Crazy Diamond

2005/06 we played Wednesday away followed by Norwich at home in the early weeks of the season. Back to back wins. I think we then drew the next eight.

Perhaps you're right. I may be expecting too much for a statement that includes 'We're sorry, we got it wrong'.

308 words that say absolutely nothing. No apology, no acknowledgement that they got it wrong.

Not while Mahrez at 24 years old has 15 goals in all competitions and six assists in the league - and signed for just €500,000.

Why on earth did you feel the need to use bold formatting there?

I apologise to Mr. Sturrock for getting his type of sandwich wrong.

"Sturrock's uncompromising managerial style didn't fit with Southampton's players or owners." Uncompromising. Does that include when he fell asleep during training in a portacabin, or when he turned up with the contents of a bacon sandwich all over his top?

I'm afraid I have to disagree, no one associated with that club even knows what morals are.

Nice move by Newcastle, good spell of possession, took the chance against slow-as-f*ck Distin and a goal.

I think if you're using a forum to ask if a song is any good for football fans to sing, the answer is probably no.

Yes if the journalist nailed the punctuation, and I would argue syntax as well, they'd be well on their way to a C in GCSE English.

Gordon is famous. They wanted him to carry the Olympic torch when it came to the town.

Indeed - I'll always remember the Football League Show interviewed a bloke before the Bompey-Saints fixture at Dean Court in our League One promotion campaign. He said he was there the last time they had beaten us in the league - back in the 50s. I'm told that he was wrong anyway. Oh well, while I'm here... The start of the video sums it up. Gordon the Tramp, the kid with the afro, the grown man with his face painted (in the wrong colours), chanting 'dodgy keeper' at winger Lee Holmes, Sheila the superfan/demented old woman, Steve Fletcher (a man who they still want out there after the performances of Josh King recently), the bloke who had his face painted by his wife... Oh and by the way, ex-Skate and then-Bompey manager Lee Bradbury is a big Saints fan.

Yep. Went to Boston 11 years ago this month. Very nice. A bit cold. Lexington and Concord look amazing.

Suspected as much.

Interesting that Bournemouth accepted less than they were entitled to from the Lallana deal. How did we sort that one out?

I lived in Bournemouth for three years, worked for the club for six months, worked in a pub in the centre of Bournemouth, so I feel qualified to say that they are an odd bunch of people down there. One in particular sticks in the memory. He was a freelance journalist that covered the club for some newspaper that's probably dead by now, and a big Weymouth fan. He said he always enjoyed Dorchester v Weymouth as he could give Dorchester fans 'a good kicking' and he enjoyed 'kneeing the b*stards in the face'. Dorchester v Weymouth, that ultimate nawty fixture. I also heard someone say they witnessed Steve Claridge being punched to the ground when he played for Weymouth.

My memories of Anders Svensson are of a man with greasy hair, often found in Costa coffee at West Quay, who had the front to hold a press conference announcing he was rejoining his old club whilst still contracted to us and criticising our style of play. Not an awful lot of class there.

To be fair, this kind of crap would annoy me as well. This is just gloating. You lose the moral high ground as soon as you start acting like this.

I've worked for AFCB (for free, in one of their many hours of need) and lived down there. Let me tell you, they really do not like us. It's not a 'derby' and it's disappointing to see that one of our own media team say that it is - it shows they don't really understand their own club and its fans. I've been living in London for a couple of years now and this fixture is like Millwall-Charlton. Charlton hate Millwall. Millwall couldn't give a toss about Charlton - they only care about West Ham, don't particularly like Chelsea either. Is there a rivalry? No. I'm sorry but how can there be when we've played them what, a handful times competitively in about 50 years? There's bugger all else to talk about for media on the south coast so they're naturally making a bigger story out of this game than there really is to tell. It's also been stirred up by social media and a lot of Dorset keyboard warriors. Its plain embarrassing to see someone pull out a Bournemouth flag and pose with it outside St. Mary's, or hear someone suggest that they're a bigger club. It's amazing what a few games in the top flight does to your ego.

Your average skate would sh*t themselves in somewhere like Poland or Turkey.

Trouble is, I'm not sure it does anymore - at any ground. Today for example you didn't hear the 'famous' Anfield atmosphere until Liverpool scored. In fact it was pretty damn quiet. I've been to Newcastle where again the crowd is supposed to be brilliant. Until they were a goal up they didn't sing at all.

Yes that selective memory is amazing. - How much of the taxpayer's money was lost? - How many administrations were there? - How many crooked owners were there? - How many of the bestest were at Wigan that day? Don't suppose they'll recall those...

I personally find myself wondering what happened to just watching a game of football. I've been to away games in the middle of December to find people dressed up as clowns - quite literally. I don't really understand how that's 'fun' or does anything to better the experience. You're there to watch a match.

It's okay, but definitely not his best. On an Island was a better album, I can say that for certain. 'Today' seems alright too but there's also a very jazzy track that I instantly turned my nose up, 'woman in the yellow dress', or something like that.