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Yep and the underside of the roof is filthy as well, has been for a while. And the back partitions. Some hefty maintenance bills coming up if it’s been neglected for several years. Who honestly thinks SR can expand a stadium that they can’t even maintain? They can’t run an organisation for shit, but at least try and keep up some appearances.

The lack of education there is staggering. Where does Trump find these people? What an absolute moron. Putin must be laughing at how easy it is to play Trump and the white hooded idiots around him.

His nickname on our part of the Milton was ‘hoof’. A much earlier version of the ‘Rooo-ooot’ noise England cricket fans make when Joe reaches 50 or 100, but much briefer after he inevitably launched a long ball forward in the hope Dowie could flick on.

Tice is well off reality on this issue. The high costs on households are due to over-reliance on gas and new North Sea licences wouldn’t keep up with demand leading to over-reliance on in the near future on overseas supplies from the likes of…..Russia. You’ve only got to look at the mess Germany got into to see this which has kept Putin’s war effort alive with the proceeds. Tice’s large scale proposal to expand pylons would be far more expensive https://www.samdumitriu.com/p/reforms-very-expensive-pylon-plan and despite costing £10bn+, it would benefit relatively few people, and cost most of us higher bills to pay for it.

Club needs to be ruthless - terminate final year through frustration or offer him a % of wages at Champ level to start-up post-football career.

Exactly this. The likes of Sanders have been calling for less Pentagon expenditure for years and less influence for the military-industrial complex. The most harmful cuts will be at the EPA and National Parks - look at the tens of billions spent under Carter and Reagan onwards to clean up where industry had crapped all over the natural environment for decades unfettered, killing tens of thousands with PCB, asbestos and other toxic waste and leaving the Great Lakes dead.☠️

It really disgusts me. On DOGE and a lot of the internal things they’ve done, my attitude is ‘if enough of the American public are so stupid to vote for them, then that’s their lookout’ but to racialise and politicise the lives of people who have made the ultimate sacrifice is horrific and vile. Exactly what Hitler would have done with Jewish graves. Pure Klan, and coming from those two draft dodging cowards as well.

Out of his original 2016 post, boasting of Trump bringing world peace, fairer treatment for American workers, and jobs & better treatment for minorities, instead we’ve seen: - Putin emboldened by Trump weakness/pandering, and the post-war alliance keeping the West safe being ripped up (albeit Trump has a point around Germany not paying enough on military and then buying Russian gas). The statements about Panama, Canada and Gaza are certainly not compatible however with any kind of world peace and are pure 1930s era aggression. - Tariffs which will make the typical pick up truck beloved of MAGA zealots around $12000 more expensive with the needless tariffs on Canada in particular. A recession is on the cards purely of his doing which will lead to hundreds of thousands of layoffs and inflation will go up (the main excuse voters gave for supporting him was that inflation was too high) - EDI: instead we have DOGE and the service records online of America’s most distinguished and bravest black soldiers being deleted and replaced with a 404 page saying ‘EDI service’. All by Trump and Vance who both dodged any kind of military service (being a photographer doesn’t count).

Because you are using it as an example totally out of context. If you know anything about Scotland and NI, and the history of sectarianism, there’s been serious issues at both Old Firm of really vile chanting. And I mean far worse than some of the Liverpool-Man U stuff. I’m not repeating the word on here, but there’s one beginning with F that is used as a collective noun for Catholic people. H&W and other posters on here will know what it is, what it means and why I’ve not used it. Celtic fans have sung some disgusting songs as well. Both had big fines, closed doors matches imposed by UEFA. Things rarely seen in England post-Heysel. We’re not talking banter. One of my former senior leaders at work left Glasgow when his then little daughter came home from school and asked what certain sectarian words meant including the one above that were heard in the playground. That was a spur to move his family to live and work away from bigotry. Whether ‘foreign’ is Catholic, BLM, whatever these morons had in mind, it’s 100% about politics and 0% about football. The message from UEFA and the clearly tired and irritated club is ‘go on an Orange Order match or with Tommy Robinson’s lot instead. But stay away from our football club and our community’. If I were the Scottish Government, I’d offer them re-settlement in America. Much more their type of place at the moment. There’s no place for them if they can’t accept that Scotland, Northern Ireland and the UK has moved on socially without them.

The hardcore sectarian element can and do. They tend to support England in international football as well.

This does highlight the differences between UEFA and FIFA.

If it was worse than Air at the Guildhall early 00s that would be going some. Much as I love Moon Safari as an album, they were underwhelming live. Similar to listening to a CD plus a load of middle class kids from Bassett and Chilworth smoking Northern Lights. In fact, so dense was the smoke and strong the cannabis, that we all smelt like we’d been working in the Paxo stuffing factory when we got outside.

Or they just don’t want a very group of twats at a club with serious sectarian issues and umpteen fines and stadium closures putting up more banners with sod all to do with football, yet again. If you want to watch football, go to a football stadium. If you want to indulge in extremist politics, go along to a political rally with like minded people and have a kick off with the other side and the cops. The same hypocrites will no doubt cheer when one of Rangers’ black players scores a goal yet it’s very obvious that BLM is the ‘foreign’ ‘woke’ ideology they are referring to. Just show yourselves for what you are and put an EDL/National Front flag up. Give it to the ‘Remainers, Lefties, and SNP’ in one go. Fascism, Marxism, Populism are all ‘foreign’ ideologies from outside the UK. I doubt if they are referring to any of those.

Glen de la Cour hits the nail on the head on the TSP saying Nathan Jones was chosen above him by Ankerson two year ago. Damning indictment of Juric but even more so of the Danish Dickhead. What the fuck is Spors doing - why is Juric still at the club?

Yeah, mostly. The darker stuff tends to be safer and your taste buds adapt. The plant-based ranges are getting better but the attempts at ‘milk chocolate’ are often rank.

Not bad, but I still dream of Double Deckers. Fucking lactose intolerance!

They are slightly better in the sense that they can occasionally criticise Labour but a lot of the articles are a bit too rhetorical for me and try too hard. The Mail has become notably worse since Ted Verity took over as editor from Geordie Grieg. I wouldn’t say it’s far right, it’s just very political all of the time and very mono. Positioned on the right wing of the Conservative Party and some of the Brexit headlines ‘enemies of the people’ was really scummy, but some of my family are Telegraph readers and that’s to the right of the Mail these days. Both papers promoted Truss big time in 2022, the Mail destroyed Mourdant really unpleasantly, and bagged Sunak. It all ended in massive humiliation for them and they won’t recover from it. Telegraph - if it doesn’t go pop because their debts and losses are terrifying - has taken the Mail’s middle class readers, as its own One Nation demographic has migrated to The Times and some to the Indy. Some of my family read the Mail, and aren’t Tory or Reform voters. I would never buy it, but they like the sport and the TV weekend guide. To be frank, you probably find better and more accurate stories in the Star, and certainly the front pages give me a good laugh. Newspapers are increasingly irrelevant anyway. Which is a good thing in some ways as it disempowers one set of billionaire non-doms but people take their news instead from other billionaire shady non-doms online instead eg Facebook, which is less regulated. We are fucked if the OFCOM rules are ever allowed to genuinely slide on the quality of TV news. I don’t care about GBeebies. If Paul Marshall wants to spunk his hedge fund fortune away with 9 people watching that crap, good.

Why don’t you tell Martin Samuel what an effeminate Jessie he is? https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/elon-musk-nasty-taste-afd-tesla-n6006kq7h Or veteran reporter, that old lag Adam Boulton? Even better, show us all how hard you are by offering Robert DeNiro out https://www.facebook.com/KingBeenie/posts/breaking-news-elon-musk-publicly-clashes-with-robert-de-niro-after-he-collaborat/1211845120307303/ But you won’t, because any of them would wipe the floor, verbally or otherwise.

My father-in-law had to work for them and said it was much better working as a manager for Carrefour.

That’s 11, and Rupert fucked up Southampton Football Club even more than Sports Republic has (yet). 12 then.

Vote Leave had some real class acts in it. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c07z0r37n0do

There’s still some way to go but the omens are not positive at all. The mid-terms happening freely and fairly in Nov 2026 are the acid test for me. If not, Americans are going to have to go to civil war with the GOP. A tanked economy might be a driver. What I suspect might happen is that some of the movers and shakers behind the Lincoln Project might be joined by GOP alumunus and corporate backers outside of Trump and the Demi’s circles to form a shadow pro-business, centre right party which can build in parallel and replace MAGA over time. GOP might end up like the BNP and National Front in this country as a defunct party, but probably a white supremacist sect rather than de-registered.

America is on the precipice here as a democratic nation. It’s a serious doubt whether they can make it to the mid-terms with that status intact, if those elections don’t happen we are looking at the country breaking up.

That is absolutely vile. Of all things they’ve done since January, that ethically, morally, on a pure human being level is the most disgusting. Pure white supremacy, anyone from a minority who voted for this should make an apology to Charles C Rogers’s family and a donation for a memorial wherever he lived. That’s the sort of behaviour the KKK are known for.

Re Lewis Payne, he did have some good games at my local EFL club Cheltenham Town, and the odd bad one. They are mid-table League 2. Could be a back-up next season unlikely to be a Champ regular from what I’ve seen yet. So to pitch him into the PL as a starter with Saints heading for the worst season in top flight history - that’s even worse than Lowe’s madness of 08/09 in a division lower. Understand the frustrations with the current Ankerson and Russell Martin acquired 🗑️ and will be delighted to see most of those names gone but in terms of the Man U comparison, this isn’t a Saints Academy Moran/Wallace, MLT/Shearer/Maddison, Bale/Walcott/Lallana or Shaw/JWP/Chambers/Reed crop.