Gloucester Saint

Beattie as well was very reliable from the spot.

Yes, home to Spurs I think. My old man was impressed with Folly playing at DMC.

My old man had a few quid on him for the first goal at the League Cup final as he was our penalty taker at 16/1 and low and behold… Very nice little win back then I believe.

Allegedly kept our players waiting in a boiling tunnel at Plymouth pre-season whilst he received an award from them which caused ill will with the senior players (IIRC that was from MLT’s memoirs). Beattie got serious shit off their fans playing for Everton but denied he was horrible to Sturrock or offered him his autograph (was the rumour). Still, even 04/05 looks sane compared to Russell Martin, Rasmus Ankerson and the madness of SR.

I was there for City away, at the Barbados Test for Wolves and missed Claus’s first goal. My old man attended home games in my absence and saw Delap’s overhead kick. I should have gone on Barmy Army duty more often!

Fair point 🙂 The jocks managed to stop short of the cliff edge and there were loads of hidden costs in their leave campaign, not least a lack of clarity of whether they could carry on using Sterling, whether the EC would let them join the Euro (very unlikely as Spain didn’t want the Basques kicking off) and/or the EU itself.

I thought about Steve Williams but my first season was 83/84 and that was the only full season I remember him from although was superb. Christmas 1984 he went to Arsenal which never really worked out for him. I’ll edit to put him on the bench. Golac was slightly past his best by that time, have seen the WBA goal on You Tube. Keegan sadly just tantalisingly before my time, ditto Channon, both leaving summer 1982. Beattie v Lambert was a tough decision, Lambert was a more refined player but James’s astonishing 02/03 got him in. Imagine the conversation rate given supply from peak MLT, David Armstrong, and Danny Wallace!

When you’re too much of a sicko and a pervert even for the present day GOP, that’s some statement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Gaetz

https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/chancellor-rachel-reeves-budget-brexit-behind-labour-ps40-billion-tax-rise-4847584 https://www.itv.com/news/2022-12-20/brexit-costs-government-40-billion-a-year-in-lost-tax-revenue https://www.bestforbritain.org/inheriting_the_cost_of_brexit Nationalism is very expensive

But much further behind still now. Which considering the club went down in 22/23 with a pathetic 24 points is a seriously piss poorly run and managed club.

What have we said before Duck about not telling us what you really think 😂😂😂

Yes, as Badger said, that stuck out and disappointed me. Bullshitters seem to get away with it often, and with his fellow bullshitter the manager they are taking SFC potentially down a road even Markus couldn’t have dug the club out of.

They all do it, they wouldn’t get elected otherwise. Maggie on doubling VAT, the party I vote for on tuition fees to get the ministerial cars, Brown on pensions. Farage has told loads and now he’s elected it’ll be harder to shrug them off.

👏 Quality and well deserved for a ‘poster’ who is a true WUM. Love and Light

The NI contributions weren’t and that’s a major earner to repair the damage. I’ve got a very wealthy friend who will be moaning about the VAT on public school fees but with hundreds of schools failing under aero concrete, it’s easy to understand why. He doesn’t like it but I understand it. We also needed to stop the rail strikes to save the huge hospitality industry and health ones to get productivity up and sick back to work. The border force needed boosting and that costs money. Personally I’d have reversed the NI cut we clearly couldn’t afford and rejoin the Single Market, because Slovenians and Finns aren’t coming here via boats, and we wouldn’t have a £40bn economic black hole every year. But unlike Labour, I don’t have to worry about re-election or political optics, I can pick the common sense solutions. Do those two and we’re not even discussing farmers.

Funnily enough thriving under a good manager who plays non-ponderous higher energy football (although anything slower than Russball is like the WBA fan who fell asleep in the away end last year).

Fair enough, they’re having to make some unpopular and difficult decisions as the Coalition did in its early years. We probably both disagree and also agree on some of the measures they’ve respectively taken and whether the burden should have fallen elsewhere or not, but the burden was made clear by the IFS pre election whoever won, as it was in 2010.

In that right wing bubble, probably, although most of the country felt the same about Boris after partygate and Truss wrecked what was left of the economy after him, we resented both of them having access to oxygen. Still do actually. Preferably they just emigrate to America and kiss Trump’s arse for 4 years and give various empty speeches at the Heritage Foundation. Whatever Labour does, it’s factually impossible to fuck the economy more than those two did. The tabloids can’t run away from their own shit they advocated for (Mail, Telegraph and Truss and all of them on Brexit). They got their Disneyland and it was a fucking disaster beyond any current or future comparison. Taking economic lectures from Truss and Kwarteng is like Nadine Dorries telling people drinking is bad for them.

Best (top flight) Manager: Lawrie Shilton Dennis VVD Wright KWP Armstrong, Morgan, MLT D Wallace Moran Beattie Subs: Flowers, Lambert (Beattie just pipped him), Case (close run with Morgan), Steve Williams, M Svensson, Pahars, Fonte, Bertrand, Rod Wallace, Lallana, Tadic, Mane, S Davis, Pelle, Monkou, Bridge, Niemi (two keepers on the bench but you can’t leave Antti out), Glenn Cockerill (80s), Statham, Ostenstad, Dean Richards, Clyne, JWP Worst (top flight) Manager: Russell Martin Bazanu Bernard, Hoedt, Jakobsson, S Baker Mccann, Quashie, Lesley, David Lee Carrillo BBD Subs: Blayney, Lemina (should have been a shoe in but Lesley nicked his spot by looking like he’s won a prize to play), Dixon (half pissed and addicted to gambling but just slightly better than BBD), Steve Wood(hoof!), Moody, Todd, Ely, Kenton, Ross Stewart, Speedie, Cherednik, Lyanco, Davenport, Van Damme (never has a name been less apt, just as bad at Wolves), Ray Wallace, Nilsson

Super Sunday has never been a more inappropriate title for the programme - super if you live in Merseyside and/or Cornwall/Devon/Somerset/Kent

Broadly, you make a fair point. Farmer Saint does as well in the sense plenty didn’t and it’s the far more affluent end around here, Devon, N Yorkshire, E Anglia making the bulk of the noise through the usual tabloids. They got mugged by Boris and Farage along with the fishing community and most of them need to access key public services, even Clarkson. The Farmers Alliance made all sorts of trouble for Blair over fuel duty and it didn’t make a blind bit of difference. Empathy with the vast majority of farmers who have had a shit deal from supermarkets and various governments, but if the Tories ever got a US trade deal in a decade’s time, bye bye farming and the Health Service. Come on, eat up, savour your hormone-injected beef and chlorinated chicken. Bye bye food standards.

Good work Dark Munster starting this thread - the focus is not just on Martin now but on Rasmus and SR https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/southampton

I didn’t realise Paul Marshall, owner of GB News, had pulled out of buying it. Instead it’s a British born American owner in pole position. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/daily-telegraph-sale-dovid-efune-new-york-sun-b2625225.html It sounds like a local bogstandard neocon response to the New York Times, on a fraction on the circulation. Sounds like a bid is quite a bit more than anyone else which makes you wonder what he wants with it. Possibly to boost the NY Sun’s appeal beyond it’s compact centre-right suburban footprint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Sun#:~:text=The New York Sun is,well as occasional arts content. Interesting little link to the DT’s past - Conrad Black was also involved with the NY Sun’s revival in the 00s. No obvious red flags as to being approved politically, it’s old school DT fayre, I just can’t see where he’s getting the money from as it’s like the owner of Poole Town buying Saints https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america/telegraph-bidder-dovid-efunes-new-york-sun-is-obscure-even-in-home-city/ Rumours that he’s seeking other investors, and he should, because the DT runs an annual loss of £240m, which is too much for even offshore tax dodgers the Barclays, plus their very costly family dispute.

It’s behind a paywall on the Mail’s website but it sounds absolutely foul. Her book is currently being serialised via them. It was never going to be high on intellectual content but Mad Nads is going for the shock factor.

With a Glaswegian hint, via Bournemouth and Kenya. Love and Light.