Slow day (again) for real news of any kind about Charlton, so spurred on by acute boredom I read this article; https://www.kentlive.news/sport/foo...ton-athletic-duchatelet-owners-survey-1286061 There is nothing new there, though I broadly agree with most of the comments from other Charlton fans regarding the questions they were asked - until you get to the question Should Karl Robinson stay on as boss under new owners, if so, why? Warning! - Royston DO NOT read that part of the article - you will feel an irresistible urge to throw up. It seems the Cult of Robinson has an almost total grip on the community of Addicks supporters. Either that, or the hack who posted this piece is a mate of his.
@lardiman It was going ok until the Gobbo part - “give Robinson a three year contract extension” - they must stop inhaling... PS- what a sobering thought that is- 3 more years of Robinson bull
To be honest all the Robinson bashing is a bit tired at this stage. He's come in to do a job and he has us just one win from the top six. We weren't at the races when he arrived back in 2016. Is he good enough to take us to the next level and two points per game? That's for the next board to decide not a message board. **Then I read the above, from...............................
I can recommend BBC3 series “Life & Death on Death Row” - a 4 parter that is on iPlayer and is well worth a watch from start to finish. It reaffirmed ones faith in the US judicial process & is a punishment that we sorely need here in the UK.
An utterly absorbing programme; I watched all four episodes in one sitting. Out of the eight condemned men, I would have saved precisely none.
Ponders - did you agree that the most odious character got a stay of execution - the one who married his guard. Over 200 further offences whilst on death row.
Yep, an absolute monster who forfeited his right to a place on this earth. Executions should be carried out within a year of the sentence, thus preventing the scum from learning the Bible or Koran and using it to tug at the heartstrings of the many gullible twits out there. And to think some were upset that the injection may have caused unnecessary suffering to the condemned.
The bleeding hearts liberals & mangy lefties never appreciate the suffering of the victims families - 25 years of appeals in some of those cases ! The brutal attempted murderers of kids who suddenly “let God Into their lives” once on Death Row.
I'd pretty much hang anyone who rapes, murders, grooms and/or abuses. And you can add traitors, terrorists, would-be terrorists, animal abusers and serial burglars to that list. We don't need more prisons; we need more ropes and wooden structures. Job done.
2 Books you might find interesting are the autobiographies of Pierrepoint and Sid Dernley, 2 former hangmen, or Chief Executioners. Pierrepoint in particular had a surprisingly humane attitude to his work, and reckoned he would enter the condemned cell when the bell started to toll for 8 o'clock, and the prisoner would be dead by the time the clock had finished chiming. He also ran a pub, and it was a complete lie that he had a sign which read "No hanging around the bar". He performed hundreds of hangings, and at the Nuremberg Trials he was doing them thick and fast. It is thoroughly recommended reading, although some might call him a bleeding-heart liberal because he came down against hanging in the end. When Pierrepoint was 10 years old his schoolteacher asked the class to write down what they wanted to do when they grew up; Pierrepoint wrote down "Public Executioner". There was a film out about 3 years ago about him, with Timothy Spall playing him, but if you read his book he was actually a more cheerful character than Spall's portrayal.
I've read Pierrepoint's autobiography, and I enjoyed Timothy Spall's portrayal of the man. I'll have to check out Sid Dernley's book. Two interesting places are Lincoln Castle and Nottingham Courts of Justice. The former has a graveyard for the condemned, and the latter has the dock where Crippen and other notorious figures were tried. Fascinating stuff.
