The Cat

Was at the Wedgewood Rooms last night where massive hype band Wet Leg were playing. The support were Honeyglaze who are very good but have reasonably quiet parts to some of their songs. To be honest I probably would have sold my tickets if it wasn't for them being announced as support because I bought them in October when Wet Leg had barely done anything, and when they subsequently did it mostly turned out to be moderately average at best. You could hear loud chatter all the way through Honeyglaze. It's just inconsiderate, moronic behaviour.

People talking all over the support band at gigs. If you want to chat fuck off to the bar so the rest of us can enjoy the music.

Corner flag? Try seats right by the tunnel mate. Great chance to film myself clapping the quadruple winners off, while giving Van Dijk a high five and using a selfie stick to get a photo with Klopp. All of that will be going straight on social media, Instagram, Tik Tok, Snapchat. You just have to maximise content reach across all platforms.

He'd only played 81 minutes in the last 3 weeks. These injuries are totally random and can happen any time if you are unfortunate enough.

It's Bearsy, right?

Lloris is 35. I reckon they'll be looking to replace him sooner rather than later. His stats this season are ok but he's definitely not quite as good as he was, although Spurs probably have other areas that need addressing more urgently than GK.

Henderson is so much better than Johnstone. It's not even close.

The only annoying thing is Hoddle keeping on referring to Paris when he really means Paris Saint Germain because we all know that Paris are in Ligue 2 and therefore haven't been playing against Real Madrid this season. Just saved MLG a post there.

What's the final scene? Benzema scoring his hat trick after a double back somersault?

Also, he sounded like he was sat in the downstairs toilet while doing it.

Hahaha, what a time to score a penalty like that 🤣🤣

Trousers punching the air as Pompey come from 2-0 down to go 3-2 up.

This Champions League game has been something else. Fair play to Man City, they have been sensational going forward, albeit helped by Real Madrid having a few injuries.

The translation of this comment underneath that article on twitter made me chuckle.

Think it's only Small who has been given that opportunity. The fact the 18's are going for the league has meant they are putting strong teams out. This may have had an impact on any bench appearances for those players. Maybe we'll see the odd one get in the match day squad when their season has finished.

Happy with a point there. Keeps Palace below us until Saturday and gets Leeds another point ahead of Everton.

Also add Luke Pearce to my earlier "players to watch" list.

The names everyone needs to be keeping an eye on are Doyle, Dibling, Ballard, Morgan and Pearce. There's plenty more but these are the 5 who are really pushing on. Another one, but I believe from the year below them, is Will Merry. I know an academy player and he described his dribbling as the best he's ever seen and like "Tyler Dibling on steroids" It truly seems like we have another golden crop coming through and this will be a very exciting time. For now we just need to enjoy watching their progress.

Heard a story about Dibling a few months ago. Saints turned up at a tournament and soon as they got off the coach a Man Utd rep came over and asked if Dibling was with them because they wanted to see how their apparently amazing full back "who hadn't been beaten all season" would fare against him. By the end of the first half Dibling had skinned this kid repeatedly and scored a hat trick. From what I hear he has everything. Other clubs have constantly been after him, talking to his parents at games etc but his family are really decent, grounded people and know that Saints is the best place for him to learn and be given opportunities, hence the contract in the article above.

https://axminster.nub.news/news/local-news/talented-axminster-youngster-offered-professional-contract-with-southampton-fc

Ballard played yesterday for the U18's.

Don't forget the fist pumping.

In those situations I think it's the keeper's responsibility to call a defender to stand in-between him and the attacking player. This goes down to the personal preference of the keeper. Some do, some don't. But ultimately it's their call. Maybe Forster didn't want someone there and felt he could cope.

In the race for 9th we're going to finish 16th.

It's because Redmond is actually pretty good and tries to create stuff.