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I'm of the opinion it will end up being a massive success at massive expense. If Qatar and Russia got away with sportwashing I'm sure SA will give it a bloody good go.

Oh wow consider myself enlightened, but seriously that changes nothing and I still stand by my original comment.

We don't have a great record with South American players. Hopefully Brereton-Diaz will settle in quickly, and get over the language barrier.

Make of that what you will. Also see Hypo's post below.

This sort of post just doesn't feel complete without a gormless confused emoji from the master debater, so I felt compelled to apply one myself. Still think he's best value on Twitter, engaging enraging random fans of other teams at will.

As a tribute to the original statue, I like to think I would have done a much better job in a fraction of the posts. I don't think it's him, but that stuff over there is more MLG's realm. I can barely remember my login for this site, let alone that of a club that most of us don't give a shit about except when we're about to sign one of their players.

I see where you're coming from but our group stage performances were pretty poor back then. In 2002 we faced Brazil too early because we played for a draw against Nigeria and let Sweden win the group. 2004, we came second to France in the group as we fell to pieces in our match against them. Under Sven we only won the group stage in 2006 but in the knock-outs we fluffed it on the penalties again. When you see it was players like Gerrard and Lampard who missed their efforts it's not a stretch to suggest that we didn't prepare as thoroughly as Southgate has in more recent times.

You could have easily written this 10 or 15 years ago. Really disappointing that despite all the advancements, we are still clinging to these outdated notions of prioritising physicality and 'winning' over skill and development.

Go back another half century and pink was seen as a male colour... fashion eh! A lot of our away shirt designs have left me cold but if we do something special when wearing them, suddenly they become iconic. Case in point - Anfield 2017, Simms passing to Long in that weird Under Armour black kit. Good times!

Many people say that we're by far the greatest team the world has ever seen, so I reckon he has definitely heard of us, unless he's an idiot.

Tickets for Millwall on general sale now. I have good memories of Pelle scoring his first goal for us there in an August League Cup match. That must have been about 10 years ago, bloody hell.

Agreed, although I've seen kit photos that looked fake and then been shocked when they turned out to be the real thing, so I only expect to be surprised either way. In the last few years away kits have become pretty wacky so I suppose this is in keeping with that mentality. Looks normal for a goalkeeper's kit, but I suppose it wouldn't sell as well if that's all it was. Besides, we'd only play a couple of times in it.

Obviously in a minority but as there's no longer any Dalek2003 to make the point, with a lot of hindsight, I don't think Lowe did that badly and it was mainly his pompous manner that rubs people up the wrong way. Obviously didn't get the investment we needed, but with the stadium and academy he set up a reasonably attractive platform for Liebherr to take over and reap the benefit as we got back to the PL. Also, there seemed to be uproar at the time, but if we took Hoddle back we might have not gone down and we would have accepted him soon enough. For anyone who disagrees, Mike Wilde turned out to be the personification of "be careful what you wish for". We're quite ready to give our opinion on the latest weird kit, but I wonder what sales were like of those "Saints Go Wilde" t-shirts? Didn't recall much criticism of it at the time. Politically, that's another matter. His Brexit party is what helped get us in the current mess in the first place. Reform had a candidate talking up Putin in Salisbury of all places - sums them up for me really.

Entirely logical timing but dammit I wanted to be able to bitch about this today, not in two weeks

Got another half hour of this shit to watch then

I bet the contents of my garage that Draper Tools are not going to be on the front of the shirts.

We did have a Park and Ride scheme in our last season in the prem which got discontinued after relegation. Guessing the vouchers fell by the wayside in similar circumstances.

Looks decent in the publicity photo, but not sure why Puma are obsessed with giving the stripes a curved bib appearance. Also it's a solid yellow back. Ah well, we managed with pink and red this season so I should be able to cope with five years of this sort of nonsense.

Or that left back we had whose surname began with B and ended in D... no not Bertrand... Olivier Bernard...

I enjoyed watching the 2018 World Cup on iplayer with this option but it doesn't seem to have been offered since. I'm guessing that as there was no commentary on that feed, it wasn't as popular as it could have been. I think the closest you can get to this kind of thing more recently is by watching in VR which would offer a selection of views from the stands, but I think there wasn't enough demand for it and Sky have stopped bothering with it. It's a bit of a shame that broadcasting seems to be going backwards in some aspects.

Doesn't seem all that outlandish, for the sake of a minor typo. Agree about the ladies team though, I imagine it would remain Starling Bank as there must be a year or two left on that.

Must have been a good one to have been declared goal of the millennium. You sure it was Valery?

Five years ago it took him an entire season to get up to speed with us. It's not going to be any better this time around. I'd rather roll the dice on a younger prospect who isn't just going to collect his salary without contributing very much.