stevegrant

Trust me, £5 a pint is not massively expensive here! We're paying something like 8 or 9 CHF a pint, which is about £6. Everything's expensive here though, even an extra value meal is about £7

We went past a few petrol stations on the way into Thun this morning and their petrol seems to be about 10p a litre cheaper than in the UK. No idea how much it is in France these days though.

Someone I know has a space in their car for the trip, doing 2 nights in the Ibis in Fribourg for £100 all in.

5pm UK time, 6pm locally

There's occasional thunderstorms forecast for later today here, and if they're anything like the one we had last night, there's genuine danger the game might get called off Probably about 5 inches of rain fell in an hour 35 degrees all day until the big dark cloud came over at about 6pm.

Got a few decisions wrong, but generally coped well in very testing circumstances, IMO. I hate the collective ****athon over the Spanish team though, the perfect definition of bad winners. Yes, they were the best side, but they really didn't need to resort to playacting, rolling around all over the place, surrounding the ref, waving imaginary cards, etc.

Nope, I'm on an early sleazyjet flight out of Gatwick, arriving at 10.45

Trescothick 50 off 13 balls Danny Briggs giving us a chance though

A hashtag is basically a "topic", which you can search for quickly to find related Tweets. For Saints-related stuff, type #saintsfc somewhere within your Tweet and anyone looking for that topic will find it.

Terrible with animated GIFs though

I find Facebook chat to be really unreliable (and it was particularly bad in Firefox). @officialsaints does basic updates from the games, as does @SaintsWeb of course and there are always loads of people posting in on the #saintsfc hashtag during games as well.

Touché ART, the Saints feed's been running since July, pretty sure it's been mentioned a number of times in the past

@officialsaints is the SFC Twitter feed, which has been running for ages.

Gatwick, not Luton, fortunately. Seat numbers

Surprised Gary Johnson didn't take them to Latvia, to be honest.

The square root of **** all I'll be packing on Sunday, I'm at work today, going to Uxbridge for the cricket and then back home for a wedding reception, and then free all day Sunday. Up at 4 on Monday though

What's Andy Townsend got to do with it?

He's in charge of merchandise, the megastore, etc, yes.

Well I fly into Basel airport on the 12th... not quite the same, but hey ho

You'd need permission from the club to use it on a product, though.

Just checked the CVA proposal, the first year's wage budget is £13.6m, so to be fair to him he's alright on that one. That said, he then goes on to say that they're on the verge of selling Belhadj for £3.75m... only a few months ago, they were touting him around for £5m. Lenny Sowah was also valued at a fair bit more than £165,000. Not quite so easy, this selling players malarkey, is it, Android?

In general, yes, but I don't see too much of an issue with the club wanting to get some part-time staff on their books on a full-time basis. Fair enough, haven't really been paying attention to other clubs' backroom staff, other than seeing that Coles and Groves hadn't shown up to Pompey's pre-season training. Do you have any other tones in your locker other than "tediously patronising"?

I would imagine he's got another job that he deems more important to him or pays more than Saints were offering for a full-time contract (or both!). Maybe we could get David Coles back...

Their chairman has been likened to a modern-day Robert Maxwell by the local paper His businesses are £22m in debt, and they continue to get bailed out by Sainsburys, who have already agreed a deal to buy Roots Hall when they eventually move to their new ground at Fossett's Farm.

Jordan Sibley looks after the Twitter feed. His official title now is "Club Spokesman", but he is essentially the middleman between the club and the press, "Media Liaison Officer" is probably the most mainstream job title that fits, I guess.