THE BRITISH THREAD II

United looked exhausted to me.

Pig-sick, you mean. And bad losers- the team, and the fans.

Scholes is a dirty little git. Nani is a play-actor. Vidic is a thug. Ferdinand has an inflated sense of his own importance. Fergie is a twat.

I could go on. I may even do so, later. Meanwhile, let joy be unconfined.

I think Ferdinand should be cited by the FA and investigated for attacking Mancini and David Platt after the end of the match.
If Rooney swearing at a camera was worth a two-match ban, that should be good for three or four.

Hey, did anyone see Eastenders tonight? Bloody hell. Not a dry eye in the house, I'd bet.

But what about a Greenie government preaching about naughty carbon emissions and fixing that the four north-west semi-finalists play the two matches and the final at Wembley and around 150,000 north-west fans having to do a 400 mile round trip to support their teams and there are four or five grounds capable of staging all three matches in the NW.

The excuse given is that Wembley needs the income to pay off its debts which were incurred at London wage and salary rates.

And during this mass carbon emissions fest junctions 1 to 4 on the M1 are closed because the London planning authorities gave permission for a scrap metal yard to be under the flyover. Everybody knows how difficult planning permission is for a scrap yard.

I knew a bloke who applied for £400 a week housing benefit in London and it was a case of "just sign here please". In the NW at the time applicants were given the third degree to get £70 a week.

The lottery is a money pump. Are there statistics on ticket sales and payouts calculated by region? I'd like to see those.

Rome was like that.

Now there's a Royal Wedding to "unite the nation".

I miss our Smorgs. She had talent, to supply the mot juste, to get the men excited, to display the breadth of her vision, to conceal the breadth of her arse.
The feminine touch which she so ably displayed is sadly lacking.
I often wonder how things are at the coal face.

VOTE YES!

You vote YES Mac. Get on the losing side. Again.

Mrs Thatcher neve had more than about 37% of the total vote. And look at the damage she did.
Cameron and Osborne are likewise wreaking havoc with our society, for all its many and obvious faults, and they could not even command a majority.
Something wrong somewhere.

Perhaps but voters will have learned the lesson that they should not meddle with sweet talking third parties which neither represent the workers nor the capitaliists. Brown should never have agreed to TV debates. Amd neither should Cameron. Never give a chump an even break Mr Fields insisted. They did and got Cleggover. I don't think they will do it again.

At least Labour had the dignity to not seriously negotiate a coalition agreement with Grauniads. I'm not convinced Brown would be gung-ho in Libya.

Your generally effete position Mac is clearly visible by your failure, as a resident of the North west, to respond to my post No. 4,578,195 above.

That required a reply? Okay then, I agree. The semi-final should have been played in the North-West, if carbon footprint is a criterion. (And common-sense).
However since the FA need to generate more money from Wembley, and the venue for this fixture was agreed before the protagonists were known, it was unlikely to be changed.

I know a guy from Bolton, who runs my favourite curry shop, and he was extremely displeased when 15 of them went down, only to lose by five to Stoke.

Have you ever seen a crowd melt away as fast as the ManU supporters did after losing to City? Boy, these guys can shift.

This is a stereotype long past its time.

What about the monstrous regiment of the unattached? The workshy? The unemployable? The unfit through obesity or drug and alcohol addiction?
The broad spectrum of British society today does not fit easily with your polarised labelling. Who will speak for them?

You. Not me. Up the northern workers is my motto.

Fair enough, if you want to sound like a Goon Show script.

Did you see Haig on Andrew Marr yesterday? These guys can spin like nobody's business. Crisis, what crisis?

Ask Wenger. Or Mancini (in 100 minutes)

This is a big week for the Germans.

Shalke '04 play ManU, and then your royal family have a big function in London later.

Good luck.

It is a traditional procedure Mac to import kings from outside. The idea being that the rival clans in a tribe cannot agree on a leader from their own ranks. Once a king is imported he then belongs to those who bought him.

This is our Royal Family and we are all getting a day off on Friday which is something republicans won't be getting.

CBS News will be here in force. Do you think Americans might have a deep and barely articulated ativistic yearning for a Monarch?

It certainly seems that way.

In fact, they are articulating like mad, the ones I've seen.

I read today that we acquired our colonies in a fit of absent mindedness and let them drift off in a similar fashion. Imagine if we still had them. Cripes!! It doesn't bear thinking about.

The USA has been doing okay without us, but lately has been slipping a bit.
India could be a bit of a problem too.

Congratulations to the match referee tonight, who coped well with some robust play and let the match flow.
Very one-sided really, and although it pains me to say so, ManU were magnificent.