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'Twould scan better if the second and fourth line in the verse rhymed. How about: Playing on the pitch at Southampton, Not in Italy, Holland or France. The man in the goal said, "What a foot; what a head; You know he didn't even give me a chance; Christ, he makes it look easy; You know the way it will be; The way things are going He's gonna score twenty-three.

Tumescent ask questions like that.

I find this sort of post so annoying. Would it be too much for you to preface your brief statement [well, it's not really a statement, is it, because it's not a complete sentence, and therefore not a complete thought] with a few words that explain your message. For example: "I think that ...", or "I have just heard from X that ...", or "I am making a wild guess that ...", or "Wouldn't it be great if ...", or, "I have just read in Y that ...", etc.

Indeed!

Lovren makes an excellent tackle on Anelka in the box.

Wanyama is "a unit" (?)

Fonte gives away a needless corner.

Boruc Chambers, Fonte, Lovren, Shaw Wanyama, Schneiderlin Ward-Prowse, Lallana ©, Rodriguez Lambert

Do we continue on this thread, or is someone gonna open a match thread?

Probably because of the technical problems they've been having with dialogues between studio and remote locations.

Weird on Saints Player - only getting one half of the dialogues.

Saints Player on already, and it's an away game! Hope they do this every week - or maybe it's just because it's the first game of the season.

You contradict yourself. If this is not news, but an opinion piece, then it requires - according to you - paragraphs in order to "express more complex thoughts in an attractive way." But I disagree, anyway. The writing of both news and opinion is improved by using paragraphs. They improve comprehension and speed up the process.

A perfect example of why paragraphs make prose easier to read. I have written a few times to newspapers who insist on following a policy of 'every sentence is its own paragraph'. Their response is always the same: the "average reader" cannot cope with dense paragraphs (paragraphs with more than one sentence, apparently!). Au contraire, paragraphing helps the writer to keep associated ideas together, and it helps the reader by showing the logical flow of the writing - especially if there are good transitions between those paragraphs.

Sorry for duplication

I suggest you consider the issue of libel. This is not a topic to be bandied about lightly.

Was Richard Thompson there this year? What did you think were the highlights?

A Rainbow in Curved Air by Terry Riley - 1969 Snowflakes Are Dancing by Tomita (synthesizer versions of music by Claude Debussy) - 1974 Switched on Bach by Wendy Carlos (synthesizer versions of music by J.S. Bach) - 1968 And lots of albums by Brian Eno, e.g: Another Green World - 1975 Discreet Music - 1975 Music for Films - 1978 Music for Airports - 1978

This is a classic category mistake. The ad is not news, or information. It's comedy. And very amusing, btw!

Final whistle. Saints win 4-3.

Puncheon seems to have been busily effective since coming on.

4-3. Isgrove's shot deflected to Puncheon, who taps it in.

Ward-Prowse has a good long-range strike (about 30 yards) on target.

10 minutes left.

Mayuka just misses. Corner.