John Boy Saint

Thought the air looked pretty good for China, that said the humidity with exercise probably feels like breathing treacle.

Don’t think there is much dislike from the fans, more like incredulous disbelief that a multi million pound business could piddle so much money up the wall on a player who didn’t shine at Monaco according to their fans. Even more so when when Ralph let it out that the club didn’t twig that we were in the poo until January but still wasted so much money on a pit pony who was the struggling managers mate.......and now he is likely to be off to join him again need VAR to take a peek at that:p what is more worrying is the club can’t see what’s going on right under their flipping noses, yet even the most mild mannered fan in the stand has seen the bleedin obvious weeks before its hit the agenda of the weekly board meeting. it would have been far more effective to have bunged Birmingham City £5m to buy Sam Gallagher out of his loan.

Chinese visas are not cut and dried, the Boss (who has been visiting China for donkeys years) and I did our 3rd renewals in our passports lives for a trip in April so you would assume having been granted ones previously it would be a mere formality....errr no! I completed my application without issue, my Boss had to re submit his twice for very minor errors, it’s not rock up at the embassy wait and get your visa stuck in the book, it’s a leave and collect tomorrow. We both had a day left on our old visa when they were submitted and had to write a letter requesting they cancel our last visa to ensure they issued a new one because they can’t overlap. I had one trip to Guangzhou where we hopped onto a Kenya Airways flight from Bangkok to Guangzhou, everyone needs a visa to get into China, we whistled through (surprisingly coupled with a bit of humour with the official) the African passengers were noticeably being double teamed by passport control. Maybe they have an issue with Africans of which Boufal is one seeing as Morocco is North Africa. I have a 2 year multi entry Chinese visa (which is pretty much standard issue), to get that new Visa I needed a letter of invitation which I got from a supplier, but now I can fly in and out of China willy nilly, why did I need the letter of invitation to get a new visa when the letter wording to fulfil the criteria for the renewal has basically expired. HTH

Thought exactly the same, amazed none of them busted a gut to pose the manager a question, Trent-Alexander looked like a Rabbit in the headlights which considering he has played Champions League was a surprise Prowsey must have had his head in his hands at the appalling deliveries from the corners and that free kick. Bertie is probably on his way to hospital to have his sides stitched up from laughing so much at Rose being picked ahead of him. Still at least the result keeps the lid on the nations expectations.

Has to be Old Trafford winner for me, fannying about when being brought on as a sub (showed his negative petulant side there) anyway. I was at a tradeshow at Olympia London, my mate had the game on Sky Go there were hardly any customers left in the hall (anyone who has been to Olympia knows the big hall with the high domed glass roof) we just sat watching the game becoming increasingly oblivious to our surroundings, Tadic pops the ball in the net, I let out an almighty cheer which echoed off the high roof all round the hall, just about to go “oops sorry” remembering where I was, only to turn around to see just about every salesman from every stand in our near vicinity had been watching the game from behind us.

some clever clogs should be able to knock something up using that Macarena song, and blimey just for fun we can have hand movements to go with it...........just what we’ll need on a cold January Saturday afternoon

Costa Rica just scored the bonkers penalty of the tournament kick-crossbar-back of the keepers head-back of the net

...........and checked for clinker too?????!!!

How folks say we’re not great, it looks like sound player management, we know what’s in front of us it’s 30°, do what we need to do to get the job done, when the the game is done go and run round the garden for 45 minutes. Panama are one of those type of teams we have stumbled round with over the years.

‘‘Twas done last night, just to keep the seats, plenty of ummmming and urrrrring leading up to making the decision. Have to say this season better be a step up on the last 2, otherwise, I will be spending my pennies on something else.

Who are they?

Bloody Spurs, they’re becoming like Liverpool of the future, I always knew Alf Ramsey going to them would be the thin end of the wedge. Not claiming to be ITK, but my mates cousins sisters boyfriend works in a lighting store in Hamburg, he said that Keegan fellow was in the other week buying a specific light bulb for a chap who lives in Romsey and has something to do with football near there.......can’t see it myself but just imagine

Clive Tyldesley on ITV is increasingly almost as annoying, it’s as if each match day morning he downs a couple of cans of ACME Spouting BøłIøćks with his breakfast. And whilst Hoddle is at the toaster spikes his coffee with a few drops too!

Good old Saints Web, a few dodgy moments and some have him marked as a bloody useless player for evermore. McGuire admitted himself that he had a few dodgy moments early on, had a word with himself and got on with it. Thought he played well, if we were picking teams in the playground he would be an early pick for me. Certainly one who if Saints had bought in the Hull City post relegation fire sale I’d have been happy with. As others have said Bertie must have been spitting chips watching Young, seemed very powder puff and as often commented when talking about the malaise of the England side, when you see the calibre of player he plays with week in week out at Man U his deficiencies were highlighted. The player who seems to have had very little said about him is Trippier, thought he had a great game easily my man of the match........oh hang on he didn’t score so he can’t have that award. Talking of which, well done Harry Kane, does what he does for his club finds enough space in the box for himself to punish teams, nice to see an England striker living up to his billing on the first night. Onwards to Panama’s World Cup final on Sunday.

ITV carping on about VAR decision for the Swiss goal, jeez that was nothing..........Christ chalk Off goals like that we might as well pack up the football tent and go home

At a winery, the regular taster died and the director started looking for a new one to hire. A drunkard with a ragged, dirty look came in to apply for the position. The director of the winery wondered how to”nicely” send him away in this “all too Politically Correct” world. He gave him a glass of their low end wine to drink. The drunk sipped it and without the traditional sniffing or swirling said, “It’s a Muscat, three years old, grown on a north slope, matured in steel containers. Low grade, but acceptable.” “That’s correct”, said the boss. Another glass…“This is a Cabernet, eight years old, a south-western slope, oak barrels, matured at 8 degrees. Requires three more years for finest results.” “Correct.” A third glass… “It’s a Pinot Blanc Champagne, high grade and exclusive,” the drunk said calmly. The director was astonished. He winked at his secretary,secretly suggesting something. She left the room, and came back in with a glass of urine. The alcoholic tried it. “It’s a blonde, 26 years old, three months pregnant and if I don’t get the job I’ll name the father.”

he revealed his true identity when he put a team on the Saints web DT World Cup fantasy footie league, posted “done” on the thread at the same time as his name appeared as a team and his Proper name against it, then a couple of days later posted another team using his SW alias.

Going on the half cocked launch, the official site still leading with the coming soon video half an hour ago, not being able so see it anywhere and going on the ad for kit sales in the online store, is it safe to assume that my kids could smash open their piggy banks rush down the Saints store and buy me a shirt for tomorrow rather than having to wait until July?

Some of this Spanish football is sublime

Nice to see VAR saw Pepes feign to suggest he was punched made it easy for the refs

Cos we are gullible football fans ready to have our pants pulled down at any given moment by the retail department of the team we support

...............smoked like chimneys and drank a few beers.

Amazingly the Germans, who I would gauge as being a pretty bang up to date nation of people, have very little love for VAR. So Whitey is hobnobbing in some pretty intelligent thinkers in his opinion.

When the second half started Clive Tyldesley was banging on about Elland Road, then Spoke about the statue of Billy Bremner, I could have sworn the next bit of guff that fell out of his mouth was “he was a player who would deliver England a trophy”!!!!!! Hang on Bremner was Scottish, he would more likely take great pleasure in denying England that chance.

Battling it out with Nottingham Forest each season.........there would have been more back slapping self congratulation at board level but no positive desire to push on.