rallyboy

Most disappointed with that design, no underwater aspect, no mention of the World Cup final, no sign of Pele or Zidane. But it does looks like a master plan that is reliant on building on some land they don't own, Tesco raising no objections, the reintroduction of terracing in the Premier League and three promotions. I guess the budget for all of that will be maybe £150m? With only approx £100k of matchday income last weekend, it's time to bring out the BIG buckets! The fan-owned business model works in the non-league, it is flawed if you want to spend big. They should just enjoy beating people like Dagenham, Morecambe and Fleetwood, but there does seem to be an obsession with keeping up with the neighbours. Sadly for them, all of their neighbours are doing quite nicely but they are living in a landlocked leaky caravan on bricks while talking a lot about building a mansion when they win the lottery. That plan is just raising the hopes of the toothless, a rallying cry for the little simple people - the same ones who lapped up the Harbourdome and thought the club would really spend a billion pounds on the compulsory purchase of an area of seafront and part of the dockyard before building on the sea so that Diego Maradona could use the Gosport Ferry to get to the World Cup arena... It sounds like I made that up - but I didn't. Reality check needed again.

Last time one of them showed a nice touch was behind the bins at Horton Heath. They have centre backs who struggle to trap a bag of cement.

You have to admire McLaren's determination to fight reality, he just flatly refuses to accept that he is bald. We need more managers with blind faith. Well done to him for retaining that small hamster corpse above his forehead. It doesn't look ridiculous.

HMS Victory is less than 20% original wood now and the guns are made of fibre glass, but other than that it's lovely. Reminds me of a football team that is living on past glories from previous centuries and occasionally slaps Aldi emulsion on the cracks to keep up appearances.

A saints fan dying at their ground? - Top banter! Like booing a dead man in front of his family was just banter. One bloke has the right idea - look east and wave them goodbye Ted, leave them as a little blip in history, wave them goodbye....

Bournemouth's promotion was an amazing achievement but I suspect they, like many promoted teams before, will get a Premier League wake up call sometime very soon. They are in for a tough season, survival would be equal to promotion. Their matchday income isn't vast so they have to invest the TV money wisely or it could all go a bit Blackpool fairly quickly. As for comparisons, we are two very different clubs with different expectations and infrastructures - the only connection may be that we both invested wisely through lower divisions.

With that beautifully presented arena I fear we now have the confusion of virtual and real worlds. I hope the few don't get mixed up and start living in a fantasy world where you can overspend and ignore the debt and if you say something enough times it becomes true. Imagine if a team in League Two claimed to have the best atmosphere in world football, they would be a laughing stock! Thankfully it's just a computer game.

Even the pitch looks playable, that must be the same digital virtual turf sold to people at the training ground.

Indeed - it's a nice touch as a tribute to one of the game designers. Though I'm sure the few will think it's because they are a massive club.

When you said Martina didn't hide his frustrations, he made two good runs in the first half and was offered woeful return passes twice in a minute, one for a throw, the other straight out for a goalkick...the passing too him was quite poor throughout and I could understand why he might have wanted to ask what the F was going on occasionally.

It's written to be controversial, to create debate and to drive traffic to advertisers. They come up with an angle and then hunt down someone who will give a quote that fits the agenda. The same reason that some sites include deliberate spelling mistakes. Look at these idiots who can't spell... Yes, and 100,000 more people just viewed their site and increased their income from advertising. These are sad times for real news.

For me Rickie is a legend from our history, a vital part of our journey back - but that time has gone and we've moved on. Pelle now has the chance to create his own status - but he'll need to deliver over the next couple of seasons and I'm not convinced that we would be able to hang onto a prolific goalscorer that long, nor that he has the consistency. We only hung onto Rickie because the rest of football told us he was alright in League One but he couldn't hack it in the Championship, followed by he might be alright in the Championship but he'll never make the step up. His journey from League One to scoring for England will go down in Saints folklore, hopefully Pelle can do enough to join him on a web banner one day, but he has a long way to go.

This new idea of selling tickets twice is getting complicated, Liam Lawrence is going to have to stay on top of it or general sales will be all over the place.

Innovative? A pioneering trail-blazing, fan-friendly, community-inspired brain wave from the brand-leading, genre-defining, pluckiest marketeers in world sport! If you can't attend, the club sells your seat...isn't that the same service that we and presumably many others offer? I'm guessing the last time they filled their ground was when we played there, the season ticket holders who have suffered every other game since are pretty unlikely to miss their next big match against Sandbach Services, Lego Land or Greendale.

pompey scoop top award! Fratton Arena nearly ranked in top 50 Premier League grounds of all time.

Vic is da man.

He had one task at Spurs last season, to improve on Redknapp and Sherwood by going top four. He failed, so they continue to live in the shadows of their neighbour. Hopefully he repeats that stunt, but frankly I'm more interested in what we are up to.

It might look smalltime but that's not any old furniture - that's the original table tennis table from HMS Victory, the one that Nelson and Hardy played upon as cannon balls and splintered wood rained down around them off Trafalgar. And those screens are from Kennedy Space Centre and were used in the historic Apollo 11 mission to put man on the moon, while the floor has been laid using wooden planks from Noah's Ark. You guys are too quick to judge - cos you're jealous!

It's a village hall on youth club night! Though I have to say for a caravan it looks pretty spacious and an ability to play table tennis when the building is being towed must help with balance and coordination.

I believe it's called having fun... Perhaps those who don't really enjoy having fun should give it a wide berth and save energy for their next kneejerk post match inquest, everyone else can enjoy it for what it is - some mildly-talented extroverts doing their thang in a comic manner.

That's a lot of advertising, when the paintjob still hasn't been approved by the main investor in the build project...no doubt the majority of the sponsorship money will be passed directly back to cover the grant. Probably with interest and an apology.

That can't be right, there's something fishy going on...

Good stage today. The French couldn't police a rowdy meeting of the WI let alone do crowd control at a sporting event - the scenes on the final climb today were ridiculous, luckily Sky were shrewd enough to send their Dutchman up first through the Orange corner. How are the authorities getting on with arresting the bloke identified yesterday spitting on Froome? Won't hold my breath. And well done to the rest of the Sky riders for the shift they put in today. Now I just await the results of Nibali's blood test from yesterday.

Three slight hitches that might halt the world's bestest sporting investment getting a new investor... 1. There is nothing worth investing in. 2. They don't want to sell. 3. They've landlocked themselves for a tenner.

Looks like the deluded nutters are emerging from their bunkers.....