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Not many, as far as I can tell. The Spitfire ditched it because they realised that they'd be able to fill the place regardless of whether they had BT Sport or not simply because of the location, so might as well cut that significant cost out completely. The only pubs I can think of off the top of my head that definitely have it are the Frog and Parrot (Above Bar), Encore (Commercial Road), and I think Bedfords (Bedford Place) has it. Other than that, no idea.

The general problem I have is that the vast majority of people who whinge about our support don't seem to do much (if anything) to improve it themselves. Try starting a few songs rather than turning around having a pop at people around you - you never know, they might join in.

A Barnsley-supporting mate laughed when he heard they'd signed him. "****ing ****" was his assessment

That is the churn of referees who leave the game every year.

Ron channelling his inner David Pleat there

I've never heard Tony Pulis say "b'there" to refer to "over there", tbf

Frustratingly given what happened with us last season, he's not missed a single minute in the Premier League or Europa League. Rested for their one Capital One Cup game and three of their four FA Cup ties.

Alderweireld is a better player than van Dijk, who in turn is a better player than Lovren, IMO.

Wanyama, like quite a few of our players, is very useful in certain circumstances but a waste of space in others. When we don't have the ball, he's very useful as he's good at winning it back and providing a shield for the defence, but when we have the ball and want to go forwards, I don't think anyone would legitimately try to claim that he's a better passer or dribbler than Romeu. He would have been very useful against Chelsea, for example, where we had very little possession and needed more bodies to win it back. I don't think the issue at Bournemouth was them "going through us", as 99% of their play was down the wings and they only scored because of poor concentration from two set pieces. Despite how bloody awful we were, that was still the only difference. Yesterday was a failure to take the handful of good chances we created in the first half and then a collective lack of responsibility taken by 3 or 4 players compounded by Yoshida getting his legs in a tangle for their goal.

Have we appointed Jaap Stam as penalty-taking coach?

The Wallace transfer would almost certainly come under Wolves' agent expenditure, not Pompey's. Unless a club is actively looking to sell a player, they don't tend to pay an agent when they sell.

The implication in this part is pretty clear. Anyway, this is only going one way...

There is a thread running in The Lounge for you to push your political opinions onto people. Not here.

An away trip to Stoke specifically, I would guess. Given the prices, it's probably a ground most people have done before, but it's also one that most people might think "I've done that one, not bothered if I go there again". Everton and Liverpool are in that bracket for me, been a few times to each, never a particularly pleasant experience, even when we've won.

Disagree. He's been good for them since the new year, only really Martial who's also been playing well for them.

Ugh, confirmed that his injury is a ruptured ACL

It'll also be the most ****ing nauseating experience imaginable for the rest of the country.

No more than usual, I wouldn't have thought. Referees make stupid decisions all the time.

The highlighted option.

Only if those clubs participating in any ESL actually left the domestic game in order to participate, of which there's no guarantee, and I'd probably actually argue the clubs wouldn't see that move as beneficial to them.

And that is where they will think they can make up the shortfall of not introducing the higher prices in the new main stand. With every game priced the same at Anfield next season, but the stated intention to freeze the existing top price of £59, that means that's the price you'll have to pay for a game against a lesser opponent as well as for, say, Man United. The fans have got what they wanted with a removal of match categorisation, but they'll find that doesn't reduce ticket prices - it actually increases them for most games as *every* game is now ranked as Category A.

While the headlines would suggest that to be the case, I suggest people dig a little deeper into the resolutions to see that come next season, many Liverpool fans will still have great cause for complaint...

Problem is you would assume they wouldn't come back every week if they didn't sell enough to make money, probably the best market research available is the experience of knowing you're going to sell X number of **** burgers every week at Y profit. Agree it would be nice to have a choice, but on the flipside, Southampton city centre has a good range and is only a 10-minute walk away.

All three red cards this season were entirely justified. Not necessarily "deserved", in the case of the one on Saturday, but entire justified, i.e. you can see why the referee would make that decision. Not sure which player you've been watching, he's pretty much only bothered performing in a handful of games against Arsenal and Man United. Tanks are slow and ponderous, and show difficulty in changing direction quickly enough to react to things going on around it. Sounds a perfect description...

The problem with the free ticket is that so many people were abusing it.