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The idea of Blasphemy being a criminal offence is bonkers. However you don't have to go far to see it actually being illegal - just across the water in Ireland it's only five years since they made "publication or utterance of blasphemous matter" illegal. Apparently there's a referendum to be...

You don't think that for Governments to "clamp down on Islam" would itself "spoil it for ALL Muslims"?

Indeed - but if those figures come from polling in individual seats they may be more reliable. The further complication is the SNP - them only standing in Scotland presumably makes the whole game of applying National swings to individual seats even more complicated...

Bloody hell, that would be an absolute mess. "National Unity Government" (which would never happen) aside, no two parties can form a majority and even then both Lab & Con would have a go at claiming they deserve to try and create one. Whatever Government was created would surely collapse within...

Cambridge Utd v Manchester Utd - I think this is a given Chelsea v Millwall/Bradford - BBC will take it as they don't get many days out at the league leaders, plus there's the chance of Premier League v League One Aston Villa v Bournemouth - Best chance for an "upset". Liverpool v Bolton - Every...

This bit surprised me - I really didn't like the casino in the MGM. Just little things really - I have no problem tipping when I'm brought a drink at a table but in the MGM, without fail, the waiting staff either thrust their open palm right in my face or helped themselves to a chip from the...

Anything other than another Championship team; it's bloody boring playing a team in your own division in the cup. Preferably a home draw too.

2-2 classic cup tie - then back to face them twice at the Amex in 4 days...

Horrible news. Seems more than likely that it's storms bringing it down - as pointed out on BBC News, the plane's radar will only spot the closest thing to it in any direction - so very possible that after requesting to rise above one storm, it found an even worse one lying the other side. Of...

Genuine question - why? Is it a belief that a British manager will be better for our chances of surviving in the Championship, or more just a principle that four foreign managers in a row would be too many?

Gus Poyet is Uruguayan; Neil Warnock is British - simple example but I know which of the two I prefer. I really don't care what nationality the next boss is.

Excuse me? It's not just the seat anyway though, is it? It's about having gotten to know the people around you for the 3 1/2 years. I know plenty of people at the Amex can't stand some of the people around them, but actually our group get on very well. We don't know each other outside football...

JFC! Football genius, play him every game!

I'm still disappointed I didn't get any voucher in my card! The texts are definitely a nice touch though.

She probably gets more state funding/benefits from the state than the city of Brighton & Hove does put together. But it's Christmas so we'll put it to one side until midnight :drink:

I'm pretty certain he had signed a contract, and that the club could have started legal action etc, but opted not to as it was only a couple days old. Entirely a guess, but I suspect the club felt they had too many other things to concentrate on at the time (mainly getting together a squad...

Or, indeed, any not-decent manager. Don't forget Hyypia had Sammy Lee signed to replace Jones, only to see him walk out on his contract...

I absolutely feel sorry for him - but that doesn't mean it wasn't the right decision for him to move on. He seems a genuine bloke, and was clearly dealt a poor hand - but still played it badly. I believe under the 'right' manager (whoever that may have been) we'd be a fair bit higher than 22nd...

I completely agree with this. Two correct decisions for Hyypia and Burke to move on, but now they have I don't bear any ill will towards either. Our training ground and academy are superb and if Burke did run their set-up, then he should go with genuine thanks and the best wishes for the future.

To be fair, we didn't just sign a bunch of Championship or League One players. Colunga came from the top flight in Spain (even Ulloa only came from the second division), and Holla came from the top flight in Holland. Then we have several Premier League players on loan, for whom I'd bet we're...