Winnersaint

From the outset, he’s never struck me as a particularly well person and as you say it’s scary he’s the leader of the free world. As for all this Irish bollocks he’s about as Irish by descent as I am. One great great grandparent who left Co Cork and rocked up in St Mary’s and met and married a bloke from Poole.

Not a fan then?

Presumably he's off limits for the cool kids then? Whines on a lot about Brexit so I've heard. From what I can gather he's not as left wing as some would perceive and then there's Carl Beech.

60th year supporting Saints, will be utterly disinterested by Championship. Bollocks football played by bollocks players.

No I’m watching the Ronde Van Vlanderaan to keep myself busy before, during and after. Can’t beat the drama of a bike race over the Flemish cobbled climbs. One of my sporting highlights of the year, so watching a home win for West Ham doesn’t get anywhere near.

And have done in the last ten years. Recency bias and all that

Yes its a very crude metric for living standards. Obviously per capita it is a better indicator but as with all central tendency calculations it has its drawbacks. Development data tends towards HDI which again is an average with health measured by life expectancy, education by the expected years of schooling on entry alongside GDP per capita. Pretty standard fare for Year 11 Geography lessons. Hope some prick doesn't pop upon here to tell me I'm not qualified to teach about this after 40 odd years in secondary geography education, as they did when I happened to mention in a post some while back about teaching a balanced view of climate change. I'll leave it you to guess who it was

Now there was a programme. Southern Television at its finest. Loose Women for the 1970s. Sure they regularly had a nun on there.

John Redwood is my MP he is a cunt! Just saying.

The late David Armstrong for me.

That first lockdown is just etched in my memory. Wife diagnosed with cancer the Saturday after the lockdown, life saving surgery for her on the Monday. Lost mum over the Easter weekend. Can't quite compute that was three years ago.

I've watched it from the start of UK TV coverage in 1982 on Channel 4. The 49ers were the first to catch my attention as winners of the previous SB but couldn't say I was a fan. Its more moments, teams and players that I have enjoyed following over the years but that brings me back to the 49ers to some extent with Joe Montana, Steve Young, Jerry Rice, Roger Craig et al. However, the drama of 'The Drive' with Elway leading the Broncos 98 yards, and the 2009 Saints winning only 4 years after Katrina stick in the memory also. In fact I was having a discussion with my neighbour today about the GOATs of various sports this morning and where they sat across all sports. I had four names, Jimmy Anderson, Cristiano Ronaldo, Tom Brady and Drew Brees.

We got one in lockdown, a pizza oven that is, not a government. Other shit in my garage that takes up room also includes two inflatable hot tubs, an electric patio heater, a roof box and my daughter's gear from Uni (she graduated in 2017) which hasn't moved for a number of years. Amazing how much stuff we accumulate, There's barely enough room for bikes.

Im off to watch the last 80km of Milan-San Remo, I really can’t be arsed to engage with this lot any more.

Kin ell I heard of the missionary position and a few others but never the MLT position

Rock bottom again!

The Yorkshire Dales always look nice on All Creatures Great and Small though.

I think in most cases most people are simply mediocre. The thick ones don't aspire upwards towards mediocrity while the clever ones just think they are special.

Can't argue with that basic fact, however large areas of Turkey are pretty inhospitable extensions of the middle east with 60% of the whole country being prone to desertification according to the IPCC.

From the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs "If you or your parent were born on the island of Ireland before 2005, you are an Irish citizen. You can apply for an Irish passport without making an application for citizenship." Take my example. I was a service child. Dad was an electrical engineer in the Fleet Air Arm and stationed at HMS Gannet (RNAS Eglinton) when I was born. It was considered a home posting so my mum went with him. I think they were back in Hampshire less than six months later. My fleeting contact with the island of Ireland makes me an Irish citizen automatically and I do indeed hold both UK and Irish passports as will my daughter when her application goes through. As most of my travel this year will be to EU countries I know which one I'll be using more often than not.

Well if Wrexham 74 is a metaphor for this season we're fucked. On my 16th birthday Saints beat Everton and were 4th in the league. By the time I did my O Levels we were relegated.

Always has to be hope in whatever you are dealing with.

Think Forest was when I gave up the ghost this season. Club needs a re-set. Re Leicester losing Bertrand so early on didnt help but I'm not taking her again

My daughter went to see her first game on a pissing wet October night v Leicester a few years back, thank your lucky stars!