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Yet Gao was allowed to buy the club despite failing FFP and the rules were then changed afterwards. Yes, I know that was the PL and the FA are official sponsors for football-management related visas but the inconsistency of applying rules when they want and ignoring them when they don’t by governing bodies does my head in. Home Office panel will have made the decision but if the FA is sponsor they have a key role.

Derby’s is the worst ever although from a 38 game season, Stoke must have been as bad with 17 points from 42 games - remember them being very poor - in 1984/5 - although they managed a 0-0 at the Dell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984–85_Stoke_City_F.C._season If it’s just the PL, Sunderland, Huddersfield and Villa were pretty horrific https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/what-is-the-lowest-points-total-in-premier-league-history#

There was more fighting still at the Doncaster game… I think with SR being more remote it’s harder for the fans to get as worked up, whereas Rupert Lowe was always a very marmite figure even in the WGS good times and by that stage was loathed widely but a hard core bought into the ‘youth’ fig leaf and taken for mugs. Those games were a culmination of the penny finally dropping, frustration from that group at the boycott (I was still a STH at that point but I could see why people were staying away) and realisation there might not be a club beyond that summer.

Here’s an MLG post I agree with. Solak has made some horrific mistakes including putting Ankerson and Kraft in roles for top leagues they have/had no right or place being in. Hopefully the Home Office sorts out Spors permit and the club gets a new scouting team because that’s been rotten since Les Reed and Ross Wilson. Da Grosa would have no better than Pinnacle - that was another sign MLT’s common sense radar had gone.

I’m glad my dinner is a while ago. Man Utd get everywhere don’t they?

I think she got confused between celebrity and notoriety https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg9qpp5zpro

As long as he gets on the protein shakes and adds some bulk, I agree. In a midfield three he was excellent last season but far too lightweight in a two.

Phew, thought it was two.

Here’s what - or who - Whelk is referring to https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2ld7enjj9eo Heroin junkies one and all, perverted ones which is even worse.

They’ve still got all of those amenities here bar the greengrocer (would love one of those but we go to one in Tewkesbury instead, Woody’s which has amazing local produce). The Co-op tbf to them does stock a lot of local produce (the Mid Counties ones are quite good), the Nisa has become a Morrisons which is stacked with snacks mainly although useful for the odd thing that the other places don’t have in stock eg ground almonds for my Pasanda the other day). The estates built since the 1990s have increasingly crammed in the housing and ignored amenities. Very isolating for the residents and often not on bus routes, with nearby main roads to cross to reach amenities which are dangerous to cross on foot.

Very sorry to hear about your Granddaughter WG, although good that it sounds like she’s getting more specialist support. Having just looked at the shops in Chandlers Ford it seems to revolve around takeaways, Costa etc. Given it’s always been a fairly affluent area and the large supermarket has been going 50 years with the novelty worn off you’d think more independent shops would have popped up.

He seems to have a link to Jim White. Manji was reporting that he was kicking chairs around in hospitality on Saturday in frustration (Solak, not White). Be interesting to see to what extent frustration comes across or whether he’ll put a face on it. I hope they ask about the WP progress for Spores.

Yes, about five streets from our house. The town, population around 6k, also has a butcher, deli, craft/gift shops, small supermarkets, cafe, boutique, and four pubs. No candlestick makers though.

In more severe ADHD cases, Ritalin can be prescribed but very sparingly as it comes with a number of side effects, albeit many of these are temporary https://www.healthline.com/health/adhd/ritalin-effects-on-body

McCain Naked aren’t too bad for frozen ones when we’re tired and back from work late, but we try and make our own seasoned potato wedges.

It’s all of the emulsifiers, monos and preservatives which concern me, we still don’t really know in the long-term what impact they have on the human body. And no need for many of them to be there, especially not in frozen food. Shop bought cakes and biscuits are one of the worst offenders. It’s everywhere at work and just before lunchtime out of meetings it does get tempting sometimes. Being lactose intolerant has some benefits though as most of the time I can’t eat it!

Buy mine from the local baker in the town, four ingredients, crusty whole meal loaf. It toasts and cuts superbly. Agree on the part-baked bread being better on less ingredients, I never buy supermarket ready sliced stuff.

The longer the ingredients list the less we should be buying it.

I think they’ll just avoid with a couple of April wins against teams in mid-table thinking of their holidays but part of me does see benefits in the club humiliated with a single figure points total to remove any trace of the misplaced smugness and complacency particular towards our supporters since 2017. Get a bit of fire and drive back in the bellies and also it might force a total change of the guard in how SFC is run. Come back with the biggest budget in the league, recruitment to excite the fans, autos with 100 points and the narrative would be of incredible comeback and renewal. Ball in Dragan’s court.

Not disputing any of this as I clearly don’t know the people, but ASD and especially ADHD can be more effectively managed if captured 11-18. And it is possible a few youngsters might jump on a bandwagon but we are not talking about low mood here, it is more likely to be social anxiety but also some fairly serious difficulties with everyday organisation. The good news is with a diagnosis and the much better support around these days young people can catch up and with the right reasonable adjustments (often free or next to no cost) in education, home and work, they can live fulfilling lives. Not getting a diagnosis during that window and the longer their life goes on, the prognosis is much less rosy https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/jan/adults-diagnosed-adhd-may-have-reduced-life-expectancies The risk is that other diagnosed and medically/legally recognised neurodiversities get caught in the tabloid dragnet - dyslexia, dyspraxia, ASD including Asperger’s and Autism.

This is the closing credits tune I remember. Except that for Southampton FC it would be 🎵 ‘Defecation, that’s what you need if you’re going to be a Derby record breaker 🎵 None of our sorry players will be first at any tape.

Dragan will need to dig deep to catch up with them financially. Wouldn’t surprise me if they did what Norwich, Saints and Ipswich did.

Here’s a post of yours I do agree with.

Dibling, and I don’t know about SAA but he showed more in one cameo than Fraser showed all of this season. Meghoma gets in Brentford’s squads yet didn’t get a sniff with us. There’s no more evidence that Wellington and any other of Rasmus’s cut price clutter will be PL suitable either. At least the club has seen the development of these lads over a period and has some sense of potential. If we’re not going to use the academy other than for making the odd modest profit like Meghoma, why not actually the going rate for a first team player in that position rather than three that aren’t? Nothing bonkers about that but then I didn’t spend months backing a manager severely out of his depth did I? Dry cleaning is ready.

Tractor names should have been Taylor, Jan and Lesley. Although you’d probably see Lesley more at Fawley.