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On Steam now. GOTY edition (with DLC) 5 quid. I pronounce this a bargain.

Feck me, that's looking like a bad call. Felt sorry for him. He didn't even get a touch for ages, and to send him out in the middle of that sh*tstorm....

Schmeichel really was impressive - kept Leicester in the game. Traction engine for a foot as well. Did anyone else see him blast the ball all the way past Kelvin's goal-line?

One more thing. Our support was excellent today. If you hadn't known the scoreline at the final whistle, you'd have assumed Saints had won the match based on the noise we made.

First game of the season for me. A wholly disappointing first half, especially the gutshot that we took when they went 3-1 up. Second half was one-way traffic. Schmeichel played a blinder. Amazed we didn't score. A couple of Leicester fans told me that we were the best team they'd seen (familiar) and on a different day, we'd have won. Agree with the comments on the officials. De Ridder was very good. Absolute livewire and tenacious little git too. He's not quite on the same wavelength as the team yet ( I remember one free kick where he was ambling up-pitch unaware that it had already been taken ) but I expect big things from him, and would love to see what he can do over 90 minutes. We definitely need a new striker and new centre back before the end of the window, but overall, a performance to be proud of. Leicester's fans were ****-poor. Didn't hear a peep out of them in the second half until the 89th minute.

Good post.

Mine turned up on Tuesday too (ordered Monday).

It's well worth a watch. Will remind you of being a teenage idiot again.

From personal experience, and speaking as someone who has been interested in academia throughout, I still f**ked about a lot in school.

I'm not surprised that the gap narrows at A-level. Most of the kids actually want to be there at that stage.

Have to disagree, chaps. Unless the quality of Southampton ladies has dramatically improved in the last 20 years, I'd have to say that nice looking women up here are more plentiful and approachable.

Once again, we see that there is no thread which cannot devolve into filth and cock jokes. I feel renewed.

@MKCitizenSport tweets:- We're hearing that Southampton are the latest side in for Baldock. In fact, he's rumored to be heading south for talks tonight. #MKDons

Liverpool is a working port. The docks extend all the way to Seaforth and over the water into Birkenhead. It does over 33 million tonnes of cargo per year. The release of the Hillsborough documents is irrelevant. The Tories have swept into Liverpool before ( Heseltine after the 1981 riots ). Hasn't helped them in the slightest. Still, why let facts get in the way of crass stereotypes?

My dad (who sometimes posts on here) has always moaned about Southampton not having a skyline. And I'd agree with the sentiments about the Leisure World area. An out-of-town retail park in the middle of the city centre. All the worst bits of Americana transplanted into the heart of the city.

iChambo would never work. Arsenal like flash players. (I'll get my coat)

In the interests of balance :- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6z2zfoi16g&NR=1

Listening to Today on Radio 4. Looks like that bar catching the Colonel, the end game has arrived. I was in the States when this kicked off back in March, and managed to catch one of the 'talking heads' shows on C-SPAN while I was there. The attitude of most of the commentators was that the US had no interests there, shouldn't get involved and that the conflict could go on interminably. With the benefit of five months worth of hindsight, this actually looks like the first justified foreign intervention in the region. For a start, we had the (admittedly shaky) support of the Arab council. Now, it looks like we've strengthened our ties with an Arab nation and have been seen to do the decent thing on the world stage. While I am not a fan of the Conservative party, I do have some grudging respect for the strong position they held from the outset, and the support that has been provided for the rebels throughout.

Haven't watched the new Torchwood yet, but it's on my "to watch" list. tbh, never liked it when it was a freak of the week show. Children of Earth totally turned it around for me. As for Davies vs Moffat on Who, I prefer Moffat's show to Davies'. He just has a better sense of what the show is about. Matt Smith's Doctor has a real sense of dangerous madness about him that his immediate predecessors lacked. Plus, Moffat really gets time. In a time travel show, that's pretty key

This'll be the first game I attend this season. Taking the eldest daughter along with me. Should be good, defo a step up from Bescot Stadium, the last place she saw Saints.

I like Football Manager a lot. Easily the best of breed, and the boys have been doing the business for years. I have the following problems with it, really. First, it takes far too long to play. Second problem is that because it takes too long to play, I can't really be doing with a season of mid-table obscurity, so end up quitting and restarting a lot ( yeah, mock me if you must, but we've all done it ). Finally, when you quit and restart, you realise that it's all a bit random, and whether you win or lose depends on the magic modifiers - which adds to a pervasive feeling of pointlessness. Granted, most games are ultimately pointless - and you could point out that the differing results you might get is the game's attempt at simulating "on the day" performance. Fair enough too. And with that all said, I'll be buying FM2012 this year like nearly everyone else.

I'm in two minds about the sequel. They left it in a place where pretty much anything could follow on. As long as they kept the quality level up, I probably wouldn't care if the story is exactly as you describe. It's a fair point. My problem (one of them) is that I am a massive sci-fi nerd and a bit of a purist. From my perspective, seems a shame to lavish the expense on something that is ultimately a bit vacant, although Battle Los Angeles hardly stands alone in that characterisation. I'd probably have a more charitable opinion of it if I'd viewed it as a war movie.

Almost had a point there, but Katona is claimed by Warrington and the tabloid papers, I believe.

The point was that our enemies, such as they are, aren't the same as when Trident was conceived. We used to worry about large, easily identifiable and locatable nation states with similar capability. Trident was the answer to that age. It doesn't seem relevant to the political situation now. If relations with any of these big powers turns sour, the breakdown in relationship is unlikely to be confined to the UK. We are not going to p*ss these people off independently, certainly not to the point of nuclear war. If any "beef" develops, it'll be more likely to happen between large nations and/or blocs of nations. From where I'm sat, sounds like we're paying billions of pounds to be a sparkler at a fireworks display.

Didn't know we were that tightly 'integrated' with the US. So what you're saying is that the UK tax payer is paying billions to the US military industrial complex for weapons that it might not actually be able to use?