Nordic Saint

Agreed. You should be selecting our team! The danger now is tht Ralph is going to keep picking JWP & Vestergaard & mess about with the full back positions until it's too late. Managers often get hoodwinked by how players perform in training, when the pace and pressure is not so intense. Presumably, that's where JWP and Vestergaard look good.

Yes, it is, in fact, the most one-sided derby in the country but I doubt the documentary will mention that. The only stat the TV commentators mentioned before we beat them 4-0 was how many years it had been since we'd beaten then as if it was something that had almost never happened whereas usually before derby games they refer at least once to how many games each team has won. Anyway it's updated now: 20-9 https://www.soccerbase.com/teams/head_to_head.sd?team_id=2049&team2_id=2471

For all the crticism of him from some of our fans, Forster kept a much higher percentage of clean sheets than any of our other keepers in recent years.

Poor

As expected then, it's 90% about Pompey fans. We'll get all the usual lies about mythical dock strikes, an interview with Westwood, how scary Fratton Park is etc. They'll probably leave out the last result altogether and just focus on footage of Pompey fans.

We have so many players that no other club would pay a transfer fee for, like the ones you have listed, that it is difficult to bring any in any money from the transfer market without selling our very best players, which is what we usually do, while the ones in most fans' retained lists are the ones that are most likely to be sold. Our most realistic strategy might be to try to offload some of our players in part-exchange for some of the Championship's better players, like Dael Fry. But, our scouting and recruitment has been so poor in recent years that it's hard to trust them to buy anyone good enough.

Unless the owners have changed their policy, the main aim, as usual, will be to make a profit or at least break even, so we'll probably sell Bertrand early in the window and then some of that money will be used to buy a player or two at the end of the window.

Saints turned down a £40 million offer for Forster from Man United. https://readsouthampton.com/2019/11/11/saints-handed-forster-new-deal-in-2016-to-prevent-man-utd-move/

Lander Sports UK? https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/10449153/officers

Why did she fight a legal battle lasting 4 years to get her hands on the club if she didn't want it? Her father died in 2010. She didn't manage to get hold of it until 2014, when one of her first actions was to force out the man her father had placed in charge of the club.

The video evidence disappears into a dark hole? It's already in the twilight zone.

You sound like a bright spark. I'm sure you can shed some light on the subject

OK, I've Googled it. It appears it was only ever given as advice to linesmen and it was largely being ignored by 2010. Personally, I liked it, for the short time that it was in use. https://forums.digitalspy.com/discussion/1292956/what-happened-to-the-daylight-offside-rule

I should add that before the 'daylight' rule was introduced, a player could be offside with any part of his body which could play the ball, which appears to be the case again now. Was the 'daylight' rule just a short-term experiment which was then dropped? I know that rules are constantly being revised. If there are any referees on here who know what happened, it would clarify the situation.

It meant that the forward had to have his entire body offside, not just part of it. Have referees started to ignore this or has there been a rule change?

I'm no expert on the rules but I definitely recall there being a rule which stated there had to be 'daylight' between the attacker and the last defender for him to be offside and in most of these recent VAR offside decisions there hasn't been. When was this rule changed and why?

She certainly knows how to look after her money. When she sold off the rest of her father's MALI group of engineering companies, the one part she kept was a small, private investment bank in Switzerland, where she keeps her money. I wonder why she always wants more money? They say with a lot of very wealthy people, they feel they never have enough. Of course, because of the secrecy rules of Swiss banks, nobody will ever know how much she has. She is going to be a major stumbling block when Gao tries to sell the club because she is almost certainly going to demand a lot more money than her share is worth, which will put most buyers off.

Markus's will meant that there were certain conditions that had to be fulfilled by whoever inherited the club. It was very publicly stated that he had made provisions for the club in his will. Perhaps that was why there were so many years of disputed probate before she finally got her hands on it it. Meanwhile she had already sold off the MALI group he left her without conditions. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2010/aug/11/markus-liebherr-southampton-future

Good reaction from the team to his removal: https://www.southamptonfc.com/news/2019-11-09/u23-report-southampton-vs-nottingham-forest-premier-league-cup-19-20

I feel a bit sorry for him. Kat and her team scoured the earth for a sucker like him. The money he borrowed to pay her came from a bank which is partly owned by the Chinese government. He could be in serious trouble if he can't pay them back.

Markus made provisions for the club's future in his will. This presumably meant that there was a certain amount of money put aside in his will to be invested in the club and that whoever inherited it could only do so on condition that they didn't sell the club immediately. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2010/aug/11/markus-liebherr-southampton-future

She's managed to do something very few people have ever done before: make a quarter of a billion pounds out of a football club. She even charged her own football club interest on loans to squeeze every last penny out of it. I wish I had her talent for making that much money for so little work.

There is nothing naive about making a quarter of a billion pounds out of a football club. Not many owners in the history of football have ever managed to do that before. I doubt that Gao will. He's still struggling to pay off his debt.

Those 5 minutes were bizarre, We abandoned the tactics that got praised so much in our defeat at Man City and actually crossed the halfway line and tried to win the game! Then common sense prevailed once more and we reverted to trying to keep the score down and pulled back into our own half to hang on for a narrow defeat.

I think you've hit the nail on the head there. And if we can just keep losing every game 2-1, we'll never have another 9-0 defeat.