CB Fry

That's perfectly normal though, unless you are expecting SFC to go into an entirely domestic season with a 30-man European mega-squad.

We'd sell a lot more if they were available to buy in every large supermarket and sports retailer in (non-blue) Hampshire. But the club might make less absolute margin/profit from those sales. Which may explain the policy.

Utterly sickening the way the rich bully boy clubs can act like this. I'd probably say it was patently unjust.

Reminds me of the saps who used to say we weren't ready for the Premier League and we'd be better off having two seasons in the Championship to "get ready". Let's qualify and go for it. We are never, ever going to be more ready than now.

A square bracket never hurt anyone.

That quote looks dubious. Not least because it doesn't read like anything anyone would say out loud.

Our resident in the know forum football expert Crab Lungs basically spent three months openly weeping about Lallana not getting his phone calls returned all summer, working himself up into to a frenzy of fury over how despicable it all was. The rest of normal humanity could see exactly what was going on, but poor old Crabster swallowed it whole. The BBC (or was it the Telegraph?) piece describing how AL "flipped like a burger" summed the whole thing up rather nicely.

This just about sums it up.

Err, I think everyone remembers that. The point is the only "stripes" that are "back" in that message are the adidas stripes. If next season's kit is striped, then the stripes won't be "back" will they? Just like they won't be back for Stoke or Sunderland if they go with stripes next year.

Liverpool. Because if Lallana, Lovren and Rodgers but also... Guildford/Southampton/Yeovil based Liverpool fans: just because you've won pretty much nothing in the last two decades doesn't not make you a glory hunter. You are. You still are.

I don't really understand the question, but a fifth place finish would be an excellent achievement.

Yep. No problem with them winning today. Keeps them in the sweet spot of utter mediocrity in the bottom division. A genuine fight/great escape from relegation could give their fans a(nother) badge of honour and another chapter in their mythology, seeing it as some kind of victory for "real" football, and an "I was there" day for the (s)crapbook. Bimbling around nowhere near anything at 15/16/17th ish is 100% solid tin irrelevance. Just total nothingness. Well done today lads. 1-0 eh.

Nah. Curbishley actually achieved stuff as a top flight manager. Sherwood seems to be touted around as some managerial genius on the back of a handful of matches with someone else's team.

If ever there was an archetypal internet argument which is beyond futile to even begin to discuss, this is it.

In fairness, that tweet is clearly a reference to the Adidas three stripes. That is what is "back" as of today/next season.

Don't ask if you can utterly fu ck up a core commercial partnership with a worldwide sportswear brand, but how.

I'm sure whatever he did was no more than the actions of the greatest businessman that ever drew breath.

That's a pretty revolutionary and forward thinking kit, I've got to say. Them Orientals are going to lap it up*. *This is a CB Fry autocomplete kit post.

Brilliant. Worth just adding that even poor old "Hell, I remember" Dean Hammond was an excellent servant in our three year rise through the divisions. But obviously he's rubbish because he's English and honest or something.

Finishing, say, fifth or sixth this season would be a massive failure "all things considered"? Something tells me that you haven't really considered all things.

Jesus wept.

Disappointing but the fact we have let in just 17 goals all season - 17 goals all freaking season - means we will remain firmly in the hunt for top four. We're not going to win every game and we don't need to. But 8-0 hammerings do seem a distant memory.

LOL.

We are definitely definitely definitely not going to score.

I may have been living in a cave but what happened to Sportsnationhd?