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The club have always been pretty good at this sort of thing. Many years ago a mate's mum was very poorly in Southampton General. She was an avid Saints fan so he wrote to the club to see if they might send her a card. Much to her delight, one morning in walks Danny Wallace with a card and a big bunch of flowers. Made her day.

If you've got kids, you can always get a "call" on your mobile saying that one of them is unwell and you have to go home.

Remember standing behind the Milton Road goal on a sunny afternoon when we put 8 past Coventry who had in their team a very young Stuart Pearce. Hat tricks for Danny Wallace and Steve Moran. Frank Worthington might not have scored many but he created an awful lot of chances for others. I would have loved him to have stayed but Lawrie didn't approve of his activities with the ladies.

The latest Stephen King - Under the Dome. Big book - 850 pages. I've done about 300 pages so far and it's OK.

According the the website of the Southampton store, they do home delivery but they don't specify the cost.

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com Excellent site for every aspect of saving money.

There's a bit in todays about a pensioner who's had a bit of trouble with yobs in Lordshill. Apparently, he's lived in his house for 75 years. I seem to remember Lordshill being built in the late sixties.

His contract was until 2012, so he'll presumably get a good payoff. Whoever they get, they haven't got the players to seriously compete in world footy. 25 years ago, every top English team had a Scottish international - Souness, Dalgliesh, McQueen, McAllister etc. Where are the players of that calibre now?

Don't agree about George Best. Yes, he wasted his considerable talent, he was a hopeless alcoholic and he took a liver that could have probably been better used by someone else. But I couldn't help liking him.

Soccerstats.com might be a start.

Used to go there in my mis-spent youth. There used to be an old dear bashing out songs on the piano on Saturday nights.

"Bad Science" by Dr. Ben Goldacre. Comprehensive de-bunking of the homoeopathy and funny-diet industries. He states that Dr Gillian McKeith bought her PHD from some obscure place in the USA. He also got one from the same place for his dead cat.

I'm no expert but I believe that a legal contract is made when they accept your payment. In a shop, after they take your money, they must sell you the item at the original price. Not sure how it works on the web. if you paid by debit card, has the money been taken out? If it has I'd think you have a good case. Have a chat with Trading Standards - they're usually pretty helpful.

Nothing incorrect but no evidence either. The chairman says that it's important they make the right decision, but he doesn't name anyone.

Absolutely - a good read.

Just been reading a history of wartime France. It was by no means a united country. There were many factions getting ready to take over at the end of the war. Many resistance groups were run by the communists and Britain supplied them with arms arms and training. De Gaulle's main fear was that the communists would say that they took the fight to the enemy while De Gaulle was safe in London (which was true). He therefore resented the British giving help to the resistance. Both Eisenhower and Montgomery had big problems with him after D-Day but, eventually, they saw him as the lesser of two evils.

You can get 3300 -1 on another 3-1 win with the same scorers in the same order. Worth a tenner??

We've always been an HP site, but recently we've bought a few Canon ip4600's. Very nice printer, comes with a little CD holder so that you can print direct to CD. Will also print from certain digital cameras without going via a PC. Has separate cartridges for each colour and a big black one. We got ours for £70.00 but I think retail is around £100.00

Train to Waterloo, Jubillee line to North Greenwich, 200m walk.

Eastleigh beat Dover 3-5 yesterday. Could be an interesting draw for the 1st round.

I had an old Mk2 Consul when I was 19. Bench front seat (useful for the girls) and column gear shift.

Ah, the days of analogue phones. Spent many hours listening to conversations on my scanner. Heard quite a few blokes talking to their bits on the side. Once heard Jim Smith when he was manager down the road. The language he was using would make a sailor blush. Digital ruined it all.

The problem with Ryanair is that they don't actually go where you think. For Barcelona they fly to Girona or Reus both nearly 70 miles from Barcelona. For Frankfurt they go to Hahn (80 miles) and for Brussels they go to Charleroi (20 miles). So do your research first.

Depends how you judge a manager. Is a manager who does well with a mediocre team better than one that wins things with a team full of super-stars. Both have their strengths. I'm sure that managing a team full of millionaire prima-donnas isn't necessarily easier than a more modest outfit. Ferguson and Wenger seem best with the former and Lawrie certainly knew how to get the best out of a mixture of youngsters and older players who many thought were past it.