maxxi

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ...and a bonus.....agent Lomas doing his job well :)

Can't understand Swans not starting with Bony -- lots of posession and no edge just waiting to get mullahed by a ManU counter. Impressively comfortable win at Boleyn (without Carroll too) - particularly in that the Taffs didn't get a single shot on target. ETA: maybe gooners were confused by the new villa kit - expect headlines re Wenger being 'checkmated' etc.

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The Swan was bordering on club. Same owners as the > Venue in New Cross, and similar set up, just in > an old pub building. Now that was a proper club - when it was The Harp - money taken on the door on a Sunday night by two old Irish geezers, Dan Dare on the turntables and taking refuge on the balcony when knackered.

Nope - I'm with quids on this one, a bar is not a pub - mind you neither was the swan - it was a feckin boozer. Even on a 'best pubs etc.' thread it would only rank in the 'mistakes I have made' category.

Talking of West End basement bars - in the worst bars etc. etc. category: the San Moritz Club, nominated for a terrible New Year's Eve in the mid 80s - four of us getting drunk on a pear liquer at the bar (no, I can't remember why) and watching three girls dance around a squat, fat, indoor firework - when it went off 'gifts' of boxer shorts and the like flopped out of it. For a sweaty basement night The (tiny) Toucan used to be a laugh - all guinness-glass stools and the barman telling you how Hendrix once played the place.

El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > what exactly does international cuisine mean? anything from Iceland's 'party food' section

Trader Vic's downstairs at the Hilton (a good while ago now though) - a kitsch-kontiki paradise of brain-destroying cocktails, international 'business' gents and ladies of the night.

Rooney spotted the camera on him in the tunnel and it looked like he hid behind Hart ha haaa... Hope there's some needle tonight - the only thing that might wake this England side up.

SCSB79 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How do you set up the email reminder? I think you click on 'preferences' under your name right at the top of the page then tick 'prediction reminder' at the bottom of your 'details'

Quagliarella on loan would do a job - but I think we're safe too - more I think we'll be top ten again. Is it prediction time again yet? Chelsea for the title, Mans U&C next, then a three-way fight between Spurs, Gooners & Liverpool - so far so predictable but I fancy Swansea as an e/w bet. Palace, Hull, Norwich to go down.

If I don't do it now I'll probably forget as it's no longer necessary so... Saturday 17th August 2013 Liverpool 2 V 0 Stoke Arsenal 3 V 0 Aston Villa Norwich 1 V 2 Everton Sunderland 2 V 1 Fulham Swansea 3 V 2 Man Utd West Brom 0 V 1 Southampton West Ham 2 V 0 Cardiff Sunday 18th August 2013 Crystal Palace 1 V 3 Tottenham Chelsea 4 V 0 Hull Monday 19th August 2013 Man City 3 V 0 Newcastle Wednesday 21st August 2013 Chelsea 3 v 0 A Villa

I'm sure those with big scores will be flaunting their acumen before long and posting predictions on here - - and I think I could happily post mine without anyone indulging in skullduggery unless it was of the "if maxxi's going for a home win it's an away banker" kind.

I'd have preferred to see Parker back as this looks like all-eggs-in-one-basket footy relying on an injury prone target man. Agree Morrison looks 'promising pre season' but - said that before about so many it seems. Wonder if Fabio Quagliarella deal is still in the offing?

dumpertruck Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > maxxi Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > host to yet another pop-up shop full of tat > > actually host to a place flogging some rather nice > furniture If your idea of nice is ?60 for a single 1970s dining room chair and a collection of 'retro' crap from the city's charity shops with a hefty mark-up then yes, 'nice'.

HonaloochieB Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Annette Curtain Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > Take my advice; you'd be less traumatised by > watching Blankety Blank on an eternal loop > whilst > ripped to the tits on crystal meth > > If it's the Les Dawson years then count me in and > have the 'lab' deliver me a week's worth for this > weekend. sadly HB it is the unscreened Charlie Williams tryout season with Duncan Norville. I did catch some of this late the other night with a desperately gurning J Ross and Katherine thingy - I.., it was... no. No words really do fail me.

great stuff - wonderful test. looking forward to the Oval especially as England, according to TMS, have never won 4 tests in an ashes series.

Batting collapse - so good to hear those words without wincing.

was feeling the same but now Warner and Clarke gone... the beauty of a test match, looks like going one way for ages, then out of the blue (and not long after England had wasted their last DRS challenge) it's on again.

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How does a fish shop modernise? (nor seen this Sea > Master place).

Opposite the locksmiths, the old photographic/print shop next to Kaival's newsagent is still empty (despite signs saying it has been let) and soup dragon (as was) is host to yet another pop-up shop full of tat so shop premises on this part of LL hardly at a premium - unless greedy bastard landlords are holding out for the Poundland money?* *The locksmith premises letting includes garages at the rear so Poundland could be on the way.

wait til Christmas when they get the kerr pinks in.

david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > He LIVES! Couldn't bear to delete it eh EP? Like throwing out an old no-longer-worn-but-fondly-remembered t-shirt.

well now everyone knows who came second in at least two of last year's contests :)

I am avoiding the spoiler thread as I have still to progress from series two/three when I lost a bit of interest - judging by the recent press as well as the forum I guess I'll give it another go.

I spent a summer trading info with a californian - he'd explain the curve ball and the designated hitter rule and I'd explain the googly and the 12th man.