Bill Lees

Yes, Richard should be taken out and shot for that alone.

There's a new Britney Spears Xmas single out too that I nearly caught myself liking when I heard it on the radio the other day. Cannae remember what it's called, mind.

What's wrong with it ? Well for one thing it gets played to f**king death - it's bloody everywhere. For another , just imagine it - Christmas every feckin day. As I say, a nightmare. Slade suffers from the same ubiquity but I will concede that it's sort of okay just because I've a soft spot for Slade.

Little known fact : Val Doonican is actually a transexual. He was formerly, well, "Val"(erie) Doonican and was an early beneficiary of then pioneering gender re-assignment surgical techniques at the age of 27. He hasn't let his past as a woman prevent him from having a successful career as an international singing star.

5. Jona Lewie - Stop the Cavalry. "rum-tum-tiddle-tum, Rrrrum-tum-tiddle-tum " - 4. Paul McCartney - "Simply having a Wonderful Christmas Time....." AAAARRRGGHH! 3. Wizzard - "I wish it could be Christmas Every Day" - what a feckin nightmare. 2. Shakin Stevens - I forget the title but it's feckin bowfin'. 1. Cliff Richard. Any feckin Cliff Richard record. The man is Satan incarnate.

Reminds me of the Billy the Fish strip, where voices in the crowd would come out with football cliche commentary type remarks like "Wilkins has got the ball ! He's going to shoot from all of thirty yards ! "

1. "Haw ...................*, come oan up here and have a feckin' look at yersel !" 2. "Away and throw shiite at yersel' !!!" (orig. reported by Reidy) 3. "Jist play fitba', Saints - jist play fitba' !" 4. "Haw Starky - geez wan o' yer mazy runs !!!!" 5. "CUUUUUUUNNNTTTT !!! " (I think this boy was getting frustrated). * insert name of Saints player of your choice

How about "The top five things to model from your own ear wax" ?

I agree with TL - replacing Top Fives with a "Rivals" board is a pish idea - the rival fans just go where they like on the board anyway - none of them has posted in here. If you could guarantee that Wingy and the rest of the half-wits would only ever post in here, then great - I'd just never look at this section, but otherwise, it's a lousy idea. And I'm annoyed at the Top Fives section just disappearing too. Can we get it back or has it vanished forever into thin air ?

No, Karin, of course not. That's just my general impression from checking both sites almost every day - this site certainly outdoes the official forum in terms of volume of postings, and there's therefore more to read. Perhaps the official forum gets more hits ? Not that I give a monkey's mind ........ ;)

It's true, I now use this board far more than the old SOL Gb, although it's still on the go. The Dead Coat twat just about killed the GB off and now this place gets far more traffic than the Gb - and also, incidentally, than the Fishel site forum, which is partly why I also prefer it to that site too. The only thing that bugs me about this thing still is the number of aliases.