Mick Mac

I'll take on the army anytime.

I'm going to beg to differ and I know loyalty is a big deal in football but as far as English teams are concerned I'll support who entertains me - when I was young I supported Liverpool, believe it or not I got bored with them despite them winning everything and changed to Arsenal when Charlie Nicolas my then Celtic hero moved down from Celtic, I supported Arsenal until I moved to London, lived in Finsbury park and actually went to see Arsenal the whole way through the 1990/1991 championship winning season, but found that dull after a while. Now I don't have a recognised English team, and I tend to applaud good football, this season that is being produced by Mancheter United and I'll happily give my support to the team that entertains me. Having said that I'll always be a celtic fan but then again if they deteriorate like thay did in the early 1990s my support will be limited, you help a club that helps itself. I feel most football clubs screw their fans for money, suck them dry, sell their product to Sky for extortionate prices which are handed on to the armchair fan - we all pay for this and I think we have the right to demand to be entertained in return. Football is becoming a voluntary tax, a higely overpriced product and the clubs expect all of us to LOYALLY support their teams whatever dross the team produces week in week out, so I don't think someone is necessarily a wa@ker just because they change allegiences to a team that entertains them.

All this excitment from the ladies - I'm happy to announce the opening of a new pole dancing club in Dulwich Park Sunday mornings at 11.30, a gentlemen only club, no exertion required. Very fit eastern european girls, all welcome.

I tried clay pigeon once and hit absolutely nothing, so no its not for me I'm afraid BBW, but I'm in favour of ED fox culling - those barstewards annoy me regulary.

yes liverpool in my day too and all worshipped king kev on the kop. Was keegan the first king of the kop?

uni in belfast 1986. Buy one pint get one free. First pint 80p get 2nd pint free so 40p per pint and as v young 4 pints would get you drunk so 160 did the trick on first week of uni (university as we called it then....)

jimmy greaves?

Ha - that's enough Belle - I was never confused

BBW - Have you had counselling?

The bit I find tricky is the forumites whose names hide their gender - hence you might like what you read but dare not be tempted into crushes on the poster for fear of them being from the same side...sometimes the poster makes their gender clear later but some I just can't read - hence any crushes are reserved for those with clearly female names...obvioulsy those who have been to forum drinks have a clear advantage having seen these unclear posters in the flesh, I should try to get along to the next one, but then I like the mystery of not having yet put the names to faces.. to me you are all supermodels.

Oh dear - and the sign keeps getting stolen...

Yes Wardy - I think you should post it, its probably of general interest and possibly a case for showing how poor the school once was and how it has improved.

This one speaks for itself (although not really a place name)

There is a place in France named "Brest" and a place in Ireland called "Muff"...any others?

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yeh fair enough. > > Stupid of me to have gone in really. > > Usually if nothing in the window has a price on, > I assume everything in the shop will be out of my > price range :)) I like that Sue - no prices in the window usually means avoid - thats my policy too. I guess i may be able to afford whats inside but I tend to feel I should have an idea of a shop's price range before going in, just to "ready" myself. It seems therefore only expensive shops have no prices in the window - I wonder are they missing out on some potential customers who could possibly afford the prices but dare not enter....

Is this a "trick" question - is the answer a rugby league team as opposed to union?

Barbarians?

Declan - even after scouring wikipedia (against the rules) I still don't know that one. Any clues?

I'd have hung in there and in about an hours time I'd have been as drunk as she was. After 2 hours prob more drunk than she was and she might have then taken advantage of me, much to my delight. (all comments of course relate to my thoughts of 15 years ago when young/single etc).

I'd be up for meeting but have a slim chance of a ticket for the Ireland England game so will wait and see.

Unfortunatley I did not know that.

I have just bought on ebay 2 standing tickets for ?155 face value ?110 - bit over the odds but I missed the boat on the actual sale. I know its a bit risky on ebay but I have always been ok in the past, and if you don't mind paying a small premium you may be able to get them.

t l s Good to hear you are a fan of the boy gallagher. Its neither rock nor exciting but one of my first jobs was doing rory gallaghers tax return. The closest i got to hearing him play was when he was due to play at the fleadh in the early 90s but he was not able to appear due to illness and unfortunately died a year or so later.

???? True - But I think England have had a dearth of good managers since 1966 - Bobby Robson being perhaps the only one to put a good team together and I agree should have won it in 1990.

???? - my view on England's record 1966 - won at home 1966 to date - rubbish :'(