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Nice little name check about her book in the address to the nation. ....'Honest Guv I have no contact with that Geezer, Epstein, who 'Im Indoors' tells me used to manage that Limey Group, The Beetles..... Meantime, Melania's Documentary grossed £33,000 in the first week's showing in the UK. It played to larger audiences in the USA with 99% of MAGA supporters gave it a 5/5 positive review. The other 4% were a little less impressed.

Glad to hear you enjoyed your trip and witnessed us perform well. Perhaps you are a lucky omen. I am reminded of our record Premier League result a few years back when we trounced Sunderland 8-0. Sat in front us was a chap from Australia who was visiting relatives in Southampton and had managed to get a ticket for his first visit to St Marys. We all offered to chip in and pay for future visits to the ground as he was obviously a lucky charm!! How did you manage to arrange a visit to the Training Ground? Most supporters have not been able to visit since the expansion of the facility. Would be interested to learn how you spent your time over here, outside of the game time.

Christophe, Bon Chance ce soir. Did you come over to Southampton for the Arsenal game?

I have a few mates who support Sunderland and, without exception, they were very positive in their comments about Ross, not only as a goal scorer and link up man but also defending corners in defence. Just hope that Ross can have a run of injury free games.

Isn't nice to have a selection of players to consider. I understand favouring of: Perez (the most influential keeper since Niemi) THB (a rock in defence) Aziz (more and more influential) Scienza (a great signing and a fan favourite for all the right reasons) But we also have the often maligned Manning and Stephens plus Downes, who is now back to the form he displayed two years ago and since recovered from his stomach upset. Cameron Bragg has really kicked on this year and Shea Charles has scored some increadably important goals. Ross Stewart has begun to display the kind of form that Sunderland fans knew was in his locker and both Lander and Matsuki have provided their own unexpected contributions. I am a bit surprised to offer up a possible contender ie James Bree. I didnt think it was possible to replace KWP, one of the best RB's I have seen in Saints colours but James has been a revelation this season and has added stability to the back line. If we do go up, I think each squad member should be given some sort of award for their contribution in addition to their contracted salary increase!!

Whenever I had a good feeling in my water, in recent years, something comes along to burst the bubble so I musn't feel too optimistic. However, as an old timer, my thoughts go back to 1966 when we were a mid table 2nd Division team without much expectation of reaching the club's first ever promotion to the top tier of English football. We had just signed full back Dave Webb (from Leyton Orient??) and along with a small band of school mates we went along to see his debut at Molyneux against Wolves. Webbie scored on his debut, in a 1-1 draw, and we then went unbeaten for the rest of the season (without looking it up I am uncertain how many games that was in a 42 game season but less than our current run I think) and we ended the season runners up to Man City for our first ever promotion to the top tier. I am just hoping that the recent momentum will propel us to an exciting and beneficial end to the current season. If, by chance, it doesnt happen I truly hope that we follow the disappointment of Leeds and Coventry and do the job properly next season.

Presumably the Range Rover has the Ingenium engine which is common in JLR models. If so, you will be lucky to avoid expensive engine problems along the way and a lot of Used Car Dealers wont be interested if you try to trade in for something else. Shame really as the vehicles are OK otherwise but cost of repairs soon become a bitter pill to swallow.

I must admit that I thought Bree was an 'average' Championship player and not a patch on KWP. I still think that KWP is better going forward but if we had paid £2-£3m for him in January I would have said he represented good value. Both him, Perez and a proper CF have re-invigerated the team.

In amongst the plaudits for our lads, I was really impressed by the performance of the 16 year old Dowman. What a performance from such a young lad although I thought Manning played him well, especially after his yellow card when a misplaced tackle could have ended up with a red card. How much did Kepa cost? Perez much better and what about Ben White? Should have been sent off for numerous bad tackles. In comparison Bree was far better.

Apparently there has been secret deals between Iran & China to buy oil using yuan not the dollar. Saudi Arabia has also moved away from linking their oil sales directly to the dollar. So the petro dollar could become the petro yuan and this is likely to impact on the American economy. That said, I guess Mr Trump has this already planned for this and will blame Biden and Obama.

Still waiting for my paper ticket!! No post today so hope it arrives tomorrow or I face a queue at the architecturally splendid Ticket Office!!

According to a website I saw, Saints have taken the 4th or 5th highest away followings in the Championship. Not a bad effort bearing in mind our supporters have one of the longest distances to travel compared to clubs situated in the Midlands.

Approx 20% of the petrol, diesel and jet fuel for use in this country is refined at Fawley. There are now only 4 refineries in the UK whereas there used to be 6. A lot of ships now have to use LNG under UK regulations. The main suppliers are USA and Qatar (problematic!!)

She was near the top of a truly awful group of Trump acolytes.

We have to expect that Trump and his band of cult members will detach from NATO at some stage within his remaining years and the threat of Russia invading another of the countries in their purported sphere of influence will increase. Hopefully the Ukrainians will do their utmost to keep Putin occupied. The country getting the most benefit from Trump is probably China. Meantime the cost of jet fuel will rise and adversely affect foreign travel plans. Hopefully this will mean that far fewer people will be attracted to the USA for the forthcoming World Cup. I truly hope so.