...quite right pal.... I am down in that London and its like the wild west down here- bit like Church street on a Saturday night but with guns!! This is my first post on here so hope it goes well- my good pal mark introduced me to pools over 20 yrs ago, and although I have seen matches at the Nou Camp, Wembley, Munich Olympske Stadion, Parken Copenhagen, Old Trafford, The Emirates, etc etc.... nothing beats the Victoria ground on a freezing cold Tuesday night in February.... Heaven!! Tho my Cypriot roots mean that I cant take the cold as well as my monkey appreciating poolie chums... never mind, a cup of hot bovril does the trick... By the way, mark, get well soon.... I hear you are a bit poorly in that Artlepool.... watching Pools should cheer you up!? Then again, maybe not, they are as predictable as a mad bewer in a shoe sale.... thats why we love them, their predictable unpredictableness....

I know you read your beloved Poolie Bunker, so hope this cheers you up!!! So in answer to "Whats this country coming to???".... well whatever it is, at least one thing remains constant in this ever changing World of unpredictability... whatever happens, Pools will be Pools, and having watched them for over 20 years now... the frustration, anger, "joy", disbelief I have felt, prove to me this is a relationship like NO OTHER. . I cant divorce this one!! ;-) ha ha