Hamilton Saint

Finally - the Saints' game!!!

Hello, Saints Player - anyone there? Can I have the Saints' game I paid for - not Bournemouth?

FFS, come on SP - sort it out!!

What happened? Saints Player screw-up.

Saints Player has the wrong game - Bournemouth!!

Hodgson's verdict on the win? It was a "bold" strategy to play attacking football. No point in just playing for a 0-0 draw, he said. Brilliant! It's a turning point for England.

An article on the BBC Football site says that Rooney "is keen to avoid a Swiss defeat". What a perfect expression of the poverty of vision and the deficit of ambition in the England team! England seems to have played more with a fear of defeat than a hunger for victory for many, many years.

I anticipate a fairly-comfortable win. What will be interesting, though, will be to see if any of the new signings will go immediately into the first team.

To the tune "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" (Elton John) "Sadio, Sadio, Sadio, Sadio, Sadio, Sadio, Sadio, Sadio Sadio Mane's alright; "Sadio, Sadio, Sadio, Sadio, Sadio, Sadio, Sadio, Sadio Sadio Mane's alright, alright - ooh-ooh-ooh"

"Alderweireld, Alderweireld; Usually mis-said; often mis-spelt"

Yes. Fox News is despicable. Another horrible enterprise foisted upon us by Rupert Murdoch.

Hilarious, ain't it? I find it funny when Brits are unable to distinguish between the terms North America, America, The United States, Canada and Mexico. It's not too complicated.

Why? They use the term "soccer" because there is already a sport there called football. It would be confusing to use the same term for both, eh? I find it "funny" (actually, it's rather disgusting) to hear the British media refer to the F.A. Cup as "The F.A. Cup with Budweiser". And the League Cup referred to as the "Capital One Cup".

Excellent post, which expresses exactly how I feel.

Benefit was my favourite of the early Tull albums (it was their third LP).

If you've been paying attention, that has NOT been confirmed.

Just a semi ... ? I thought that would be a full ... !

From BBC Football site: "15:31 I've just seen someone tweeted Southampton after they confirmed Saphir Taider's departure asking what they should do with their away shirt, having got Taider's name printed on it. The club have kindly offered to replace it, but seems an odd thing to get your shirt, given he'd only been at the club for three weeks..."

Of course not. Diplomatic words are usually the order of the day. Must have been some significant problems there.

Good choice - apart from Pet Sounds, probably their best album. Overlooked and under-rated. Better than Surf's Up, the very successful LP that followed it.

And Live at The Fillmore East! [When Danny Whitten was still in the band (Crazy Horse) ]

Me too. Well, maybe not every day - but a huge amount!

Yes, this is a superb album. There are three or four albums of his one could choose as his best. I picked After the Goldrush. First of his I bought (right after it came out). He's always found a way to combine sweet, harmonious folky stuff with hard, edgy electric rock. Rust Never Sleeps is a great example of that sort of combination. And the song "Powderfinger" is fantastic. Love him.

Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians. The first LP recording of this was released in 1978 by ECM. It's a piece built on a cycle of 11 chords. Mesmerising. It's quite a different experience, though, watching it on video, than listening to an audio only version. The original 1978 recording included the composer (Reich) in the ensemble. There are now five or six commercial recordings of the piece available.

Priceless! I think I should join you. What's worse, I ask you, a forum like this, or Facebook.