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Three reasons why we have prisons: 1) Punish the guilty by removing their liberty. 2) Protect society from those who offend. 3) Rehabilitate. If you think about it, 2 and 3 are actually quite closely linked. If people are coming out of prison worse than they go in, brutalised, more violent...

I'll tell you what pisses me off about this kind of bullshit. It's the implication that to be strong on law and order, or patriotic, you need to be on the far right and believe that prison should be caves filled with spiky dildos, lava and giant spiders. It's laughable. You've only got to...

There are some people on here with far too much time on their hands. :)

If the FL don't immediately skip us up two divisions on the back of this, Joy will have them in court by Monday! :)

When it comes to SISU/ACL/CCC etc. I don't think it's possible to be "unnecessarily cynical"! :)

That's an entirely fair comment mate, but then like I say clubs also treat players like meat when it suits them to do so. Remember the stories about Huckerby being in tears when he was sold against his will? It's a remarkably cruel profession, I find it hard to blame players for doing the best...

Or he could have broken his leg or snapped an ACL in pre-season, or simply lost form. If he's that good, and like all pros he'll believe in himself, then he'll get noticed at Reading (e.g. Maddison). It may not suit us as fans, but I don't think you can say that it doesn't suit the player. I...

Exactly this. It's a short, risky career, and as soon as a player isn't performing the fans and club are desperate to get him off the books by any means possible. Who could blame anyone for taking a substantial increase elsewhere if it was on offer, I know that I would! MM has done very well...

I'd say try to be a bit less of an arsehole but it wouldn't matter, 'cos my younger self wouldn't listen to any sodding advice anyway. I've made about a million poor decisions over the course of my life, and a few hundred really bad ones. So be it, they seemed right at the time. I'm still...

Salad? Waiter, excuse me but I think there's been a mistake - you seem to have brought me the food that my food eats. :)

Might just be me, but those most recent phrases from the judge make me think that he feels there is a case to answer here. It's certainly not as open and shut as some seem to think, imho.

Is it really disappointing to the kids though, or is that just a projection of the grown ups? I'll let you do the research, but everything I've read or experienced suggests that most kids don't drop out of sport because they don't win enough. I don't know how many sports days you chaps have...

I'd beg to differ, getting a poor decision in sport and learning how to handle it without a tantrum (or the need for your parents to fix it) is a terrific life lesson. If you think (especially as a child) that you have to win everything to enjoy a sport, then the truth is that you're not...

You're a better man than me Otis. I'd have probably said 'who gives a bollox', and then got told off again for swearing. :) Seriously though, at the risk of sounding like an old codger what I try to tell my kids about sport is that sometimes you win and sometimes you lose, but the important...

Lovely. Also the Sprint was the first ever production car with a 16v 4-cylinder engine. If I had my time again, I'd like to be a dealer in classic cars! :)

As others have said, it's hard to comment on the quality of the journalism now because the CET site itself is just about impossible to navigate. In honesty, I'm not going to boycott it because of some trivial spat they've engineered, I just can't be arsed with it because of all of the hoops...

That was criminal... what an absolute waste of time...

I'm happy to take care of the food and beverage, but for commercial reasons I'm afraid I won't be able to share the income streams. (Also I may secretly sell Otis's house to Wasps when he nips out to the shop.). :)

Where is your evidence then? Where is this massive cover up that only Tommy Robinson, the many-named fraudster and football thug is honest enough to stand up against? Evidence please, or it looks a lot like it's just another example of an opinion or prejudice posing as a fact. You haven't...