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Fucksake sad news, he was Godfather to my late sister, who was quite proud of that, and I have a nice picture of them both with me Mum and Dad in our front room, must be 1964, I also had his Scotland shirt, which went missing, I know now what happened and will never get it back after finding out last week, wish I had it now as it would be on my wall. A few years ago we had a few bevvies with Jimmy Case, he'd sometimes come into my local, and I always wanted to ask him about contacting St John, someone on here mentioned that I should go through the club, I was only thinking about it the other day too, just to send regards and mention my sister etc, what a bastard I never did. RIP Saint, a boyhood hero for sure, and though I was a bit to young, I still love to see that goal in 65 final, a cracker.

RIP YNWA - Legend

Good time to repost this I think. He had a genuine love for the club.

Another club legend sadly gone but he'll never be forgotten. Rest well Saint. In 1965, at the age of two, I had to be taken outside at my Auntie's wedding. I obviously have no recollection of it but apparently the Vicar said he was going to read from the book of St John and on hearing that I broke into the St John Chant and wouldn't stop. My Dad trained me well.

RIP to a genuine club legend And hard as nails

What's the rush? A bit of time taken now will hopefully ensure that we never have to go into lockdown again.

Rest In Peace St. Thankful we won the league last year and you saw us do it.

My last employer didn’t give out bonuses or treat people kindly. If you were a deemed to be a star performer (by this I mean an incompetent drone prepared to accept it), you got a mobile disco ball. This prestigious award could be for mundane reasons such as you did your job when you were most required to, rescued a dog, or cleared up someone else shit. The bar, so far as I can see, was never high enough for me to insult my staff by nominating them. Instead I used it as a mild threat, If nominated by your manager or the psychopathic leadership team, which I turned down joining, and you won, you had to leave said item on your desk in plain view and they’d take it back in time for the next time someone was deemed worthy, That used to happen, not anymore. My advice is to lock the CEO’s office and look in peoples bags when they leave. IMG_4670.MP4

Sing up, now.

You need to be on the recieving end of what you've typed this past year. Every time you've found a crank idea that this was all over or not as bad as it seemed or whatever you've posted it. Then gone on to support those ideas. Then when a million epidemiologist say "lockdowns are the only way to deal with this", you ignore it and go and find an opposite version "the virus started to dip 42 minutes before lockdown was announced, I can prove it with some random graph. It's just a coincidence that the R rate is reducing because of lockdown, the virus had already run its course". You're right you're not the only person to think some of the shite you've posted this last year. There's cranks all over the internet spouting it. It doesn't alter all you've done for 12 months is try to find the most positive narrative you can and rejected the obvious. If that's how you deal with things, good for you, but it doesn't alter most of what you've posted in here for 12 months has been crackers and in many cases dangerous, as casual observers might actually believe you.

Yes, that's where the Southport and Ormskirk lines terminated before they built the underground to Central. In fact, it was possible to get trains direct to Preston and Glasgow from Exchange. While I'm in train spotter mode...

but it can mean they are more contagious. so you can't just dismiss it - which i know is your style, if you hear anything you don't like, you just ignore it. you've been doing it for 12 months - you've been telling us since the start lockdowns don't work and the virus just naturally dies out and we were already at herd immunity and all manner of mad shite. yet it has taken a vaccine to make real inroads as the rest of us know.

A very old one, but...... Poster outside a Liverpool church:- 'What will you do when the Lord cometh?' Underneath some one wrote:- 'Move St John to inside forward'

Succession - 10/10. An absolutely brilliant portrayal of a family-run media conglomerate dominated by an ageing patriarch who deploys every Machiavellian technique possible to play his kids off against each other in the race to succeed him. The casting and script are incredible and it is variously tense and hilarious. One of the best things I’ve seen in years. Can’t wait for the apparent third season.

This fixture was our very last home game of last season. It was an entertaining affair that resulted in a 5-3 win. We led 3-1 at the break thanks to a long-range bullet from Naby, a textbook free kick from Trent and a close range volley from Gini after Chelsea failed to clear a corner. Giroud pulled on back. We were much the better side in the first half but the second half was more even. Bobby finally scored a league goal at Anfield with a powerful header from a great Trent cross, but Chelsea got two goals back through Abraham and Pulisic to make things edgy. Ox finally put the game to bed, finishing off a move after Robbo bombed down the left. One memorable aspect of the game was Frank Lampard arrogantly going off on Klopp like a jumped-up twat. The irony of him suggesting that Klopp was "giving it the big 'un" when Klopp has actually won things before was one thing. Making those claims when as a player, Lampard won loads of trophies under a manager who epitomises "giving it the big 'un" in something else - a total lack of self-awareness. The most memorable thing about that game was Hendo and the players FINALLY getting their hands on the coveted Premier League trophy. No fans in the ground but the club (and Sky!) went all out to make a real occasion of it. Pyrotechnics in the Kop, the Hendo shuffle and a hearty rendition of YNWA once they all went back out onto the pitch. Champions of England! In 2011/12, the fixture was also our final home league game of the season. It had been a wretched season attacking-wise as the team set some sort of record for hitting the woodwork, only drawing games we'd comfortably dominated. After a while, it seemed to get to the players mentally too. We'd been defensively OK for the most part, but then started making regular silly errors to concede goals. Our profligacy at the other end (thanks to a combination of the aforementioned hitting of the woodwork, every opposing goalkeeper having a worldy and simple woeful finishing) saw us drop points practically every week. We ended up finishing in 8th, behind the Shite. The Chelsea game came just days after they beat us in the FA Cup final. In that game, we'd done what we always seem to do at the new Wembley, not turning up at the start, ending up trailing before rallying and making a game of it before ultimately falling short. We nearly made a real mess of things in our League Cup final a couple of months earlier, scraping a shoot-out win over second-tier Cardiff. In this league game, Chelsea went with a largely second-string line-up that featured Torres up front. We found our shooting boots, winning 4-1 thanks to an opening own goal from Essien after a great run down the right from Suarez, followed by Hendo running through the middle to roll on into the far corner, and then Agger finishing after Carroll had had an effort saved following a corner. Ramires pulled one back in the second half but Shelvey scored late on, firing into an open goal from 40 yards after the Chelsea keeper Ross Turnbull had made a hash of a clearance. In that first half, we still managed to hit the woodwork when Stewart Downing was handed the responsibility of scoring from the spot. That he missed it meant he'd failed to score in the league all season. It summed him and us up, as we were adept at not taking chances that we created. In the charts, Carly Rae Jepsen spent 4 weeks at the top with her bubblegum pop hit 'Call Me Maybe'. There have been FAR worse songs than that make their way to number one. We go into this fixture on our worst run of home form for donkeys years. We haven't won at Anfield at all in 2021, a far cry from not so long ago when we were only dropping a couple of points at Anfield in a season. Chelsea have changed managers, bringing in the more tactically astute Thomas Tuchel to replace the naive Lampard so they've become a bit more resilient and less gung-ho. We have a good record at Anfield against Tuchel though, winning in the last minute on both occasions thanks to goals from Degby against Dortmund, and Bobby against PSG. We have what it takes to win, but we must start showing it and get the league season back on the rails. No if, buts or calling it maybes, just get the job done and get all the points, even if it takes some more last minute dramatics.

Honestly this took me about five minutes to find just by searching for what you’ve said with the word ‘herd’ or ‘lockdowns’ in it and I didn’t even look at all the results.

Not been on for a few weeks for various reasons, but had to come on when I heard the Saint had passed. I'm genuinely gutted at this. He wasn't my favourite person at times with his jibes at Houllier early in his reign. However it can't be denied that he was a good man and a great player! My old fella was at Wembley in 65, and loved the Saint for that winner against Leeds! Listening to him over the years you always knew he was a red but most of all his love for the game never waned! RIP Saint.

Like a lot on here, I'm more familiar with him thanks to Saint & Greavsie. Football on TV was scarce back then, with live games on ITV every other week until January when the BBC would show FA Cup ties. Other than that, it was a brief football round-up on Grandstand (before they created the dedicated slot Football Focus), S&G on a Saturday and maybe a bit of football on Sportsnight in midweek. S&G mainly consisted of a round-up of First Division games, a bit of chat about international football, some slightly cringy banter between the two, and Greavsie taking the piss out of goalkeepers up in 'Jockoland'. I entered a competition on it once. Can't remember what the main prize was (maybe match tickets or a shirt or something) but I didn't win. They did send me a Saint & Greavsie mug though. When you filled it with a hot liquid, Greavsie's catchphrase "It's a funny old game!" would appear on the side.

Back pain has to be one of the most debilitating 'non-serious' conditions out there. I have broken bones and torn ligaments before and I would honestly take 2 broken legs right now if it meant I could get off this hell ride where I dont know when I'm going to end up bedridden for no good reason. I messed up my back about 6 weeks ago and it was slowly getting better until I coughed while brushing my teeth today. I can now barely walk and have spent all day calling everyone under the sun a cunt. Behaviour that passes for normal over on the FF but funnily enough doesnt go down too well in the office.

Liverpool legend and used to love Saint and Greavsie and the theme music which was originally from the 1986 World Cup. Sadly I think Greavsie won't last too long either.

We broke them.

PEOPLE ARE DYING

Don’t know how anybody could watch a Man City game that doesn’t involve us or that probably won’t see them get knocked out of Europe. The whole thing is just completely hollow. They’re ideally suited to the whole empty stadium/fake crowd noise thing. This is truly their era.

She tells you she's going the garden centre.

The Queen Is Dead - used to love this when I was younger, not listened to it for 25 years but still love Marr's work on The Boy With The Thorn In His Side Rumours - My auntie listens to this in her car on her way to the garden centre Dusty In Memphis - Superb, the version of Breakfast In Bed is killer Dummy - I have no issues with this one but it just never really floated my boat The La's - Amazing LP, not an ounce of fat on it & one of a handful of albums from that era I still play

He's free and comes with a Barry Manilow song.

He wasn't the greatest of boxers but he won the WBC title and from McCall who beat Lewis for it. Hardly Mickey Mouse.

Spy BeeBC.

Grapes with seeds. Far more trouble than they're worth.

Toast crumbs in the margarine tub, people/kids dont grasp the concept of the crumbs going mouldy.

The variant banter always tends to crop up when people take the vaccine stuff to heart and decend on Formby beech by their tens of millions. It's never just a variant, often it's a worrying variant or, at best, a variant with some "worrying" genetic changes which has got scientists "concerned". The media is largely reduced to social science mouthpiece now, terrify you into staying in, then get you out, then get you to STAY in, all depending on the pressure on the NHS and economic situation of the day. There's method to the madness no doubt, designed to stop riots and the likes, but the damage to mental health in the long term will be monumental. I've mentioned it before but modern day torture methods aren't based around pain, they're based around disruption, up down, hot cold, sleep awake, food no food. Your brain can adapt to anything except uncertainty, and uncertainty is what these people deal in. You could cope with the blitz after a while, you could cope with having your kids evacuated, what you couldn't deal with is being told the war is over one day and back on the next, or your kids coming home one week then being sent back to Wales the next. "Now D Day may have appeared to go well but there's worrying reports of a worrying new variant of Nazi starting to emerge in the low countries. In his press conference, Jonathan Van Tam stopped short of criticising the sailor who snogged that bird in Times Square, but said: There may be blue birds over, the white cliffs of Dover, but the war, it is not over."

Not arsed as we’ll have Mbappe and Haaland by then anyway

OH fuck.My hero as a lad

Dusty in Memphis is wonderful.

It's a day of rebellion over here. The bars and restaurants of Leiden are defying the government and opening their terraces. They are however not going to be serving any food or drink as they don't want a 4000 euro fine. Meanwhile, over in Den Haag, the sex workers will be performing a "peep show on wheels" outside of Parliament. Only in this country.

We could be making 10 times what we currently are and you'd still find a way to defend FSG signing a 50 year old Jon Walters in the January 2034 transfer window.

I'm no fan of the Royal family but Piers Morgan going for Harry and Megan talking about their morality doing an interview while grampa is ill is a bit stomach churning that prick has no morals and seems to of got away scot free from his role in hacking for stories. He's a prick and it's to the great shame of the people in this country he's given a platform to display his ego whether he pulling up MPs or not.

Exchange Station

Fixed the bath taps today. Turned water off from mains, unscrewed grub screws, lifted the taps, took cartridges to one, two, three, four DIY stores for correct ones. Chewed the fat with an old boy who used to be a plumber, using phrases like "just needed a nudge to get the bastards out" when discussing spanner use to a nod of approval, took new parts home, fitted, water back on and tested. Then took a video and shared it with everyone I know. £12 all in. Pretty much a qualified tradesman now.

Had my vaccine last Saturday then got home to watch the derby. Cnt remember much after it, just woke up in a park with ripped jeans.

I like Philips and I’ve just started enjoying how negging people feels. Petty yet empowering.

We are only just starting. There are five more untested pairings with currently fit CBs alone.

Are you doing this stuff on government time Frode?

Hate playing these. Massively stressful.

I'm not liking how he's been done by passes behind him & having no idea where his man is - Barnes at Leicester, Richarlson's goal & a couple of times last night, luckily McBurnie is utter shite because somebody else better would have been working Adrian. I get that he's come into a difficult position etc etc etc but having an appreciation of the ball and his man at all times is a pretty fundamental attribute for a defender. If he's up against Djibril Werner (or Timo Cisse - you pick) on Thursday, I'll be concerned.

After 10 years of contracting, i returned to a perm job a couple of months back. I had my first 121 in years, where my boss told me about the need to build my brand. Its had me scouring the internet for another contract job since.