, did not wish to change their traditional ways until it was forced upon them by a minority...so would South Africa have looked more "civilised" now if the whites were not there? I don't think so and I just feel it's disingenous to suggest otherwise.

Ssshhhhh.....I mean, what a great comment.

Yep, I kinda rose to that one...

Is fansonline amateur or what? Their contact address seems to have been written by one of the blue few...I mean, center!!!...we've not used that spelling since we decided to go all French and swap it to centre! sorry, rant over.

The thing I don't understand (and it's a point Ian Douglas Smith, the former PM of Rhodesia always brought up in his defence). A few years before the national party took over in South Africa, when it was run by General Jan Smuts, a large majority of the Bantu people (who displaced the Khoisan) in that part of Africa (because don't think for one moment that the land they call South Africa is where most black South Africans are historically "from") had no interest in "white society" and most preferred to stay in their kraals and lead the life they had before. Now, I agree, a sharing of cultures and technology is a good thing but let's not be disingenuous and suggest that without the white culture (which, unfortunately, would include the Afrikaans and their Apartheid doctrine) South Africa would look as it does today, as technologically advanced as it is today. I think the reporters who spawn over this South Africa today should have a look at the tribal violence and killings that currently South Africa is awash with and then I think they'd understand what South Africa would look like without European culture (and to anyone who argues against this....have a look at Ethiopia, a country never colonised by whites). Having said this and gotten it off my chest, I will say that I think the video above is just a poor PR gaff, Nelson is clearly not singing the words and looks frightfully embarrised to be there at all.

Hahahaha brilliant!!! What a bunch of amateurs they really are. And seriously? what PR Officer told McInnes that would be a good look?....don't tell me!...it was their Engagement officer Michah "I'll do anything for money and fame...kinda fame...more infamy really" Hall

but maybe not the tax.... this is pompey remember.

Hey, it worked for Blackburn.....he is a former Rovers player after all....second nature innit.

I prefer to think that it was more down to the idea that if you press the right buttons (wag the dog etc) you'll always find enough right wingers to vote you in office no matter what the reality of the situation is and they'll always resort to personality attacks, bang on about "traditional values", screw the poorman and just generally appeal to a more basal attitude(just read some of the comments from the blue majority on this board).