Lighthouse

When I was younger I briefly worked as a holiday rep. When I was doing the airport run, the last thing I said before everyone got off the coach was, "please take your rubbish with you and put it in the bin in the hotel/airport." Sure enough, when I went through to check and tidy the coach afterwards, there would be half a dozen seat pockets stuffed with rubbish. Some seats looked like a hamster had been nesting there with litter, crisps and god knows what else all over the place. That job really opened my eyes as to some of the nutters who are out there. Most of the guests were great but every now and then you got one who was from another planet. Highlights included: A morbidly obese woman who could barely squeeze into the coach seats and spent the whole journey complaining, telling me the seat rows were too close together and asking what I was going to do about it. A man who wanted ski hire, lift passes and lessons for a family of six. When presented for an invoice of over £2000 he refused to pay it and said he’d sort himself out. Several hours later he angrily phoned me up, saying I hadn’t booked any of his stuff and demanded I sort it out. Same bloke, night before the return coach journey, asked me to reserve the front row of the coach for his family. Sarcastically rolled his eyes and said, "God forbid you should actually organise something for us," when I said I couldn’t do that. Same bloke again, upon landing in Bristol, phoned and said he was going fly back over and, ‘sort me out’ because they’d queued for 2 hours at Geneva Airport security. Odd for three reasons; firstly we checked the logs and the flight departed 1hr 45 min after the coach arrived and they were on it. Secondly, airport security isn’t actually the responsibility of a 19 year old rep. Thirdly, I was 50 miles away on the Grenoble transfer bus that day. A guy who didn’t like the snow quality phoned me on my day off, asked me to come over immediately and book him flights and transfers home for that afternoon. A guy who lost his coat/lift pass whilst p*ssed in an après bar and basically blame me for it on his feedback form, saying I didn’t sort it out for him. I went to both the bars he said he’d been in, twice, they didn’t have it. Various guests who said they’d had a lovely holiday all week, then got home and put reviews on trip advisor about things like broken toilet handles or blown lightbulbs. Stuff the maintenance guy could have sorted in 5 minutes if they’d maybe mentioned it at some point. They’re out there, watch out…

I’ve been playing Pokemon Blue on Game Boy Color, so I’ve no idea how good he is I’m afraid.

We won under Koeman when Elia scored that double.

At least Andy Carroll isn't there for his traditional 'get fit just in time to play Saints, then come of the bench, elbow someone and don't get sent off, set up the winner, then get crocked for four months next game.'

I’d probably pick the team who played Man United but with Forster in goal and someone else in for Walcott, don’t care who.

Oh good, away again to Sheffield United.

Who are we going to be away to next then.

I guess tonight proves he’s even worse than Moi.

Has any player ever played for a club, where the only goals they ever scored were a single hat trick? Must have happened somewhere.

He’s out!

He’s off the f**king chain!!

Interesting team, will be good to see a bit of Broja and Tella. Should easily have enough for Newport, providing we turn up mentally.

I really didn’t see much wrong with Gardos, I was more than happy with him, Fonte, Yoshi and Toby as our CB options. Anyway, welcome Lyanco; as obscure as this signing may be, let’s hope someone, somewhere has been doing their homework.

Travel will make up the lions share of that.

I think we’re alright. Mali and Ghana aren’t currently on the red list, we’ve not got anyone else from outside Europe.

Snowdon doesn’t hold any appeal for me whatsoever. Of all the places I might choose to go walking, a peak which is crammed with tourists, has half hour queues for the summit and even a tram going up to the top isn't one of them. I know people do it to say they’ve been to the highest peak but if there’s a cafe at the top where pensioners can buy an egg custard, saying that loses some of its gravitas.

I'll never forget his birthday - 20 years old when he scored in the JPT final. Fair play to him, I was gutted we never got to sign him permanently in League 1. I remember everyone singing, "sign him up!" when he scored against us in a friendly after going back to Reading.

Another good example of the difference between being woke and being liberal. A liberal would want anyone to be given an opportunity, regardless of race, religion or sexual persuasion. Woke is thinking people from ethnic minorities need help because they can't understand the difference between racism and the colour of a t-shirt.

Okay, you’ve had some fun, give it a rest.

What do you mean, it’s one of our two default results when we play United at home; that or 2-3.

Worth pointing out we were hopeless with 3-5-2 a couple of years ago and it wasn’t until we moved away from it that results started to improve. That opening game away at Burnley was a particular lowlight. There’s no magic formula, horses for courses.

Never happened, Chad Kroeger refused to go on stage.

Yes, I’ll never forget that goal that went through Taibi’s legs.

That throw to get Livingstone out.

Having a second interweb forum is like having a second football club or wife. You guys are dead to me.