Wasn't that the best FA Cup 3rd round tie in recent years??
Liverpool and Luton helped show all of us why the FA Cup is the best cup competition in the world, and all credit to Luton, a town I've come to know well, for playing like a Premiership side, outplaying my beloved Liverpool for 60 minutes, and threatening to end my hopes of a positive January.

I only recognised it was Liverpool after 60 or so minutes, with Gerrard's brilliant first goal being against the run of play.

The second-half was outstsanding from both sides, with two barmy penalty situations, (were they, weren't they, Carson red or yellow, Cisse terrible kick etc), a stunning Alonso goal, followed by an even more stunning Alonso goal...has there been a FA Cup game like that in recent years?
Thank goodness Liverpool won, but Benitez clearly did not enjoy it as much as we did, and, sadly, neither did Cisse.

Reading are as good as up, but for the other automatic promotion place, if Norwich don't make it, (and it looks a long-shot anyway), then Luton surely deserve it.

Norwich City are out, and Carrow Road witnessed one of those worrying, accidental horror incidents which are an occupational hazard footballers face, with Robert Green stretchered-off in a neck-brace, but tonight we learn he is OK.
Dean Ashton has been declared a Norwich City player for the foreseable future, so leave him alone Premiership!!

Phew, what a night of football, the cup comeback kings are still in there.
:b

This was sent to me today, by a friend; he insisted I post it (the contents came from the internet, and are not mine!!!! It is 100% fiction)...

I no longer have any savings because I gave it to a sick girl on the internet who urgently requires an operation in hospital, (for the 1,387,258th
time).

I no longer have any money at all in fact - but that will change once I receive the $15,000 that Microsoft and AOL are sending me for participating in their special on-line email program.

Yes, I want to thank you all so much for looking out for me that I will now return the favour!

If you don't send this email to at least 144,000 people in the next 7 minutes, a large pigeon with a wicked case of diarrhoea will land on your head at 5:00 PM (GMT) this afternoon. I know this will occur because it actually happened to a friend of my next door neighbour's
ex-mother-in-law's second husband's cousin's beautician.

DO IT NOW OR ELSE.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

This post is HUMOUR and NOT to be taken seriously in any shape or form!!
just want people to be happy, not to take life soooo seriously.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Mohandas Gandhi

I wonder what we will be told this year? That we are still unhealthy, still overweight, and still drinking too much, and yet, to do other repellent things seems OK?
Personally, I do not fully understand this Government's drive to 'stamp out obesity'...though I do understand Jamie Oliver's campaign for better school dinners last year. Take young English men for example, to my mind, they seem far thinner than when I was at school...and if you asked me for my judgement, I'd say that teenagers are, if anything, thinner now than twenty years ago. When I went to school, there were around a third who were either chunky, or more...now, it seems less so.

Can we love a Government that orders us to diet, via the food police but tells you to f-off when you have snapped bones, critical injuries, or needs, and all these points become much more so, if you are, shhhh...elderly. The nation stops counting above 35 or so I have found.

What a fool I have been...I have only just realised this morning, that the NHS have fed me, (excessively), with dietary methods, advice, booklets and appointments, (for self, who is NOT overweight), and ignored my cracked spine, which awaits it's first anniversary in a few days time, still WITHOUT any treatment whatsoever. They have suddenly jumped-on the weight thing, phoning me, checking if I'm sticking to the diet, checking my weight, monitoring the scale readings, for what????
I can't walk, but no worries.
I'll place some chips in my mouth...now THAT is serious.

A Japanese proverb springs to mind when I read the newspapers today, quoting the latest Government intrusion into our lives, and it is this;

"If you believe everything you read,
better not read"

Our Government can read all right, but I'm damned if they can hear us.

So, my friends, what will you be doing this weekend?
Whatever you do, have a nice one!

That I am at all recovered is a prodigy in such weather: perhaps the gout is frozen, and my pains may return on a thaw.
-Walpole, January 7th, 1777