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How are the away fans who come by train going to get back to the station? Are they going to use Chapel Road, through St Marys churchyard and make their way across the parks? A good few thousand home fans use that route back to town or to the Ocean Village area so there could be problems there.

I don't remember any great pressure for him to go. Maybe a bit of a victim of his own success in finishing 7th the season before. When he did go where was a hope that we could get Redknapp, who was making a bit of a name for himself at Bournemouth, with Jimmy Case as player/assistant manager. Instead we got Branfoot whose first act was to show Jimmy the door.

This is worth a watch.. Very articulate and interesting character:

Do you think that he had a wet-nurse? Probably still has one.

Just been confirmed.

You can park on Town Quay. I think it's about a fiver for 4 hours. The Platform had a fire last year but has now re-opened. Town Quay bus:

Kingswood by-election today. The Reform Party candidate is one Rupert Lowe.

Not the only problem: https://www.ft.com/content/ac26be66-7b85-40a3-b2b6-900256866fd9

JWP not having a very good time against the Gooners. Not sure if he touched the ball more than 2 or 3 times in the first half.

Generally, in this country we have policing by consent, ie most people obey the law. If enough people break the law the police are pretty powerless. If, on a march of say, 20000 people, 80% of them wore masks, what would happen? Maybe a few token arrests but each person detained has to be taken to a Police station and processed which takes manpower away from the march. It's totally unworkable and I'm sure that the police aren't particularly interested in enforcing it.

Well, incidents of Rickets, malnutrition and Scurvy increased sharply last year, so he's definitely making progress. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/victorian-disease-gout-rickets-vitamin-d-mumps-scurvy-measles-malnutrition-nhs-hospital-admitted-a8795686.html

I see that, out of the 5000 immigrants that were listed to go to Rwanda before the courts stopped it, 4300 have "vanished" and the Home Office have no idea where they are.

My normal route to the ground is via Melbourne St along with a good few thousand others. I would guess that the away coaches would park in the bit of Melbourne St that leads out onto Marine Parade where they could then turn left and go up past the Stadium to Northam Road. Melbourne St gets quite congested after the match so maybe they will close it to home fans until after the coaches have gone as they sometimes do with the North car park. The other problem could be with away fans who come by train. Their most direct route back to the station is Northam Road. I can't see them being sent up Melbourne St to Chapel Road and up past St Mary's Church and then to find their way across the parks to the station. The only other way is along behind the Kingsland to to footbridge.

I think it was because, at the end of the Covid-delayed season, he refused a month's extension to his contract which would have enabled hims to play Bournemouth's last few games and maybe escape relegation. He signed for Newcastle and sod's law saw Howe become manager there, so they were probably not the best of friends.

They say that you should always be nice to people when you're on the way up because you'll probably meet them again when you're on the way down.

A chat with Ryan Fraser:

West Ham fans not too keen on Danny.

Where did the Chinese come into this?

Water. A bucket or hose, the more the better. Cats hate getting wet.

Tried to get my grandson the black away shirt. None in the club shop so went to JD Sports.

What? Both of them?

Saw Keith Emerson in The Nice at Southampton Guildhall a couple of years earlier.

Mail? Mirror? Guardian?

A number of years ago I had a broken underground drain pipe. The insurance company appointed a firm from Gosport so, when I made them tea, it was served in Saints mugs. To be fair they were decent guys so I didn't spit in it first.

Exactly. From where I was watching from the Chapel it took ages for the stewards to do anything, and we were well into half-time before the medics arrived.