John Boy Saint

Ampshoire right in the mix on that one with 29 in 13th place. I wonder who those players were/are? See a bit of London media bias has crept into that league table, I would imagine that most Lancastrians would be put out not to be top of the list, because if you wanted to be pedantic and drill down into the figures how many of the Greater Manchester and Merseyside players pulled on an England shirt before both of those Metropolitan "counties" were created and split out of Lancashire.

I don't think it was a case of "in the end we went for number 11" I believe that number 11 was the only vague option left on the table after Lowe had joined the party buggered up Stoneham. which would have been perfect for transport, by adding the, on paper, sensible idea of a retail park to the development. This was manna from heaven for the Lib Dem bloke, who was vehemently opposed to the Stoneham option all along, and had been voted back into power for Eastleigh as Stoneham was entering the final straight, I think it had been rubber stamped by Ken Clarke but having lost the General Election to Labour, simplistically put, stuff like Stoneham could easily be put through the shredder. All this left Saints with no options left, until the City Council pretty much gave Saints the old gasworks site where St Mary's now stands, I think the site was becoming a headache for them.

Not forgetting the fact that whilst "dead" in the 6 yard box the Arsenal player was both offside and interfering with play, then Giroud is alledged to have said to Fonte "oh who gave that away" but none of that would have happened if the Referees and linos hadn't decided amongst themselves previously that Shane Long is a cheating diving little git, Monreal actually fouls him but "oh it's only Shane Long he's feining that" despite being right in front of the linesman,

Should not be a surprise reading that from him, as when he was officiating here he admitted that if one set of fans were giving him grief from the stands, it sometimes influenced his decisions in favour of the opposition. Just shows how much of a law unto themselves refs are, that having made that statement, or words to the effect that no one came down on him like a ton of bricks. Glad he has left these shores as i saw the most bizarre big team decision probably ever from him last season at SMS v Liverpool. Liverpool had defended a corner and were breaking out one of our players clipped the one of theirs with the ball just outside their box, the ball went to another Liverpool player who launched the ball downfield towards Mane, this is while Clattenburg was signalling for an advantage being played, Mane gets the ball closes in on goal, inside our 6 yard box VVD sprints in robs the ball off Mane and Clattenburg blows his whistle and gives Liverpool a free go at building an attack from where he played the advantage from........................hang on thats gone from the fouled player to another player then punted down field to another player who has had a chance to score from inches but failed advantage over surely. Decisions like that and the bloke probably wondered why fans were calling him names associated with what he might be up to under his duvet with a torch and a well thumbed copy of Playboy!!

Neville did blather on a bit, being frustrated by his inconsistency losing the ball, but 8/9 times out of 10 (and conveniently edited out to emphasise Nevilles worldly knowledge) Boufal invariably goes and gets the ball back or pressures the player who took advantage to give the ball back to us. Given how long Pied has been out, once he knocked the rust off his boots with a couple of dodgy touches early on I thought he looked ok, again Neville criticised his positioning for the Bournemouth goal when in reality he was in the position to receive the ball from VVD if Wesley hadn't got his feet in a kerfuffle and passed the ball to Virgil quicker. Someone above likened him to Martina: that is well wide of the mark. When Davis was subbed I wondered where the armband would go, it was good to spot it on Bertrands arm moments later.

Bah-humbug bloomin nit picker!

Last year I replaced all the windows in my house with those expensive, triple-pane, energy-efficient kind. Today, I got a call from Home Depot who installed them. The caller complained that the work had been completed a year ago and I still hadn't paid for them. Helloooo,............ just because I'm a Senior Citizen doesn't mean that I am automatically mentally challenged. So, I told him just what his fast-talking sales guy told me last year --that these windows would pay for themselves in a year — Hellooooo? It's been a year, so they're paid for, I told him. There was only silence at the other end of the line, so I hung up. He never called back. I bet he felt like an idiot.

if you read the link he resigned as soon as he had his collar felt!

Surprised the incitement to murder our friends down the eastern end of M27 with a borrowed firearm hasn't been acted upon yet.

Some of you might have seen the Guardiola and Sterling in training video that came out last week, if you havent scroll down in the link, looks a very similar depth of conversation. http://www.sportbible.com/football/take-a-bow-this-clip-of-guardiola-coaching-sterling-in-training-has-gone-viral-20171122

As a couple of Norwich fans always said he's great running with the ball but as soon as he has to do more than that "the boy is thick as $h!t"! What we have on our hands is the finished article, he was totally anonymous second half..........if Pepe was putting a rocket up his jacksy it's was probably for being a waste of a shirt.

Thats the formation up some of us have been hoping he would give a go to with proper players on the pitch.

I thought him and PEH were a breath of fresh air yesterday. Regardless of the opposition they both took their chance to stake a claim. I would take him in the team over Redmond all day long mainly because his footballing brain works so much faster, and his dead ball deliveries are an asset, how many corners have we seen this season where the ball hasn't beaten the first man or beaten everyone, then the Tadic specials that most of the time are wafted into the keepers hands. Even taken from his less favoured side early on he arrowed a gem pretty much where he knew VVD would be rising to head it, he has a weapon in his feet that is an asset to the team. The key thing with him is he is always moving and looking to move the ball, just about everyone agrees there are times when we play too slowly, the biggest culprits of that are Redmond and Tadic, even yesterday Tadic got away with it where he received the ball stopped got swamped then got a fortuitous ricochet ending up with his assist.

Having slid off the Nivea adds - he's touting to be the new face of Pantene for Men. I had stepped out of the room when the highlights were shown on MOTD, all I heard from the living room where great hoots of laughter, followed by "what the F's that on your head" from Wife and Daughter.

Cheers Sue - Mrs JBS will like that

Scroll down the page a bit and Master Redmond gets a mention in dispatches under "shooting a lot but yet to find the net"

I will stick this as a post on 2 of the platforms you broadcast on. Dig out the Hatrick in 3 minutes v Villa report, where Villa were set up and I quote "4-5- 60 yards Benteke" It's bloody Black!! and his effin blueprint set up!! I'm a fat bloke what sits in the stands, I can see it as a fan who is paying to watch this $h!t, there are people paid F off money who work for the club who can't see it?! Jeez!

Looks like it's all going to rat $h!t, only the under 18s looking to cut the mustard in this last week! What's dutchman Jan doing these days?!

Going on the comments above, nothing is happening in the game?

Probably glad to be getting next weekend off.

Can I place an order for 3 bags of that, my roses will love it, actually make it 4 as I fancy trying Rhubarb in the garden.

When you look at the rate Managers are fired at, I would imagine that being the manager at Celtic is a pretty cosy gig IF you can keep churning out results, winning stuff keep everything ticking along without too much fuss. No spectre of doom anywhere near your front door, if the money is more than enough to get by on (I imagine the severance cheque from Liverpool would see the average Joe placed in a position to retire alone) the only thing to make you go elsewhere is personal ambition. I get impression that Neil Lennon got bored, which is why he left, and boredom is probably the only thing to see Rodgers depart........... given his nationality the weather in Glasgow isn't going to be much of a factor ;-)

True or not, I heard that the shocking Season Ticket sales were a contributing factor in the departure of Monsieur Claude, I bet compared to last year the uptake or even enquiring interest in the half Season Tickets this year is pretty atrocious. I know we had 2 weeks off, and 3 for our next home game, approaching, but when we walked past the ticket office after the Burnley game every window was occupied by staff, and even from the Britannia road side of the railings their body language was bored to tears, normally when we walk back to the car ,at the same time, there are always a few fans at the windows.

It was on the Club Facebook with video, as my (these days politically incorrect) Grandad use to say after Saints had thumped another team "who were we playing... the blind school". Still the upside was that we have progressed to having real live people to try and score against rather than stick in the ground plastic men or nothing, so I guess Mr Pellegrinos comment on the back of yesterdays Echo held some truth "We are getting closer".

Sad news indeed, Rest In Peace