masch

In one. I saw somewhere the other day that the correlation between wages spent and league position is stronger than the correlation between net transfer expenditure and league position. When you consider our end of year accounts show us giving £20m per year less to our players than the Mancs and 50m-60m less than Chelsea it's pretty obvious how limited our financial power is compared to those two. It's interesting to see how much Arsenal pay their players too - Arsene's 'net' spend is not so healthy when you factor in how much they've been paying their players. Henry had a £5m resigning fee just to play in his last season. In this day and age, the cost of keeping a player at a club for a reasonable amount of time is nearly always the same as buying that player in a transfer - so it makes sense to consider both outlays.

Not wishing to take the shine from my incredible achievement there wasn't really that much skill involved. The Wispa's were all appropriately seated in the slidey thing before a selection was made and at the time there was no intention to break the system. Get more satisfaction from knocking a packet of Walkers out with a well aimed flapjack.

I once had a 7-er of Wispa's in one of the newer electronic ones, no lie. Pressed the button, machine beeped and said make another selection, but the Wispa row started turning (I assume because it thought it was empty and was resetting itself) and out fell 7 of them one after the other. Only reason I didn't get more was because 7 was all that was in there. Got the change back too.

He's class and the only reason he's not played more regularly is because Mr Ferguson has to play Berbatov to justify the £30m outlay.

I reckon right now it's about proving you're less of a risk than the other candidates. Hence why graduates are fucked right now because most have very little relevant experience. It's going to be about being multi-skilled, speaking a foreign language and aiming for an industry that's recession proof and/or futureproofed in that it's something the government is going to want to keep alive to keep Britain attractive to outsiders.

Call centre unfortunately. It's the shittiest job; you work with mostly idiots and the staff higher up tend to be burned-out middle-aged people bitter about being stuck in a job where they don't even get to look cool wearing a Captain Scarlet headset.

The annoying thing is, you could go through most of those meals and find something 'unhealthy' about them. You can't win; might as well just eat whatever!

The effort he made to stop the cross for Carra's o.g. was awful. Probably why Carra didn't move when the ball came in; 10 out of 10 times Riise would've blocked that.

It was a weird delivery; no indication of the company it came from or was delivered by, nothing on the outside at all and only a small scrap of paper inside with a half-completed address. So lugged this huge box 500m to this house, was wondering whether to suggest the 'can you tell them you didn't get it, then we'll have two, if they don't, oh well you've still got what you paid for' kind of thing. Was kind of expecting her to come back and say thanks, instead she sends her 6 year old to say "thanks bye". Next time, I'm keeping whatever gets sent. (6)

Last xmas came home to find an unmarked box outside me front door, opened it up and found 12 bottles of decent champagne, a few hundred quids worth. There was no address etc on the outside but found the order form, sellotaped to the bottom on the inside, incomplete address and the delivery company had missed it by about 3 streets and just left the box. Went round to the house, knocked on the door, little kid opens it. Put the box in his hallway, told him to go get his mum and tell her there could be a parcel for her, we think it's champagne. Kid runs off, patiently waited outside their front door, then 2 mins later kid comes running back again, says 'thanks' and shuts the door. Fucking wankers!!

Having worked for them in the past all I can say is don't go for it, not even for a quid. Trying to cancel is a nightmare.

I like how he's taking the classic coward approach to confrontations - put your hands around the other guys neck, that way he can't get at you and you look big. Kaka is quality - "you're not a captain, you're a fucking joke"

Do him for assault; get him a criminal record. If you think that a trip can wind him up that much he breaks your rib - next time someone does that and he goes in on someone's standing foot, or hits them in in the head.... Stop the fucker. There's a line between 'acceptable' aggro and going too far, and by the sounds of it he's off his head.

I think you're out to catch a nice seafood dinner but if you're not. If Toyota wanted McLaren to win - why wouldn't they have just pitted for intermediates like everyone else? That way Glock wouldn't have been anywhere near Hamilton.

Last lap times: Sorry no conspiracy. Trulli's sectors are virtually identical and Glock would've lost extra time from getting overtaken.

I half considered having a sabbatical too. Money was so tight over the summer I nearly packed it in for a year but thankfully I got a decent paying job that's fucking good experience and has spilled over into term-time as part-time. The danger is taking time out and losing the knowledge you've built up over the previous couple of years.

Having some experience of working with Setanta it's 60 days written notice to cancel. So the effective min contract is 2 months. When you do cancel send the letter by recorded delivery so it can't 'get lost in the post'. They're a mess so you might get away with cancelling the DD but it's a risk I personally wouldn't take.