Nordic Saint

Forster Walker-Peters Fonte van Dijk Shaw Ward-Prowse WanyamaTadic Lallana Mane Ings Subs: Boruc, Alderweireld, Clyne, Bertrand, Romeu, Schneiderlin, S. Armstrong, Lambert, Pelle

Dressed like that he wouldn't look out of place at Fratton Park.

That's the third time in the last month, Obafemi has scored 2 goals. At the rate he's progressing, he'll be converting those into hat-tricks soon..

It will be Andrea Belotti on a free transfer.

I should imagine that if you were the type of person who got confused over left and right, you'd get even more confused over palms up or down, in which case there is a 50% chance you'd make an L with your right hand.

I saw Alan Ball play his first ever game at the Dell, just after he joined Everton in 1966, and he was absolutely brilliant. He was best to watch in his early 20s, at Blackpool and Everton, when he was a freescoring attacking midfielder who ripped opposition defences apart.

Obviously, Winks is more of a defensive midfielder but if we do sell Ward-Prowse in the summer and need a suitable replacement for him, then Ruslan Malinovskyi would be far better than Winks, even if he would cost a sizeable chunk of the fee we got for JWP.

He was clearly under the infuence. You could see that from his tearful, rambling speech. Just as well he has colour on his side, or he'd never act in Hollywood again after that.

Gazza giving a young fan a good kicking: Paul Gascoigne is being slammed for inviting young fan onto pitch just to trip him up (msn.com)

George Best. But, you can take your pick from the British players listed here: Ballon d'Or - Wikipedia

I remember when Kat sold 80% to Gao, the Club had to pay back 100% of their debt to her plus interest before she would let the deal go through. I still wonder what this means. The implication is that money was to be put aside for Saints' future: Markus Liebherr 'made provision for Southampton's future' before death | Southampton | The Guardian

North Macedonia have only lost 1 of their last 10 World Cup qualifiers, which included an away win against Germany. It was Germany's first defeat in a World Cup qualifier for more than 20 years. All of the former Yugoslav republics are good at football.

I've been watching Saints since 1963 and in that time we've only had 3 goalkeepers better than Forster - Shilton, Flowers and Niemi - and the number of international caps our goalkeepers have had in that time would tend to support this view. It's bizarre that some fans think we can just get rid of him and replace him with someone who'll be better and that it will also save the club money when the reality is we could waste at least £20 mill on a transfer fee + similar wages to Forster's on a goalkeeper who'll turn out not to be as good as him.

'Greatest manager...love what he did for our club': 'Greatest manager ... Love what he did for our club ... Thank you Harry' - Portsmouth fans on social media show why ex-West Ham, Spurs, and QPR boss Harry Redknapp is still much loved | The News

The priority still has to be to replace McCarthy. We certainly don't want him playing for us again next season. Because of Rasmus Ankersen's Brentford connections, I'd expected the new goalkeeper to be David Raya but now that it looks like they are staying up due to the points they've picked up since Raya's return from injury last month, perhaps that will no longer be possible.

It's more of a priority that we replace McCarthy as he is our worst goalkeeper. It would be good if we could bring in a Premier League goalkeeper like Pope or Raya but there would always be a risk with an unproven young goalkeeper.

It was a fairly convincing dive but Dean wouldn't have given a penalty for it at the other end. In fact, he didn't for a far heftier shove in the back which sent Long sprawling in the City penalty area. It was the way that Jesus stuck his leg back to try to make it look like he'd been tripped which bought it. Jesus is a seasoned cheat. Everybody around me was shocked to find out that a penalty had been given for it. The only consolation is that there is a rumour Mike Dean is retiring at the end of the season.

Yes, we all expect Mike Dean to award at least a red card or a penalty against us today. There are rumours he is retiring at the end of the season so no matter what he does, he won't fear any repercussions. But, let's hope that today is the day he really shocks us and shows he isn't really biased against us, even though 2 red cards against us seems more likely.

Cedric seems to be having his best spell for Arsenal and he's been called up, along with Fonte, whose next cap will be his 50th, for the latest Portugal squad. Fernando Santos announces Portugal’s World Cup playoff squad (portugoal.net)

Historically, there is not a lot to choose between Saints and Man City at this stage of the FA Cup. Saints have been in 22 FA Cup quarter-finals and won 13 while City have been in 27 quarter-finals and won 15. If we beat them on Sunday in our 23rd quarter-final, our records will be even closer. It's the semi-finals and finals where Saints fall down. City have won 6 finals but we've won only one. There can't be another team in football that's been in more semi-finals than Saints yet only won 1 cup.

Then let's hope they discover Bremer before his transfer value rockets. Just checked the latest transfer rumours and it looks like it's already too late. Man City and Liverpool are both being linked with him. As you said, on our budget, it's difficult.

We need an upgrade on Bednarek. We need a big central defender who can win everything in the air. We really need Dael Fry.

Howe has told his team to put high crosses and corners into our penalty box at every opportunity because our central defenders win almost nothing in the air.

It was a well-worked goal. Basically, big centre forwards scoring headed goals from long crosses and corners against us is a recurrent theme and Newcastle would have highlighted that in their planning for this game. We are a good team but our weakest link is still in the centre of our defence.

Dael Fry would be better.