Football Special

It's a bit of a collectors item though as not many were produced? I think the trip to Bucharest was iconic , the shirt worn not so much

It's a shame as Gao was very passionate about Saints and his daughter Nelly had struck up a lovely friendship with Kat.

Need someone with good connections to play the loan market well

Liverpool look excellent, fair play, however discussing fixtures clearly PSG over two legs and league cup final a week after our game will be priority now they are so far ahead in the league , title is done

Top man is Nigel

I'd like to see that Lawrie Macmenemy given the job til end of season , he'd sort them out

Plymouth beat them, why shouldn't we

Just read about that, got to laugh you really do , I remember going.there twice 1991/92 season, think 7k at ZDS cup game and 9k crowd at league game

He's a local lad but 'fan' might be stretching it a bit, if anything he's a Sholing fan

Would be fascinating being a fly on the wall in the meetings when these decisions were made, clearly no strategy whatsoever, yeah he'll do sign him up , it's amazing an industry with such money swilling around and so many chancers bluffing their way along , just save the time, sign a cardboard cutout and give the money to charity to at least do some use instead

Travelling back now, usual time wasted watching this bunch of cunts masquerading as a football team, they're laughing at us putting in performances like that, Chelsea have some decent players but you'd never know as we gifted them goals anyway . That defence reminded me of my Sunday league days when short of players and someone's 60 year old Dad would make up the numbers , utter shambles and not an ounce of pride amongst the lot of them.

Sooner or later we've got to improve, surely it can't get any worse can it?

Yeah looks like they are going to wait until the summer , so we'll still be paying Martin for a whole longer

Sheffield United v Leeds was a good game, both sides would comfortably beat us currently. Leeds look certain to go up so at least we won't have to play them next season

Yep and in that time we've not had anyone sticking around for consistency, had Joe Shields and Jason Wilcox and the whole Man City academy recruitment policy

I struggle with the mentality, "I did something once in a different place with different people which worked well and because of that I'm going to keep trying the same thing here with new people. I know my system is right so if it doesn't work it must be everyone else's fault" Feels like we're stuck on a loop with these "systems" continually failing again and again.

I'm not sure any of our Republic of Ireland players would be too popular at Ibrox

That would be a great job for him to be fair, and means we can stop paying him

Watching Man Utd fans reaction is comedy gold, feel sorry for the normal people losing their jobs though

It's like our fans thinking ABK will fix our defensive problems

I'm hoping we'll play Palace a few days after their FA Cup 1/4 final ( assuming they beat Millwall) and benefit from them having nothing to play for in the league. Fulham home also possible if they are in fa cup semi around then. Everton away we'll get something I think.

This could be a nice collective record to share with others as well

I'm going to call in sick to work tomorrow and say that , more time for pre match shandies as well