Lighthouse

Not a great start to the year for Boeing, this happening three days after Airbus proved the A350 was built like a Soviet tank.

You have to feel a bit for anyone who went for a dump on 153/4 and missed the next 11 balls.

I didn't realise this game went on for four days. Is it a test match?

Villa win an FA Cup game for the first time since 2016 apparently. Wow.

I believe QVC will be doing it at sunrise on Wednesday.

Yep. He really needs to get his arse in gear and improve on 6 goals conceded in 12 games.

Vince hit 79 off 57 today for the Sixers as they beat the Stars in the BBL. He’s had a couple of decent games out there.

It’s like an early noughties computer game where they haven’t got the NPCs quite right.

You get the point though, it’s very much a one way argument. A bunch of male Sunday league players analysing the women’s WC on BBC/ITV would not be tolerated. It a ridiculous sentence for a murderer. Reva’s poor family, it only feels like yesterday he was being sentenced.

Barton has never been anything other than an absolute kn*bber, so I can't say I'm in any way interested in the crap he comes out with. TBH I don't really watch any punditry or analysis these days, it's all getting pretty inane and repetitive. On the point of gender, I think if we had a debate about for e.g. COVID, with female professor of infectious disease, then got a bloke on who'd done GCSE biology to disagree with her, there'd be quite a few complaints about it, regardless of what was being said.

A bright and prosperous new year for Japan.

More like three months after it closed.

Hardly any transfer, to any club, in any transfer window has ever been done when the window opens on the first of January or whenever the summer date is. Negotiations just don’t work that way and other clubs have no motivation to sell players as soon as possible in that way.

We primarily moderate the main board because it’s a Saints football forum and 95% of users only use that particular sub-forum to discuss Saints. As far as off topic forums go, unless it starts getting properly vitriolic, hateful we generally just let it play out. The Lounge is pretty much 95% of the trouble (there are currently 106 total reported posts) from 5% of the posters/content. To put it bluntly, we’ve all got lives and none of us can be bothered to spend them moderating this crap. The alternative is we just get rid of The Lounge, which by definition anyone reading this post doesn’t want. As for SOG, he is also like alpine in that he largely brings it on himself. A few weeks ago I did lock this thread because everyone needed a time out. He immediately went on the ‘small things which annoy you’ thread (which generally seems to self-maintain a light hearted humour) and posted: "People who assume that you lie and make things up on an anonymous forum just because they disagree with you. Not everybody is a liar or on the wind up" If you’re that desperate for an argument and a petulant reaction, don’t come crying to me when you get one.

I vaguely remember it being £1.2m but yes, ludicrous. We absolutely shat a brick after the Palace game and everyone quadrupled their prices. Thomas would have been a decent enough signing, six weeks earlier for £300k buy hey ho…

I refuse to believe Harry Redknapp was capable of or interested in anything other than Harry Redknapp. I genuinely believe he was always out for number one and ducking in and out of Pompey when it suited him was just a means to an end. John was a separate deal for a little over £1m, IIRC, plus a fairly hefty wage packet. He may well have scored a lot but ultimately he was a big part of the problem which sent the club into administration. Rasiak, Saga, BWP and DMG was a more than capable selection of forwards, far better than we have now. They should easily have scored enough goals for a vaguely competent manager (with even a basic understanding of defending) to finish top half and stay financially stable in the process.

A slight difference there in that we basically wasted our first season down with a disinterested Redk*pp going through the motions. The second we improved but still underperformed with a hugely talented squad, scraping into the playoffs. It could still all have been fine. We sold Bale, Baird and Pele for about £12m, which should have balanced the books but we went and squandered the lot on more old expensive journeymen like Euell, John, Thomas and Safari, whilst keeping all the top earners and still somehow not having a defence for the first game. A nanogram of common sense in the summer of 2007 and we’d never have gone bust like we did.

Those bicep curls are really starting to pay off, keep it up mate!

You know you're dealing with an authentic sauce when the 'E' is a '3' and there's a random stock photo of a football pitch as an avatar.

It's ironic really, that's actually the one thing that Hamas and the Israeli government can both agree on.

Knowing their owners, Megan Rapinoe's BC.

F**k me that’s an absolutely dreadful dive from Jota and VAR hasn’t overturned it.

Use feet and have thicker lines, lets say 6 inches. If there is any overlap between the lines, the player is onside. If there's even a slither of green grass - offside. It'll take three seconds to establish, not minutes of geometry and head scratching.

Bank holiday opening hours. I get that you might want to close early on NYE but why today? Nobody is going out tonight, everyone’s back at work tomorrow.

Happy New Year everyone. NYE always reminds me of one of the best episodes of any comedy ever made.