SimonM

Tottenham 1 Portsmouth 2 Aston Villa 2 Sunderland 0 Blackburn 2 Wigan 1 Bolton 1 Man. City 1 Middlesbrough 1 Derby 0 Newcastle 2 Fulham 0 Reading 2 Birmingham 1 Everton 2 West Ham 1 Man. United 2 Liverpool 0 Chelsea 1 Arsenal 2

Ginger

>>And my fav player when I were a lad, Mickey Droy, was the manager there for a brief spell.:D

Interesting watching the smug Sky bloke hubristically (did I just coin that word?!) declare there'll be at least one Rnglish club in the final.... I wonder what odds the bookies will give for a Fenerbahce v Barcelona final?! :))

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

Mmmm...cheese scones, cake....for the spectators too right? :))

>>I'd like to pay a small tribute to the Sheffield legend Derek Dooley. I can remember reading about him when I was a kid >>and his playing career was already long over. << I heard about this whilst away in Miami on holiday and would like to endorse every word. Dooley's football career was over long before I knew there even was such a sport. But once around 1960 my family was sat in Coles' Restaurant in the centre of Sheffield (the orginal store opposite the cathedral, to those familair with the city) when my father nudged my mother and, indicating a smiling and clearly well=regarded man who had just entered, said "There's Derek Dooley". My mother looked on in awe - neither she nor my father ever knew the first thing about football. I piped up "who is he?!" - and was given the story. I was puzzled as this guy seemed to have both legs intact and I suppose I expected a Long John Silver-type wooden leg. And it was years before I could work out how playing football could lead to a leg amputation... Dooley of course played for and then managed the "wrong" Sheffield Club - the one that sacked him on Christmas Eve one year. I am bound to say though that, although he was eventually more involved with the right Sheffield club, he really belonged to the whole city for over half a century, or even to South Yorkshire, given the respectful silent tribute before the FA Cup game at Oakwell today and the inspired way Barnsley saw off some London team or other...

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>>Note the aesthetic shape and consistent golden crust<< That looks suspiciously like one from Ayres to me.....:))

Is this Batdog's latest portrait??

>>Kerry Catona will officially open Oliver Bonas this Saturday morning.<< Some things are just beyond satire.....:))

I thought the purer form required some seasonal reference (however obscure) too? Bright blue Kingfisher near Japanese Garden Pond thrilling in the cold or whatever

>> some of those italian boys seemed to fall down in a puff of wind!<< Just remind me which "Italian" got yellow-carded for a highly unconvincing dive in the penalty area? :))

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Well they had the chances for 3-0 certainly......but looks like a very tough task now in the return leg!

Film them and put them on YouTube?

I'd love it if "Let Them Eat Cake" would take a stall there....even if only on Saturdays >:D

>>Anyone know where to buy a stake with hooks at the top so that we can hang the feeders where the squirrels can't get them?<< That will not work. The squirrels will just shin up the pole/stake and then hang upside down by their feet to get at the feeder contents. After much experimentation we have found that the *only* squirrel-proof feeders are the ones inside spherical or bell-shaped cages, and we now have nuts, seeds and suet balls in this kind of feeder. These are fine for feeding sparrows, finches, tits etc, but we are still stumped for the ground-feeding birds like blackbirds and robins: you'd be amazed at how small a mesh a squirrel can squeeze through...:))

Liverpool 1 - 3 Inter Milan Olympiakos 0 - 1 Chelsea Arsenal 3 - 0 AC Milan Celtic 0 - 2 Barcelona Lyon 0 - 2 Man Utd

>>Interesting that you mention community vandalism - a bit rich and smacking rather loudly of hypocrisy. << Agreed emphatically, for all the reasons stated

Sounds like a Sparrowhawk

>>Blackwell!?! ahahahahahaha Oh my sides. We'll being passing each other at the end of the season now, Simon!:D

>>plus he's about the only chance we have of a medal in his event, << Should this actually be a factor??

I did say "possibly with a new first team coach" :)) (Edited later) - or indeed, perhaps not! :))

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