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Cortese was there in the box with the Liebherrs

Todays press conference with Adkins, J-Rod, and Davis has been moved from 2pm to 1pm and is now at Staplewood instead of St Mary's

Ah ok - not sure we are in need of another midfielder anyway. Maybe one for the future

Mirror have us and Reading after Kondogbia from Lens. 19 year old defensive midfielder who was on the radar for Juve, AC Milan and Napoli.

6 of us going, but 3 of those are kids so are free. £75 for 6 isn't too bad, but wouldn't pay £25 if it were just me

Looks like the system does allow it, just not for the freendly. You can select a specific seat if you are looking for a season ticket.

don't know about segregation but it is reserved seating - 6 of us in block 5

Bag of rice worked for me after I jumped in a swimming pool and had a swim, then realised I still had by phone in my pocket. It took a few days but got there eventually

‏@TonyHusbandBBC #saintsfc Alexander Buttner set to sign for Southampton. #VitesseArnhem and Saints agree deal subject to medical etc

Had a look online and it certainly looks like they are certainly selling well - a heck of a lot more seats sold than not.

:-) Sucks for WP7 owners that MS aren't supporting the current range. Nokia are probably mighty annoyed as it will stop people buying the phones until the next version arrives.

Windows 8 is not going to be supported on the Lumia range - that's why I posted about future proofing. The Lumia will be limited to Windows 7.8, a halfway house upgrade as none of them have the required specs for Windows 8.

Stay clear of the Lumia and the Bold, although decent devices you aren't future proofed with them. The lumia will be stuck on Windows Phone 7 and Blackberry may well not be around in their current guise for long. Having used all the others I would go for the One X, the S3 is a great phone but the One X feels better in the hand, you will also get the update to 4.1 faster through HTC than Samsung. Personally I went for the Galaxy Note which you may find on an even better deal - very large but for me it's no issue being 6' 4" with large hands.

Gio dos Santos leaving Tottenham this weekend by all accounts - any chance?

I have signed up for the trial - waiting to hear

Blayney was Ulster Player of the Year 2010-2011 and played pretty much every game for the current Ulster champions Linfield in 2011-2012

If you think you need more than 250 mins (and we only count outgoing, we don't pay for incoming here in the UK) you can add one of the other "Goodybags" - £15 gets you 400 mins, £20 - 800, £25 - 1500

You just need an unlocked phone to use the GiffGaff sim. Not sure how locked down the phones are over there but you can call your provider and see. They may well unlock for a fee, or you could always jailbreak your phone but then you are getting more technical. I haven't run a jail break on anything other than an ipod touch 2g so I am along way behind the curve. If you are going to the states Terry, I find T-mobile to have the most reasonable plans for data and local calling but I wouldn't use it for calls back to the uk. You would need to check their coverage. I paid $50 for a months unlimited plan, although most of the time I was only getting EDGE data speeds as they use slightly different frequencies for 3G coverage on their network.

You can order a GiffGaff sim - they tend to be the cheapest. The only issue you will have is that it will be a standard SIM so you would have to cut it down to size - plenty of instructions online. £10 will get you 250 mins, unlimited texts and unlimited internet for a month. You can order via my affiliate link if you want - we both get £5 credit when you top up for the first time. There are ways to get a microSim done for you through the GiffGaff community but it may take a few extra days to get it. Just get the sim sent to someone you are going to see when you get here. My affiliate link http://giffgaff.com/orders/affiliate/mdearlove

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ is $7 per month or $40 for the year. Gives you a UK vpn for when you are abroad too.

thats more than just rain - electrical storm. The rain is pretty severe though - wonder if they will push it back to tomorrow.

GiffGaff had an outage last night from about 4pm, came back around 8.30. The Mrs wasn't too happy. Happens to all providers at some point.

ha - hadn't seen the article when I posted this - please delete

Jaidi to be the North African Development man then?

Hart, Green, Ruddy, Baines, Cahill, Cole, Johnson, Jones, Lescott, Terry, Barry, Downing, Gerrard, Lampard, Milner, Ox-Chamberlain, Parker, Walcott, Young, Carroll, Defoe, Rooney, Welbeck.