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Means P&O won't be offering the luxury cruises to Redcar this year then. That's a shame

Mention of Mourinho (not aware of anything to do with Schneiderlin, but remember the Dr), and Ferguson. You can add Clough to that list as well, some players now would be traumatised by him. Great story on Youtube how he gave one player the nickname 'shithouse', and saw him at the local park whilst he (Clough) was walking his dog. Player (might have been Crossley) said he just heard Clough from the other side of the park yelling " hey shithouse .., alright son ?'

Just added to it for you.

Springbank ? Not sure how far you’re extending that area, but there are worse here surely ? (PE Way, if you’re including that perhaps and Whaddon near the football ground among others). Not sure I’d say worse than some in Gloucester though Certainly doesn’t detract from your overall point about Lowe though.

From the footage and description of events it seems the Police have changed from accusations of being ‘institutionally racist’ , to being ‘institutionally woke’ .

Draw the line at the shaved head, too much wannabee Pep about it for me, but the cat is definitely a good option.

Agree, but let's not get ahead of ourselves, today is really a statement of intent. With the FA still to have their say I don't think we're out of the woods yet.

Larin and Stewart were tremendous for us on the second half of the season but always felt either might be an injury away from derailing the attacking options. I’d like another CF we can rely on for a full season. But not Downes. Archer, despite having two good games at the end of the season doesn’t fill me with confidence.

Bit unfair. I think he provides a good summary of talking points which is useful for us exiles to catch up on. I don’t have to agree with all the views he presents to appreciate what he’s trying to do. Yes, there’s inevitably some ‘look at me..’ involved, he wouldn’t do it otherwise but comes across as inoffensive and not a bellend like some vloggers, podcasters, or whatever they call themselves.

Is that right ? Didn’t realise their collapse was so dramatic. I did look a couple of things up before the first SF though. At the time of Hellbergs appointment they were third, joint on points with second placed Stoke but lower on GD. And when they played at Coventry (in February from memory) they were top, but overtaken by Coventry after losing. No wonder Hellberg wants to deflect attention from the end of their season.

This amused me. “class, decorum, integrity ..” not often words associated with Middlesbrough

Yes good idea. And we can invite them for a return fixture to be played at Hedge End.

Probably too busy doing what they would normally be doing this time of year - talking to their agents

Don’t give them your credit card details though.

Darren Anderton.