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It's criminal the sh1te managers Ballard had to play under & barely being given a fair chance. You'd have thought that okay, now that we've been relegated from the Premier League, the club (and I include Will Still here) would give him a fair crack a division lower this season to see what the lad can do. His career stats should have been a clue and speak for themselves at all ages/levels.
Most of all - he's still only 20 - yet Damion Clowns is 21. I know which lad I'd rather have up front putting a shift in.
Dom Ballard had a prolific record at age-group level - scoring 60 goals in 72 appearances across the U18 and U21 sides.
Ballard is now doing very well having been sold to Orient in the Summer. He has scored three times in his first five league appearances for the O’s, with two of those goals coming against top-six opposition. Yes I know some will say it's 'Only League 1' etc, but a natural goal scorer is a goal scorer whatever the league. He's still only 20 years old.
Good luck to the youngster. I wish him well. Nick Oyekunle will follow him out of St Marys before long with these clowns in charge.
I lived on the outskirts of Sydney for 3-years when I was just a kid. I still have a lot of wonderful happy memories though. My old man was a submariner for 29-years and transferred to the Aussie navy for 3-years to show them everything about sonar as that was his speciality and subs were new back then to the Aussie navy.
I even met Skippy at the studios where it was filmed (one for the old codgers amongst us!).
Because we like to get in young, promising players, let a clueless f@ckwit manager mess with their heads, then watch as they put in a transfer request.
It's a very cosmopolitan city, very green (parks everywhere) and there are so many fabulous bars, clubs & restaurants to visit. We paid a visit to see the Liberty Bell (as you do) and ran up the famous Museum of Art steps where Stallone did in the Rocky movie...just because. I really love my music, so Philly was always a place I wanted to go to. It caters for everyone ; lots of soul music themed bars & clubs obviously - but also funk/jazz funk & of course Philly is famous for jazz.
Incidentally, I've been to several US cities over many years - some when I was on ships a long time ago - and some paid for out of my own pocket in more recent times, and none have had a more friendly or lovely population than Philadelphia - once they find out you're English with that accent that they love!
I went to see the Saints v Sunderland women's game at the Silverlake a week ago last Sunday. It finished 1-1.
I only went because my lad is good mates with Saints' women's manager (they play in the same Sunday team) and said 'come along'. Took along my 5-year old granddaughter as she's getting into football & we're trying to coerce her (gently) that Southampton is the only team to support... poor kid, but if we have to suffer, why shouldn't she?
I might make Fratton Park on Sunday. It'll be a good experience for the little treasure & set her up for a lifetime of hating the skates. Plus she'll learn new obscene words that naughty old granddad will be shouting but which my son will have to explain to her and not me!
Valetta is wonderful - as is the whole of Malta - aka 'The jewel of the Med'. Lots to see and do on the historical island (as well as neighbouring Gozo) but yeah, you have to pick your time of year to go as it's not that far off the North African coast & can get mighty hot! We're going again in May next year as it's the missus's birthday. Any later than that & I wouldn't be going until around now (late September/October) when it's still lovely and warm and sunny but not too hot.
Loved Hamburg although it's been a long time since I went (too long infact). As you say, lots of live music & you can't go without visiting the Reeperbahn. I first went there in 1979 when my ship paid a 5-day visit. I was only a nipper and boy did I have my eyes opened! Me and the lads walked into our very first bar ever on our first day, In Hamburg, called The Liverpool Bar as it happened, and there behind the bar were 2 gorgeous barmaids serving... both totally topless, with tellies up in each corner showing hardcore porn filthy smut movies! Bearing in mind back home in good old Blighty at that time, Mary Whitehouse was front page news saying that Britain was becoming a seedy grubby place with too much filth on the telly & trying to ban 'Men's magazines', The Sun's Page 3, etc!
Your second paragraph is the only real solution to the problem.
I think most European countries are too concerned & distracted by protecting their own individual borders rather than getting together & forming a large EU and UK funded organisation (similar to Interpol, as it were) who's sole task is to hunt down the gangs, bring them to court & stop their racketeering.
Easier said than done of course, but it's surely the only option? The cost would be enormous, but I would imagine that, shared between them, the cost would be a lot less to each country than it currently is.
We've failed to make a charge from the off and are coughing & spluttering along. The premier League is just as boring as ever. And I can't be arsed to even watch England play & won't bother.
Talk Talk - before the sad early death of lead singer Mark Hollis in 2019 aged 64.
I was always away at sea for years whenever Talk Talk were on tour and never did get to see them live. I saw numerous other bands that I loved back in the day, sometimes several times, but never did get to see Talk Talk - one of the finest bands ever IMHO. That 1986 Montreux gig looked phenomenal...
Looks like we're going to have to struggle on until January without a proper centre forward - and even then, I don't trust these clowns to recruit one any better than what we've already got (which isn't saying much of course!).
Ross Stewart - or 'Roscoe' as Will Still calls him - is going to be out for weeks & even when he does come back, his fitness & ability to play more than an hour here, an hour there will be called into question. How is 'Roscoe' going to survive the long cold Winter months battling away in the Championship with his fitness history?
This season is going to be all about (desperately) trying to grab one of those play-off positions and nothing else. We are going to have to do it all again, like under Rylan, via Wembley. Anything else is just wishful thinking.
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