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Do you suppose Stevie said that when Luis went to sympathise with him after the game?
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Do you suppose Stevie said that when Luis went to sympathise with him after the game?
We could ask you the exact same thing, except that "WC" would have a rather different meaning in that case.
Actually to cheer me up I watched Wales' national sport with a re-run of last weekend's entertaining South Africa 38 Wales 12 and I think I will watch the 2nd test today to continue the positive vibe thing (I'm ignoring the All Blacks - that was a given and at least we ran them close in two tests and were only obliterated in one) 😉
Technically speaking yes, but if certain managers hadn't decided to play their under 5's against my main relegation rival, it would have never of happened.
Is this the same Ian Austin?
MPs' expenses: Ian Austin tried to split the stamp duty on sunsets in Waterloo
A Labour whip split a claim for stamp duty on buying his second home in London into two payments and tried to claim it back over two financial years.
Ian Austin
By Holly Watt
8:00AM BST 19 May 2009
Ian Austin completed the purchase of the Waterloo flat on March 31 2006 but submitted claims for the stamp duty in two separate amounts: £6,770 on March 28 and £1,344 on April 3.
This allowed him to claim the majority of the money under his second home allowance for the financial year 2005-06. In total, he received £21,559 — £75 below the limit — that year.
His claim for the remaining £1,344 was turned down by the parliamentary fees office.
However, the Dudley North MP was allowed to claim the legal costs associated with the move in his 2006-07 expenses. In that financial year, he went on to claim £22,076 — £34 short of the maximum.
Mr Austin also “flipped” his second home designation weeks before buying the £270,000 flat across the Thames from Westminster.
The assistant whip is one of Gordon Brown’s closest allies and worked for him as an adviser in the Treasury before he was made an MP in 2005.
When Mr Brown became Prime Minister in 2007, Mr Austin was appointed as his parliamentary aide before being moved to the role of Minister for the West Midlands last year. He was closely connected to Damian McBride, the adviser who left Downing Street last month after he sent emails suggesting possible smears for top Conservatives.
Among Mr Austin’s other claims was £467 for a stereo in his constituency shortly before he changed his second home designation to London. He then spent more than £2,800 furnishing the new flat, claiming £1,199 for a DVD player and television, although this was reduced to £1,000.
In the 2006-07 financial year, he claimed a further £1,298 for a sofa and armchair from Marks and Spencer, although the receipt was dated March 21 2006 – during the financial year that had already finished. The next year, he claimed £154 for electrical goods and £171 for bedding, plus a further £700 for a bed and bedside table and £199 for a vacuum cleaner.
Mr Austin said that an error in adding up the costs of his move had led to his claim for stamp duty being turned down. “The fees office advised us to split the costs associated with the purchase of my London accommodation over the two financial years,” he said.
“There was a straightforward error when adding up the costs. The fees office pointed this out, I apologised for adding it up wrongly and the correct amount was claimed. No payment was made or received as a result of this simple error.”
He added that he had claimed for the sofa and armchair “in line with advice from the fees office”.
Ian Austin
Job: assistant whip
Salary: £89,522
Total second home claims
2004-05: N/A
2005-06: £21,559
2006-07: £22,076
2007-08: £21,925
The fact that he's a whip emphasises his cnutishness. The whips are the disciplinarians of a parliamentary party, there to ensure that the rank and file toe the party line, the kind of people who'll do or say anything which they think will advance their prospects. This twerp obv.thinks the Suarez witchhunt is still on so he'd better jump aboard. Pr!ck.
Ahhhhhh that brings back good memories mate! Back then I was at my posting peak and seem to recall winning the prestigious race to be the first poster on SCM to reach the 100 likes mark. Unfortunately jealousy set in amongst the masses and has some what hampered my progress since then.
Argentina legend Diego Maradona, who led his country to World Cup triumph as a player back in 1986, has now blamed the Liverpool star, claiming that he was at fault for both the goals.
‘Gerrard and the English defence must take the blame for both Uruguay goals’, the 53-year-old wrote in The Times of India. ‘When [Nicolas] Lodeiro started his run before the first, Gerrard could have done better... It was Gerrard again who made a mess of a long shot from the Uruguayan goalkeeper after England had equalised’.
‘Gerrard and the English defence must take the blame for both Uruguay goals’, the 53-year-old wrote in The Times of India. ‘When [Nicolas] Lodeiro started his run before the first, Gerrard could have done better... It was Gerrard again who made a mess of a long shot from the Uruguayan goalkeeper after England had equalised’.
Hope you watched the 2nd Test .... great game ! However Wales threw it away, 13 points up with 8 mins left and still lost 31-30.
Him going out now must be better for the club, both in terms of rest & controlling speculation building & people tapping him up whilst he's away, but for him I'd like him to do well.
It would be nice if I could just wish he did well in the knowledge he definitely wouldn't go.
I want Uruguay to win it now. I want Suarez back in red as a World Cup winner come August.
I did mate.
I think we are just saving up all of our victories against South Hemp sides for the quarters, semis and the final of the world cup.
Sakho will lift the World Cup. As Vice Captain.
And so the campaigning begins. Almost feels like he's dying to say that those players would've wanted to play for him if he were England manager, and that England failed to qualify because he wasn't in charge.
http://www.theguardian.com/football...uestions-young-england-players-world-cup-2014
Harry Redknapp: Some Tottenham players tried to avoid England duty
• QPR manager claims apathy from former players
• ‘At Spurs two or three did not want to play for England’
Press Association
theguardian.com, Sunday 22 June 2014 10.59 BST
Harry Redknapp has questioned the commitment of young English players to the national team cause, claiming there were certain individuals during his time at Tottenham who tried to find ways of skipping international duty.
The QPR manager described the Italy and Uruguay teams who had knocked England out of the World Cup as “average” and claimed England had more talent at their disposal than any other team in group D. England will fly home after playing Costa Rica in their final group game on Tuesday.
Redknapp – once a strong contender for the England job only to see Roy Hodgson picked ahead of him – said he had been unimpressed by their opponents and could not understand how England had failed to deliver. He highlighted his experiences of managing England players while at Tottenham and recalled how some were very reluctant to represent their country.
“I still think we go to tournaments, whether it be under-17s, under-19s, under-21s, there are too many pull-outs, it seems to be everyone has got an excuse, and I can tell you when I was at Tottenham, when full internationals came around, there were two or three players who did not want to play for England,” he told BBC Radio 5.
“They would come to me 10 days before the game and say: ‘Gaffer, get me out of that game, I don’t want to play in that game.’ That was how it was. I’d say: ‘You’re playing for your country, you should want to play.’
“[They would say]: ‘Nah, my girlfriend is having a baby in four weeks, I don’t want to play’ and that is the truth, so it makes you wonder. And I think it’s only going to get worse. You see the stick the England players get and they come home, they’re earning fantastic money at their clubs, they’re all playing in the Champions League. They think: ‘Do we need the aggro?”’
Matt Le Tissier, who won only eight England caps in his career, said Redknapp’s claim “sticks a knife through your heart”.
But Redknapp, who gave his backing to Hodgson, could offer no other explanation for England’s failure to reach the knock-out stages as he described Italy and Uruguay as “average”, with group D “not a difficult group”.
“For Costa Rica to top the group by beating Italy and Uruguay, that tells you all you need to know about the group,” he added. “For me it’s the worst Italy team for years. Uruguay have two world-class strikers but then not too many players you’d fancy in the Premier League, let alone playing for your country …
“We’ve got good players, players who are good week-in, week-out in the Premier League. You look at half the other teams in the tournament and there are loads of players who come to the Premier League and couldn’t get a game ... You know we’ve got better players than them but for some reason with good manager after good manager, we just don’t get results.”
Asked about Football Association chairman Greg Dyke’s target of winning the 2022 World Cup, Redknapp was dismissive. “Good luck,” he said. “Are we kidding? How are we going to go to Doha and win a World Cup in heat we’ll struggle just to run around in? Not a prayer.”
http://www.theguardian.com/football...uestions-young-england-players-world-cup-2014
Harry Redknapp: Some Tottenham players tried to avoid England duty
• QPR manager claims apathy from former players
• ‘At Spurs two or three did not want to play for England’
Press Association
theguardian.com, Sunday 22 June 2014 10.59 BST
Harry Redknapp has questioned the commitment of young English players to the national team cause, claiming there were certain individuals during his time at Tottenham who tried to find ways of skipping international duty.
The QPR manager described the Italy and Uruguay teams who had knocked England out of the World Cup as “average” and claimed England had more talent at their disposal than any other team in group D. England will fly home after playing Costa Rica in their final group game on Tuesday.
Redknapp – once a strong contender for the England job only to see Roy Hodgson picked ahead of him – said he had been unimpressed by their opponents and could not understand how England had failed to deliver. He highlighted his experiences of managing England players while at Tottenham and recalled how some were very reluctant to represent their country.
“I still think we go to tournaments, whether it be under-17s, under-19s, under-21s, there are too many pull-outs, it seems to be everyone has got an excuse, and I can tell you when I was at Tottenham, when full internationals came around, there were two or three players who did not want to play for England,” he told BBC Radio 5.
“They would come to me 10 days before the game and say: ‘Gaffer, get me out of that game, I don’t want to play in that game.’ That was how it was. I’d say: ‘You’re playing for your country, you should want to play.’
“[They would say]: ‘Nah, my girlfriend is having a baby in four weeks, I don’t want to play’ and that is the truth, so it makes you wonder. And I think it’s only going to get worse. You see the stick the England players get and they come home, they’re earning fantastic money at their clubs, they’re all playing in the Champions League. They think: ‘Do we need the aggro?”’
Matt Le Tissier, who won only eight England caps in his career, said Redknapp’s claim “sticks a knife through your heart”.
But Redknapp, who gave his backing to Hodgson, could offer no other explanation for England’s failure to reach the knock-out stages as he described Italy and Uruguay as “average”, with group D “not a difficult group”.
“For Costa Rica to top the group by beating Italy and Uruguay, that tells you all you need to know about the group,” he added. “For me it’s the worst Italy team for years. Uruguay have two world-class strikers but then not too many players you’d fancy in the Premier League, let alone playing for your country …
“We’ve got good players, players who are good week-in, week-out in the Premier League. You look at half the other teams in the tournament and there are loads of players who come to the Premier League and couldn’t get a game ... You know we’ve got better players than them but for some reason with good manager after good manager, we just don’t get results.”
Asked about Football Association chairman Greg Dyke’s target of winning the 2022 World Cup, Redknapp was dismissive. “Good luck,” he said. “Are we kidding? How are we going to go to Doha and win a World Cup in heat we’ll struggle just to run around in? Not a prayer.”
Hodgson just said to Gabby Logan that it would be selfish of him if he resigned, lol.
That's one of his finest.
That's one of his finest.
For a guy whose supposed dignity tends to be counted as one of his strengths, he seems happy enough to blow it to smithereens by coming out with garbage like that when he's under pressure.
Who could the Spurs players be?
Carrick/Defoe/Crouch/Lennon/King?
Carrick/Defoe/Crouch/Lennon/King?
Carrick didn't play under Redknapp, and King was always broken so I'm unsure how many times he'd have been available for England duty anyway. That would leave Lennon, Bent, Crouch, Defoe, Dawson and Huddlestone. Looking at that list - not much of a loss for England anyway.
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