Whitey Grandad

That maybe why he might consider going for something now. I expect all these factors are in his considerations. He might think that he is better off signing an improved contract with us. We shall see.

I have just paid for my two seats that I had previously reserved. I asked about the deadline and was told that it is midnight on Monday 19th July. I chose to make the payments by credirt card over seven months with the first being made today and the others being taken on the 31st August and the end of the subsequent months. I mentioned that the 'contact' link at the bottom of the supporters' account page was broken and I was told that they knew about this. For those like me who had to go hunting for it, here it is, 02381 780780

I would argue that the defacing of the mural is not of itself a racist act. I know nothing about the motives of the perpretators so I cannot jump to a prejudgment. I condemn the act for what it is, not because of what I might think the motives behind it to be. So why bring it up?

Good. Now you've got it. Not making jokes about black people when you would have made a joke about a white person is discriminatory. The sooner we can treat all people as equals the better. The more that the colour of a person's skin is raised the more that differentiation and discrimination will continue.

They are singling out the ones that didn't score in the penalty shoot out. The colour of their skin is not mentioned.

Weird, isn’t it? What do they know that we don’t?

Some anecdotal stories saying that vaccination ‘cures’ long Covid. If such a thing actually exists.

I’ll be there. That’s if I remember today for my season tickets before Monday.

So. A commendable performance in a major football competition gets turned into a discussion about racism. I look forward to the day when we can all treat each other as equal human beings without being diverted by the colour of a person's skin. We don't take any norice of the colour of their eyes, or of their hair.

Well, yes, I include Southgate in ‘they’.

Son will play when Ings is injured.

Because anyone on trial is innocent until proven guilty.

It was obvious to most commentators that we had lost the midfield. We had a doughnut formation with everybody around the outside and nobody in the middle. Italy might have got lucky with the rebound for their goal but we could all see that it was coming. After they scored we were struggling to hang on for 0-0 and penalties. They blew their one big chance.

Er, no it doesn’t. Er, yes you can.

But he did have the odd moment. Didn’t injury effectively finish his career? 7th February 1998: Liverpool 2-3 Southampton (Hirst 2, Ostenstad)Saints claimed their first win at Anfield for 17 years thanks to a brace of goals from David Hirst.The striker grabbed his first of the game from the penalty spot after nine minutes to give the visitors a perfect start to the match.Liverpool forward Michael Owen levelled up before the break to make it 1-1 at half-time.It would go on to be another late show, with Egil Ostenstad sweeping home an assist from Hirst to make it 2-1, before the Norwegian returned the favour for Hirst to smash in the third past David James.Owen reduced the arrears in stoppage time, but Dave Jones’ Saints were deserved winners on the day.Southampton team: Paul Jones, Jason Dodd, Lee Todd, Kevin Richardson, Ken Monkou, Claus Lundekvam (Richard Dryden 49), John Beresford, Matt Oakley (Andy Williams 15), David Hughes, David Hirst, Kevin Davies (Egil Ostenstad 39)

To some extent he was let down by the players that he trusted.

Haiti?

Southgate will not have slept well last night and will have replaying all the events in his head over and over again. I think it's fair to say that all his substitutes apart from Grealish let him down to some degree. Whatever, I'm over it already. Anybody else looking forward to Jamaica v Suriname in the CONCACAF Gold Cup tonight?

Such memories are for the future. So you think we might meet them in the final of the European Cup one day?

Whether we pay them the €4 million all in one go or in three stages.

Good luck and thanks for the memory.

??? Against Ukraine Maguire and Henderson scored from a free kick and a corner respectively.

Yep. There doesn't have to be any sort of list but the referee and his assistants will keep a record of who has taken them to make sure that everybody has their turn. There are restrictions of numbers such that if one team has fewer players than the other then certain players will have to be excluded and the referee informed of their names and numbers. Only players on the pitch at the end of the game may take part and there are certain exemptions for goalkeepers who cannot continue during the process.

From the BBC, Extra-time substitute Jack Grealish - responding to criticism by ITV pundit Roy Keane for not taking a penalty - tweeted: "I said I wanted to take one! "The gaffer [Southgate] has made so many right decisions through this tournament and he did tonight. But I won't have people say that I didn't want to take a peno when I said I will…"

A replacement for Jankewitz?