Patrick Bateman

My son at 6/7 wasn't interested in football at all, just didn't like it - I took him to St Marys in the Championship quite a lot in the last 2 years, we did most of the home matches last year for example and he's loved it. He still likes the bigger players (Haaland, Grealish, Saka and so on) and that's fine, I haven't ever said "you can't support that team or enjoy watching that player" but I pretty much made it clear it's Saints first 😂 He walks around in either a Saints shirt or a Bayern Munich shirt. He loves Musiala, so I said it was fine to have a Bayern shirt too. But last night, after the second goal went in, he actually said to me "I'm going to bed" and took himself to bed rather than watch the dirge that was being dished up. So anyway, yeah, I'd say to your son "it's always Saints first, but no harm in watching other teams/players, but always Saints first". Just don't let him support another premier league team, too many of those types already. I rolled my eyes at a Man United 'fan' at work the other day. "I'm a huge Man United fan" he tells me, never been, barely watches on TV, didn't understand my 6-3 reference. Bore off. I hate the premier league. Anyway ...

That good?? You're generous. Dibling has also been kicked out of the game, someone on here predicted that a couple of weeks ago too. Les I don't see the fascination with, YET, maybe I'm missing something? Walker-Peters not being on the pitch is criminal. Yes we all loved Fraser last year, but he shouldn't be playing at this level. And then we have 3 players from 2 relegated teams who went down without a fight in the squad. Amazing recruitment. The club (as a whole) has really fked this up with piss poor recruitment and extending Martin's contract.

Piss poor recruitment to stay in this league. Piss poor tactics. Manager strolling around looking all woe is me. I don't blame the players, many of them are not good enough but that's not their fault.

Very sad, loved reading his articles Condolences to his family

Best thread for ages, gold.

Just got someone to play long ball football up to a tall player and pacy wide men - we have all of those.

True delight to watch United play. Seriously though, if. hear one more moron refer to them as "united", I'll lose the plot - I moaned at someone at work this week and came back with the old Cambridge, Newcastle, West Ham (etc) comment. And that was a load of crap, gulf in spending power shows, but I would at least expect a competent Saints team to attempt some shots on target. This lot look WAY off the pace compared to Nigel Adkin's Saints that came up with Lambert scoring against Man United and Man City early in the season. Piss poor.

Also, not fkn news: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5r5nk4ry6o ... FFS!

This is not fkn news: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89w4110n89o 😡

`I have a lot of American colleagues and friends and whenever they share pictures of their food, it is pretty much all meat - mostly red meat and served with sweet, sugary BBQ type sauces. Stereotypically, the only vegetable ever in sight is corn, smothered in butter and salt, washed down with beer. Going back to the table in the tweet shared further up of western vs med diets, of course in the med they eat red meat, but they eat proportionally a lot less red meat than fresh vegetables, they use tomatoes and olive oil as sauce bases and wash down with water and red wine. There is a HUGE difference in food styles. Sadly many in this country idolise the US version that diet rather than the med version. Actually take pizza, a proper pizza isn't actually that unhealthy, it's a thin base, fresh tomatoes, v little cheese, basil etc. A US pizza ... thick as fk dough, covered in cheese. Vile. I was in the south of France (between Cannes and Antibes) at the start of summer and I'm always amazed at their supermarkets - the variety of fresh food (local too) is stunning, it is so easy to knock up quality, tasty, healthy food - and cheap too.

I always forgot how genius he was at standup, thanks for sharing! Brilliant!

"cheat code" 😡

You make a fair point about us lot watching older bands - but it still irks me seeing 15 year old (mainly girls) in Oasis t-shirts. I think it was OUR moment in time that 90s period and I'm guessing the generation older than us will no doubt think the same about their bands too. No idea. But I don't want to relieve those experiences again anyway, certainly not at those prices. Paul Heaton's "all my concerts are £35" is more my price point My lad is heavily into dance and hip hop ... loads of his mates listen to Ed Sheran and so on and he comments how boring that all is. He's the DJ on car journeys though - sits there choosing music while I'm driving. Makes me laugh, how times have changed when all my car journeys at his age were Chris Rea and Dire Straits and if I wanted to listen to anything, it was walkman, hoping the batteries hold on and then being moaned at because the crappy little over ear headphones leaked tinny music 😂 Kids today .. hahaha

The stupid 'training tops' all the football teams wear on match days. Why do they all need to look so ridiculous? Why do they even exist as a thing? Just throw on a plain t-shirt and get out there FFS.

Lucky Saint for me - by far the best non/low alcohol beer around in my humble opinion, love it!

I'm undecided. Saw them live in their prime like most here, but I have a horrible feeling it'll be full of kids thinking they're hard and probably with a vast majority born around the time they split up in 2009. But anyway it's too expensive, so on balance, not for me.

No words ...

I LOVE this!! More shithousary from the team please - we've been far too nice for too long, I quite like some of this for a change. Don't want other teams to like playing us, bring a little of the 90s Wimbledon crazy gang back, without the OTT fouling.

Good for him. I think he's a decent player, but he needs the game time to develop and grow - hope it works for him and Saints long term.

That article is frightening, well if you were a Chelsea fan! It's not as if they can even sell most of those players for cheap, who is going to pay Sterling £325k a week?? Ridiculous situation, ridiculous club.

Does anyone really care about what some social media helmets say? (Edit: says a helmet on a social media / forum platform ... I see the irony)

Steve De Ridder

Last season my son got all 3 kits. This season he only wants the home kit. Hates the yellow one, hates the pink one. Good start with Puma in this household 😂

Best thing about it was the end, watching Michael Johnson (absolute legend, genuinely, awesome commentator now too) struggle to be nice about it, "I liked the lights"

On the plus side, we do the Olympics better ...