Winnersaint

Unlike you to use 'socialist' as a pejorative.

Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson in Boardwalk Empire, plus a shout out for the rather oddly cast Stephen Graham as Al Capone.

Tranmere here we come!

Here's a thing The closest point in the UK to Greenland is 879 miles border to border. The USA is 1226 miles from Greenland using the same calculation. Somebody probably showed Trump a Mercator projection of the world which distorts the size of land masses the further away from the Equator you go, and his eyes lit up at how much he could increase the size of the US.

Overcast, cool and fairly calm here in the Thames Valley. F****** horrible out with dogs a couple of hours ago mind. We rarely get snow here what with the Hampshire and Berkshire Downs to the south and west respectively and the Chilterns to the north. If it comes from the east we're too far west and vice versa.

My dad took me to The Dell in October 63, a few weeks short of my 6th birthday. It was against Leeds. Bremner, Giles, Collins etc. We lost 4-1, they got promoted under Don Revie, and I was hooked from that point. I went sporadically after that. My dad was in the Fleet Air Arm and was stationed at Boscombe Down we were living a fair distance the other side of Salisbury at the time so it was a bit of trek. Went a few times in our promotion season, but the old man was away on HMS Eagle for three months of it, although I was at Mick Channon's debut game. The 66 World Cup followed and by that point I was a confirmed Saints fan. By this point my dad was stationed largely at Daedalus and we were in North Baddesley so I went more regularly and then the lifetime of the ups and downs of being a Saints fan truly began. 60 odd years later the ups and downs continue.

RIP. Was at this game which secured our survival at the end of our first season in Div 1. Great header from Chivers to open scoring and remember the penalty incident. i was 9 so not tall enough to see it hit the net. https://www.google.com/search?q=southampton+v+nottingham+forest+1967&sca_esv=2abb81a9f80b289a&rlz=1C1VDKB_enUS1081US1081&sxsrf=ANbL-n5jtivCmTxUkTnT2GsYYG-1HCI7Sg%3A1767811824400&ei=8KpeadzmF8eYhbIPgp_BwQ4&oq=Southampton+v+Nott+1967&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiF1NvdXRoYW1wdG9uIHYgTm90dCAxOTY3KgIIADIKECEYoAEYwwQYCjIKECEYoAEYwwQYCjIKECEYoAEYwwQYCjIKECEYoAEYwwQYCki8O1CRCFi_J3ABeACQAQCYAXWgAZsIqgEEMTMuMbgBAcgBAPgBAZgCDqACpAjCAg4QABiABBiwAxiGAxiKBcICCBAAGLADGO8FwgILEAAYgAQYsAMYogTCAgcQIxiwAhgnwgIFEAAY7wXCAggQABiABBiiBMICBhAAGAgYHsICCxAAGIAEGIYDGIoFwgIIECEYoAEYwwSYAwCIBgGQBgaSBwQxMi4yoAeWP7IHBDExLjK4B50IwgcFMS44LjXIByiACAA&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:fc5e332c,vid:oPOAsWjKyiY,st:0

Downes, Harwood Bellis, Bazunu, Manning, Arma, Wood, Stephens they're all part of the rotten core from last season and just need to do one. No sooner was RM out the door they threw their football toys out the pram. Did for Juric and Still and now seemingly for Eckert. This is on the players.

Joan?

Happy New Year to you too. Its not the message or the politics. I saw him interviewed recently. His rudeness and capacity get 'shouty' is only equalled by Mohammed Yusuf Zia. That's what I found objectionable.

That Mark Littlewood formally of the right wing IEA Think Tank is a Saints fan. He can fuck right off. Is he St Ralph ?

Agreed, watch it far less these days than I used to. There is some good stuff on it still but opinion on that is a matter of taste. Any station peddling Mrs Brown's Boys needs to take a long hard look at itself.

Pretty much, going further back the real highlight was the Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show in the middle of the evening, this is from 1977. Newsreaders and sports commentators of the day doing 'There ain't nothing like a dame.'

Just wondering if that's some kind of BDSM movie?😂

Not a bad shout, however, it assumes that they are graduates and have done a PGCE. The other routes in like Teach First are maybe not as compatible with a football career. Either way gaining school experience is extremely time consuming and would almost certainly impact football obligations negatively, as would school commitments, preparation, marking, meetings, parents evenings etc. On the plus side they'd be great role models for particularly the girls