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Five year medical stidies into the harm done by all drugs. Alcohol and tobacco don't come out well. The should be Class B certified by my reckoning if you believe in prohibition which I don't.

Terribly sorry to hear all Benni's sad news. Sincere condolences.

After Duffer fell over his own feet and appealed for a penalty: "Strange player, Damien Duff. Fantastic at Blackburn, but he just doesn't seem the same player, I'm not sure why. He was a bit like Ryan Giggs at Blackburn, but he's lost that change of speed." BBC Radio 5 Live pundit Chris Waddle

Tim Sherwood has joined Spurs as a coach. I wonder who will be the Rovers ex-player on the half time chat now and whether we will get more of a cheer?

Great to see the Boot Inn still going strong! Top Ten curry houses in the UK according to the Times

1) They bought him 2) What little bit I have seen of him indicates he is too slow to hack it in the Premier League

Dave, you can easily pay double those prices in London or New York. Glad to hear by inference that Sydney remains highly affordable- certainly one of the best eating cities I have ever been to.

Rovers' catering partners get praised.

eh?

The arguments for de-criminalising drugs gains ground continually. 160 million people use cannabis. Where are we going to build a prison to house that lot? The failed state/terrorist funding argument is actually one of the strongest for ending prohibition. If the allied forces were able to take control of the legitimate poppy production in Afghanistan you'd rip away the funding and attraction of the war lordism which is allowing the Taliban to flourish. Ditto in Colombia where that beautiful country and its wonderful people are cursed by the ideal conditions for growing the wrong plants.

Guardian top ten budget restaurants in Manchester- some names not previously mentioned on here

Cabinet Office Strategy Unit Report on failing drugs policy

BBC blog explains how the drugs anti-prohibition argument is rapidly gaining ground

Paul sorry for being a bit curt with your previous post. I was utterly frustrated with the media in that they totally failed to make anything of RSC's "happy" interview when the Club Shop opened then totally ignored John Williams saying to the BBC that no offers had been received for either RSC since the City bid and none at all for Benni. I have no reason to believe that JW lied to Radio Lancashire. Nor have I any reason to believe that Roy Keane cannot see what we can see. Despite a month of pre-season training, McCarthy is still visibly overweight and unfit and will probably remain so for at least the next two months. I know we all assume other Managers are daft but I guess a disciplinarian like Keane would need less than 2 minutes watching Benni Mac as he is now to pull out of offering £9m.

Obviously John Williams lied to BBC Radio Lancashire then.

Jack Walker - 8 years

That is mind blowing. I can only think of two explanations: - he has been reduced to talking simple gibberish at Twente because he has no language skills and some Twente players don't speak English and he forgot to switch mode for the interview, and - he is still in little schoolboy awe mode of big clubs and big players. Can you imagine what it must have been like interviewing this bloke? John Williams probably had to excuse himself to go outside so he could fall about laughing. Yes we could have done worse than appoint Paul Ince.

A distinct improvement on all the "songs" posted on here at the start of the thread!

Brilliant, that had me laughing!

Well after 'Arry's South Coast shuffle, anything is possible in terms of managers going back where they are loved.

Remember City have already tested the Premier League and FA's patience once on a transfer over the Benjani farce during the January transfer window in February. If Corluka doesn't turn up at Spurs, they could get a transfer ban if they are not careful never mind a Court case.

Guardian interview with Mark Hughes. Although half of it is an interview with Tim Sherwood about Mark Hughes. A lot of it has the feel of Hughes doing through the motions to say the right things. In the Telegraph, Sparky finds some wonderful euphemisms for saying "I have walked into a disorganised shambles." I wonder who will be the journalist brave enough to ask him how he is going to spend the rest of the £60m transfer fund? Or for that matter why he decided to seek buyers for Corluka, Ireland and Johnson and who will be the next to get the push?

Apparently some were booing Fowler as he came on as well. Good job Ewood was less than 10% full and at least Rovers get a chance of starting the season away from home. Hate to think what it will be like if Hull fluke an early one in two weeks' time.

Times reporting that un-clonable e-passports are being copied successfully. So much for my having to submit 4 photos until they finally accepted one that really doesn't look like me.

Interesting blog in the Times.