Al's back, thanks for excellent summaries Tony.

Well peeps, i'm back from a couple of weeks family business in Italy. Brrrr, and was it cold ! Mobile battery died first day there when temp dropped below -7 degrees up the mountain at Vallefredda. Lost contact with Mrs S and UK til I sorted out my Italy phone and Internet sim cards 2 days later. Couldn't access Web site though  ? ? ? ?  but Tony filled in the gaps brilliantly. We popped to Rome for 4 days but I couldn't sneak to Stadio Olimpico to see Lazio beat Atalanta 2-1 (as Roma won 1-0 at Udinese)  but made up for it by drinking gallons of Nastro Azzuri in the hotels ground floor bar and up on the 10th floor roof-top bar/restaurant/terrace, hic (STUNNING views of Rome OMG ). Avoided the 2 metre snowfall one mountain range over but felt the TREMOR from central Italy. Me and junior ( Albie) left on the 22nd in time to get back for the Saints v Leicester match so missed the chance to watch Isola del Liri play Chiaiamaria a few hundred yards down the hill at Stadio Nazareth on Sunday afternoon.
Ok,it's a bad weekend for our local teams. Saints losing 3-1 at home to West Ham, Bournemouth involved in a crazy 6-3 defeat at Everton and Pompey lose 1-0 at Wycombe. Chelsea Spurs City all win Arsenal and Liverpool both lose in 4th and 5th and Man Utd up to 6th with their 3-0 win at struggling Leicester. Will try and get a Euro update in tonight as out with Wilkie Tourists tomorrow night for our pre Murcia curry then the intrepid six head off to Spain for a heady weekend of wine women and song AND food and culture and fun and frolics and coffee and beer and a few more beers and erm have I forgotten something?????? Ahhh yes, a few football matches. Ha ! later...