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AS we travelled back to the station our taxi driver, a Liverpool fan, said that he had just picked up some Everton fans who had said how bad it was to be beaten by a 'Championship side'. One of the lads said that we are in league one and not the Championship. The other said that we played like a Championship side. That is a compliment!!!

What's the going rate these days? {edited due to poor use of punctuation}

And you're looking after your small children this evening?

Yeah - Eat THIS grammar fans.... An apostrophe is used to indicate possession. For most singular nouns, the ending 's is added; e.g., the cat's whiskers. When the noun is a normal plural with an added s, no extra s is added in the possessive, so pens' lids (where there is more than one pen) is correct rather than pens's lids. If the plural is not one that is formed by adding s, add an s for the possessive, after the apostrophe: children's hats, women's hairdresser, some people's eyes (but compare some peoples' recent emergence into nationhood, where peoples is meant as the plural of the singular people). These principles are universally accepted. If a singular noun ends with an /s/ or a /z/ sound (spelled with -s, -se, -z, -ce, for example), practice varies as to whether to add 's or the apostrophe alone. (For discussion on this and the following points, see below.) In general, a good practice is to follow whichever spoken form is judged best: the boss's shoes, Mrs Jones' hat (or Mrs Jones's hat, if that spoken form is preferred). In many cases, both spoken and written forms differ between writers. Compound nouns have their singular possessives formed with an apostrophe and an added s, in accordance with the rules given above: the Attorney-General's husband; the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports' prerogative; this Minister for Justice's intervention; her father-in-law's new wife. In those examples, the plurals are formed with an s that does not occur at the end: e.g., Attorneys-General. An interesting problem therefore arises with the possessive plurals of these compounds. Sources that rule on the matter appear to favour the following forms, in which there is both an s added to form the plural, and a separate s added for the possessive: the Attorneys-General's husbands; successive Ministers for Justice's interventions; their fathers-in-law's new wives.[2] Because these constructions stretch the resources of punctuation beyond comfort, in practice they are normally reworded: interventions by successive Ministers for Justice.[3] The apostrophe at its worstAn apostrophe is used in time and money references in constructions such as one hour's respite, two weeks' holiday, a dollar's worth, five pounds' worth. Although it may not be immediately obvious, this is an ordinary possessive use. For example, one hour's respite means a respite of one hour (exactly as the cat's whiskers means the whiskers of the cat). No apostrophe is used in the following possessive pronouns and adjectives: yours, his, hers, ours, its, theirs, and whose. (Many people wrongly use it's for the possessive of it, but authorities are unanimous that it's can only be a contraction of it is or it has.) All other possessive pronouns ending in s do take an apostrophe: one's; everyone's; somebody's, nobody else's, etc. With plural forms, the apostrophe follows the s, as with nouns: the others' husbands (but compare They all looked at each other's husbands, in which both each and other are singular). To illustrate that possessive apostrophes matter, and that their usage affects the meaning of written English, consider these four phrases (listed in Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct), each of which has a meaning distinct from the others: my sister's friend's investments (the investments belonging to a friend of my sister) my sister's friends' investments (the investments belonging to several friends of my sister) my sisters' friend's investments (the investments belonging to a friend of several of my sisters) my sisters' friends' investments (the investments belonging to several friends of several of my sisters) Kingsley Amis, on being challenged to produce a sentence whose meaning depended on a possessive apostrophe, came up with: "Those things over there are my husbands." (I'm married to those men over there.) "Those things over there are my husband's." (Those things over there belong to my husband.) Have some of that....

Thats bollock's

The bloke next to me did. But we were pleased, as he really was a drunken tool. Never seen him before.

In any case, if he was as disruptive as we have been led to believe, shouldn't we have a team full of guys that will be making sure he has a stinker?

That's cropped up somewhere else on some thread or other. With the planning decision taken, the mask slipped for a few moments there. Not to mention a 'v' sign that was spotted as the villanous wardens made their escape. [editing for crap spelling]

And to think I was going to let it go......

I'm going to print this one out. Splendid stuff.

Expecting 6,000 for the weigh in. 10:00 on SSN.

Alright, maybe a hat or false sideburns instead - thus indicating where you're supposed to sit.

I swear you two don't talk this much at the game........too busy singing, I'd imagine. Apart from any new grounds, most of the regular away fans will know the place well enough to pre-arrange where they will sit. Now if you had some kind of "OWTB Singing Club" T-Shirt....

I really wonder why these people turn up. Three hundred quid a year or twenty quid a week to sit and moan about how bad the players are, the pies are cold, ground is a dump, manager doesn't have a clue etc. Attendance is not compulsory. Why not get behind the team (thus spurring them on to better things) and leave the attitude at home? And while I'm on, woman that sits three row behind Mr Latics&England - didn't see you at the march, did we? Saw you in the pub after though, taking advantage of it being empty and tanking the WKD.

It's the 87th most viewed UK sports clip of the day. Fame at last.

Oi!

Could only find the one "hoof" clip. Latics World doesn't have that on the video search. Feel free to send'em in though

You thought it was a joke. But move over Danny Baker - here's this year's top selling footy DVD! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2flOK35em8I

Some "wins" would be nice.....

Out of touch.

Done.

Would certainly bring the punters in (and no doubt cause delays of circa 50 minutes when leaving the ground)

Two poor teams. Again.

You know, I'm actually looking forward to this - inspite of what's gone on in the last day or so. Everyone coming together and all that. Remember handing the SAFE day flyers out in the Spindles? Bit like that I suppose.