Lighthouse

Roy Keane talks about who you'd want next to you 'in the trenches' when it comes to the big or tough games and he's got a point. When one of your midfielders gets a new haircut every time United are on TV, but sulks because he's not allowed to wear the earrings to go with it and another midfielder has the coolest TikTok videos in year 11, it raises a few questions about their collective mentality.

28 going on 15 that lad. Generally harmless compared to some of the stuff footballers get up to but nevertheless he comes across as a complete Womble.

A Tadic goal and assist send Serbia to the World Cup.

Would have been funnier if they’d added some Jim Ross WWE commentary, instead of that stupid music.

I think Londis have a BOGOFF going on bleach and syringes.

My rule of thumb for travel is that I want at least a day there for every hour I spend on the plane.

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/boycott-tesco-father-christmas-advert/ As a regular Tesco shopper, I’m absolutely devastated that I won’t be able to buy my groceries in the company of antivaxxers any longer.

I would be almost certain that the Forecast deal also involved a reasonable bag of cash heading in Saints direction, in exchange for Bale’s sell on fee. For all the criticism of Lowe, he was no fool when it came to money. He wouldn’t have given that sell on fee away just for a third choice ‘keeper we didn’t need. We would have needed that money to stay afloat for another few months, so I don’t think we particularly had much choice.

Never been but I’m sure somebody, might even have been on here, once referred to it as the ‘Aussie Benidorm’.

I only wish people had higher def. camera phones back then, so we could enjoy that moment in full 1080p glory.

You can also do scuba diving courses and/or have a fight with a drunk Russian, as you prefer.

So Hojbjerg insisting that he would only sign for Spurs wasn’t an issue?

Or, more likely, he will agree a deal with his preferred club and somebody will put the idea in his head that if he refuses to sign for anyone else, that puts us in a much weaker negotiating position, which will then be reflected in the lower transfer fee. That lower transfer fee can then be offset by a nice juicy signing on fee and wages.

Stones had a longer contract and there was the 'English premium' which you have to add on to a deal like that. My point is exactly as I posted it. If he hadn't been sold in 2016 he could have gone somewhere the following summer for about £15m.

Complete conjecture, players have been sold all across various transfer windows for large fees. F**k off and buy him next summer for £15m?

The difference is only the combined fee we paid for Pelle and Livramento.

11th December is a good date to unplug the TV, if anyone wants avoid the kind of media spectacle that will give you diabetes.

No.

I was slightly too young for it all, I listened to The Smurfs go Pop in the 90s.

He was criticised for some poor performances early on in his time here, up until Christmas 2014 he didn’t come up to standard, even for Saints. It’s a bit of a SaintsWeb myth that Mané was some world class player that everyone hated. Up until his final ten games here, he looked nothing like the player he is for Liverpool.

I don’t think that statement actually applies to anyone.

We used to have a poster called SKD who insisted that San Marino were better managed than Saints, at the back end of last season. He got banned just before you registered, which is a shame really as I think you’d have had an interesting debate on this issue.

I can't say I've been to Reading and checked in the last year or so, so who knows; maybe he is right.

You can say that about any team, if we had Saints defence and were scoring 2/3 a game we’d be top of the league. I see no reason to think we’ll be in a relegation scrap come next spring. Right now we’re as close to 5th as we are to 18th.

He didn’t but I think SOGs point is a reasonable progression of that chain of thought. He hasn’t said anything unreasonable IMO.