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BHF and CRUK took a hammering during the pandemic so that would be my choice.

£2m and suspended points fine. And no Steve, that money goes to the EFL as a competition and not Middlesbrough. You’ve had plenty of levelling up money already.

Ah, good old blackmail.

It’s certainly appropriate to the thread but there can’t be any genuine Saints fans there, after what Lowe did to the club.

Hellberg should be assessing how his strikers and midfielders couldn’t hit a barn door in the first half up at their dump of a town because genuinely 4-0 wouldn’t have flattered them.

They get to live in Middlesbrough as well.

Might need him to be if THB is in trouble.

I’d assume so. What a warped world we live in.

Doesn’t matter if it was or wasn’t. See it out now boys.

Need to try something. Boro waiting for penalties.

THB if it came to it.

Would you want him taking a penalty though?

Ditto. Enjoyable for the neutral perhaps.

They twatted us 4-0 up there albeit we had the better of the home league game before conceding a soft equaliser.

If Saints don’t shore the midfield there won’t be any winner.

That’s the third fib in as many weeks. He’s telling them at a Farage-esque rate.

Agree but it was inevitable given the storm Boro have whipped up. Their players don’t deserve the aggravation though, not their fault. Couldn’t see any damage to their coach though and bear in mind that their journalists are looking for any old excuse.

I don’t think Labour’s loony membership base will want Streeting though.

Bermudian international

Be asking for £20m in levelling up funding.

Do people believe me now about the standards of English journalists? The political ones are poor enough but some of the sports ones are horrendous. Brian Woolnough or Hugh Mcllvanney would have put into proportion, criticised the board and management, but none of the froth.

Azaz - no ‘I’m not celebrating against my former club’ if he scores the winner. Needs to be right in front of their fans pointing to the name on his back if he scores at the Itchen end. If it’s at the Northam then just go mental there.

He’s good in Parliament, very good actually. But the chamber environment is quite like a courtroom with procedures, protocol and disciplines which is his environment. He’s also excellent at international set pieces. Live TV debates, public settings, they’re very different and far more unpredictable these days in a populist, digital and very fast moving age. Streeting, Mahmood and probably Burnham are more cut out to operate and communicate in that landscape, especially Streeting. Could see him taking chunks off Polanski, Tice and Farage. Been brutal with the NHS changes in a way the Tories couldn’t do. Forced Reeves’s hands on the redundancy pay offs as well.

Labour need to push the Middlesbrough MP under a bus, Burnham stands and wins. Perfect solution. Made for each other. All he needs to do is slag off Southampton Football Club during the campaign, demanding our relegation over 10 consecutive seasons, and he’ll get a stonking majority.

Better than them camped at Staplewood I suppose. Probably next if Saints win tonight, At least Tonda will give them nothing.