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There used to be a very large shop/stall on Barnsley Indoor market which specialised in local historical photographs. It's a couple of years since i've been there though, so I don't know if he's still there. He had a massive Sheffield section, broken down into individual suburbs and villages.

I have a DVD for sale. "Leeds United - The Peter Ridsdale Years" It costs £34.99, and the price includes a £30 donation to the Seth Johnson Retirement Fund.

Surely that should be an arrest, a conviction, and a trip to the sex offenders register? Get the police involved.

Old Trafford was cut to 44000 in '93 post-Hillsbrough when the Stretford End was rebuilt. It was expanded to 51000 just in time for Euro 96. Elland Road would have been horrible. When Spurs played Everton there two years later, the Spurs fans were all put in the new east stand, which in itself held half the entire capacity of the ground. The Spurs fans complained that it felt like an away game cos all they could see were Everton fans on all sides before them. To this day they blame their defeat on it.

Thank's for that Goodies link. Five minutes ago I really liked christmas!

"Ding Dong Merrily On High" . The tra-la-la bit at school used to be seen as some kind of endurance test. You weren't a real lad if you had to take a breath ..!

Just a thought from last night's show. If the producers of the X-Factor want their acts to be taken as potential pop stars, they should stop sending them to movie premieres. This is the place for reality TV stars, not recording artists. When does a real pop star have time (or need) to be seen at a premiere? They are too busy recording/rehearsing/touring/promoting. Doing the Z-List premiere circuit should be beneath them.

We've just come back from Fairbourne in Wales, and our dog dropped one on the beach. I was so adamant that I was going to get it picked up, that I actually scooped up three different ones before I found the right one. It's the easiest thing in the world to do and it is just lazy and selfish not to make the effort, especially so close to people's homes.

First of all, let me offer you my sincerest best wishes. I work for one of the largest companies in the UK. The trade unions in this country do a fantastic job. Their representatives in the whole are well intentioned and well informed. However, the facts are simple. We have a lot of people looking for employment who want to do the best possible for the organisations that they are applying for positions within. The reason why so few of these positions are available is that far too many of these jobs are currently occupied by people who are "playing the system". There is a growing type of employee out there who get their feet under the table with a well paid job, and then will do anything they can to avoid losing it, short of doing the job they actually agreed to do in the first place. These people are stopping thousands of future employees from getting the jobs they deserve, and these are the people who any changes to the law should be aimed at.

Surely in 1950 the country was virtually bankrupt as a result of the war. So if we could offer the welfare state then AND pay for it, it is an appalling comment on the state of our country that we can't do it now.

A fingy is a jobbywatsit. Fact

Socrates was the first great international player I remember. 1982 was the first World Cup I saw, and if you remember, the opening game was not shown in the Uk as it was Argentina, and we'd just finished in the Falklands. The first game shown was Brazil v USSR, and I had been on a school trip to Blackpool Zoo. I got back in the house about 2 mionutes before Socrates' screamer into the top corner, and remember John Motsons scream down the phone line "SOCRATES....." Great memory, great plater. RIP... How cool was that name by the way? Why aren't Brazillians given names like that anymore? I mean, "Hulk?" For crying out loud...