John Boy Saint

Borax Soap is coming back to the UK...................... My Mum will be delighted!!

Just as an aside: if the snow gets heavier at Anfield and the pitch goes a bit White does the ref have a coloured bottle of magic line in his kit for free kicks?

Shame really after going to the expense of upgrading the screens to HD quality.

Strangely I thought I might stick it on next Saturday just to see that neat trick Elia pulled when hemmed into the touch line on Saturday evening on Showboat.

The scallywag has gone to bed now as he posted at 8:18 saw he got a bite and then his Mum spoiled his fun telling him to turn the light out and go to sleep as he has school in the morning.

Draw a blue line under it

Why not just for a giggle

Good customer service too, far superior to our lesser commercial partner Garmin.

Come on let's go after City........... It'll be a wheeze!!

Pretty straightforward really Top team v top team (ish) so an easy game to ref as it should be.

Better make sure he doesn't say F C U K too much in court

It could be a tactical ploy by the club as where have they have played in Yellow shorts the ref has for some reason has worn a Yellow shirt and from recall of comments from one of the games where this happened a couple of times the ball got passed towards the ref.................... so hopefully he will be officiating in Black to confuse the Toon Robert Madley in Turquoise (or is it Teal?) blowing his whistle for the game and rather strangely a Mr S Long running one of the lines: sounds like a Sunday league game and the officials are tad light!

Even the Ipswich player had the same trouble, the ball slowed within feet of being kicked giving Long a chance to race Bart to it.

Quite a strange game, so strange that when the ball hit the back of the net not even a little yes!! departed my lips The game seemed to meander along insignificantly, it was almost as if we just shut down into energy conservation mode. I know it was only Championship opposition but if we can shut down a game, whilst it might not look pretty it's a handy ability to have in the locker.

What makes it worse is they seem oblivious to the fact that their ineptitude so transparent to those looking on. There is no doubt that we are not a dirty team, we are not where we are by being roughouses like Stoke are against a classy team. Looking at the screens on the concourse post match against both Chelsea and Arsenal we had committed twice as many fouls as the "fancied" opposition, and this is despite Ronald a few months ago saying that they have been working with the players to step in to win the ball and then block by positioning their bodies in an effort to avoid giving a foul, yet referees being conned by theatrics and there own preconceived ideas whistle for a non existent foul. In yesterday's game I am amazed we didn't end up playing over 6 minutes of added time, but then maybe the penny dropped with "not so fat" Phil that even if we played till midnight Man U still wouldn't have had a shot on goal.

We have photos taken pre season with the players in Palafrugell when we played Llagostera last season and Morgan is the only one out of loads of photos with a face like a smacked @R$e. C'est la vie That was great today I was working at a trade show in London, it had gone quiet and my Manc mate had fired up Sky Go on his iPad we had loads of fellow exhibitors round the little screen on our stand when Dusan slotted home, most of the smaller hall at Olympia must have heard my cheer!! These are great days Bros

Mario Biondi and the High Five Quintet Driving back from the Hull away game this was on Craig Charles Radio 2 show, empty M1 he played the long 7 minute version of the linked song which was spot on driving music to my ear, and spurred to find a bit more in a music genre I hadn't really paid much attention to.

if you have Sky+ just record it wait 10-15 minutes then start watching the recording then you can x30 through all the clap trap:D

That was quite good fun that night, even more amusing they were sponsored by Powergen.

Really why would he want to go somewhere that cant buy a player for a couple of years?

You would think there is a chance as it's the last remaining "cup shock" possibility of the round, as they missed the QPR one with a cursory glance.

and that Chambers had possibly reached the limit of his development as a footballer............ bit like working for Mars confectionery after a short time you were given a number and that number basically said how many positions up the promotion chain you could go v your abilities.

I sat watching him yesterday from a good vantage point in the Chapel, when the ball was in a position to play to him he was consistently stood behind the defensive line. So Fraser in Goal, Saints players building an attack, Ipswich players defending THEN Long then the Ipswich Goal keeper he rarely checked behind him to see that he was being played on it was almost like he was more reliant on the probability of the lino cocking up but the lino had already seen a red and white striped shirt in an offside position, so putting the flag up was an easy option if in doubt. The Midfielder is probably itching to play the ball to him but can see that he is offside so waits for him to step back on side. Like I said above watching Suarez last year from the same vantage point he would know a ball was coming in and was moving in a curve just in front of the static or shuffling sideways defence, as the ball came in the defence would move backwards facing the ball but Suarez was already facing forwards and accelerating having sprung the offside trap. Shane Long has a lot of guile he is not a slow coach you would have thought after so many games for so many teams someone would have picked him up on this and trained it out of him.

Still winds me up that he gets caught offside so much, watching him yesterday he is wandering along behind the defensive line endlessly, when you watched Suarez last season against us he had a knack of running infront of the defender knowing the ball was coming over the top giving him a head start as the defender has to turn around to catch him. I also think its becoming clear that his reputation for going down cheaply in the past does him any favours with the officials.

Excellent as always...... Happy New Year to you.