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Meanwhile, over in Australia, 40c temperatures and play continued, people cooled down using the water mister and the Government didn't need to tell everyone to make sure they had a bottle of water with them : https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/articles/c1ev96w4xv6o

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj9r8ezym3ro Perhaps Europe should pally up with China then. I would love everyone to boycott the World Cup.

I smell a rat! Skates don't have jobs...

National League: With Valenciennes, Bryan Passi is slowly getting back into the swing of things The central defender, who hadn't played an official match for nine months before joining Valenciennes, has just played two in a row, against Bourg and Le Puy this Friday. He says it himself: the rhythm and the feeling are returning, even if the match didn't go his way this time. Bryan Passi insists: Valenciennes came back onto the pitch after the break this Friday with "the same desire, the same conviction" as during the first forty-five minutes. Except that Le Puy "dominated us for almost the entire second half, we couldn't find the physical resources to get back into the game." And it ended 3-0. The newcomer doesn't believe his team suffered from a mental deficit, even though they seemed to collapse after the second goal. "Last week, we had the resilience to go for 2-1 and then 3-1 at the end of the match, we were incredibly solid." This (Friday) evening, they had the wind at their backs a bit more, they won more duels, and that's what made the difference. "Everything to make it work" The former Mafra player, who hadn't played for six months and hadn't played a single competitive match for nine months, was inevitably lacking match fitness when he arrived in Valenciennes, where he signed this winter to fill in for Romain Thomas (Achilles tendon) on the left side of the Valenciennes defense. Caught out on the goal conceded against Bourg-en-Bresse and then on the big chance that followed, which Jean Louchet thwarted on January 16th, he felt much better after an extra week of training. "As the matches go on, I'll get stronger," he assures. "Clearly, the pace of competition is nothing like the pace of training." I'm also going to find my feet in this new defense, learn a new way of playing. He came to Valenciennes for the project, the club, "the players who are here and the coach," there's "everything in place for it to work" in this environment. "In this second half of the season, we know what to expect; points away from home are hard to come by, especially here where the trip is long and the pitch is awful. We have to create a fortress at home," the turnaround will come from that.

Press revieuw after the match: National League: Valenciennes, having fallen to the bottom in Le Puy, never climbed out Soundly beaten in Haute-Loire (3-0) this Friday, Valenciennes were not rewarded for a fairly good first half that should have allowed them to take the lead. Instead, they conceded another improbable goal. And everything fell apart. There was no savior this time, no Rento Takaoka coming off the bench to score a brace, as in the first leg, and extricate VA from the mess they somewhat created for themselves this Friday evening in Le Puy-en-Velay. This echoes some unfortunate episodes from the past. Even with its new players (Airhiavbere, Passi, and Abi back in the starting lineup), even after last week's victory against Bourg-en-Bresse (3-1), Valenciennes is not cured of all its problems. The first away win of the season will have to wait. A twist of fate in the 45th + 1 minute If the game had to be decided, it would have been in the first half, when the best opportunities arose. Perfectly played through by Gaëtan Courtet, Ylan El Hadary undoubtedly had the best chance at his feet, but Le Puy goalkeeper Mathis Carvalho, rushing out to meet him, didn't falter (14th minute). "I think we were in the game for those first 45 minutes," said Stéphane Moulin. "We conceded a goal right at the start of the second half, and from then on, it wasn't what we hoped for or expected." “ Stéphane Moulin, VAFC Coach The bitterness stems from that bizarre goal conceded in the 45th + 1 minute, “a stroke of bad luck” caused by Le Puy captain Renald Xhemo, who clearly intended to cross but his shot went in off the post. “And then, we conceded a goal right at the start of the second half, and from then on, it wasn’t what we hoped for or expected.” Stunned, sunk, VA literally plummeted. “I didn’t understand why we changed our approach.” Unable to create any danger, the “Red and Whites,” who were playing in black on Friday, flirted with the penalty area for a long time before Yann Diebold converted a penalty after Erin Airhiavbere fouled him in the box. "One, two, three-nil!" rejoiced the Haute-Loire crowd, whose team, now fifth in the National league, has its sights set on the top of the table after this victory. Valenciennes, on the other hand, is more concerned with its performance. LE PUY - VALENCIENNES: 3-0 (1-0). Stade Charles-Massot, Le Puy-en-Velay. 800 spectators. Referee: Mr. Barenton. Goals: Xhemo (45th + 1), Adelaïde (52nd), Diebold (87th, pen.) for Le Puy. Yellow card for Le Puy: Adelaïde (6th). Le Puy: Carvalho; Zogba, Mohamed, Soualhia (Ghalem, 90th); Xhemo (captain); Bouleghcha (Doumbia, 90th), Esmel (Gauthier, 83rd), Wade (Akkal, 71st), Faty; Adelaïde (Diebold, 83rd), Rodrigues. Coach: Stéphane Dief. Valenciennes: Louchet; Airhiavbere, Landre, Passi, Koum (Wahib, 67th); Rouaï, Belloumou, Boissier (K. Diomandé, 59th), El Hadary (Ipiele, 59th); Courtet (captain), Abi (Takaoka, 67th). Coach: Stéphane Moulin.

Another commemorative shirt on the way? 🙂

Yes indeed, as I have said many times you must research ALL channels of news, not JUST MSM as often they are towing the narrative LINE. Fact is you have learnt that what some people say is always BS, SOG and MentalMickey two who will NEVER tell the truth as they dislike someone. You had the nerve to post that in fact Farage had condemned trump as he has done many times. They will NEVER accept that, even though it is staring them in the face. That has been my point on here from day one. Myopic childlike views. Now it is starting to shine through as true.

Nope. Wrong again. And you were wrong again as shown by Badger post. Maybe do a little research before spouting off LOL. How silly you look once again.

Can't select season ticket seats and system doesn't have tickets already selected. Crap ticket app as usual only gives seats in row C block 40 cant select anything in 42 43, 44 ?

If everything black, was navy then were are on a winner.

It may be that skates away is on the clubs list as a right off, one they strike through on the list of fixtures. And other games are seen as a target for 3 pounts. I'm sure clubs do and put less effort in or try out tactics as the cost of losing 2 points and drawing. I got that feeling it was decided for Pompey home game. Also the 'players take time to fit in as new team' etc looking at next month for when team start the push for 6th place, which gets moved to next month.

yeah, makes sense. I do recall in 2004 on the way home they took the coaches all along the seafront and even down past the hard, which was bizarre, but that was probably because of the idiots smashing up their own city.

His only role is to give his financial backers power in the UK, he delivered that through Brexit, his sponsors made an absolute killing, now his job is to let Putin and Trump pull strings in the UK. If that is delivered, Nige can then take a back seat, because he has zero interest and no plan for running anything. He's just pulling another scam on thick people - and if they don't like being called thick, it's their own fault for being conned so fucking easily. The same folk are sending money off to Nigerian Princes and giving the nice man from Microsoft control of their internet banking.

They will change the contra flow southbound of the Eastern Rod to allow all the coaches down there.

That is a long time. We should have won in the promotion season, but fucked it up. 'First league win there for 50 years' has a nice ring to it.

Heavily linked to Ipswich now.

Eastern Road is closed northbound for 8 weeks due to a sewage pipe breaking, so the coaches probably will need to come in on the M275 unless they close part of the Southbound section for a short period. Getting into Pompey during a rush hour is very slow going, so the incredibly early start will stop the coaches getting stuck in traffic.

Which will inevitably be halved in the summer once relegation is confirmed.

That was down to Will Still who made it clear in his press conference that we were going to be direct which resulted in us banging a series of long balls to no one in particular from the first whistle. It really was a strange approach to such a big game.

He certainly won't catch it.

Saints signed the wrong striker out of all the strikers signed by teams last summer, not just from USA.

Someone on Talkshite earlier said something along the lines of "In a derby, the form book goes out the window" and I thought, well that's good, seeing as their recent form is actually better than ours. 😁 Unchanged team Tonda. That's all I want. Same line up, same formation. Fanny around with 3 CBs when we're comfortably 6-0 up.

I agree. It looks like he joined yesterday so he's a Pompey fan pretending to be a Saints fan. They are weird. They do things like that online. "Walk around Southsea in a Saints shirt and you wouldn't last five minutes." Classic pompey bullshIt. A few years back. a Saints fan went into the Fratton End, on his own, at one of their league games, and for a bet, took off his jacket to reveal his Saints colours. I believe he also waved a flag. The Pompey fans just chanted 'scummer' at him before the police eventually led him away to protect them from further embarrassment. On the TrueBlueArmy forum afterwards they found it really hard to put a spin on it.