Lighthouse

I remember our damp rainy trip to Coventry last season. It's got to be one of the most dull, depressing places to live in Britain. Good job we won 4-2 otherwise I'd have probably killed myself.

One heck of a second half at the Stadium of Light. 4-2 to West Brom, that will do nicely.

Our defeat at West Brom maybe not looking quite as bad these days. If they can hang on to this lead (against a team who just can't score) they will be 2 points off the top of the League, albeit having played a game more than Man City.

6 other Premier League fixtures today and a few results we should keep an eye on. Sunderland vs West Brom (1245) - Away win please Everton vs Norwich - Everton Man Utd vs QPR - Man Utd Stoke vs Fulham - Fulham are 3 points ahead so them probably Wigan vs Reading - Draw Villa vs Arsenal (1730) - Arsenal please and in League 1.... Coventry vs Skates

There seems to be some kind of inverse law with the women I know on Facebook. The hotter they are the more boring the sh*t they post. Kids are pretty irritating but the worst have got to be the photos taken at arms length whilst pouting for no apparent reason.

Not really sure I want to hang around with you any more mate.

I think I'd quite like to be Finnish. - High standards of living, education, health care etc. - They're all sh*t hot drivers. - Women appear to be by and large quite tidy. - Proper winters with snow and stuff. - They know how to drink - Close proximity to Sweden, the Baltics and Russia

I'm not so sure about this sort of thing. If we keep it up, our coaching staff will be made up largely of retired Saints players when really we need to be going for the best people we can get.

Kelvin has always had his limitations as a 'keeper and I was aprehensive about having him in goal before the start of the season. I remember him drawing a lot of criticism even in League 1 for being beaten too easily at his near post and not coming for crosses. He got away with it to an extent in the lower leagues but I think the PL is slightly above his level. Had a bit of a 'mare with Sunderland too I think.

Is he theirs to sell? I thought pretty much all their players were on month to month rolling contracts and could just bugger off whenever they wanted.

I would say no. I'm sure in the future promoting the clubs image abroad will become a large priority. Right now we have bigger priorities like sorting out our defence and staying in the league. Bringing in Beckham wont help us and the large media circus etc. may disturb the team ethic somewhat. I doubt he will be all that good as a player either. Robert Pries was as good as Beckham on his day. He joined Villa at a similar age a couple of years ago and was hopeless. There are very few players still capable of playing at that level when they're 37. I don't see any need to try when we've got very capable young players in Lallana, Gaston and Puncheon.

Nobody has asked if Skacel has signed yet. My faith in you lot has been ever so slightly restored.

I knew broadband was slow in Ukraine but Jesus...

Because he is a Saints player who is being linked with another club? He isn't the inbred offspring of Branfoot and his sister that we keep locked in the attic and don't talk about. Christ, the way some people are going on at him you'd think he'd been caught drowning puppies. We will have to rename this Skacel syndrome I think. "I saw a 3 minute youtube video of all the goals he scored in a year and he looked world class. Apparently he isn't world class, what a c**t!"

I think he could do a decent job in the championship. The problem is he never suited our style of play and seemed on a completely different wavelength from the other players. We played with the likes of Lallana and Guly cutting in from wide and into central possitions. Steve is much more the traditional wide man, running for the by-line with chalk on his laces. Let's not demonise him as being useless. Aside from the Reading game he came on and made a big difference at home to Ipswich and at Coventry and he had a decent game on Boxing Day against Palace. He also changed the game when he came on at Cardiff but it was far too late to make a difference. There were other decent performances too, just not consistent enough to make the spot his own. Good luck to him wherever he ends up. Seems a nice lad (on twitter anyway) and clearly has some tallent.

They're coming...

Lambert has 83 league goals for Saints (30+21+27+5) so far. If he gets another 8 he will overtake Tommy Mulgrew and enter Saints all time top 10 league scorers.

You can come and hang out on my yacht in the med, provided you bring her with you.

I see Santi Cazorla was this weeks 'man of the match', "I looked at him years ago when he played for xxxxx, I've always known he was class" from 'Arry. Someone different every feckin' week from him.

I think it was a good sub. Gaston was class on the ball but looked a bit off the pace and gave the ball away trying to be too clever. Davis gave us a bit more grit and helped us dominate the midfield.

If Santa was a Russian oil billionaire who could bring you one gift, anything you wanted, what would you get? I quite fancy one of these; the $33m, 60kt, 118ft WallyPower motor yacht Would need a decent sized berth for it in Ocean Village too.