Whitey Grandad

I cannot add any more to what has already been written. One of the Greatest Ever Saints and I'd like to think that in some small way we helped him to become the wonderful player that he was.

Up to three posts a day?

Not restricted to just one person, unfortunately.

Nah, both tyres were knackered. My Mercedes one had been driven flat for a couple of hundred yards and the inside was shredded and my wife's puncture was right on the shoulder. A repair wouldn't have lasted two minutes.

Who's the pilot, Fabrice Fernandez?

For a bet George Best once played a whole game using only his left foot. And he scored with it.

It wouldn't be £70million up front.

This (I'd prefer £80m )

The contract of sale would be separate from the player's contract of employment.

A paper profit's not a profit until it's banked. If the offer is high enough we should grab it and run away laughing. Who knows, he might never reach his previous standard.

Ta muchly.

So we had a bad season last year? I blame Puel

One game doesn't make an exciting season.

Care to elaborate? You haven't got the slightest idea about life in the fifties.

Knuckle down and work hard and they might just earn it. Everybody started off poor.

Unless they get more right wing and turn Tory as they get older.

Good point, but perhaps they will fail in their qualifying game or maybe finish 3rd if they get to the groups?

Yes, it rather spoils you for anything else.

Yes, it rather spoils you for anything else.

We should all be eternally grateful to him for scoring our first two goals against Arsenal in our last game at The Dell and thereby setting up Matty's glorious winner. Edit: enjoy MOTD all over again:

Do you really think she inherited a bit pot of gold? All loans have to be at a commercial rate.

So far they have. How long before one goes astray and hits Japan?

Maybe, but they shouldn't test them on other nations.

That is why Hoddle never made it as a manager. Matt scored that hat trick for England B and still didn't get picked. For anybody who supports England it was one big crying shame.

I was reduced to tears watching those, all of which I saw live. It is one of the great privileges of my life that I was there to see him in his prime.