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Mine and son's both arrived this morning.

Reminds me of Fabrice Fernandes

Maybe that would bring some sanity to wages.

To add a bit of perspective, the side that started today for Man City cost £380m and the subs that came on cost £300m. Am I the only one who thinks that the ESL would have been good for the 14 or so clubs that would have been left in the EPL?

Athletico's website (needs a VPN) https://www.athletic-club.eus/en/news/2021/08/07/live-southampton-fc-athletic-club

Yes, fine with VPN apart from Spanish commentaty.

Cucumber? Custard tart? Cumulo Nimbus cloud? Curiosity?

Messi is leaving Barcelona as they can't afford to keep him. Do you think he'd fancy a spell in sunny Southampton? He'd have to take a small wage cut as he made about £100m last year.

It would be better than the half-time "entertainment" that we get at St Marys.

Just been on the site to get tickets for son and grandson and the Kingsland, most of the Itchen and the Northam are not available.

Has a similar effect.

Perhaps it's time for a Staplewood Stud Farm.

Someone should tell the presenters that they don't have to talk non-stop, especially as a lot of it was "banter". The only good thing is that it's on terrestrial TV so might get more kids interested. Cricket lost a lot of followers when Sky had the monopoly (but the EWCB made a lot of money of course).

Could this be why? https://newsthump.com/2021/07/16/gb-news-audience-plummets-after-footage-emerges-of-andrew-neil-being-polite-to-a-muslim/

Jimmy Case

Sadly died yesterday, only 68. Decent player in his day. Always remember him in that Ipswich team of Bobby Robson's.

Not much I hope as he's dead.

We still have policing by consent in this country (ie it only works if the bulk of the population behave themselves). If enough people protest in a coordinated way, the authorities will always struggle to cope.

Apparently some do. Remember the fuss when Keegan left? I think that was after the renewal deadline.

Wouldn't see any in Pompey then.

Bad news: I've broken up with my girlfriend Lorraine. She found out that I was seeing another girl, Claire Lee. Good news: I can see Claire Lee now that Lorraine has gone.

On Thursday the Great British Breakfast attracted 32000 viewers and Andrew Neil's show had 31000. Meanwhile, at the same time, the Welsh version of Paw Patrol on S4C had 161000 viewers.

Grant Shapps claimed Hancock’s aide Gina Coladangelo would have gone through a “very rigorous” process before being given a job at the health department. I bet she did.

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde: If there's one thing worse than being talked about, it's not being talked about.