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Lots of stuff about the abandonments/protests/shenanigans at the Goldstone between 1995 and 1997. Haven't had a chance to read it properly yet as it's only just arrived in the post.

Oh -- and the one about the explorer Sir Vivian Fuchs. It was Sir Vivian Fuchs Off To The Arctic :lolol:

... written by some bloke I met in a pub in the Lake District... once... and who got talking to me about the Albion! It's called "Ward's Soccerpedia" and it's about crazy interpretations of the laws of football down the years. A follow-up a "Football's strangest matches" and a worthy bog read...

My two favourites EVER were: 1) In the Guardian, above a story about a funding crisis in the publiclibraries of Essex. The headline was BOOK LACK IN ONGAR 2) In Viz, above a story about a Freddie Mercury impersonator suspected of killing a TV newsreader: SCARAMOUCHE SCARAMOUCHE DID HE KILL THE...

It could be called YouTube if you want to.

:ohmy: There isn't even a STATION at Land's End.

Theoretically out of bounds ever since they wound up the Central Line extension. However, as it's a weekend I think I can reverse-spoon. Theydon Bois.

You can get it on direct debit for just over 11 pounds a month.

You might not have any kids, but you still have to pay for the education system. You might be really really healthy, but you still have to pay for the NHS. Should they be scrapped?

The BBC co-owns UKTV with a company called Flextech. BBC World TV shows adverts in some countries, too -- but then neither are funded by the licence payer.

Give that man a biscuit.:clap2: :clap2:

BBC coverage of the world cup: Live on TV, Five Live, the World Service, the internet, along with highlights programmes and news coverage on rolling TV news and more than forty radio stations. ITV coverage of the world cup: Jim Rosenthal in a cupboard. Some highlights programmes. Some TV news...

The fee has been pegged to inflation untill now; the BBC is asking for an above-inflation rise to help pay for the switch to digital broadcasting. Remember that while the licence fee has been increasing in line with inflation, the number of services it provides has increased (News 24, BBC3...

The millions made by the BBC flogging these programmes around the world goes back into into making more programmes, so the licence fee is not so high. And any suggestion that the BBC "pushes lots of products" in its programmes is complete bollocks I'm afraid.

Are you happy to pay less than the price of a Daily Mail every day for Extras, Match of the Day, the Blue Planet, Harty's phone in, arguably the best news website in the world, Test Match Special, and a hell of a lot more besides?

I think it would be MORE THAN MARVELLOUS if it finished like that and Lewes DC decided not to challenge the Falmer decision, doncha think?

The handyman who worked for my university landlord had some great tattoos. Bear in mind that I lived in Preston: he had PNE in quite big letters on one forearm and SEX on the other. That was always quite funny. The best tattoos are on the inlay for the latest Half Man Half Biscuit album...

God, it really was a post-war horror, wasn't it? I remember buying my first ever single (Simon Says, by the 1910 Fruitgum Company, fact fans) in the WH Smith record place on the corder for 45p.

And that's a bad thing because.....? :thud:

Spielberg, clean out your PM box, innit....