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Don't think I've forgotten about the comparative performance of our two companies, Johnny Big Bo££ox....

...and advice which that well known cheese eating, surrender monkey of a bank should have heeded. I'm talking about BNP Paribas, Jonah's employer. Yes, they're French, they're smelly and they couldn't help sniffing condesendingly in our direction, when it came to the state of our respective economies. I was thinking of this thread that was an attempt to describe the actual strength of the UK economy, when compared to the shifty French and their shoulder shrugging approach to debt. In particular, over 2 years ago, Jonah posted, in reply to me: Well, Jonah's own bank, BNP Paribas recently reported holding the most Greek debt of any of the French banks, about 5bn euros of sovereign debt and has set aside 534m euros to cover its Greek exposure. My forecast? Watch a French banking crisis emerge over the next few weeks and whether Sarkozy and the French government can bail them out. 534m euros set aside for the Greek debt? Try 1.5b euros and you might be closer to the mark.... Of course, my opening post about Saints avoiding administration by paying off the £5M overdraft to Barclays was completely wrong, but I'm more of a broad brush, macro-economic kind of a guy.....

We took our usual seats for the Leeds game, noticing that the seat next to us was empty. An young chinese guy moved along to the seat, holding the seat ticket a camera and wearing a signed Saints shirt. He took about 20 photos before kick off, and we settled down to watch the game. First goal and my son and I are jumping up and down, high fiving and shouting. The next goal and we are hugging each other, in between jumping up and down. We sit down for half time, as the chinese guy goes down to the pitchside for more photo opportunities. Second half and we watch the third goal, go in. I glance to my left and my son is hugging the Chinese guy and jumping up and down. "What was that about, mate?" I asked my son, smiling. "He was watching us hugging each other for the second goal, Dad and it looked like he wanted to join in, as he came on his own, so I thought I'd better give him a hug for the third goal."

At least let us speculate. Com'on Alps, you know what they say. If you can't laugh at yourself, at least let me do it for you....

To be fair, I think calling obesity a fairly serious illness is stretching it...

I miss the old Riot Act, to be fair: Unfortunately, these were replaced by the Public Order Act, 1986, which I think, provides enough power, if we had enough police on the streets, instead of paper shuffling behind a desk:

Pity they didn't think as carefully when they used real ones, that kicked the whole thing off. Am I the only one, post De Mendez, to think that arming the Met is akin to letting them play "Call of Duty", for real...

Your adopted country was founded by thugs and criminals....

These riots are the direct result of a generation, that has grown reliant on the benefits system that rewards dysfunctional families. The sense of entitlement without the responsibility to earn that right has been instilled in a large number of families, that have been housed and fed at taxpayers expense. The welfare state in broken and we will go through a lot of pain to fix it. I hope the government has the balls to continue with the difficult task, in the face of pressure from the unions and the criminals. (and I don't mean Ed Balls)

Has anyone noticed that the fee is about what Marcus paid for the club, stadium included... Business Genius....

Some are 15 years old, others as young as 12. When will this nightmare end? Please do not click this link, if you are easily offended...

You have mail...

You could always open the cached copy of the webpage. It looks like this: Harry Redknapp, tax evasion and Mandaric’s ‘offshore account’ By Gavin Sheridan – August 3, 2011 New here? You may consider subscribing to our RSS feed or for updates via email. I recently obtained interesting documents from a Florida court which outline further details of the investigation into tax evasion by people formerly associated with Portsmouth Football Club. The investigation is part of ‘Operation Apprentice’ a long standing investigation into alleged football corruption. In 2007, then Portsmouth chief executive Peter Storrie was arrested — along with then manager Harry Redknapp, then club owner Milan Mandaric (now owner of Sheffield Wednesday), agent Willie McKay and former Portsmouth player Amdy Faye — over allegations of corruption. The five men were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and false accounting. Last year Redknapp, who is the current manager at Tottenham, was charged with “two counts of cheating the public revenue of an estimated £40,000 after voluntarily attending London’s Bishopsgate police station”. Redknapp has been touted as a successor to Fabio Capello as England football manager. According to The Independent: Charges concerned two payments, totalling 295,000 US dollars, alleged to have been made from Mandaric to Redknapp via a bank account in Monaco, evading the tax and National Insurance contributions due between April 1, 2002 and November 28, 2007. Mandaric, now chairman of Leicester, was charged with tax evasion relating to the payment of 295,000 US dollars to another person via a Monaco bank account, evading tax and National Insurance. Storrie was charged with concealing a signing-on fee for ex-Portsmouth player Amdy Faye by paying it into the midfielder’s bank account. The allegation related to the transfer of Faye from Auxerre to Fratton Park for £1.5million in August 2003. For his part, Redknapp sought to have the case against him dismissed in November last year.

The original source for the documents was here. If you type mandaric in the search archive box, you can download the documents for $10.

I think if I was Sarkozy or Merkel, I would rather pay a little more in interest, rather than watching billions in German and French bank loans go down the tubes, or French and German public money being used to vainly propping up Italy and Spain to try and save the euro. It will happen, mark my words....

Just a thought, but why don't the Eurozone countries stop issuing their own bonds for the raising of capital? Replace them with a Eurobond that will provide a yield lower than the PIIGS are having to pay at the moment. Yeah, it will add to the cost of borrowing in France and Germany, but the European Bank will then have the capital and say so to whom, how much and under what terms the money is doled out.

Search my post carefully, for a link.

It would be a shame if our loyal readers missed thestory.ie we wouldn't be able to have a laugh at Pompey....

We're spending 6 days in Monterey and while the missus is sun bathing I will play Pebble Beach and Spyglass. Looking forward to 17 mile drive, Big Sur and Carmel. Stopping over one night in Sacramento on the way to South Lake Tahoe, where we will be staying for a couple days. Definitely will be taking a trip to Carson City. Despite travelling to most of the US, during the 11 years I lived there, I never got the West Coast, only getting as far as Pheonix. The decision to move to the States, when I was younger, was largely influenced by being a big fan of the Rockford files. I even bought a Pontiac Firebird. Little did I know that the Jersey shore was nothing like Malibu! Just to make you feel worse, this is where we intend to have brunch, the Sunday we are in Monterey.

I'd spend some time debating the points you've made, but you're obviously totally illiterate and a waste of a post....

Totally destroys my argument. I guess the European Commission could have asked your mate, instead of paying Gallup to carry out extensive telephone interviews with 400 rail commuters in the UK.

Gallup poll on behalf of the European Commission. Download it here and educate yourself...

It would be better if you argued the point with facts, rather than ignore the facts I posted and change the point of the argument. My point is train network, overall is better now than it was under Government control. The fact that it is more expensive, crowded at peak times and less cost effective and convenient, than travelling by car and air was not my point. If you have any facts to back up the argument that it was better when nationalised, please share them. Being crowded only serves to demonstrate the increased popularity of train travel. At the same time, please justify why you think the tax payer should be expected to subsidise the cost and comfort of your travel by train, as they did when the system was nationalised? Someone has to pay for the rail network. Why shouldn't it be the user rather than the taxpayer?

A total load of ****** from another moaning commuter, without any supporting facts and a poor memory of British Rail, its rolling stock and punctuality. Here's a few facts to help you out: