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 moribund charlatan that was Paul Lambert.

 

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You destroyed them Mike!  Well done. Unimpressed by the contestant who didn’t know The Badger question

For me Westwood is a decent enough player but also is the kind of player that will hold us back.

Sanchez and delph have the potential to impact a game much more than Westwood can.

Thing is from some of Sanchez’s performances is that impact is to help us lose a game. 

I wonder if he was involved in the signing of Bennett?

Id drop him for Sanchez and put sinclair in for weimann imo

Sanchez; the master of the misplaced pass? If Sherwood can get him to complete passes then he will improve massively as a player

Hopefully one of the first things Sherwood does on Monday morning is call Gabby into his office & tell him his days of being an Aston Villa Charlie Big Potatoes are well & truly over! 

 

Has offered absolutely nothing for years! 

Hopefully he will watch him play and train and give him the right kind of encouragement and motivation. 

Who knows what Gabby needs; I don’t know him personally, so I don’t presume to know. He might respond to being boll•cked. He might respond being told he’s the best in the world. 

Clearly the manager who we cannot mention knew what made him tick. Whether he can return to that I don’t know

Like the rest of the squad I hope Sherwood gets the best out of him. If he does that he will be an asset to us. 

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Steve Strange, lead singer of 1980s pop band Visage, has died aged 55 following a heart attack, his record label says.

Strange, real name Steven Harrington, died in his sleep in a hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

The Welsh New Romantic icon is best known for his Visage hit Fade To Grey. 

Marc Green, August Day Recordings label manager, said his "family, band members and friends are all distraught at this sudden news of his untimely death.

Strange, a New Romantic pioneer, was born in Newbridge, Caerphilly county, and got involved in music after seeing the Sex Pistols in concert in 1976.

He went to London aged 15 to work for Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McClaren before setting up the Blitz Club in Soho, central London, which would become a focal point for the New Romantic movement. 

Bands including Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet and Culture Club all got their start at the club before finding stardom.

His band, Visage, formed in 1979 and released their breakthrough record, Fade To Grey, the following year, peaking at number eight in the UK Singles Chart.

Strange finished recording a classical interpretation of the record last year.

The Welsh pop singer found fame in the 1980s as frontman for the band Visage

Strange, pictured with Boy George in 2001, was known as a New Romantic pioneer 

Tributes have been paid to the pop singer on Twitter, with Duran Duran frontman Simon Le Bon tweeting: "I'm very sad to announce that our friend Steve Strange has died in Egypt today. He was the leading edge of New Romantic. God Bless him."

Billy Idol wrote: "Very sad to hear of my friend Steve Strange passing, RIP mate." 

His agent, Pete Bassett, said he would be remembered as "a hard-working, very amusing and lovable individual who always was at the forefront of fashion trends".

"Up until last year he was putting together a book of fashion styles based on the New Romantic movement and it comes as a great shock.

"We understood that he had certain health problems but nothing we knew was life threatening.

"His friends and family are totally shocked, we had no idea anything like this was likely to happen."

 

Welcome to the family Carles, no pressure but you need to save us.

In all seriousness this is quite a coup, Valencia have one of the best academies in Spain, probably the best in fact behind Barca. Their fans rate him as the next David Silva and they're sad to see him leave, however I've seen the majority say he deserves game time and they hope he does well.

I've never seen him so will reserve judgement, especially given that players who are "the next......." never really work out. Wasn't Djimi Traore supposed to be the "next Zidane?" 

 

I wish him well and hope he settles quickly because we need him. Badly. 

 

I believe it was Bruno Cherou; though it was a commonly handed out accolade to Houllier’s signings...

What this world needs is people they can believe in whatever side of the political divide is. I just think Brand isn’t that kind of person.

 

 

and yet one of our most ardent left voters said in that very thread he voted for the party that looked after him and his family first

 

I know it's VT but your stereotypes don't work  ... even if you do cycle and hug trees

 

Ah, but you see, you've proved they do. By not using yourself as an example, you've implicitly consented to its accuracy and confirmed your taste for infant flesh.

 

now you mention it I am partial to jelly babies

 

 

So great he said it twice

 

 

 

Private Eye writes about Brand’s ex- Jemima Khan, and her acquisition of Kiddington Hall for £15million. Or rather she didn’t, a Cayman Islands company called Kidslane Ltd did. Of course Khan is the daughter of Sir Jimmy Goldsmith, a man who probably did not pay all of his tax. Eye understands that much of Revolution was written there. 

 

You couldn’t make it up.

I don't see a massive problem here, I have to say.

 

I had this debate with my rather right wing mother in law the other night.

 

Basically, I cannot see why a 'socialist', or a person espousing revolutionary ideas and ideals, has to live as a troll underneath a canal bridge, in order for their views to be worthy or genuine. Anthony Wedgewood Benn was born into a position/life of relative prosperity and privilege, and his left wing views hardened as he got older and had more experience of the capitalist and govenmental machine. I really don't understand why someone must be poor or live in squalor to hold ant-establishment views.

 

 

But to live a life that benefits from things you deride in public seems peculiar to me.

 

In what way?

 

He's no longer with Khan, and lives in an east london apartment. It isn't exactly Buckingham Palace.

 

So he didn’t benefit in any way from a house purchased in an elaborate scheme to avoid pay inheritance tax, set up by that great man of the people Jimmy Goldsmith? Its all rather ironic. As is having your book published by Random House/Penguin.

There tends to be a trait with tories that is more about the self (self and family). It seems more about "look after yourself and family, and the rest can take care of themselves". It can be deduced that this is heartless, or uncaring towards others.

 

there tends to be a trait with more lefty people that is more about "look after everyone". It can be deduced that this avoids an element of personal responsibility.

 

It's like the right tend to be more about look after yourself and those who try to help themselves, and the left is more about look after those who cannot help themselves.

 

I'm not saying I agree with these deductions, but I think it's where a lot of the sterotypes come out, particularly wrt the tories, (who also often come across as heartless baby eaters because they are all heartless eat baby eaters ).

I would say the right and the left are exactly alike in that its all about look after people of the same political colouring and those they gain political advantage from. Oh and hypocrisy will always be the order of the day. 

And whatever the colour; the establishment looks after itself.

 

Private Eye writes about Brand’s ex- Jemima Khan, and her acquisition of Kiddington Hall for £15million. Or rather she didn’t, a Cayman Islands company called Kidslane Ltd did. Of course Khan is the daughter of Sir Jimmy Goldsmith, a man who probably did not pay all of his tax. Eye understands that much of Revolution was written there. 

 

You couldn’t make it up.

I don't see a massive problem here, I have to say.

 

I had this debate with my rather right wing mother in law the other night.

 

Basically, I cannot see why a 'socialist', or a person espousing revolutionary ideas and ideals, has to live as a troll underneath a canal bridge, in order for their views to be worthy or genuine. Anthony Wedgewood Benn was born into a position/life of relative prosperity and privilege, and his left wing views hardened as he got older and had more experience of the capitalist and govenmental machine. I really don't understand why someone must be poor or live in squalor to hold ant-establishment views.

 

The original 60s mods were all about obscure American soul and jazz - a direct precursor of the northern soul scene. By the time The Who jumped on the bandwagon it was all over. So when The Jam came along, copying The Who, it was doubly absurd. Personally, I avoided tribes completely, and listened to music from across the spectrum.

The ‘faces’ in the Bush won’t like what you saying, even if they can’t explain it. Irish Jack will see you later.

Private Eye writes about Brand’s ex- Jemima Khan, and her acquisition of Kiddington Hall for £15million. Or rather she didn’t, a Cayman Islands company called Kidslane Ltd did. Of course Khan is the daughter of Sir Jimmy Goldsmith, a man who probably did not pay all of his tax. Eye understands that much of Revolution was written there. 

You couldn’t make it up.

Think the current issue of Private Eye does.

The Guardian

The gloves are off in Brand versus the Sun. On Saturday, the never-knowingly-underexposed comedian wrote a piece for this paper accusing the Sun on Sunday of printing lies about his personal life, and comparing Rupert Murdoch to Hitler. Brand had previously tweeted his intention to sue the tabloid. This week, the red-top struck back, with an article entitled 20 reasons why Russell Brand is the Biggest Hypocrite in Britain – a piece it was so keen to broadcast, it suspended its online paywall. Its accusations? That Brand's anti-capitalist arguments don't square with his £9m fortune. That he has written extensively for the Sun and frequently publicly praised the paper. That his book and TV series were published and broadcast by Harper Collins and Fox respectively – both owned by Rupert Murdoch, of course. Brand was soon back on Twitter, returning blows: "The S*n call me a hypocrite on their website for attacking them," he wrote. "For this story they've removed their paywall. Now that's hypocrisy." Touché.

he speaks alot of sense against murdoch in his latest vid, hopefully people realise now what a vile human being he is and boycott his products

Did he not use to write for the Sun?

Nice

 

Birmingham asked by Football League to explain director’s online abuse

 

The Football League has asked Birmingham City for an explanation of extraordinary and abusive comments made on a supporter’s website by the club’s director, Peter Pannu.

In his two posts on the Often Partisan website Pannu appeared to threaten the site’s proprietor, Daniel Ivery, the co-author of a book, Haircuts and League Cups, covering the club’s tumultuous recent history under the chairman, Carson Yeung, who is serving six years in a Hong Kong prison for money-laundering.

Pannu, a long-term associate of Yeung’s, raised a threat of suing Ivery over the book and said Ivery had been disrespectful when offering to meet Pannu in Hong Kong to give him a copy of the book in a “shit hole pub in wan chai girly bar [sic]”. In a rambling post also dealing with the finances and ownership of the club, Pannu said City would run out of money in January or February because of a £1.8m tax bill which had not been accounted for.

He also said Yeung, who is barred from being a director or exercising any control over City after his conviction, was nevertheless still holding discussions with the board of the parent company, Birmingham International Holdings, over a potential sale of the club.

Ivery responded on Tuesday by saying he had referred Pannu’s comments about Yeung to the League and those about the finances and sale of the club to the Hong Kong stock exchange, on which BIHL is listed. Ivery rejected Pannu’s description of the Hong Kong bar, saying the meeting took place in Delaney’s Wan Chai, the region’s first Irish bar.

On Wednesday Pannu posted again, saying: “Daniel it’s 01.13am in Hk. .M … F. … you have the balls come to HK one mote time this is Peter for sure..F. .y” [sic]

Pannu did not reply to an email from the Guardian asking if the posts are from him but Ivery and the club believe they are genuine.

The club condemned the posts, although Pannu remains one of a four-man board which includes Yeung’s son Ryan and brother-in-law Shui Cheong Ma. Panos Pavlakis, the other director who is effectively running the club, is understood to be furious about the posts.

The club said in a statement it “is categorically refuted” money will run out and attacked Pannu for posting the comments.

“All involved at the club are wholly unimpressed and saddened by the unprofessional and ludicrous actions taken which seem intent on discrediting and damaging individuals and the club,” the statement said.

“This is entirely unnecessary – but particularly when the team is performing very well under a new manager and our supporters are buoyant and enjoying some positive results.”

City have not lost in five league matches since Gary Rowett’s appointment on 27 October. They have won three times, including a 2-1 victory over Nottingham Forest on Saturday.

The club has been in financial difficulties since Yeung’s arrest for money-laundering in June 2011 which ultimately led to his conviction and six-year prison sentence.

BIHL has said it is trying to sell the club while remaining listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange.

Pannu stated in his post that Yeung had been supportive of a takeover proposal advanced by Jeremy Wray, the former Swindon Town chairman, but “those now controlling the board” want to sell to “another party possibly in China as opposed to a British owner”.

The Football League said it has raised Pannu’s posts with the club who are understood to have insisted Yeung retains no influence.

Pongo of Print says CV speaks sense. 

He’s a £2-£3million player. Which is about what we paid for him and what he’s worth now. 

The thing with grammar schools is that it was based not on background or money, but on intelligence, trades traditionally wanted educated, literate, etc employees. I don’t think I agree that any school is better/worse at pastoral care; you get good and bad from my own experience as a child and a parent. 

I agree that we should have schools for children depending on ability, rather than a fit one system.

One thing I would say about private/public school is that sports wise they have much better facilities (in part to the stupid idea of selling off sports fields), but also the importance they place on sport. 

Anyway Farage went to Dulwich.

I suppose it's because anyone with power are from Tory based education and so the only people with actual left wing views are in the working class. Every part of the current political spectrum seems to be right wing or right wing with liberal tendencies.

Isn’t it time we did something to stop the increasingly black and whiteness of education of ‘public [i.e. Eton, Westminster, etc]/private’ versus ‘state’? Labour’s idealistic idea to get rid of grammar schools done with the best of intentions, seems to have made the problems worse. Neither Labour nor Conservatives seem to want to really tackle it.

I love the way that the baby is kind of just slipped in... True sportsman.