SimonM

Good chance for Leeds to make the last 8 I'd have thought. I feel a bit sorry for Rotherham but they may yet surprise everyone. Spurs v Liverpool clearly the tie of the round though! I imagine Spurs will be fielding the strongest side possible...:)

(yawn)

.....and "prawn sandwich eater" ain't derogatory? :)) Clearly I am slipping....

London prices eh? It cost me a tenner to watch United v Middlesbrough in the FA Cup earlier this year!

You just cannot buy good custard tarts in London!

Everton 1 v 1 Liverpool Aston Villa 3 v 1 Sunderland Fulham 1 v 2 West Ham Man Utd 2 v 0 Bolton Middlesbrough 1 v 0 West Brom Newcastle 0 v 3 Blackburn Stoke City 0 v 2 Chelsea Arsenal 4 v 0 Hull City Portsmouth 1 v 1 Tottenham Wigan 1 v 2 Man City

>>Simon, I am glad WHU shafted you by playing Tevez. Yours a 'Merde Utd' fan.<< Such delicate flowers, you prawn sandwich eaters! :))

>>Players to sue west ham. << Yeah. This was also reported on in The Grauniad - and even as a United supporter I think this is a bit much! I doubt the fans generally will be too impressed either. It was bound to happen though I suppose...I wonder if Colin will have a go too?

I see the Franklin's shop now has the signage done....so opening cannot be far away? That stretch of LL is going to be quite the mini-Knightsbridge soon innit? >:D

>>As a Blades fan you really should know better than to come out with nonsense like that. We are by no means a wealthy team,<< Sorry I did not mean to imply that WHU was a wealthy club a la Merde Utd. I just meant the ?5.5million fine was merely a slap on the wrists compared to the punishment that had been widely expected to be imposed on the club by almost everyone, and one that could relatively easily be absorbed by the fact of its Premiership membership being preserved.

I fear it will need a couple of pedestrians killed at that junction before the PTB see some sense and restore a pedestrian phase to crossing the road in any one of the three ways there. There is just no safe way to do it at present.

Is this the same van the Cheese Lady used to have?

So it was Hitler's idea to employ Brian Bleedin' Robson too I suppose dammit.....:))

The so-called "record-breaking" fine of ?5.5million imposed on West Ham was of course as meaningful as fining Man Utd ?25000 for having 6 players yellow-carded in one game - which is to say no punishment at all given the context. It is true we would not have been relegated had we drawn and not lost that final game against Wigan. But had that come to pass then it would have been Wigan seeking and presumably being awarded the compensation: and if not Wigan then Fulham or whoever. It makes no difference to West Ham - this reckoning was always coming. Sheffield United are entitled to seek compensation because their position is analogous to that of the crime victim sueing the perpetrator for compensation even though the state has already imposed its own punishment by way of a fine or whatever. West Ham agreed to go to arbitration and now refuse to accept the outcome. ?30million sounds a lot but of course given the choice at the end of a season of staying in the Premiership or paying this sum every club would be reaching for its cheque book And it was not just that last game against Man Utd where Tevez shone and made a diffence - it was severeal goals scored over the last 8 games or so. West Ham are seeking to rewrite history by downplaying how crucial a difference he made and how it was all down to team effort: yeah right.

That article is quite disgraceful and totally unworthy of what used to be a quality newspaper. The "journalist" seems to be aiming his buckshot wildly at any or every target he can think of, including several red herrings, if I might wildly mix the metaphor. Of course Tony Cascarino writing in the same newspaper was quite enethusiastic in his support of the decision reached by the three-man, independent commission, which is about par for the course for the Press these days - something for everyone! Had to laugh at the implication that Steve Kabba is another Carlos Tevez though....

As Neil Warnock has also called for Scudamore to resign I suppose there is zero chance of this happening...

I never get to see this sort of excitement when I pick up my "Observer" there of a Sunday! :-S

I confidently expect a Rotherham v Leeds tie to emerge from the draw! A battle between the two points-deduction giants, so clearly an all-northern tie :)) Rotherham of course are now the only Sheffield side (their home ground this season is the Don Valley Stadium) left in the competition. Noone will want Arsenal! My heart sank the moment I saw the 3rd Round draw, but 6-0 is a bit much: more goals shipped last night than in 7 league games this season. What a magician of a manager Wenger is...

3-0 in each half....so I was close! >:D

If a droped kerb outside a house has an unbroken white line across it - as most do - then it's always an offence to park on it, irrespective of whether there is a car parked in the driveway. However the more usual meaning of "dropped kerb" is the kind found at road junctions, pedestrian crossings etc to allow buggies, wheelchairs etc to move from the pavement on to the road more easily. It is the latter that traffic wardens come down hard on.

McCabe has consistently asked for ?30million - even though ?50 million was nearer the mark, as he claimed that was what United lost as a result of the relegation. Looking at various feedback sites it seems there's little sympathy for West Ham anywhere, outside of their ownn supporters obviously. Even Leeds supporters - no great fans of the Blades but no strangers to points deductions obviously - are applauding the verdict by the Independent Tribunal. I doubt even a ?50million award would affect tonight's result though! 3-0 (at least) to Arsenal is my forecast - even if it is the youngest Arsenal side ever! :)

If the car was even partially blocking a dropped kerb then I'd rather they'd had it towed away than merely ticketed it: the fact of it being a Sunday morning being wholly irrelevant. :) That way the rubbish would be gone too and everybody would win!

There is a fake owl in the "zoo" at the Horniman!

Well according to MOTD2 tonight Ramos is reportedly "homesick"! Cannot imagine why!:))

Sean, whom I have never met, was doing no more than express a personal opinion, as do we all - well most of us I think. Again like most of us he did this without descending to personal abuse. But all this is a diversion from the topic of the thread anyway...