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I do hope the ECB panel members who are looking into historic social media are all squeaky clean with no history of ever leaving the house - because while posting racist shit is obviously fucking stupid at whatever age, we now seem to be trawling the archives for literally anything we can take offence at. When they discover that WG Grace loved a brown envelope and was caught up in a dodgy expenses enquiry, that statue's coming down!

Denying his own data, gurning like a simpleton, making up shit off the cuff, giving contracts to his own family and friends - Matt Hancock isn't just considered by many as an unpleasant liar who reeks of corruption, he's now starting to make Chris Grayling look like a frigging genius. Somebody, anybody, please step forward and do that fucking job properly.

With the staggering amount of money recently given to friends and relatives of MPs, or just pissed down the drain on mad shit, it's pretty clear there has been funding available all the time for mental health services, libraries, policing, care, prisons, schools etc etc - it just wasn't spent.

If people pay taxes surely they want the money to go to policing, schools, health, immigration etc? Why would anyone be happy with those areas going unfunded while their tax in huge amounts is given to friends of ministers instead? #bizarre

With the latest news on Patel and PPE contracts, the sleaze and greed around this pandemic is now so obvious it's insulting the intelligence of every taxpayer. So putting aside all other party political arguments and distractions for a moment and looking at this very simple issue - is there anybody out there who still honestly believes that this cabinet is not steeped in corruption?

Leicester were obviously impressed with his contribution during the 9-0... I believe his best days are long gone but the frustration will be if he suddenly starts looking like an international full back again and it becomes apparent that we were not using him correctly in recent seasons.

11-10 sounds so much funnier than 9-0.

Today has made life awkward for those who have blindly defended every stunt that Boris and Cummings have pulled in recent years - when couples split it's difficult choosing sides. And with some of these allegations supported by detail already in the public domain, it does appear that one or two of the wheels have fallen off. Is Boris still playing a blinder?

We just haven't given him the support and the service on the pitch that any striker deserves, so from a career point of view it's a no-brainer for him to move. But I hope his heart tells him that we'll get better, things will be alright and his popularity is worth more than playing half a season somewhere else. Sadly, playing half a season might suit his body more. If he goes, I'll understand why.

Toothless. The best bit about getting back in the ground was the fact that it was dry in there.

How did they get on in their play-off first leg tonight?

Fire up the Hero-Villainometer, assemble the revolting peasants, gather a bucket of dog shit - last week's no.1 now qualifies for hate mail! Judas! 😡

There have been way too many glaring errors to pick a winner. Probably the worst season I can remember for really obvious mistakes, truly dreadful refereeing and VAR through the middle of the season, beyond laughable. But as some keep reminding us, these errors even themselves out....🤣 So I'm looking forward to us benefiting from a dozen dodgy penalties/offsides/handballs/red cards in consecutive games sometime soon - and of course the extra ten points that would change our season.

We spent big to get out of League One. They've now been there so long they've spent even bigger not to. That said it might be nicer there than getting hammered every week in the bigboy Championship. They've found their level, and it's a good effort for a club that only formed in the last decade.

Young player who has proved nothing at the highest level considers that he's good enough - the manager gives him an amazing opportunity. Young player not just fucks up his chance, he fucks it up to such a trainwreck extent that he's part of a catalyst for the whole season going to shit. He then gives it large about how he should be playing. He's done nothing to show he deserves another chance yet, and every time he tells everyone how great he is by asking for a transfer, I become slightly less of a fan of his - on the Saints legends list he's currently sharing a slot with Ali Dia. But I would love for him to leave that behind and turn into a great player for us, and he may do that - but there is a time to shut the fuck up and let your game do the talking. That starts with working hard in training and earning back the respect of the manager and the fans, he's a young kid, I can forgive stupidity, but not arrogance. Hopefully he will turn it round.

He and I differ on many things, but from what I have seen of his taste, we are even further apart on the definition of a tight-cheeked lovely. 🤮

As I keep hearing that the UK leads the world in every field of human endeavour and we're a global powerhouse that is building back better, could we perhaps use some of our power to intervene in Palestine? Could we use our enormous influence to calm the situation on both sides, and perhaps remind Israel that the world is watching?

I make a comment about Boris and his very public links with the media, so you post some Theresa May piece from ancient history that's so irrelevant to the discussion even the Telegraph has dropped it. Bizarre. Just calm down, focus, and try to be kind to people.

When Boris has a reshuffle it'll be packaged by the Telegraph etc as a brave and dynamic indicator of Churchillian leadership. However, Starmer's reshuffle is being sold to the easily-led as a dithering and chaotic work of blundering indecision. I have no strong opinion on how reshuffles are performed, but the PR machine here is working overtime to dripfeed nonesense. Get informed, make up your own mind and be wary of any media that tries to tell you what you should think. You can easily become what you read.

It's all about the rebuild. From the fans' forum it appears that everyone at the club realises this and we're just seeing out this season with what we have, so a few players are playing for their future - though you wouldn't know it from some performances. The alarm bells have gone quiet since Fulham faltered so I'm not too concerned at the moment. But....if we win one out of ten at the start of next season, Ralph's great vision will clearly be in trouble and changes will have to be made. Hold your nerve, judge him on the rebuild.

But we have obscene amounts of money to spend, it's all we're doing at the moment, it might be worth getting a call in. Put a close friend of a minister under the money tree and give it a cheeky shake - voila, Solent Tram Trust! Wait until six months before the next election when the voter bribes are dished out - £500m for 75 metres of track, a bus shelter, extra for trams.

When there are so many instances of MPs talking absolute crap about their own maths, any specific reason you chose to promote that one?

The best thing we did was going straight through the Championship and not getting stuck there for years on end. We went up. It was bloody brilliant. The End.

Utter pony. He wasn't a character who wanted to be the star, he was just a really good referee who imposed himself on players. And don't bother to respond again on my behalf - you lost me after you admitted that you enjoyed the antics of Mike Dean. 😲

The best referees are not characters, they just do the job and no one notices them. Anyone who loves themselves too much should not be given a whistle.