Fabian Delph - Signed for Manchester City

[manic-road]

Also the 8 mill buy out clause when he was worth at least 25 mill
Man city get delph we get gestede
Or with 25 mill we could of got a 15 mill striker Austin maybe and a 10 mill goalie or centre half

That would make sense, but we don't operate like that..

[brian green]

Or with a hundred million we could buy half of Wales.

[cheltenhamlion]

Can we have the top? It is more scenic and the ones down South get on my tits.

[brian green]

Stuart, we don't want fucking Rhyl. Especially as for the money we could buy the whole of Stoke, Fenton, Burslem, Hanley and the one I have forgotten.

[Villa in Denmark]

If you throw in Anglesey it might be worth it.  Great motor racing track.

[chrisw1]

£8m and hurt pride or nothing?  hmm tough one...

Time to let it go.

[aj2k77]

Why are the Evening Mail publishing an interview with a Man City player about his hopes for the season with Man City? What the fuck has it got to do with Birmingham?

[brian green]

Plus the most beautiful bridge ever built VID.

[Villa in Denmark]

Plus the most beautiful bridge ever built VID.

Mennai Straits Suspension Bridge or The Britannia Railway Bridge?

Both pretty good.  Mennai Straits is prettier but the Britannia has those 4 lion couchant statues.

I've grown quite fond of the Øresund bridge between Copenhagen and Malmö

[brian green]

The Menai. You posted a picture of that Malmo bridge and got us all at it with some wind up story about to get under it the ships all had to go full gas at it. I told my one remaining student this cock and bull story and her sparkly dangly earrings shook with mirth as she chortled in her cute Bulgarian accent Brian darling you are such a geriatric old prick.

[Villa in Denmark]

The Menai. You posted a picture of that Malmo bridge and got us all at it with some wind up story about to get under it the ships all had to go full gas at it. I told my one remaining student this cock and bull story and her sparkly dangly earrings shook with mirth as she chortled in her cute Bulgarian accent Brian darling you are such a geriatric old prick.

That was the Storebælts Bridge.

I'll find the articles but you'll have to rely on google translate.

EDIT: Found it.  I might have got the heights wrong in the original, I think I said 90 metres from memory, when in fact it's 70 metres from the underside of the road deck to the water.

Apologies for sullying your computers with the Danish equivalent of The S¤n - BT

Endnu et kæmpe krydstogtskib smyger sig under Storebæltsbroen, men kun efter at skorstenen er sænket ned. Passagen sker sent lørdag eftermiddag.
Yet another gigantic cruise ship sneaks under Storebælts bridge, but only after the funnel had been lowered.  The passage occured late Saturday afternoon

For et år siden sejlede verdens på det tidspunkt største krydstogtskib Oasis of the Seas under Storebæltsbroen. Og det var en kneben affære.

Skibet var nemlig 72 meter højt og da der 'kun' er 65 meter fra havoverfladen til undersiden af broen, burde det faktisk slet ikke kunne lade sig gøre.

Problemet blev løst ved at skibet for første, eneste og ekstremt dyre gang sænkede skorstenene, hvilket reducerede dets højde til 64 meter og 99 centimeter.

Men en centimeter at give af er ikke helt nok, så derudover passerede skibet under broen i lavvande og ved fuld kraft, således, at det ligger så dybt i vandet som muligt, og dermed skaber et hul mellem skib og bro på godt en meter.

Og nu skal succesen så - forhåbentlig - gentages, når søsterskibet til 'Oasis of the Seas'´, 'Allure of the Sea' skal under broen i morgen lørdag.

Allure of the Sea er 362 meter langt og har plads til 6.296
passagerer og en besætning på knapt 2.400.

Det indeholder bl.a. 17
barer, mere end 20 restauranter, to klatrevægge, et stort udendørs
amphiteater, en shoppinggade i to etager og en udendørs park længere end
en fodboldbane.

Krydstogtskibet er 49 cm længere end søsterskibet og er
dermed verdens største.Begge skibe er bygget på et rederi i den finske by Turku og tilhører rederiet Royal Carribean. De har hjemhavn i Florida.

Krydstogtsskibet passerer efter planen under Storebæltsbroen klokken
17.30, men der kan sagtens ske forsinkelser undervejs fra Finland.

Translation

Yet another gigantic cruise ship sneaks under Storebælts bridge, but only after the funnel had been lowered.  The passage occured late Saturday afternoon

One year ago the, at that time, worlds largest cruise ship, Oasis of the Seas sailed under Storebælts bridge
The ship is actually 72 metres high and as there is “only” 65 metres from the sea surface to the underside of the bridge, it actually ought to be impossible to do this.
The problem was solved by, the first, only and extremely expensive time lowering the funnels, which reduced it’s height to 64 metres and 99 centimetres.
But 1 centimetre of leeway is not quite enough, so over and above this the ship passed under the bridge at low tide and with full power, so that it lay as low in the water as possible and in that way created a gap between the ship and the bridge by around 1 metre.
And now the success shall- hopefully - be repeated, when the sister ship to “Oasis of the Seas”, “Allure of the Sea” passes under the bridge tomorrow, Saturday.
Allure of the Sea is 362 metres long and has accommodation for 6,296 passengers and a crew of 2,400
It houses amongst other things, 17 bars, over 20 restaurants, 2 climbing walls, a large outdoor amphitheatre, a shopping mall on 2 floors and an outdoors park longer than a football pitch.
The cruise ship is 49 centimetres longer than her sister ship and as such the world’s largest.  Both ships are built by a shipyard in the Finnish town of Turku and are owned by the cruise company Royal Carribean. They will have their home port in Florida
According to the plan, the cruise ship will pass under Storebælts Bridge at 17:30, but there may well be delays on the way from Finland,

[tomd2103]

The Menai. You posted a picture of that Malmo bridge and got us all at it with some wind up story about to get under it the ships all had to go full gas at it. I told my one remaining student this cock and bull story and her sparkly dangly earrings shook with mirth as she chortled in her cute Bulgarian accent Brian darling you are such a geriatric old prick.

Thomas Telford is one of my favourite people in history.  I don't know why he never gets mentioned in lists of 'great Britons', as the man was a genius.

[brian green]

As if. Yeah, hey skipper we ain't gonna get under the bridge. Shut up. Go faster.

[brian green]

Telford makes Leonardo da Vinci look like Freddie Barratt (or his son in law, Uncle Sol).

[Villa in Denmark]

As if. Yeah, hey skipper we ain't gonna get under the bridge. Shut up. Go faster.

Found a link on CNN as well