dubai_phil

We are Southampton. We are having a buzz about us after our last game. We have a full team to pick from. Teams around us have struggled this weekend. The stage is set for us to place ourselves a couple of wins from probable safety. What can possibly go wrong? Oh yeah, we are Southampton. We know what we're going to do. Ho hum. Go find the Valium for this evening's postings on here

Here you go gang Best I could do with just the point & shoot

Unless I need to find my glasses seems this epic interview has been missed AL likes Ed Sheeran. Should we be worried? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2283057/Adam-Lallana-talks-Ricky-Gervais-Ed-Sheeran--Its-secret.html

Will have the chance to (nearly) compare in a few weeks. Noel Gallagher & his band are doing our Friday Beach Party mayhem backed up by an acoustic set from Richard Ashcroft at Sandance. Dubai can be pretty sh1t in the summer but for gigs these past few weeks have been awesome.

[h=5]Betfair are the only Bookies who will give you a price on Pompey getting relegated. They are offering a generous 1-41 :-) http://www.oddschecker.com/football/english/league-1/relegation[/h]

Jeez the guy asking all the questions at the start seems almost as sharp as #factlessallen. Why didn't he just ask him to name his team! lol re Gazza - He needs to improve a lot... Learn to relax.... Need to take it really easy with him, never know how young players will react when thrown into the deep end.... We need certain skills and abilities from our keepers that he needs to polish a lot. Better he stays here and learns than going out on loan... Interesting

The Script Oh dear. Look I caught them at Glasto couple of years ago sandwiched between Jason Mraz & Glasvegas. It was easier to stay sipping Brothers and listen than to move for an hour. They filled the hour painlessly and made some jokes about the shock of their "success", but they had no real stage presence. Fast forward to last night, it's a freebie pair of Corporate Tickets I won and Boo no free Champers BUT free Heineken in a "Lounge" a good 100 yards from the stage. Big crowd, again over 12,000 and the lads came out and did their slushy Pop. They come on stage and Danny D is straight down and into the crowd. OK that doesn't happen here, he passes the mike around getting the audience to sing along while posing for pics with the chicks. That kind of set the scene. Straight away the level of banter with the audience was WAY in advance of other bands down here (Mainly because so many bands are scared to say anything in case they "cause offence" and often because they don't know the type of audience they would get here) Great energy on stage, great interaction and banter between the band and, maybe it was the Will I am influence but their music has got better, we could almost wobble dance to some of it (well it was free beer) They had some huge sing-along moments - FFS even I hit the high notes in Falling to Pieces, I think half the crowd cried during The man who can't be moved. Then HUGE SHOCK - the lads started necking bottles of Heineken on stage - I mean like WTF? That is Sooooooo totally ILLEGAL over here. In 19 years of Gig going that is THE big taboo (The band are probably in Jail this morning!) but again it was all part of a banter with the crowd and it WAS a funny moment. (To compare in the UK it would be the equivalent of smoking a joint on stage - ala Keith Rich in Budapest!) For their penultimate song Danny gave this long speech about breaking up and ex's (yawn) but then leap down into the audience again asking if anyone could call their Ex - some chick did and he takes the phone on stage and sings the song to him.... Nice one They did their own raps for their Will I am stuff and everyone headed off to fight for taxis with smiles on their faces. Those leaving the Roses didn't have those smiles..... DAMN, I hate myself for this, but as a gig, they knocked 7 bales of sh1t out of the Roses. That is so unexpected. p.s the free beer in no way influenced that review. We had plenty before & during the Roses as well

Totally agree with that, it is what happened and there were a lot of hugs going on at the end. When I said it was a Good gig, I meant exactly that. It was good. As for watching the "Chemistry" amazingly (at our age) we found ourselves dead centre 15 feet from the stage! Perhaps I was expecting more though, hence why I was disappointed. More in a "magical moment in my gig going life" in the way that Springsteen always manages to do, Queen at the Ally Pally back in the Bicycle Race tour days, or The Rolling Stones did in Budapest, or even, in the way that a bunch of old men who sat on stools for two hours managed (The Eagles) (high up in band I never thought I would see category and WOW) or the OMG moment of Leonard Cohen at Glastonbury, and MOST strangely, Howard Jones unplugged in a pub here one night. So if you like my Good Gig description contains Kings of Leon, Santana, Kylie, Bryan Adams, Queen with Paul thingy, Jools Holland. I think expected more. So, they weren't as good as Slash two weeks ago (mind you they did roll out Alice Cooper for a number) And, (now this one hurts because there is NO WAY it should have happened), they weren't as good as the gig last night - The Script. They absolutely smashed it And no KRG I never saw them 1st time round, the whole Britpop/Madchester thing kinda missed me with moving here, and thanks to the poor American Styled local radio we had in those days we never really got into "Indie" until about the turn of he Century. It was stuff you would hear when back in the UK driving. The gig WAS unusual in that it was around 90% Brits AND it did not sell out. (Deep Purple sold more tickets FFS but then their audience is far more multinational) It was exactly the same for Muse, they came here in 2005 just after they played 3 nights at Wembley as part of a Two Day Rock Festival (without being allowed to stay overnight of course). Velvet Revolver were penultimate band on stage and because of Slash had around 8,000 people. By the time Muse came on that number was down to around 4,000. Now, that was a GREAT gig.

I just want to point out that the above review was in no way influenced by paying NINE POUNDS for a half pint of flat beer after queuing for 30 minutes

OK so a review. Ian Brown has lost it. Sorry. Look, I so was up for the gig last night, but there were times when he totally sounded like me doing a SR cover at Karaoke. Moments when the band went off and played Gawd knows what times when they missed endings. No wonder they got back for a World Tour, a Pension Plan top up. We've voted it a GOOD gig. Which rates it alongside Santana & Kylie. It wasn't what I hoped for - a Life Changing Rolling Stones in Concert gig. Maybe they ARE all getting old. FFS Liam Gallagher was 20 feet from us - WITH HIS KIDS! Maybe they did hit every note in the UK, maybe the hype missed it. We ENJOYED the gig, it was worth the money. Perhaps I had hoped for a magic moment. I got some really good moments. They had around 8,500 people at the Gig. A bunch of Pensioners (Deep Purple) had 9,000. The vote for best gig of the night is unanimous & it ain't the Roses So, over to The Script tonight. Perhaps IF they really nail it that would be a fitting IF sad epitaph. Updates tomorrow....

Madonna at the back could probably be OK with. (I got that dodgy silver covered book of hers all those years ago - didn't look photoshopped) Certainly would be worried if it was (allegedly) Lady Gaga though

And that then becomes liabilities. Which then get carried forwards.... *like* What was the FL's acceptable figure?

Nursing a hangover in the middle of a two gig weekend, and writing my wedding playlist... That post read name your top 5 Corpy, does it include Rihanna & Madonna? Mind you Rihanna would be pretty good up front

Oh come on, to be honest, AL at 21 had some really bad days. Different players mature at different times. Some (like Shaw) will be ready at 17. The other 17 year old LB is clearly not yet ready. Reeves may well be another Simon Gillett, but this loan may well be the making of him. If it isn't we'll get some of the cost of running the academy back when he does leave. I think he may have a place in the squad for a while yet

Totally agree and posted in an Olympic thread about it. Just did not sit right that he "forced" his way to compete. I felt it was wrong and still do, but I got stick about it

This. When Saudi kicked out an Extremist (even by their views) they were shocked that the Brits took him in and gave him social security & housing AND a platform Too many idiots being PC earning a living from "Race Relations" and not understanding that extremists harm Muslims Hindus Rastas and all other cultures/Religions let alone Christians

Oh yeah mosh pit with eric at our age Was it a good gig? Hell yes. Was it a great gig? Hmm few times Ian Brown seemed to go way off key sounding like a bad karaoke singer, BUT the crowd was wild, so NEARLY a great gig. Lots of love and hugs between the band when they finished. Oh & we had Liam Gallagher & his kids in the house about 30 feet from us, no I didn't go ask him if he was playing golf while he was here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2Mh3NcIOs4&feature=player_detailpage

Bonkers Vids

It really is like watching a game of Roulette They've only gone and put their entire stake down on Blue.

So if a Private Members Club that makes up it's own rules, sends written communication which could then have a material financial impact if said information turned out to be misleading or misrepresenting, a lawyer would say... Who gives a toss who buys the club and at what price, I can get the balance back from the Members Club.... Sit back with this oldies

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/manchester-city/9883853/Today-on-YouTube-Manchester-City-players-hard-at-work-doing-the-Harlem-Shake.html

Oh God stop it FFS There was a moron upon twitter Who’s responses made many feel bitter He screwed up his facts Got up everyone’s backs And turned poor old Joe to a Quitter

Somebody needs to take all the Limericks (that work) and copy & paste them and save them for posterity They'll just disappear into the ether once this thread reaches 3500 pages

We need to have a word with our Norwegian members - this is out of order