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It's entirely optional.

So has MLG been taken up in some kind of Cortese rapture?

He's becoming a joke, and it's a shame. Made such an impact on arrival, for all the right reasons. Fecked it up on, off and on the pitch. Needless too. He should be taking a leaf out of Cristiano Ronaldo's book. Bulk up and get stuck in, and much less of this hitting the floor like a sack of spuds routine.

I think that might have been one of Saints best TV appearances ever. I missed the very beginning, but both Neville and Moyes were full of praise for our team, and lets face it, with muppet patrol permanently infesting the Match of the Day studios, probably the most articulate analysis of our team for decades, if not all time. This thing went on for MINUTES, and plenty of them. A far cry from staying up until 1am to see 15 seconds of goalmouth footage from L1. FFS, do you remember those days? The unbridled joy of Saints being the League One main game? Arf!

Papal, pap. I can see where the confusion comes from, but I'm not infallible, sadly. I also drive a papmobile instead of a pope mobile.

Oh, btw. Both Foster and Lukaku impressed. The former had an absolute blinder, including a penalty save, while the latter looked genuinely frightening running at players, and took the second goal well.

I watched this with the missus. In fact, I think I actually saw more of this than she did. Liverpool were unlucky to lose that, but we've seen 2-0 wins like that again and again. Late goal puts a team ahead against the run of play. Team goes further ahead as the opposition stretches itself to equalise. Was never a penalty, so justice well and truly done on that front. I genuinely feel Liverpool's fortunes might improve if Luis Suarez spent more time playing than falling over. Fk knows how Luis Enrique is getting a game on that evidence.

Sort of messes with the concept of papal infallibility.

That's not really the film makers fault though. Crispin Glover doesn't strike me as the easiest person to work with. [video=youtube_share;7dYjdKbMT_c]

Do you know what nemesis means?

I thought you said the 21 inch model was inferior? Can't be flipped? That's a deal breaker.

The screws let the rapists do it too.

Have you seen Scum?

You see that Susan Boyle? She dumped you, she did. She claimed that you were aesthetically inferior to her. I agree.

I'm surprised you got Chapel End Charlie on this one. 1971 is like yesterday to him. He actually believes today's date is 1st January 1972 Best films were made in the 70s though.

As someone who was critical of MLT after the QA session, this is a step in the right direction in terms of reconciliation. NC was mentioned, but no serious sh!t stirring.

Have to say, I am still buzzing over this result. We've had to endure some bloody bleak Mondays this season. We go into this week with a good win, a good platform for consolidation and our heads held high. Nice.

Divided as this fan base can often be, I think the whole of the away support at Wigan were united in where they thought the best place for "drum boy"'s drumsticks would be. Hint: it wasn't in his hands or near the drums. Bands per se aren't crap, but any attempt to curtail the spontaneous nature of football support generally is. Could you really see the Official Saints Crowd Band coming out with recent terrace classic, "Jason Puncheon. He went for a sh!t"? On a similar note, playing a tune after a goal is small-time and I hate stadiums that employ announcers who sound like radio DJs.

8K rise in capacity is psychologically pleasing. 25% of what we have now, again. I think I'd go higher on the capacity though. 5K empty seats looks crap unless you disguise it somehow. Would you entertain some kind of "skate pit", Kraks? A little pen containing fans of the historical entity known as Portsmouth Football Club. The kids could feed them bread.

Ah, you're just whining over nothing. Two much smaller nations don't constantly fawn over their culturally powerful neighbour all the time, so they shouldn't be represented on the stamps? I like the fact that as a whole, the United Kingdom has enough countries in it so that it can be inwardly critical.

Most people are having a moan because they've got a pre-existing beef with the chairman or have never seen the swift fall from grace of someone in a cut and thrust corporate environment. Most of the time, there is zero acknowledgement of anything save the fact that person x has left the company. Last time around, people complained about the exit of Pardew because we didn't have someone lined up to replace him straight away. Now, people are complaining about having a man in place before Adkins got the chop. It looked callous, but it was an effective transition. When MP was first hired, many people were saying that we'd definitely be relegated. Some were even saying that they hoped we'd get relegated. Feck me, you see less tarts at a pimps' convention. Still early, but MP has brought about a big change in the way we play. Pep Guardiola's comment, that his teams "come looking for you" seems to be an accurate assessment of what MP brings to the table. From my perspective as a humble fan, it's a change in outlook. I wrote earlier in the season that I could never tell how an NA game was going to go. There were teams that we should have beaten on paper, but failed to pick up 3 points from. Always felt like we were taking a punt; a lot of passing but no clear direction or gameplan. We were set up to compete under NA. We're setup to win under MP.

I have been watching the US version of House of Cards, the Netflix exclusive. I've recently watched the UK version, so was a little intrigued by the show for curiosity value, if only to see how badly they've messed it up. In all truth, I think they've done a very good job. It's undergone a number of changes in translation. Francis Urquhart, the Conservative chief whip, becomes Frank Underwood, the Democrats whip in the house who carries himself as a softly spoken Southern gent. They've expanded the series to include a number of sub-plots, some of which work better than the others. The pervs among you will be pleased to know that the US version is a lot easier on the eye ( the cokeheads missus is amazing ), but assessing the show on higher merits, there's a lot to like - and quite a lot of room for this to justifiably be a separate thing from its UK source material. Very impressed so far.

Bald men arguing over hair straighteners. Or perhaps more accurately, a load of people arguing interminably about something that probably won't be proved for another x years. Put your money where your mouth is. 2018. Five years from now. Two questions. The maximum capacity of the stadium. The average home attendance. I know it's a bit of a wait, and I'll admit, I'm kicking the issue into the long grass AND putting people on the spot simultaneously. "Price Is Right" rules. Closest person to either figure wins, but if you go over, you've lost.

Completely agree. Managed to keep my bed reasonably dry over the NA sacking. I could see how the timing looked appalling, but I was unsure on us in the Prem under NA anyway. We'd been playing nice stuff, but without any true conviction that we fancied getting it in the net that much. That definitely looks to have changed. The treatment of Rickie under MP has been completely different. With NA, you were never sure if RL was going to start. With MP, he's captain of the team (long may that continue, btw) and once again, contributing to tons of attacking play. He looks like a player that has been galvanised by the recent changes. Rickie rightfully gets a lot of respect for the fact that he's played through all the leagues. It looks like he's reinventing himself again. He may be on his way to 31, but I still think he's got a long career ahead of him. The vast majority of what he's good at will be with him until he retires.

Which Football Association did these players play most of their club football for? George Best didn't spend his time playing for Linfield or Portadown. Denis Law played in England for almost his entire career, and never played for a Scottish club.