All,

I had been making tea, so I only saw the end of a tackle in which 
Beckham took a little kick at Stephen Hughes (slow-mo). Hughes got 
booked so presumably this was Beckham's mature response. About 2 
minutes later, a combination of Keane and Beckham sent Hughes crashing 
to the floor in a Klinsmann goal celebration style. Though the ref 
missed it the replay clearly shows the boy blunder deliberatly 
kick/tread/stamp on the back of Hughes' inner thigh. It was the sort 
of tackle that made you wince. Potentially very painful and injury 
causing, probably not too far from his bollocks and reminded you 
instantly of how Beckham cost us the World Cup. Beckham just started 
snarling at Hughes in that way which is so pathetic it can only be 
compared to some of my own performances on a squash court. It was some 
consolation that Scumchester got beat 3-0 but there can be NO Beckham 
debate - he's a thick tosser who'll lose England other games because 
playing under Ferguson teaches a man to be a child.

On a happier note it was good to see Saints on top for a whole 30 
 minutes of a game. I'm sure dave jones hasn't drawn the 'inevitable' 
conclusion that this had something to do with Matty playing, Hughes 
being withdrawn from attack and Dodd and Lundekvam reverting to their 
usual positions - but I wish he would. Beasant and Monkou on Sunday 
footie chat on Sky made it clear (without saying it) that jones feels 
forced to pick Le Tiss but doesn't really want to. Overweight (??), 
low on confidence and undervalued by his employers (but enough of me) 
and he's still scored 2 goals in 2 premiership starts. You may acuse 
me of blind faith but it's got to be better than just plain blind.

Love to you all,

Lloydy

PS. It's all gone quiet every where...??!