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As already said, the FCC are threatening these broadcasting companies with revocation of their licences if they don’t comply with their wishes. Trump had already said publicly that he wanted Kimmel gone. The two late night hosts on NBC will be next if they don’t bend the knee. Kimmel talking rubbish? It was very clear that Trump and Trumpists were using Kirk’s death to score political points almost immediately. As for Trump’s comments about how he was holding up after the death of his friend and he started to talk about the building of a ballroom at the Whitehouse, Kimmel was spot on when he said that was like a child mourning a goldfish, not an adult mourning a friend. The very thin skinned narcissist cannot handle the slightest bit of criticism. Apparently companies are now being encouraged to fire people for saying “horrible things!” Free speech? I don’t think so. It is only so if you say something complimentary or in support of Trump and his regime. We have also had a Fox host, Brian Kilmeade, say, live on air, that mentally ill homeless people should be given a lethal injection. The suppression of dissent, blatant censorship when it comes to questioning those in power (the main Australian broadcasting corporation was not given accreditation to today’s presser with Trump because one of their journalists asked him an awkward question), the use of “alternative facts” as opposed to real facts and the use of euthanasia against the mentally ill are all straight from the fascist playbook from the 1930s. You have to be a special kind of Trump apologist to deny what is currently happening in and to the USA by this President and his administration. Not all Fascists wear smart black uniforms with jodhpurs and shiny boots.

We must be a similar age. I grew up in a non football household, when I was 4 we moved out of Bitterne to a little village in the north of Hampshire as it was close to the M4 that was creeping out of London towards Reading making my Dads regular selling trips to London much easier (M3 was ages away at that time). All the kids at the village primary school were like sheep with that seasons best football teams. Leeds were in their pomp, so joining the herd they became my team too, and one Christmas I get an all white football kit with the Leeds United smiley face badge AND number 4 printed on the back - Billy Bremner. (I even got the funny numbered sock flag). Like I said having no parental guidance on football and school chums following the next best team of the time Derby, QPR, all had a turn (never Liverpool weirdly) most confusing. Thankfully a trip to Granny and Grandads in Shirley and the back pages of the Echo saw a parting of the clouds and a revelatory shaft of light guiding me to where I should go. Alas I've only done 50 years - so a mere stripling compared to some on here.

The first "one out" has been flown to France.

Yeah, what a joke😉

Brendan Carr, the chair of the US Federal Communications Commission, who was appointed by Trump and is evidently a fervent defender of free speech when it is right wing voices being censored, threatened to revoke ABC's licence if they didn't take immediate action over Kimmel's comments. If you don't believe this was a decision forced by the Trump administration then you are utterly deluded.

Nice to read all the reminiscings above that my thread has prompted.

Fucking Starmer, noshing off Trump to increase investment in the UK. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2nllgl3q7o

Ralph showing off his balance...

I don't think you properly understood what he said, or the meaning behind it. The point behind what he was saying that there should be no relevance of the political leanings of the shooter, whether left or right - this should not be a stick to beat anyone with or to point score with, yet that is all the right have used it as.

ChatGPT has called me out as particularly funny

Are we still ratifying his transfer?

The lions in Trafalgar Square are anatomically wrong, their legs and posture are not correct.

My mums 93 and is a Saints fan, although it's been 20 years since she last went to a game, she still follows it all in the Echo and on Radio Solent. In the late 40's and early 50's she used to cycle to every game with her mate from Eastleigh.

It's almost as if the significance of symbolic entities evolve over time rather than staying rigidly fixed to their original meaning... Unless we're all agreed on using the original definition of 'Boxing Day' of course...

No no no. You have clearly not read the memo. When the left do it, it is not fascist. When in fact anyone with half an ounce of brain can see it is the left who hate free speech unless you agree with them.

Ignoring the joke claims, genuinely, my wife got chatting to a 93 year old lady late last season, who's been coming since she was 6.

Update on ticket sales for this batch of northern games - Hull (2,300) and Derby (3,100) both sold out weeks before the games, we took the 2,700 allocation for Liverpool with 350 still available and only 160 left for Sheff Utd (2,700) which will be very close if not a sell-out by the time it comes round. Impressive numbers, 1,200 miles on the road for most and two midweek fixtures. Time for the team to step up.

Lawrie Mac is 89 now, might not have started out a Saints fan but I reckon he's earnt the right to be classed as one now.

What a load of woke leftie bollocks - there's nothing more English than lions. You'll be trying to tell me next that St George isn't English.

Somerset will surely be due one for their game against Durham that was done in 5 sessions, and would imagine their penalty will (should) be much bigger. Not that it makes any tangible difference to anything, really. 10% chance of rain in Taunton, so we're going to have to bat all day, which feels somewhat unlikely. One bugbear of mine, they went off for bad light as soon as Orr was given out LBW last night. The light doesn't turn in the space of one delivery, so were the umpires just hoping to get through to the end of the over before calling play off, or did they only think "ooh, bit dark now" after the fall of the wicket? Going in this morning 0 down compared to 1 might (unlikely, but might) prove the difference...

Bulletin

And we matched our result against the skates from 2011-2012.......

He is nowhere near a 'facist' - there seems to be a lack of understanding of this word. When conservative commentators were cancelled during Biden's presidency was he a facist? As I said before, I think Kimmel is talking rubbish but shouldnt be cancelled

No league wins in over a month. Time to get on with it.