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My contribution is not to sing it because I think it's crap.

I agree with that.

I think someone needs to smuggle a Hammond organ (or similar) into the Northam for authenticity. The Man U original referenced City winning nothing, so the "THIS" in "This is how it feels" referred only to City winning "nothing at all" and therefore made sense. The City response, in which they reference the signing of players (not managers), makes less sense as there's no "THIS" referenced in their song, but at least refers to the signing of players. The Saints version is as illogical as the City one because there is no description of what "this" is. "Tell us" therefore works better as it's a logical taunt and doesn't require a description of what it is that illustrates the taunted club is small. The song also talks of signing managers rather than players, which is a new one on me, though technically I guess Pochettino did have to sign something.

In 110_Persaint's case it's because he's a bellend WUM.

I'm disappointed none of my "Lovren loves a hoof" posts made it onto this thread, but he did, during pre-season.

I love the Inspiral Carpets, and owned This Is How It Feels on Cassette Maxisingle (God I feel old now), but singing "This is How it Feels" when being Saints is pretty much the exact opposite of "how it feels to be Pompey" makes no sense.

I disagree. Singing something that makes us sound like a load of football know-nothings is worse than silence.

Why doesn't it make no sense? Because it makes sense. Which is why I said any version OTHER than that makes no sense. Jesus.

I prefer to look at it as even if we did "sign" him, talking about "signing a manager" is the kind of nonsense you expect out of plastic know-nothing fans. It's not accepted terminology, so makes the singers look like idiots.

Any version other than "Tell us what it's like..." and "You've got..." makes no sense in logical or footballing terms.

Betfair has Osvaldo at 3/1 to get "a card" (Lambert is 6/1 for the same), and Osvaldo is 11/2 for first scorer...

Also, Baldock and Gleeson were in the MK Dons side along with Puncheon (he was on loan there from Plymouth when we signed him) at the time and all played against us in the JPT or L1 season. Was Adomah at Bristol City, think he was one of the players we couldn't cope with when we lost to them twice in the same season? If Rhys Williams is the guy at Boro, I think he was just breaking through when we were going through the Championship so quite surprised at that one.

He did, on loan for a few months, played 5 times when Schneiderlin got injured and we had players walking a yellow card tightrope. I was looking it up the other day and was surprised to find that he played 90 minutes at Plymouth when we all but confirmed promotion and also played at home to Walsall in the last 2 matches of our L1 promotion season, as I thought he'd barely got a game. I do remember Adkins picking Gobern ahead of him at Brighton and thought that was curtains for him, but turned out to be curtains for both of them.

Oh yeah, and the bloody Cloud, Jesus. I've recently been talking to normal people about IT solutions and have taken to explaining the concept of the Cloud to them in terms they can understand. They have all been universally grateful.

My etymology of these is as follows (in my head): Reem = Used by Joey Essex in The Only Way Is Essex circa 2010, sort of means stylish, but in an overdone Essexy kind of way. Mint = a NE England term which came to prominence when Antony the Geordie bloke won Big Brother in the early/mid 2000s just before everyone stopped watching it, and proclaimed everything which was good to be "mint" for the better part of 2 months. Had a recent revival amongst idiots due to Geordie Shore on MTV. Lush = a word which verbally challenged girls used for "really good" in terms of (mainly) food or drink (but sometimes fashion) when I was a teenager in South Wales in the late 80s, which has now gone national, finally, amongst idiot kids, probably due to The Valleys being on in the same timeslot as Geordie Shore and also on MTV. Has slightly changed meaning in the meantime though, it used to mean "exceptionally luxuriant" and now just means "good".

Baking powder, but I'm pretty sure Mike Myers and Dana Carvey are responsible for the latter two.

Being proactive is in our bloody competence framework and has been for at least 5 years.

Everyone: Annual Leave, Expectations, Issues and Quality (both are official government PRINCE2 terminology for Project Managers), Matrix, Take this offline. I know people who do, but I don't: Backfill, Close of Play (or COP which is far worse), Drill down, Run this up the Flagpole, Key, No-brainer, Paradigm Shift, upskill, vertical, workshop (as a verb), Yield. I do: Going forward, Heads Up, Leverage (pronounced the american way due to WWF). Never heard it used: Journey, Revert (in the context of replying), sunset, thought shower, Theory X, Zero cycles. Surprised not to see "blue-sky" in there, that's pervading my speech at the moment due to the nature of the project.

Law 7 of the Laws of the game is "ABANDONED MATCH An abandoned match is replayed unless the competition rules provide otherwise." The FA rules also state: "3 All matches shall be of ninety minutes’ duration. Any match not complying may be ordered to stand as a completed match or replayed for the full period of ninety minutes, or the match awarded to the Club not at fault, as the Board may decide, on such terms as the Board 46 shall decide. The half-time interval in all matches shall not exceed 15 minutes. " League rules only mention who's got to tell whom what when a match is postponed, so presumably revert to the FA's regulations as above.

75 minutes is usually the cut off, but it's still up to the League's discretion. Just wondering if anyone's seen the video going around from the back of the stand at Fratton on Tuesday? Try http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152041048088455&set=vb.597993454&type=2&theater Stick with it to the 1'20" when it starts getting amusing. That's gonna cost them...

Quite, Jol knows what he's talking about. Shaw plays most of the time and seems to be remarkably susceptible to undetectable absences on a single game basis, and JWP plays every so often but is by no means a regular starter. Lallana and Schnederlin are not kids any more, Clyne came to the club as a fully-formed full-back and is now 22, and Chambers hasn't played much since Clyne was fit. The other kids get a league cup game if they're lucky. We don't play our youth all the time, Jol is spot on.

Some obvious ones for me, two football based and two moneywise. * Say "yes boss" when told I'm making my debut in the League of Wales in Feb 1996, rather than "I've got a bit of an ankle knock". They went 8 matches without scoring after that whilst I was unavailable, would have been the perfect opportunity to make an impact. Also could have moved nearer the ground and got the club to find me a job in the meantime instead of not being available on Saturdays for a few months due to work commitments. Pushing for a tailored training regime would have been a good idea too. * Get out of the way in August 2000 when the left back I'd been dragging all over the place launched his two-footed assault on my knee from behind, thereby not ruining my knee, which I'm probably having more surgery on soon, 13 years later. * Continue renting when I moved to Southampton in 2006 instead of buying in 2007 which ended up costing me a deposit for the next place, when I could have been sitting pretty with a lump sum as the market collapsed. * Look for a graduate job when I was actually still a student and people were looking for me, rather than 4 months later when I had to find them (and didn't). Still, musssstn't grrrrrumble.

They're a testament to the desperate optimism which underpins most football supporters, tbh.

Presumably through the other 200-ish tv providers outside the UK? Of course they'll all be watching Real v Barca as well - and I fail to see the logic of employing a Spanish-speaking manager when South Americans have their own football teams to support and bigger Spanish-friendly European clubs too. In fact, I'm surprised we haven't got a Malaysian or Indonesian manager - or maybe a Chinese one, there's a market to break into.

Not as soon as they realise they can watch it in a pub for nothing as soon as they're old enough to get in - once those viewing habits are built up they're going to be really hard to break, especially if it's saving you £20+ a time.