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Just for fun, to panic the residents, can we call it The Toxteth Outspill Arena?

Since you mentioned yachting, is it still time for a change of tack?

Oldham: the new Monaco. With a clever system of canals and locks, they could even have special moorings under the new Boundary Park for the really special boat folk.

Too radical. They'll never go for it.

I don't know the names yet, but 10-1 means that there are a few little turncoats on the council planning committee. If they won't be persuaded by (ahem!) normal means, all you need to do is organise a march and send a few emails, and those dogs will roll over for you to tickle their tummy. What a bunch of lightweights! What else would they agree to? (What won't they agree to?) How's about a racecourse and a theme park and a space centre? Anyone got any other ideas? Let's not stop now, just when they'd do anything to please.

Were they booing Hughes? Were they booing they're own team? Who knows? Who cares? Someone got their first and second senior goals for the blues, and someone got nothing. They can boo all they want at whoever they like.

Actually, they're a Californian hair metal combo. Whatever this lad does, he won't lacquer effort.

Any relation to Don Dokken? Anything to do with Dokken at all, unlike

You're right, he isn't. He spent a whole season picking it out of Charlton's net.

Putting together a dossier to send to the very same place. Does anyone have a copy of the leaflet that Bash sponsored?

More genius from the football association, that pitch and the lack of a proper roof, and the fact that they built a national stadium at truly gargantuan expense after several years of successfully playing matches at established grounds around the country. As for "McLaren" and "Lampard" and "Gerrard" and "Robinson" (and now "Carson") and "Cashley" and "Terry" and "Owen" and all the other pampered fairies, good bloody riddance. PS How come Carson (before tonight) had such a good reputation when all he'd done is conceded goals for Charlton?

I don't believe that Bashforth and Co. need to be given room for anything. I personally would like to see them walk away from their duties and prompt by-elections; as a matter of fact, no humiliation suffered by Bashforth and co. would be enough for me. Allow them room to save face? No thanks. Let's get them out. During this fiasco, which gets dirtier the deeper you dig, the Bashforth Seven have proved themselves to be singularly unfit for public office. Their removal and humiliation will alone satisfy me.

I looked at the map of Royton South and saw that it includes Carlton Way and environs, by which I mean Mayfair Drive, Dorchester Drive, Berkeley Drive. How can so many streets so close together be named after down-market brands of cigarettes?

The police have got a bloody cheek asking marchers to distribute money when they reach BP. I thought our police had integrity and honour, but it turns out that they're just like the Gendarmerie and the bloody Carabinieri.

Favourite photo? The civic centre with the pawn broker's lombard spheres in the foreground. How ironic.

Woolas is absolutely right about this issue. The land will be developed whether or not the club survives, so by complaining the residents are cutting their own throats as well as the club's. The land around BP is used once every fortnight, say, and is therefore a dead asset. The population is going up and people need housing in the borough if they are going to stay there, and they need leisure facilities too. Making money off property to fund the club (or even to make a profit) is clearly and obviously the right thing to do. The Chron was spineless for not pointing out these salient facts, and the residents can just suck it up and stop their whining. I actually still can't believe what happened.

Mau mau, let's keep this civil.

Frankly, I'd rather see a tower block than a bungalow. Soooo 70s. I've a funny feeling that this will turn round. Not soon, but I reckon it will...

Pint of Kronenburg for him in the pump at the Press Bar for when he gets back. No word from Meacher though? I don't suppose he's much concerned with the whole thing because it doesn't involve the Cotswolds, tennis courts, champagne, property development (not the kind that Michael's into) or Michael Meacher.

So you say, love. What would constitute evidence? People don't go to a place and say "We could do with a hotel here," YOU SILLY MOO. What happens is, a businessman, or businessmen, decide that they might be able to make a bit of money to help with, say, the upgrading of a football stadium, by building a hotel. They then market that facility in the hope that people stay there. Ditto the houses. It's not about what other people decide is necessary, it's about what's possible. Not only is this woman a tireless campaigner for the small-minded :censored:s-for-brains, she is an aesthete and architecture critic to boot. Don't worry, love, you'll find something else to moan about soon enough. I bet that she'd never even spoken to her bloody neighbours before these plans were publicised. Also, if you don't like living next to something, you can always move to the outback.

I love the council's fears of a "loss of open space". That's all Oldham's going to be in few years; open, derelict space.

If Russia beat Israel, which they will, I think we should give 11 fans a game. I think we should send out a Women's Institute XI. We may as well sound out the bloody cricket team.

Well done for going, but the writing was on the wall for this qualification campaign from the get go.

We have a winner...