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What a complete and utter cringefest it all was. If Putin had paid the director to embarrass the host country as much as possible, it couldn't have been any worse.
For obscure past concerts in December, the best I can come up with is Ten Years After, Blodwyn Pig and Stone the Crows at Southampton Guildhall in 1969.
Last night I was at one of the oldest concert venues - probably the oldest - in the south. Paganini played there in 1832 - It may surprise you to hear that I wasn't there for that one.
Talking of older musicians ( I saw him play with The Faces and the Stones):
"On This Day in 2009, Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood was cautioned for attacking his Russian girlfriend Ekaterina Ivanova,who was 21 at the time. Wood was 62.
Members of the public called police after a heated argument between the two spilled into the public High Street in Claygate, Surrey. Witnesses reported hearing a woman screaming and seeing Wood pinning his girlfriend to the ground and she was making choking sounds. Wood was held overnight and released on bail the next day....Ivanova said that Wood was an "evil goblin king".
It's amazing what musicians from that era could get away with, just as long as they were considered cool.
It's been done for pre-season friendlies at St Mary's, but not for league games. We're moving towards a paperless society. Tickets and programmes will soon be things of the past.
Most countries in the world never had programmes anyway, which I always found disappointing, as they made good souvenirs, but, as one of my children pointed out, who needs written records when you can record all your memories on your phone? The same applies to matchday info and team lineups. Improving the wi-fi at St Mary's has hastened the demise of the football programme. At half-time, which was about the only time most articles in football progammes were ever read by anyone, people look at their phones now.
You can see every season of their attendances here. Like Pompey, they had a ground capacity of more than 50,000, and like Pompey, it was usually half-empty. I remember their halcyon days in the late 60s/early 70s when they got their biggest home gates, but their away support wasn't very good back then. This season is probably the best away support they've ever had.
They're only 5 places below us in the all-time attendance table. They've had periods when their support has been terrible and others when it's been good. In the 70s, a mate who was a Coventry supporter came with me to a few Saints away games and said that Coventry's support was nowhere near that good. They're currently getting their biggest average home gates for more than 50 years and their away support reflects that. It all depends on results.
To cut through the impressionistic, subjective bullsh!t, which might work with gymnastics or ice skating, football is a team game and a good keeper is the one you get the best results with, and the results are twice as good with Bazunu as they are with McCarthy. Your subjective opinions are irrelevant. It's results that count.
If Saints results are important to you, then the answer is obvious. With McCarthy in goal we average almost half the number of points that we do with Bazunu.
Bazunu average points per Saints Championship game = 1.9 McCarthy average points per Saints Championship game = 1.0
Over a season that means with McCarthy in goal we finish with 46 points and get relegated while with Bazunu we finish with 87 points and probably get promoted.
McCarthy is not better than any professional goalkeeper in the entire country, including Bazunu. With McCarthy in goal we have won just ONE regular season game at St Mary's in FOUR YEARS! That's how bad he is.
We win most of our Championship games with Bazunu in goal and we only managed to avoid defeat against Pompey this season because of his man of the match performance. He's not as good as Ramsdale or any of the top goalkeepers, but he's nowhere near as bad as McCarthy, who'd have cost us a defeat to Pompey if he'd been in goal.
We need to buy a better goalkeeper and centre forward in the transfer window. That's something we can all agree on. What Eckert has achieved without them is impressive.
Oxford United's victory over Ipswich has made Pompey's position in 21st place look more perilous. We really need to go there in January and absolutely thrash them.
Lallana has never looked like managerial material. It's a pity we didn't get Fonte here instead of him. But, I guess we can't ask for too much when we've already got Tonda Eckert.
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