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lost one in 7, that's canny as fuck looking at how much we spent this summer

He's got a book coming out, interesting interview in the mail today.. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-5002144/Graeme-Souness-won-t-football.html With hindsight, he was never cut out for another club after he took ill at Liverpool. The game was changing at that point and being the person he was he was never cut out for premier league man management. To me a lot in this interview hints at that. Huge respect for him as a player, only a yard of pace short of being world class. One of my old mans favourites, "Souness was as good as Dave Mckay"; he still bangs on about him now, 82 years old, still furious at Souness's treatment at the World Cup in Argentina in 1978 Souness lives here in Poole now, and a couple of friends have met him socially and can't speak highly enough of him, a very nice guy by all accounts. All apart from the teacher he left in an agonising crumpled heap at his kids schools annual "staff v parents" game....apparently the ex Scotland captain took exception to being nutmegged, he was heard to utter " you don't nurmegg someone with three European cup winners medals pal "

Richard Tait is Motherwell's left back and his old man Titch is from the next village to where I was brought up, very decent village team player in his day. Titch is divorced now, Riichards mother came home once too often to find the old man dissecting owl shite on the kitchen table having earlier boiled it up in one of her good saucepans Anyway, a good way of measuring the standard of the spl is to look at Taits former clubs, Ashton Curzon, Tamworth, Cambridge, Grimsby. Not one first team game above the top of the conference/divi 5/vanarama but slots in nicely as a journeyman full back in the SPL.

"oh Mandy, you came and stopped Ashley from staying.,..."

Spurs take the lead in Madrid Theyve been decent tbf, the fuckin cockney twats...

Fuck off CT

Did I mention we've started doing that Iceland thunderclap thing? Barely heard Blaydon Races at away games in years tbh

I know who @Park Life is now, he's scolding me on twitter

Ritchie in the middle is Glooms pet theory

Fuckin hell its the sweary punctuation police (Donald Trump division) drink may have been taken when I posted that last night, but the point remains. The world and his wife can see what a better player in there could achieve, but that's not down to Perez,Diame or Rafa its down to Ashley. Rafa is dealing with the pack he's got, and he's dealing with it pretty well. There's bigger challenges to come, but it's been ok so I don't get the singling out of players due to lack of funds to bring their replacements in. Anyway, am off to Southampton later quietly confident, most likely a draw but we can shade this. As I pointed out pre season, outside the top 6 this division should hold no real fears for us.

All this criticism of one of Rafas first names on the team sheet....from the same people who were wetting theimselves when the transfer window closed...will you fuckers show some fuckin faith in the manager for a fuckin minute? You saw the ransfer window, THATS why Perez plays every week. End of fuckin story.

The new Court n Kurtney! (ask your dad kids ) Hadn't realised that Vile is basically the male equivalent of Barnett, another gently rambling story teller...

The whole vacuous fuckin shit hole that is Hollywood bares some blame for allowing basically a wise guy from Queens (he's basically To ny Soprano ffs) to do this, but none more so than the PR fixers and lawyers he paid to keep it all under wraps. Hangings too good for those fuckers. Apart from all that,...

One last thing is mention @Andrew is the glow worm caves at waitomo.. Waitomo-Glowworm-Caves

Speights brewery and Cadbury world in Dunedin are good too. We only did waiotapu in rotorua as the current Mrs PL couldn't stand the smell Oh and this if your up north is brilliant too, we got a Maori guide/driver and he explained all about their culture and beliefs and what happens at cape Reinga.. http://mustdonewzealand.co.nz Also whale watching at Kaikora, where we saw humpbacks and blue whales on the same day ...

Am sure you've got a detailed itinerary already but if youre in these areas I would recommend... http://penguinplace.co.nz http://www.wildernesswings.co.nz https://www.waiotapu.co.nz

Maybe a good way of measuring this sort of thing (for those of us brought up in the 70s/80s) is to have a think as to whether our mothers a. went back to work after children? and if they did b. was the income vital to the weekly family budget? My mum did a few cleaning jobs after we were all at high school and we went on ski-ing trips and the French exchange thing, all of which the old man paid for. We were far from deprived just on his income, he was a jobbing chippy/general builder in rural southeast Scotland where wages for anyone have never been high. Speaking very generally and looking at my friends and their families who are almost all similar blue collar folk and at a similar stage of their lives, they have to jump through massive finacial hoops to be able just to pay the bills, in some cases the wives work two/three jobs and I know one couple who used to qualify for tax credits with both of them working. This, as I've mentioned before, on England's south coast in one of the country's wealthiest boroughs.

The likes of Caulkin and Douglas should be shot with shit for their dog whistling crap on this like.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/liverpool-takeover-amanda-staveley-price-11303882.amp tbf this has about as much credibility as the shit sky and some notable local journos who should really know better were punting around a fortnight ago. Always (at least) just as likely to have been back in fir lfc than us. If there's anything in this from the mirror it may appear we've been used as some sort of bizarre smokescreen for her real intentions, fuck knows why though..

Happy Friday everyone!

Not that it bothers me in the slightest but in view of Shelveys football career it's worth noting that Spurs reserve Harry Winks has been called into the England squad

I get all that but it's partly her sitting with Rafa's guest for the day that makes me think she's just a fan (at the moment) She's certainly more likely to be a Liverpool fan than to have some sort of connection to Steve Wraith id imagine

Yes Noelie, we can all cut and paste from fuckin wilipedia And she's in her mid forties, in other words a child during liverpools glory years, the club with 100s of 1000s more glory seekers than season ticket holders across the entire planet. And there she is pictured a decade ago with a Liverpool scarf round her neck. There are others too but it seems that no one in the media has bothered with even the most brief of searches on google images. I was fairly sure she was a reds fan yesterday morning,, then she's sat next to the mother of a lad who died at Hillsborough. That's when I googled her and she's basically the Emlym Hughes of fuckin Dubai. All of which of course proves absolutely nothing, but it's stopping me jumping to the conclusions that many others are. At the moment the weight of evidence suggests she was there to watch a game of football and nothing else.

I actually think there is a good chance there's something in it, Caulkin is going strong on it without actually saying anything. If there's nothing in it then he's just fishing for hits which doesn't seem like him. The fact that none of the media are reporting that she's a known Liverpool fan is what's getting me though, if it's bollocks and she's just there to see the game then they all want fuckin shooting