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Mike Dean looks like Homer Simpson in a tracksuit.

Leicester fans' love affair with Vestergaard continues: "Dreadful." "Every game he's shit." "Absolute turd of a signing "

Most successful clubs are, none more so than Man City and Chelsea. Bournemouth and Brighton's recent success has been a direct result of the money their owners have put in. Football clubs, like race horses, have always been rich men's play things. The idea that football clubs should be viewed as business investments is a relatively new one and it usually seems to result in unsuccessful football teams.

They lost to a Burton team which hadn't won any of its previous 7 matches but Pompey hadn't won any of their previous 7 either. Their fans are starting to talk about relegation.

Perraud reminds me of Jeremy Pied. He's OK as a squad player but he's never going to be in the same class as players like Walker-Peters and Livramento.

You can't underestimate the importance of a striker of the calibre of Ings. He creates a lot of goals as well as scores them. His constant pressing and goal threat also mean the opposition have to keep men back. He has got 2 goals and 2 assists in the Premier League already this season. Without his goals and assists in the Premier League last season, we'd have been 16 points worse off. I'm pretty sure we would have won a game by now if he had still been here.

I like Ralph. I don't want to see him sacked, I hope he turns things around and I still think we could win a cup with him in charge. But do we really have "one of the worst records in Premier League history" and is this our worst ever start to a Premier League season? Since crying after beating Liverpool in January 2021, Ralph Hasenhuttl's Southampton has one of the worst records in Premier League history including a 9-0 loss to Manchester United (talksport.com)

The Jimenez goal was the only moment of real quality on the pitch. Pity it was against us. The highlight of the day off the pitch was the Saints Brass march along the touchline in front of the Kingland Stand. They really have got their OWTS off to perfection now. They fired up the atmosphere before kick-off and I think they deserve a spot in the Chapel End so they could stir it up a bit during the game as well.

I wouldn't worry. If Leicester keep playing Vestergaard, we'll finish above them this season.

Out of the 34 games played by the bottom 6 teams so far, Wolves are the only team to have won one. Hopefully, we can win one against them tomorrow.

Vestergaard having his usual nightmare game for Leicester. He's so bad the commentators are saying they should take him off at half-time. And Leicester fans have had enough of him already. They don't want to see him in their team any more: Vestergaard signs - Page 17 - Leicester City Forum - FoxesTalk

There was a TV interview regarding Brentord's policy and they said it was a waste of time and money having an academy in London as the big clubs hoovered up all the talent. Even if our own academy currently appears to be a waste of money, we are doing well taking players like Livramento, Broja and Small from other clubs' academies. Maybe that is the way forward. Chelsea's academy for example is always going to have much more talent than ours.

He's the same at Leicester.

Dave Merrington must now be rivalling Eve for the most times anyone has said the word Adam. He says it at the end of every sentence. It has become such a habit that his wife has probably had to get used to being called Adam too. He'd never be able to go back into management as the players would get confused by all being called Adam.

He certainly wasn't fine in Serie A so why should he be fine here? It's not any easier here.

Hopefully, we can find a club to loan him to before he does too much damage here.

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Saints are the current joint record holders for the most consecutive draws in a Premier League season: 7 in 1994-95. Saints are also the current joint holders of the record for the most consecutive draws in Football League history, which is 8. Saints did it in the 2005-06 Championship season. Saints are also the joint record holders for the most draws ever in a Premier League season: 18 in 1994-95. We hold most of the draw records but there is still one we are currently on course for - the most consecutive 0-0 draws, which is currently held jointly by Arsenal, who've done it twice, Spurs and most recently Wolves (2015-16) with 4. Both Spurs and Arsenal did it with the manager who was the master of scoreless draw football, George Graham.

He scored in 7 of the 8 games he played against us at the 60s. I was at most of them including the first two at White Hart Lane when we lost 5-3 and 6-1. The 5-3 defeat in 1966 was the first time he ever played against us, and he scored a penalty. Ron Davies got 2 that day. I still enjoyed the game as I was one of the 10,000 Saints' fans who took the Park Lane End. The following year, we only took about 5,000 up there and so only took over half of the Park Lane End. Greaves scored 2, including his usual penalty. We still outsang the Spurs' fans though. They were a very quiet, sedate lot in those days - in fact they were the last club to have a singing section- and the loudest song of the day was when Ron Davies scored, as he nearly always did against Spurs, right at the end to make it 6-1, and we sang, "We're only warming up." I also saw Greaves play for West Ham and, of course, for Saints against Vancouver Whitecaps. I remember when Greaves scored, a few fans said, "He could do a job for us." But, you could see he was never going to be fit enough again to play 90 minutes. He was, after all, 40 years old at the time. Alan Ball scored Vancouver's only goal from a penalty. Saints 3-1 Vancouver Whitecaps Boyer, Greaves, Baker; Ball attendance: 13,000 Match report from the Vancouver Sun: 1980-03-11 Whitecaps-Southampton x.jpg (1192×564) (nasljerseys.com) Greaves was one of the greatest English goalscorers ever and brilliant at rounding goalkeepers. When he was through, 1 on 1, he never missed. R.I.P.

The only way to beat them is to go carbon heavy. We should chuck lumps of coal at them when we play them.

Over the course of a season Vestergaard's awful defending is worth at least minus six league positions to his team. If they keep playing him, Leicester are going to concede hatfuls of goals and finish below us in the league.

Why do McCarthy's kicks never go to a Southampton player? You'd think by the law of averages some of them would.

We've dominated the opening 15 minutes but we usually do in games. City are pacing themselves.

FoxesTalk:"Our defence without Evans is fvcking garbage.""Defensive horror show.""Defending this season has been atrocious. Look shaky every time the ball comes near our box.""Centre defence was pretty weak""Soyuncu and Vestegaard scare me. The latter has to be the weakest player I've ever seen going shoulder to shoulder with a player.""Problem with playing Evans and Vestergaard together is lack of pace - they got caught out lots of times in the first half.""Vestergaard was very poor tonight, awful for their first goal and nowhere near their most dangerous player Osimhen for his headed goal, surely he should have been marking him ffs.""I miss Fofana""Vestergaard looks weak and limp defensively.""Vestegaard just literally gave up and let the Napoli striker just breeze past him. Shocking defending.""Vestergaard is 8 foot 12 but hasn't got any shoulders."

If he keeps playing like he did on Saturday, it will be impossible as he will be way out of our price range. We just have to make the most of the time he is here: a bit like when Chelsea loaned Lukaku to West Brom. Eventually, a bigger club, Everton paid a club record fee for him and then more than doubled their money when they sold him to Man United. I can see Broja following a similar path or becoming a first team regular at Chelsea. We need to play Broja as much as possible in the time he is here. As the OP says, he must start v Man City.