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The market for those shirts is daft though - there's an unsold Steven Davis signed matchworn home shirt which didn't reach the reserve price (at £120) and then there's the Steven Davis signed yellow away shirt from Newcastle which went for more than any of the other of the same shirts (inc Pelle and Fonte) at £420!

I do wish they'd stop signing the auctioned shirts though.

http://www.saintsfoundation.co.uk/auction/ - which points you back to the charity stars website. I think they've changed how they do their auctions recently and charity stars is the only way online now.

I didn't have a favourite team who'd ever been on the tv when I started playing football either (though I'd already been going to games for 7 years...).~ That's about the kids not knowing where to watch games, attention thresholds, and probably mainly their parents not watching it. Once the Premier League viewing is established (the NBC live games on the main channel rather than as a subscription service is a good start) and is easy to find, all those things will follow. Fairly sure this is more about building support in a cash-rich but underdeveloped football market than necessarily trying to find players.

Do you? I'm fairly sure you wouldn't have said that if you didn't already know the following: We already have a new kit deal for next season with Under Armour, who are an american kit supplier. They just haven't announced it yet.

In September it was these players: England - Jack Butland Switzerland - Xherdan Shaqiri Holland - Ibrahim Afellay USA - Geoff Cameron Republic of Ireland - Shay Given, Jonathan Walters, Marc Wilson, Glenn Whelan Austria - Marko Arnautovic, Daniel Bachmann (Under-21s) http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34186697 Plus Mame Biram Diouf alongside Mane as you mentioned: http://www.stokecityfc.com/news/article/potters-on-the-scoresheet-in-world-cup-qualifiers-2803410.aspx

The last few games I've thought it will be close and we'd sneak it, and we've shot out of the blocks and gone 2 up early, with differing results for the rest of the match. So I'll go for 2-1 and more 2-0 up panic.

I'm fairly sure they know nothing about profit.

He said "a number hold similar views... hence the sheer volume of terrorist attacks". My points are that 1) I don't think there have been that many attacks 2) it doesn't take that many people to conduct them and 3) either way they're a tiny proportion of the people they claim to share a religion with, so associating extremist activity with ALL people who share a couple of similar traits is ridiculous nonsense.

Well, no, that's what I was talking about in the first place, what's happened is you've misinterpreted it.

You're talking to a man who has all three of last season's outfielder Saints kit socks colours, still in the bags. Even I won't stretch to keeper socks... unless they're multipurpose.

You think there have been more than 999 ISIS-supporting suicide bombers in the west?

In terms of people directly involved in the execution of terrorist acts we are talking about double digits, maybe triple digits, out of 1.6 billion muslims. Not "a vast number". There will be others, knowingly and unknowingly supporting it in terms of finance and logistics, but the suicide bombers outside the Stade were less effective than the ones in Four Lions, and in terms of loss of life, they'd run out pretty quickly sacrificing 3 bombers for every 1 civilian. As far as the minute's silence in Turkey, I didn't see it, I'm not sure chanting "God is Great" is necessarily a bad thing and could be misinterpreted, and either way, what football fans believe and what they actually do in crowds are often not the same thing at all.

My recollection of the story is that he had egg all down his top, which would be difficult with a bacon sandwich. Not that I'm that convinced any of these stories were necessarily anything other than some of the players agitating to get rid of Sturrock for some reason, and we all know how much worse they got in the immediate aftermath when they got their own way.

If by "we" you mean you and SOG, leaving you with little time to progress endless tedious sidelines on here, I'm all for it.

Well, there's part 1 of the "how to monetarise it" question answered. That and "steal underpants". I suspect part 3 is "wider recruitment of talent pool and selling them after a couple of seasons in the first team" aka "profit". Part 2 will be "?"

Is that one of those hangovers where you feel fantastic and look great at first, and then after impressing loads of people you mysteriously shart and then throw up on yourself for no apparent reason, and some weasel-looking bloke nicks in and steals your bird? If anyone can wedge Kelvin's kick into this ridiclous analogy I'll be most impressed.

Well to be fair, there are bloody loads of people all over Facebook who seem to think this or some variant of it.

Evidently not, but yes he did. Also saved me watching the video and I now understand why some people were confused about where the friendly was. Who bumps this thread for a completely different game FFS!?

Because someone will buy it, and because they choose to have a blue home kit and a white away kit, which is one of the most popular two-colour combinations in the lower leagues so both those kits will clash with someone fairly often. Meanwhile, Saints have a 2 kit combination that are only both going to clash with the opposition in some convoluted scenarios: eg If we play away to a team in a cup who have dark shorts, or red or green socks, or away to a team playing in both red and green (there are none in England). The Prem is fairly laissez-faire with shorts clashes but will want to ensure the socks don't clash, whilst League Cup and FA Cup rules insist on short and sock changes in the event of clashes - our black home, navy away short is therefore an issue in away cup games. Home shorts or socks with the away shirt would look awful so fairly sure we'd have alternate green shorts and navy socks sitting around on the off-chance there's a cup colour clash. I can't think of a Prem side that has red socks but would also clash with the green kit so we're covered in all League instances by just wearing the away kit.

Teams on the big screen and in the concourse, highlights at half time. That's my basic requirement, every single other thing adds nothing. FWIW having a panel yakking about the game which 90% of the people in the bowl can't hear anyway is just an annoyance when they could be showing more highlights.

Nope. It's clearly a massive story about the terrorists shifting their focus to events, which is likely to have an impact on how people live their everyday lives, so it's getting a lot of coverage.

Stekelenburg was on the bench for the Wales game so he'd have been in Hanover.

Small mercies and all that.