h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

i might check out that messageboard. at present i'm doing like in real life, where i go for the long term, and that's not cutting it at all.

My sportdaq user ID is 3670, and whats this about fans of clubs Peter Reid has managed being booted out ??, He 'Arguably' had his best spell with us (Sunderland), even though it went the way of the pear for the last few years !

Never mind, he's still a legend

He was the only manager hapy to have his photo taken with me the one time I got into the BBC Sports Personality of the Year after-show party.

George Burley and David O'Leary were arses. AND they were out of work at the time.

Sounds about right , when we got promoted to the premier league the 1st time (1996), the team had a parade through the city that ended by the coast at a place called the seaburn centre, anyway there were thousands of people there, but me and my mates were quite near the front, the team and him were on a balcony just infront and we threw cans of beer and our scarfs at them, and my mate Andy threw a can, which he caught, and drank !

Just thought id share that nugget with you !

i can't imagine aulas drinking a beer with us (out of a shaken up can or otherwise)... but he's brought us from D2 to 3 straight titles (a fourth on the way, eat cake monaco!) and a CL quarterfinal over the last decade. i've got his picture on the dining room wall may all he saints in heaven and hell preserve him!

"ended by the coast at a place called the seaburn centre"

they ended the parade in the leisure club??? I've been to Seaburn (although only on Wear-Tyne pub crawls), and what claimedto be the Seabur n cenbtree was a pretty lously gym.

*tonight's Egon is sponsored by Corona Extra and the Barley Mow public house*

Er yeah......that lousy gym is the Seaburn centre

And the Barley mow is where i do the quiz on a Sunday night.......what you doing there ?

Did you go in La Fontaines then ?, thats a nice pub, and the bay view ( shut now), and the place with the train carriages as a resteraunt ( cant remember the name, Seaburn is pretty poor for a night out actually, pub crwal wise anyway

train carriages- Pullman's Lodge Hotel, had lunch there.

Thats it, havent been in there in years

a second final in just about a week for mauresmo, and this time she wins, and her share price is still almost flatline.

what does she need to do, scratch her butt?

As long as her testicles don't get in the way.

B

Basically she needs to be English.

When I met Peter Reid he seemed a nice bloke - happy to talk football, strong opinions, and some good stories - but he was a crap manager. He was still living in Bolton, didn't come to reserve games, and only took training twice a week. Put more effort into his BBC job - probably why he's still got it.

Now Jimmy Hill stood on the doorstep of the team coach and talked to us all as we walked out of Sunderland around the team coach, and told the coppers to let us be.

That sounds about right

It's something that comes through in his punditry a bit - he doesn't really come across as one of the game's deep thinkers, does he? I could be wrong, but one gets the impression his managerial style never really got very far beyond "Get stuck in and give it 110%".

I didn't get you lot to sign up just so you could put me bottom of the league.

B

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I just thought I'd let you know: I'm in 7th place on the overall leader board today

Yes, I had noticed. Did you get in early on the Malcolm Glazer shares last week?

B

No I was holding shares in Gordon Strachan for the dividend period. After a short delay due to a technical hitch, he paid out big time. The yield with the day trading element included was close to 300%!