do i not like fizzy pop

So was the West Ham offer the only proper bid? Hard to criticise JWP if that's the case.

I'll forkin' drive him there if Agent McCarthy gets Everton relegated.

Let's be honest, we are in the position of having to sell at what is perceived as cut price due the ineptitude of a board that monumentally cocked up managerial appointments not once, but twice in a season and got us relegated with barely a whimper. This was inevitable and I don't blame any player leaving.

If we are going to have a Micky Fialka Day then I want a Monkey Chicken Petting Zoo Day too.

It's Saints, and typically being Saints we will play abysmally but somehow sneak this 1-0.... it'll be an own goal, goes in off van Dijk's arse after a mix up with Alisson

Like others, this doesn't compare to 2005. That hurt. Big time. This time the incompetence of the board, management and players has just introduced a feeling of total indifference. And that feeds into my wider feelings towards top flight football in general and the need to Americanise the game as an 'entertainment' spectacle, the botched implementation of VAR, ludicrous TV coverage and idiotic commentators, i could go on.

It's the ideal place for a monkey-chicken petting zoo?

Big Ron Atkinson started it with Ronglish. At least that was amusing. It's just deteriorated into management bollock speak. https://dangerhere.com/2020/10/12/learn-ronglish/

1-2 Saints, JWP with two direct free kicks to take Beckham's record..... Nurse, can I have more meds please... 😆

Pretty basic negotiation tactic... Let's see how much the board want Marsch

Get in! I'd have a celebratory pint if I wasn't so hungover from yesterday

Lived in York since 2010 having been to games infrequently while living in Winchester and Horsham while growing up, was born on IoW so that could have gone either way I guess! First game at The Dell was against Villa in April 1982 when we lost 0-3. Last went to a home game at St Mary's in 2015 purposely to seal the allegiance of my two lads (6 & 5 at the time), we beat Hull 2-0 and Pelle scored right in front of them - so job done! Don't get to many games due to work, but i've seen the U23's a couple of times vs Leeds. Apart from my two there's another couple of lads in their junior football team that support Saints, it's quite funny being up here and seeing four or five lads running round in Saints kit outnumbering those in Leeds, United or Liverpool kits. I've met another four Saints supporters up here through friends, which isn't bad going. We were in Turkey the other week and my lads are now wearing my old 90's Saints shirts between them when an Asian guest at the hotel rushed up to them beaming and speaking excitedly about their shirts - he didn't speak much English but we managed to establish he'd been a Saints fan since the early 2000's.

It's blooming brilliant! Having some real fun with this up in Yorkshire. Just one question, and maybe to my shame, but when were we top of Division 1 in 1988? I don't remember that at all.... Though a friend has pointed out it was a heavy year for drinking....

South Coast bass and beat poets Stocksnskins debut full album "Face Don't Fit'" http://stocksnskins.bandcamp.com/album/face-dont-fit

I took my boys to watch this as it's just down the road, plus kids were free and adults £3. First ten minutes we were all over them and the Leeds goal was very much against the run of play. Some good play from our midfield but the final decisive ball was often lacking. Sims goal was a lovely solo run and shot, and Barnes was powerful. The most frustrating thing as a spectator was the amount of long high balls hit toward Sims who can only be 5'8" and he was up against two Leeds centre backs of at least 6'2". A very well disciplined Leeds team and their keeper dominated his penalty area, came out and caught crosses and corners, though too many of our corners and free kicks were too close to the keeper. Ultimately we were undone by some comedy defending at the end. Oh, and it was bloody freezing.

Do not use Wren! Shocking! B&Q very hit and miss. One friend couldn't speak highly enough of them, another is still unable to use his new kitchen as they haven't delivered his worktops - 8 weeks and counting - and no end in sight, poor customer service Benchmarx are part of Travis Perkins - good quality for the price Howdens - what service you get depends on the individual branch/franchise, but do not buy their Lamona appliances - they're effing terrible and customer service is not good

Passed a Mercedes Vito can this morning with the number plate "VD 51GNS" Why, oh why did I not see that yesterday? I could have had some real fun with that!

The "he's crap, not worth the money, better options elsewhere" comments will start soon...... Oh they have already :-D

Plane tracking wind ups, sense of entitlement, VVD is coming, VVD isn't coming, how dare we not let VVD leave, sense of entitlement, if VVD comes it'll be their year (again). 3 and out ;-)

Nothing on TV so just read the most recent 30 or so pages on RAWK - pure gold

Latest Twitter rumour is VVD given four days leave and is out of the country with his family, and to report for training on Monday. I can't be bothered with the linking nonsense but this slug saint guy and cabbage face both separately tweeting ( and getting royal bites from dippers)

Looks like it's fermenting. It's just a slow fermentation. I'd leave it for a full two weeks to ensure primary fermentation has completed rather than the 7-10 days they say on the kits, unless you intend on using a hydrometer to check the og (but I always think that's a bit of a faff)

Certainly the yeast can go off/die off which means it won't ferment. Sometimes the fermentation appears a little slow - i've had kits where very little has bubbled through the airlock - but they've been fine. Is it being kept between 20-24 degrees to allow fermentation? Some yeasts do emit a bad smell - German pilsner yeast smells like bad eggs while fermenting. Assuming you have a plastic lid is it raised as if under pressure as this would indicate fermentation is happening? As for the question if the extract goes off - possibly, but if in a sealed tin i would think it lasts for ages.

I think one thing to come out of this saga is that having made the complaint against Liverpool to the PL and having received the public apology, other clubs IF interested in VVD are playing it very carefully at the moment.