Teflon Don

"Come on Alan, what's the matter with you? Cone you take a joke?" "Oh, fuck off"

That's another one for me - I'll replace him with soft rock (former) cocaine enthusiast Elton John.

Segues nicely into:

How can this be? I thought Manchester was all squeaky-clean, gentrified and crime-free these days?

I'm sure I read somewhere a while back that the pitch is currently too small (or doesn't meet UEFA requirements in some other way), but might be getting 'fixed' following the completion of the Main Stand works.

Ifithadnabinfathacouncil Because there isn't one. (Regardless of that, why would it be the sole responsibility of the council to find it anyway?)

If by "the 80s", you mean "Liverpool", then yes.

Most likely the fitness-prone Wilshere in all probability.

Who said standards in policing were deteriorating?

Only just seen this about the demise of Comedy Vehicle:

I've just had a search for one of the original threads when the current waiting list was set up and found my posts: The good news is, as with a few others on this thread, I'm now up to 1,498 and so have been granted the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hand over the best part of a month's pay a week on Tuesday. The (relative) glamour of the refurbished Main Stand awaits....

Like in 2006, I doubt he'll be able to storm the castle this evening.

James Hunt would be able to organise the NHS better, despite the obvious inconvenience of having been dead for over 20 years.

Yeah, these are a terrible pair of trousers:

Him and Mrs Jones don't have a thing going on any longer:

The Grim Reaper's reap gets ever more grim in 2016:

O'Sullivan won 10-7, but seemingly wasn't happy about it (again):

Here's a link to the preview from Snookerbacker, who goes for Robertson to win and a very speculative each-way tip for Carter: http://www.snookerbacker.com/2016/04/14/the-world-snooker-championship-preview/.