Ted Bates Statue

That's a nice looking red and white kit, seems a bit different on screen though... oh that's Woking. Okunola having a nightmare.

In Kingsland North it was fine but I got the sense it was the Northam doing the heavy lifting, and generally the people who want to stand and sing the most will gravitate towards the top of the stands. Back of the Chapel was decent last time I was there a couple of years ago, with a decent group of people demonstrating that it was ok to sing there. Curious to know what block you were in, so I can avoid ending up being in your situation. Guessing it was south of the halfway line?

I'm still too preoccupied with the massive irony of a gun rights supporter being shot to death to contribute much to the discussion, but on the news yesterday it was suggested the only way of preventing this is to have politicians both sides of the divide unite in condemning this kind of violence. I believe this is how UK politicians dealt with the deaths of Jo Cox and David Amess, and most of them would do well to bear in mind that extremism tends not to discriminate too much before putting their foot in mouth (I can't speak for those at Local Government level though - there's always one or two). The trouble is over the pond, it's taboo to admit that guns are the common factor in countless pointless deaths so they have to come up with other excuses, like democrats, or RFK blaming video games, drugs and social media earlier in the week. Anything to avoid the elephant in the room.

Think I might have managed to buy the last remaining pair of tickets yesterday. Thank you for the heads up.

That is so Pompey... #NotTheOnion Interested to note that he actually said 'texted' in the grammatically correct past tense, so my respect for him has increased marginally.

Empathy is a made-up, new age term

Sounds like he's not worthy of his new nationality any more. He's just plain old Ben Brereton again.

It's deeply unpleasant to see political differences playing out in this manner, but I'm still surprised this doesn't happen more often over there. Charlie Kirk has been well known for shrugging off gun deaths in America, although he might struggle on this occasion. The only other vaguely similar instance I can think of was when someone apologised for having the nerve to get shot by Dick Cheney.

Sure, but only one party seems to have had its lunatics take over their asylum. They are not on the same level by any stretch of the imagination.

Be careful what you wish for. He was fine with Nathan Jones. Worse than a stopped clock.

If it is Walcott or Romeu returning 2 coach I'll be very disappointed that a more entertaining clue wasn't used like a wall and a cot or an oriel window. These are the important things that matter so much to me right now while we wait to see how many of our signings are actually any good and I find out whether it's worth bothering to learn the names of the ones I never heard of until they signed for us.

In the ocean of despair, I will cling to your analysis like it's the floating door at the end of Titanic

Think you've summed him up nicely. I get the impression he's like Nicola Cortese with less composure

Having checked, you are absolutely right, but I only remember him contributing to our promotion season. Corrected it now 😅

Jos Hooiveld and Steve De Ridder Iago Falque in 2012 👍