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Anyone know name of the bar that is now FYEO on the Hight St??? Reckon it opened 15 years ago??? And was yellow, orange affair. Sure it had Sol in the name but can't think of full name or if indeed Sol was in the name at all!!!!

Having done this road trip a few years back can say that whilst the roads aren't bad, they can get busy (weekends LA to LV particularly so) and those long drives are hard work. Also didn't help being diverted due to a sudden downpour in August on the drive back from Vegas and taking hours to get to LA. My favourite part of the road trip was following PCH1 all the way from San Fran to LA (Newport Beach) and taking it easy in Big Sur, Santa Barbara, Moterrey etc. Lovely scenery on the drive. We were on the go for a full two weeks and it eventually got very tiring. That said, I do think we were burning the candle at both ends and not giving ourselves enough time to recover and enjoy the places we were passing through. Needed a week+ by the pool in Huntington Beach courtesy of Tijuana Tim to recover.

Saw Bates pull the stump out and that came up in the discussion but we all thought (a) Carter looked in his ground and (b) that would still be stumped. Carter never looked to run, but thought he should have at least waited until Woakes had got down his end and then at least tried to get up the bowlers end as anything could have happened, poor throw, poor catch, stumps broken etc. At the end Adams was trying to get ball up bowlers end to run Woakes out, but assume Carter not attempting a run meant the ball became dead. Just seen BBC score card has now changed to not out, so presume in the commotion last night BBC got it wrong

Football season starts in earnest now (and that's not because we've got our hard games out of the way). Two fantastic finals and SKY must be loving us. The game swung to and fro yesterday and at differing points thought each team had it in the bag. Fair play to Warkwickshire as to chase down 244 was a decent effort, but all the plaudits should go to a Hampshire side who never gave up. We had our presentation night up at Mottisfont CC, so was a great end to a good all round season. One thing we were talking about is that the scorecard on the BBC had Carter as run out, but we couldn't see how. He looked in his crease when Bates whipped the bails off (would have been stumped anyway not run out), and Carter didn't the attempt a run.

Hillsbrough has been regularly posted about on here and the ignorance displayed by so many in those threads was awful. However, on the day when the entire story emerges it is shameful to see the same myths, lies and falsehoods being peddled by some on here (& if anyone wants to query the power of the press and the establishment, they only need to look at Hillsborough to see how it possible to rewrite history and get people to believe any old shtt). As Wurzel mentions, I stood on that terrace with 8,000 other Saints fans in 84. It could have happened to any one of us. Some people should fcck off this thread pronto.

An interesting point. Having been on board The Fighting I in New York and thinking of our ships (Victory, Warrior, Belfast, Cavalier) would have thought a ship from The Falklands would have been saved (or have I missed one)?? Hermes, Fearless, Intrepid, Stromness, A destroyer, frigate or RFA would all have been in with a shout. Can only assume it costs too much to remember our history!!!!

Just finishedbBenson's Scram and got halfway through Gardiner's Yompers today. Both as engrossing as Through Fire and Water. Have you thought about writing a book from a personal perspective??? Brother worked at Vospers at the time of the Falklands and also worked on HMS Southampton & Nottingham (pretty sure the 79 League Cup team had a tour of one or both of them prior to the game). Can remember the Abdul Aziz, but wasn't that in the Old Docks near Dock Gate 4??? He was drafted on to QEII to help convert her to a troop carrier (pads on the pools etc).

Something like 200 in the Everton pen that night, of whom 150 were Saints fans looking for revenge (many wearing their "trophy" headwear they had relieved from the Scousers the weekend previously!!!).

Nothing from the 1973-2012 period comes close to Everton in the 84 Semi Final. A combination of being in touching distance of a double, an easy final against Watford or Plymouth, a time when Saints probably were my life etc etc etc meant that Adrian Heaths downward spawny header is forever etched in my memory. Wasnt that keen on Everton before that and are now up on the podium of teams I still can't stand (along with Oldham for reasons already mentioned!!)

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What's worse;Getting the TV turned over when a "rivals" face appears on the screen and also banning the use of a transferred season ticket due to an ongoing feud?, . OR. . Publicly tweeting about the above two issues?. . OR? . Are they said to be just as bad as each other? . Cortese's actions appear petty, but are they just the response to an earlier slight, or is it Matty's response that is petty when he should just have risen above it?Personally think neither come out of these spats with any credit and it is time for the squabbling to stop.

Those dark January evenings have a lot to answer for!!! From memory I think I was celebrating stuffing Forest at their place!!!

Enjoyed the thread DPM as we only have 6 weeks to go ourselves!! Interesting about baby sleeping in same room as all advice we're getting from the midwives is that little one should be in with us for the first few months.

Thanks so much for the feedback peeps, most appreciated. Went down this morning to pick up the tickets and watched England in the warm up. Someone had a good job running around the bowl finding all the balls that Bell & co were knocking in to and over the seats!!!!

Can't see anywhere that states you're not allowed to take your own food in, but always thought you weren't allowed??? The old fella won't go anywhere without his ham sandwiches, pork pies and scotch eggs!! So food allowed or are we smuggling it in in our underpants! Cheers

The OP is spot on about ticket information though. Our final game of cricket got called off about 1:30 and having already given my season ticket to a mate, I thought about taking my dad. He thought it was sold out, couldn't really find anything easily on the terrible OS and thought that with first day glitches of the new cards the ticket office would be a nightmare, so gave it a miss and watched one of the few games of cricket that survived.

Dune would feccking hate all these Euros!!!!!!!!! (how do you get them on an iPad??)

I'd argue there was Bob Higgins even before Merrington! (And probably someone else before him). And Lowe should indeed take credit for some good appointments to the set up (Prost, Jennings etc).

Stayed in an H10 hotel in Tenerife over Easter and they had a great policy. No loungers could be reserved before 10:00am and any that did had the stuff religiously removed and put in lost property. Some bemused people wandering around after breakfast thinking the stuff they had out down four hours earlier had been stolen! Sadly, there were still some who sat down for an hour at 9:00 to do a crossword, left their stuff there and then popped back about 4:00 for the cool part of the day.

But SCW ended up as our Director of Football!!! a long way from just being in charge of Sports Science (and as came out in the wash later, the plan was for him to become Manager). Had he just been in charge of Sports Science or Sports Performance, and had the existing management team accepted it, and had it been a priority, and had he not bought Clifford in, and had it not been a massive distraction, and had it not cost us money that probably should have been spent securing "repromotion" [sic], then it might have worked.

I love it when people talk complete ********. Quite simply you obviously never had any shares if you reckon you never received a penny as SFC PLCs dividend yield over the Years was very generous indeed. And back to solely Lowe and the Academy.... I think it would be fair to say that Lowe invested time and money in to the Academy and saw it as a benefit for the first team and also as a benefit to the bottom line. Whether he got the balance right is up to others to decide, but I also think his, and others, claims to be the inspiration for inventing this idea is stretching it somewhat given ours and others history and record in the past.

Wonder what the commentator will say if Sir Rickie scores on Boxing Day and flashes his cheeky Merry Xmas boxers??? And as you say whilst wrapped up in religion, so many of these issues/stories are more cultural/tribal/historic legacies.

We must be in the mix somewhere which is mental enough in itself!! Imagine we'll need to blow our wage record as well as transfer fee if he's already turned down Spurs though.

Just heard that Spinning Kenny, the man of a thousand disco moves and spins is no more. Bless him, the wife is now reminiscing of nights in McCluskeys and Jumpin Jaks, whilst I can remember him from haunts before that. His satin shirts, pony tail and dizzy spins will be missed. RIP Kenny