CB Fry

I thought the ceremony was brilliant, well done Danny Boyle, knighthood in the bag on New Years Day I'd say. Perfect distillation of what it is to be British - history, humour, heart, diversity, great music, pomp, style and fu ck me we invented industry, modern capitalism, universal healthcare and the world wide web. Had a little well up four of five times through the show, our country really is freaking ace. Anyone want the parade to finish now, though. Jeez.

We could turn it into the why Turner is ten times better than Dann thread. Ten times better. Ten times! Who wants to start?

The common sporting interview answer "yeah no definitely".

What has any of this got to do with you grizzling about non existent sensationalist journalism? Oh yes. Fu ck all. Jolly well done though.

Lucky escape for the boy then.

This. Just ended up bouncing around the European big clubs for half a season each. Was proper addicted before. It's like the classic "Footballer of the year" from Amstrad/Spectrum days.

We are talking about a news story not the details of the tribunal. The Palace guy has had a little moan and the journo worked it into a fairly anodyne workaday article of him hitting out at SFC. Which is a perfectly accurate summation of what has happened. The end.

Whatever. You said it was sensationalist journalism. It's not. Nothing exaggerated in my own head. You people are fu cking nuts. Why people then need to launch into this "oh the great CB Fry has spoken" stuff I will never know. Its a forum for opinions as long as everyone agrees on everything. If they don't you just start dishing out drama queen sh ite like the above.

What, and miss all the hilarity. No chance. Its LOLs on toast here. I'll just get back to desperately wishing Saints lose every single game next season so I can, you know, really enjoy it. Or something.

What's wrong with being excited about Saints future while at the same time not giving two sh its about whether QPR have a slightly better or slightly worse training ground than we do. What's wrong with being excited about Saints future while at the same time not giving a screaming dump about some new red felt around the pitch? How does having a laugh at someone firing off/asking for reams of statistics to "prove" our academy might be better than Stokes....how does that equate to wanting Saints to "have a poor season"? Seriously, how do you make that leap? I think you are, just about, allowed to be a Saints fan without being too bothered if we have fewer treadmills and eye-gyms at our academy than QPR. I support a football club, not a branch of David fu ck ing Lloyd.

Reasonable read in fairness...but have the trust really raised a "barely believable seven figure sum" or just a load of giddy "pledges"?

Red felt round the pitch being given a makeover, eh? Champion's League here we come.

It's our first game back we might do. But if it was in the middle of the season less likely.

Why don't you and your fellow arse aching bores start a different forum? You can obsess about me make up straw man arguments and do all your usual weaselling snideyness completely undisturbed by normal people.

Yep. Absolutely. So not "sensationalist journalism" to report as such is it. Just stuff that happens. Too many sensitive flowers on this forum who want the world to consist entirely of official SFC corporate press releases, with everything else demonised as "anti-saints agenda" or "sensationalist journalism" or other such bed wetting garbage.

From a business leader in an industry in the public eye it is hitting out. Quite rare for any chief exec to use phrases like that on the record. You can play the mock offended card but you were the one whining about "sensationalist journalism" on the back of a fairly workaday article about a football exec getting the hump. Hardly the most sensational story the world has known is it?

I think you can file that alongside "all you people who think we can never play in Europe" as totally fabricated concepts that no one ever actually says or even thinks, but certain people rail and grandstand against regardless. Oh, "I bet you thought that about leaving the Dell" is another one you can stick in that list.

A direct quote from senior Palace exec of "Southampton are taking the mick" I would say is hitting out. So not sensationalist journalism at all. Knee jerk press bashing from you, yes.

People said that no man would ever climb the moon.

No one is going to "bang on about it" but commentators are going to mention it. Five Live commentators will be talking about our kit being "a bit different" in any live match we're in. Just like they'd have said we are "lining up in our traditional red and white stripes" if we were. Our new kit is going to generate a little more comment than the average. But no more than that.

I think opposite. Five points from the big three in August to get all the pundits falling over themselves to dish out the patronising pats on the head left right and centre. We'll be talk of the town except for losing to Wigan in the middle of it all just to keep everyone on MOTD chuckling away. I think we'll have a Blackpool/Hull season. Blistering before Christmas nearly 30 points on board on NYD, hit the wall and limp in, but comfortably, 15th or 16th. Hopefully good enough to keep Nige in work. Lallana to struggle, Jay Rod to be a sensation. Cork and Morgan shine. We score billions of goals but still have terrible GD. We'll concede six about three times to the CL teams but also to someone like Fulham or Everton. Sorry I can't be more specific but it's not even August.

This is accurate. Despite the heft and weight of it, whenever I buy it (not often) I can never find anything I actually want to read.

Used to be. Now an emaciated carcass of Saturday Guardian leftovers. Crying shame. Still love Cohen, Rawnsley and Nigel Slater though.

Chris Woods.

Budgie.