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I remember a game at West Ham about 10 years ago where we turned up late, had to sprint from bus to pitch (almost) - and beat them 1-0.

Yes let's remind ourselves that we've never finished higher than 8th in the Premier League

No Michael Owen on BT Sport gave it (quite rightly) to Cork

JWP now on Saints Player http://www.player.saintsfc.co.uk/latest-news/article/3634917 Haven't listened to him yet

Hey Gareth, congratulations on the new job. I wonder whether you post on here, like certain other SFC staff....

That's because the medical staff can't give a realistic prediction. If they speculate "3 weeks for Lovren" and "8 weeks for Ramirez", that might be a best guess but end up wide of the mark

Yes, I like some of her phrases like "open communication" and "a few smiles too". I really hope she is seen smiling at the Yeovil game on Saturday or, if she can't make that, the Arsenal match.

Anyway we're still 7 points clear of the bottom 11

Now Sunderland face management meltdown http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/sunderland-sack-director-football-roberto-3032729#.UtlEcxDFK1s http://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/di-fanti-sacked.863617/ You couldn't make it up...

To be completely accurate she's looking for a Chief Executive (not an Executive Chairman like Cortese) to run things while she remains Non-Executive Chairman

We can analyse and re-analyse but at the moment MP does not know whether he'll stay beyond the summer and nor does KL. there are so many uncertainties....

"I want to make one thing clear - no one is for sale at Southampton"

I'm not suggesting that this will happen - but the best thing would be for KL (who speaks good English,I think) to appear herself at the press conference

It would also be business madness because the overall value of the club would go down by more than the total amount brought in by player sales

Curiously the odds on Betfair have not changed at all since the "turmoil" started. Saints are still favourites to win at 2.44 while Sunderland are 3.25. So the wise world of betting doesn't think that NC's departure will make any difference to our performance on Sat

And isn't interested in football

Surely the whole point of an internet forum is to speculate ourselves into a frenzy. If we waited for something official this thread would not exist and we'd be talking about Yeovil ticket prices

Because he's not offering her as much as she thinks it's worth

Red Bull. Right colour, right region (we did well by Switzerland so Austria could be good too)

One of the better refs... I think he did our 1:1 at Stoke and 2:3 home to Spurs. I don't remember any real clangers. Others probably will...

Yes of course he's had better matches than yesterday - no one is denying that - but he was still very important to our game

Ours looks better when you include last weekend's Cup games

Yes Theo's out for 2-0 weeks with ligament damage. Helps Brazil prospects of J-Rod and Adam

Horrible - and likely to remain wet and windy till kick-off. But I'd say almost no risk of game being called off.

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