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As long as we don't have to listen to him talk about it. Puel World - dull football followed by dull interviews.

I'm guessing the decision was made prior to the United game and the replacement process started then and is all but complete now. At least we learned from last season when a manager kept promising improvement but the league form and table were ignored. Let's face it, not beating that United side is shocking - our Championship side would have banged four past them and the League One side would have fancied it too. The new guy has quite a job to do - first task could be planning a big expensive bonfire of deadwood in January.

We. Would. Destroy. Them. (imo)

Owners of Portsmouth News are going into administration.

Nick's partially correct - there's only one team to laugh at right now. But let's remember that they are competing against scout groups and service stations in a division that has now become slightly less competitive than the Dockyard League. At this rate we'll get to see how good they really are at SMS next season.

Such a sad day for football - it puts the minor irritations of things like league tables into context. Shanks got it wrong, it's just a game.

Isn't that a service station?

However Mr Farmery called claims that 'scummers' came from broken strikes as an ‘urban myth'. He explained said: ‘There is no documentation evidence of the origins (of scummers) particularly. ‘I think the most likely explanation is that it was a term invented in the 60s or 70s as a term for Southampton supporters and people from the city in general and it caught on. ‘There is no evidence that it originates from dockyards and shipping. It very much seems to be an urban myth. #notnews Next you'll be telling us that you don't bring £13m into the city every home game.

This is a living nightmare for them - they've spent six years moaning about the Premier League, celebrating their distance from it and boasting how proper football in League Two is brilliant. Now here they are knocking on the door of the Champions' League and threatening to lose all the goodwill generated by playing the likes of Fleetwood and Barnet every other week. Disney Boy needs to put the brakes on and maintain the gloriously plucky lower league status that everyone says they love...and when Sky come offering £150m they can tell them where to stick their dirty cash!

I'm just pointing out that there are many people who have no idea what evidence there may or may not be, but they jumped the gun on day one and decided exactly what had occurred. They have since then followed wherever The Daily Mail and The Sun have pointed them without asking any questions about the validity of the scenario being spun. We are now being asked to believe that two clueless clowns who can't even organise a day trip, are top professional hitmen sent by Putin. They came in under their own names, blundered around the shops locating every CCTV camera in Wiltshire, they failed to kill the target, they handled and dumped weapons grade nerve agent in a park, without harming themselves - now they have appeared on TV offering a ridiculous explanation based mainly around the height of the cathedral, and their main ambition to walk to Stonehenge, was scuppered by a dash of snow and the lack of a street map. And you think I'm nuts for suggesting that they don't sound like top spies?... They sound like a pair of cheap backstreet hitmen brought in by an annoyed former business partner - but if you believe they are the Kremlin's finest, go with it and we shall in time see what evidence there is to link to Putin.

The irony of a bloke called Shurlock dismissing the idea of a proper investigation! Do tell me what evidence we have in the public domain today, that you would put before the CPS? Not the mad ramblings of a couple of dodgy Russians, not the wild claims by tabloids, just map out the solid evidence we have that would help us convict these guys...

I just said we haven't yet seen enough evidence to convict them - a simple statement of fact that anyone with a basic knowledge of the CPS would agree with. Having a chaotic and odd holiday or threatening to walk to Stonehenge isn't an actual offence, it just seems quite unlikely. As for people thinking that these two are the best operatives that the Russian State can offer, good luck with that! The clever bit will be if we do actually have something to place them at the scene but we're saving it for the slim hope of extradition. And at least one of you needs to calm down and read the frigging posts rather than going all kneejerk like a gammony frothing-at-the-mouth Daily Mail reader. Look at the facts that are out there, and tell me how we can convict on that alone.

Their explanation fits nicely with their initial visit - laughable. If guilty they must be the world's worst hitmen - it's like the final outing for the Chuckle Brothers. And I've seen nothing that under normal circumstances would get them convicted in the UK. No evidence to put them at the door, no physical or dna evidence, no link to the unfortunate who picked up the bottle, just lots of images of two thickos windowshopping. If they are guilty, we can't prove it. But it doesn't half distract an easily-led media away from a government in crisis.

Chaplin just broke the HeroVillainometer.

They do realise that their local rivals are now Eastleigh and Havant?

There's a a mistake on the fixtures. I was assured that we'd be playing them this season but I've been through the whole lot twice and someone seems to have missed them off. Presumably Sky are keeping them as their biggest game of the season and we all have to wait until they decide when they want the two matches played.

It's become very clear in recent years that there is a distinct lack of quality and skills at the top of government - of all flavours. If you ask idiots to represent you and negotiate anything important, don't be surprised when it turns into a total clusterfuc£. There are people currently shaping our future, who I wouldn't trust to sit the correct way on a toilet.

The people have sent a weak and unstable idiot out to play poker on our behalf with a hand containing a two, a library card, one Top Trump and Mrs Bun the Baker's wife, and those who froth at the mouth the most are now looking surprised that it's all going a little bit Pete.

Yep they're still enjoying real football in the backwaters, but they are going to spend big, big, big! Mainly because they need a safety certificate and a pitch that drains, but they've dressed that up as some glorious future investment and the plucky faithful have translated that as a new 35k-seater stadium that will make the Harbourdome look like the Withdean. And re the new signing who is all excited because he saw the mighty blue army when he was a boy...I saw Slade when I was a boy but it doesn't make me want to team up with Dave Hill and tour in 2018. That would be crazee.

Of all the countries he was likely to declare war on, I didn't expect Canada to be the first target. I'm looking forward to that free trade deal with the US that Boris told us about....should be finalised any day now.

Stevie wasn't detained for reporting a trial, he was arrested for contempt of court because he was interfering with a trial - for the second time. There are thousands of people on social media who need to get informed before they jump on the far right freedom bus. The far right is clumsily selling the idea that illegally quizzing defendants, solicitors and jury members within the precincts of the court is the same as reporting the facts. People can either choose to buy in as it suits their agenda - or perhaps follow meekly along because they're as thick as pig's ****? Either way, if you are looking for a genuine free speech battle to support, and there are many out there, this isn't one.

I'm not a massive Stones fan but when they're playing in your back garden it's only polite to attend - and they were bloody awesome. It was the best thing I've seen on that pitch since Boufal scored against West Brom, and if Boufal was as fit and dedicated as Jagger he wouldn't be on the youth team's summer minibus trip to Butlins Minehead. It was a great show - and you don't leave SMS muttering that very often these days.

It's a simple tale which requires no complex analysis. A man was arrested for breaking laws which apply to everyone. He repeated the offence and was jailed. The end.

Let's just clarify, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon aka man-on-the-street Tommy Robinson was not jailed for telling the truth or exposing wrongdoing - do not believe the social media hype, he's no warrior of free speech. Neither was he silenced to protect offenders - as Bexy points out, his stupidity could have led to alleged rapists walking free, as their defence solicitor could have pointed to his reckless interference in the case. The style of his Facebooking Live within the precincts of the court could have destroyed the entire police investigation. His actions were the height of so-called citizen journalism stupidity - a man with zero grasp of UK law drives a bus through the restrictions regarding the reporting of court cases, then reverses over the survivors.... On the other point, some might suggest that if a man behaves like a moron and sounds like a moron while repeating the mistakes of history, there's a pretty good chance that he is a touch moronic.

Indeed, Trousers deals with all enquiries, he's happy to talk newcomers through the whole thread, one page at a time, explaining every reference and offering unique background analysis.