Gloucester Saint

His agent has been very busy since Sunday - Man U, Liverpool and PSG all linked and figure of £80m cited.

I take these statements from under-pressure owners with a pinch of salt but at a more micro level, it’s absolutely what’s happened at SFC since 2017. It’s just that SR accelerated the bus towards the cliff and enthusiastically drove it over the edge to break it finally (see what I did there). https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c3v22p6nvx5o SFC went away from the focus on sound football decision-making structures that served it so well 2009-17. Under Semmens, which SR doubled-down on, there’s been a focus on very young and untried players in senior player. Ironically the January window was the first departure from the blunt formula and it actually worked! The core spine of the team and structure of the squad has been fatally overlooked in favour of individual transactions and profit received from those as a sole measure of success. The multi-club set up has been to SFC’s deteriment. There is no strategy for where SFC should be in the football structure which probably reflects the huge churn in DoFs and managers leading to a pot pourri of playing styles and approaches. Until the basics are in place, and SR decides what/how far it wants to invest in a loss-making current division to get back to the stated football destination and vision, I cannot see any progress under SR and far more decline.

Yet more emerging on Robert Kenyon’s behaviour online, Reform using the standard Trump excuse of ‘locker room banter’ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/reform-uk-robert-kenyon-comments-misogynistic-b2983146.html

Probably targets in their appraisals about how much player profit they make.

Lost there 2-1 season before that according to a Saints highlight reel I saw? Would’ve been our first season back in the top flight and their very first. Following season City went down, and down, and down. Which is how a young Roy Hodgson had his first spell there as they hovered above receivership. Wolves did the same thing a couple of years later.

You must have been at this one unless it was at a pre-season friendly http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/league_cup/3204811.stm

Death. Taxes and losing at Ashton Gate.

The whole thing about needing to take sides in the Middle East let alone in such an obvious and quite aggressively racist way is beyond me. We’re almost back to 1930s Nazi cartoons with some of the Green and Reform literature I saw in the local elections. Ben Givr is revolting and I’d shed no tears if he gets taken out internally because he’s as bad as any Nazi or Hamas/Hezbollah figure. But it shouldn’t label or tarnish a whole race.

Been previous years and it’s brilliant although have seen broken legs etc. The hill is insanely steep. Imagine a grass version of Athelstan Hill in Southampton that is 5-6 times steeper. That’s Cooper’s Hill in Brockworth. You go past on it on the very scenic road between Stroud and Gloucester as it drops down into Brockworth by the petrol station. Views of the Black Mountains, Severn Estuary/Plain and Malvern Hills from the summit.

Yeah, I saw that. Opposing further multi-billion public funds for MAGA thugs who tried to injure and kill police officers. ‘Stupid on Stilts’ indeed https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5890419-republicans-lash-out-anti-weaponization-fund/ https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/21/politics/blanche-senate-republicans-anti-weaponization-fund

Bear trap for Lab/Lib or Cons after the next GE because it’ll almost certainly be a coalition of some kind with the vote going 5 ways and either Green if the Remain bloc wins or Reform if it’s Leave bloc firmly in the mix. Not sure SNP would any better after today either… Lowe’s party are really picking up support from zilch, Reform at least had UKIP as a forerunner, and with Musk’s endless money can go genuinely national. Rupert is an even worse human being than Farage but he’s far more organised and strategic. And he clearly hates Farage as does Musk. Dangerous times but he might just blunt Reform further (their polling has been in slow retreat for a few months now).

Flamin’ Nora, that makes motorway service stations Aldi-like for value for money by comparison. Burgers are £12-15 each around here and I’m in the chocolate box (not Gloucester itself) part of the Gloucestershire Cotswolds.

What is worse for me is that everyone knows what he is like, but over 77m voted for it even so. He’s been far worse second time around than even I feared but that’s because last time the House and Senate, and early on the courts, provided some guardrails. Vote for who you want, but when it has a huge detrimental impact way beyond your town, city, state, and country, it’s unacceptable and the actions of throughly shit human beings. Human race is fucked.

Wish it was a spoof https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-post-shows-him-gazing-165715212.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAH47WwKisdbiNTfDfc5cWYPehtqkSiDIKksRvcQcqjmNVLpHE5tMKLnrvS9ceOvM1ccLWGAqtv-TgLQ6ZVrhnO5MICr7pa2GSy6nhNQKqRAi4TqzNVrZffJh3oKS2tslYN8TWqdQDYtnzhbNFFf9vdPiD5JxHM165BghszTZWa-o

West Ham need to sell more than a few, £196m in transfer fees owed. And that was pre-relegation. Fernandes will make us a few million from a sell on. Bowen wants to stay but at 29 if there’s a buyer he’s gone. KWP to Bournemouth I reckon as they’ll need a bigger squad for Europe. But other than Mateus Fernandes, they don’t have an £100m Declan Rice to sell to clear most of it.