No surprise, that second half 'performance' was appalling. #SaintsFC

Hate it when I'm right #SaintsFC

Who's surprised? Nobody. #SaintsFC

Oxford aren't very good but they're much better than us in this second half. #SaintsFC

What the hell does Eckert say to them at half time? #SaintsFC

Terrible cheating there from Oxford, fancy having a shot on target, we play fair by wanging the ball into the car park. #SaintsFC

🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - most prolific goalscorers 🔴🔝🔴 #1: Charlie Wayman (0.720 g/gm - 77 in 107 games) Our greatest ever goalscorer, and my dad’s first Saints hero as a kid. Nearly single-handedly led us to promotion to Div 1 in 1949, but he got injured; without him, our form collapsed. #SaintsFC

That’s the pope banned from America then. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Absolutely brilliant Christmas day, family, beer (mainly 6X), great food (thanks Cleveland Bay, Chandlers Ford) and finishing off with a DVD of Top Secret. Perfect!

My dad telling us how he carved the turkey after mum spent the past three days in the kitchen.

The Liz Truss Show - Behind the Scenes

Letter to the FT that stingingly sums up Brexit and the shit creek we now find ourselves in. A terrible idea (naive, prejudiced and uninformed) that has deeply divided us and left us poorer and less secure… but unwilling to face up to the damage we’ve done to ourselves. While the EU moves on.

This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.

Friday, @kitvaria.bsky.social reviewed @caimhmc.bsky.social's Ring the Bells! - JI 🎄 "A loud, messy, foul-mouthed Christmas story about belief, chaos, and doing the right thing despite being spectacularly bad at it." fantasy-faction.com/2025/ring-th... #booksky #chirstmas #fantasybooks

It’s the 55th anniversary today of Elvis whacked-out-on-anything-he-could-get-his-‘doctor’-to-‘prescribe’ Presley meeting Richard ‘Honest’ Nixon in order to help in the latter’s anti-drug war, add to his police badge collection, and have a pop at the Beatles... 🧵

Archer ☹️ #SaintsFC

Wasn't sure watching live but the ref got that spot on. #SaintsFC

Really? Yes, 100% #SaintsFC

Taylor Harwood-Bellend amiright? 😂 #SaintsFC

Hopefully Fellows is fit enough for 45 minutes and Eckert gives a proper half time team-talk for a change. #SaintsFC

Free header? Go ahead mate 😟 #SaintsFC

Sadly no surprise #SaintsFC

I may have been a tad optimistic with 1-3 judging by this start 😔 #SaintsFC

As confident as I always am 😳 #SaintsFC

Oh

Modern TV sports commentary is awful, it's not commentary any more, it's 2 pub bores having a chat, but these two on the darts, Dawson & Mardle, are the worst

Ludlow School, Itchen, circa 1931. The only name I have is John Haynes, second row from the back, third from left.

I'm sure she could get her finances straight with a TERF accountant.

Only 80?

Proper football from Norwich here

Could be 77 minutes added and it wouldn't make any difference #SaintsFC

Second best all over the pitch for nearly the whole of this game #SaintsFC

#eckertout 😉 #SaintsFC

I could see this performance coming 😟 Second half improvement needed (which would make a change) #SaintsFC

Murder rates in comparable US cities. Look at London? Anyone who spouts Trumps lies is a traitor.

Always a favourite

We learnt precisely fuck all from covid and all those deaths www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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White men, imagine you go for a job. The interview panel is three black women. The board of directors is all black women and has been, without exception, forever. You notice that all supervisors are black women and the only white man you see is cleaning. The company insists they appoint on merit /1

Another 3 goals, another win, another shite second half, but I'll take that if it means another 3 points 😂 #SaintsFC

Got the game back. Saw the WBA second goal. Coverage dropped out again. Fucking Sky. #SaintsFC

Got the match back. For now. #SaintsFC

Having to watch Sky Sport News because that way I can see the goals, can see sweet FA on Sports +, what a waste of money #SaintsFC

Obviously everyone clamouring to watch the mighty #SaintsFC at the moment but bloody hell Sky, sort out your servers.

What will Eckert do if (a bloody big if admittedly) Ross Stewart ever gets fit, how many goals will #SaintsFC score with him fit?

Seriously, what the hell was Will Still doing with this #SaintsFC roster??? Absolute insanity.

How bloody bad was Will Still, same players, totally different outcomes. #SaintsFC

FFS #SaintsFC

I haven't blogged for ages, so I wrote far too many words about something that happened 40 years ago, and which nobody outside of America cares about.

Good news for people who like to hemorrhage money in a place that looks like a cross between a motorway service station and a leisure centre.