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Evenings offer a choice of TV viewing in my opinion - it's either Big Brother - or anything else!
Awards season is upon us - I'm sure Jack will raise a glass!
I remember once at The Dell we were playing Nottingham Forest.
A good few years ago now I was on holiday in Tampa, Florida, with Anne and our young children.
As a TV panellist I covered five World Cups, four of them for the BBC sat alongside mainly Bobby Charlton and Jimmy Hill, many European ties and more than ten domestic cup finals.
One of the fascinations of having been in the football business for so long is to realise what it's like for youngsters starting out and also seeing what happens when players hang up their boots.
Last week it was Jose Mourinho. This week Messrs Pardew and Wenger have sparked the the FA into bringing a charge of improper conduct.
Managing Saints under the chairmanship of George Reader was certainly more preferable than life for managers under some of today's football club chairmen.
While there was a happy gathering of ex-professionals at Eastleigh, sadly this week I saw many of the real veterans at the funeral of Tommy Traynor.
I have mentioned a few times this season how impressed I have been with the way the new executives at St Mary's have hit the ground running and made such progress in most areas.
I notice one of my ex-youth players at The Dell, Chris Wilder, who is managing at Halifax, has been linked with another Conference national club, Cambridge United.
Having had experience at international and club level, and now being back with Saints, I was interested to see Brian Flynn, John Toshack's assistant with Wales, at our game last Saturday.
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