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Reply | Leicester heading for 12-point deduction
at 11:47 16 Sep 2026
Very interesting video, thanks SS.
Also interesting to note that last year the family of the owner of the club that died in the helicopter crash launched a £2.15billion lawsuit in the High Court against the manufacturers of the helicopter. The lawsuit is still ongoing, and probably will be for years to come. The response from the helicopter manufacturer was reported by Reuters - see the link below. Lots of other articles online about the lawsuit if you Google it.
https://www.reuters.com/world/
Going back to the video, I suppose you could say what partially did for Leicester City in terms if their supply of ready cash, if expressed as a football result, would be:
Covid 19 Leicester City 0 [Post edited 16 Sep 11:52]
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Reply | Joke Of The Day
at 16:19 15 Sep 2026
Film distributors got the English & French titles of the film about the little alien who wanted to go home mixed up - it was released as ET here in England but released as AND over in France.
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Follow up films that never made it:
It looked like a parrot but a bit smaller and more brightly coloured - From the makers of Cockaone, Cockatoo
They looked like peas, only smaller and still in their pods - From the makers of Mangeone, Mangetout
They were lost in the Sahara desert in a terrible sandstorm, then in the distance they saw the outline of a town - From the makers of Timbukone…
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An English cat named one, two, three and a French cat named un, deux, trois had a race across the Channel - which cat won and why?
The English cat one, two, three won because halfway across un, deux, trois cat sank. [Post edited 15 Sep 17:43]
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Reply | Saints Reveal New 3rd Team Shirt With Historic City Crest
at 10:36 13 Sep 2026
This is pretty much down to Puma’s inability to react quickly to the situation due to the manufacturing choices they and most others have made to squeeze extra profit margins out of replica sales. Lead times for re-orders on a popular kits can be 3-6 months. Why? - for a start nobody holds core stock of fabrics anymore so the fabric has to be ordered and specially made. Trouble is, a company like Puma will be prioritising far higher profile clients such as Manchester City so if there’s a wait to produce fabric Saints will be near the back of the queue. Then, when the kit is physically produced it has to come from Vietnam to the UK by boat! All things considered, if they get stock back in for Christmas the Club will have done well…
Back in the day when we still had a proper garment industry here in the UK the shirt would have been back in stock in 4 weeks or less, companies like Glenfield Textiles in Leicester and Sperrin Textiles based in SW London would have the fabric order turned around in a week or two max and then a the same sort of lead time to have the shirts made once the fabric and trim was available. Sadly the fact that there was extra margin to be made by having everything made thousands of miles away meant most of the UK’s garment manufacturing industry died a slow and painful death a while ago now… |
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Reply | Any decent out of contract strikers we can sign??
at 19:38 6 Sep 2026
Dušan Vlahović, 26
Anthony Martial, 30
Michail Antonio, 36
Karim Benzema, 38
Not centre forwards but also available
Riyad Mharez, Raheem Sterling and Jadon Sancho who is only 26
At the back ex-Bayern and Dortmund man of many defensive and DM positions Raphaël Guerreiro who is only 32. |
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Reply | Five things about Birmingham
at 15:32 2 Sep 2026
Hunting in packs - Oh my God, it’s the return of the killer cars from Monty Python!
Whatever next? A mutant giant Siamese cat sent to tame the killer cars but ends up devouring buildings. If that’s the case, send that cat to Portsmouth - it could do millions of £’s worth of improvements! |
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Reply | window shut :Ramsdale and Downes still here then and mystery injuries
at 15:16 2 Sep 2026
That’s what I thought, DD was supposedly off to St.Louis City on loan but it appears that he remains a resident of Southampton Donkey Sanctuary.
As for Jander, when asked at a recent press conference Tonda said that his injury was not responding to treatment at the rate that type of injury normally does. This means the return date originally forecast was wide of the mark and it is not something that could have been foreseen. Sounds like they won’t be rushing him back.
Roerslev? No idea what is happening with him - he does not get a mention at press conferences…. |
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Thread | Jayden Meghoma
at 08:34 2 Sep 2026
Is now a Skate
Ex-young Saint Jayden Meghoma who left for Brentford is now a Skate. 12 month loan apparently. |
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Reply | Dolly Parton RIP
at 16:54 26 Aug 2026
Not really my bag either, that said, I watched her Glastonbury set on the TV and was surprised how many of the songs I knew and have to say it wasn’t something I regretted watching after it had finished.
Did you know that Dolly Parton has invested over $500 million into her book-gifting initiative, Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, which has helped millions of children globally by gifting more than 304 million books since the project started back in 1995. Respect to her for that for sure…
RIP Dolly P |
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Reply | Own up.
at 15:54 23 Aug 2026
Yes, you are quit right, it was a 1-0 win - Sadie Mane’s first goal for Saints. Not sure why I was thinking 0-0…
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Reply | Own up.
at 15:14 23 Aug 2026
Koeman era, I had the choice to miss either the Stoke game at home or the Sunderland game at home in order to accompany my daughter on a Bank of Dad shopping trip to the West End for her upcoming wedding. I chose to miss the Sunderland game - that would be the 8-0 then… The Stoke game was just 1-0. Typical.
92/93 season, Spurs away. Unexpectedly able to go but only knew the day before. A Spurs fan I knew well had a spare ST as his missus was unwell so I went with him and sat in the West Stand lower tier. This was the game where Spurs scored 4 goals in 5 minutes after Dowie had put us 1-0 up. Guy sat behind me said to his mate he needed to go for a dump (too much detail), mate says see if you can get me anything to eat on the way back. Guy comes back about 6 mins later as the crowd are celebrating a goal. F@@k it he says, who scored? Sheringham, Anderton, Sherringham again - oh yes, and Barmby!!! As you can imagine, he was inconsolable. [Post edited 23 Aug 15:55]
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Reply | Can we send Stevens to Benfica?
at 16:54 16 Aug 2026
Too right it has, and not only the agent but with the 🤬 that is Roy Keane as your father-in-law chipping away at you to do better and have more ambition in terms of who you play for the lad has no chance of playing with a clear head at the moment.
If we are not very careful this season could rapidly turn into a car crash in terms of automatic promotion as another defeat could see us 10 pts off the top of the table after two games.
Glass half full, there would still be 44 games to go, 8th gets you a play off place, albeit 5 games to get promoted, and in Tonda we still trust.
That said, we really do need reinforcements in the positions already mentioned and some excess baggage offloaded. Not sure how the new finance rules are affecting things but what I am sure of is Ramsdale’s wages will be like an albatross around the club’s neck if we don’t get him off our books.
Surely Brent would like to resume his love in with Slack Jack at Leicester?? We could even Uber him up there gift wrapped in a big blue bow…. [Post edited 16 Aug 17:53]
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Reply | Birmingham’s away kit
at 14:50 16 Aug 2026
You are quite right on both fronts, a nice away kit and yes, our lot are clueless.
There is a very good reason for BCFC’s stuff being superior, in one word, Nike. As an ex-sports retail sales manager I know how they operate. Quite often when they do your replica as part of the contract they take over the running (and stocking) of your club shop and online sales portal. So, they don’t just supply your replica but most other things as well. They will make you as much from ACP’s (Associated Clothing Products) as they will from replica sales as they will bring many years experience from running the NFL franchise in the USA so they tend to get more right than wrong.
I had a couple of attempts, about 5/6 years apart, at trying to work with Saints to help improve their retail offering but it was like trying to push water uphill. Absolute waste of time because you were dealing with muppets that would not have lasted a week in the company I used to work for - not one week… [Post edited 16 Aug 17:58]
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Reply | The Ugly Inside Guide To The Eclipse
at 17:34 13 Aug 2026
Yes I do remember - then for some reason they’d take the glass and stick it straight in the washer and give you a fresh one every time. Some people didn’t seem to like that a lot at first…. |
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Reply | The Ugly Inside Guide To The Eclipse
at 18:31 12 Aug 2026
During the third heatwave I saw grown men fighting over glasses in a pub by the Thames near Shepperton when they’d run out of clean ones behind the bar. |
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Reply | New away kit
at 18:13 7 Aug 2026
Oil slick on the Solent then - think heritage, there’s the link 😎 |
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Reply | Dom Ballard off to Leicester
at 17:56 29 Jul 2026
Currently a free agent after his loan spell at Leicester City expired.
There was one rumour that Rangers were looking at bringing him back but that was in the Nigeria Post not the Scottish media.
Airbo started out at my local club Staines Town for a season before Charlton snapped him up for a modest fee. He can’t even go hack there as the club no longer exist! Went bust in 2022 and their ground is now used by Brentford to play B team & youth team games.
Meanwhile, Brentford’s old Griffin Park ground is just a dust bowl behind the closed gates. Nothing yet built on it. One of the four ‘one on each corner’ pubs has gone, the Princess Royal, but the other three have survived. That said, the Fullers pub, The Griffin, is looking a bit jaded these days… |
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