Ted Bates Statue

I'll worry about spelling accuracy when he improves his shooting accuracy. Even his first name is misspelt, so I'm not sure it matters much. Either way, I'm not holding my breath.

As it's not an aggravated breach, I reckon it'll be limited to a 1 to 3 match ban and fine. Assuming that would cover all three charges and they won't be penalised on each individually. It's the same rule breach as the one they charged Tuchel and Conte for their handshake incident in 2022. Tuchel got a 1-match touchline ban and £35k fine for that.

Fun fact... Even in competitive fixtures, Portsmouth have failed to beat any team from Aldershot in nearly 50 years. And they bang on about us somehow being in their shadow... https://www.11v11.com/teams/portsmouth/tab/opposingTeams/opposition/Aldershot/ https://www.11v11.com/teams/portsmouth/tab/opposingTeams/opposition/Aldershot Town/

oh, I thought it was hair gel

We're clearly a long way off anything getting set in stone at this stage, but I think it's worth pointing out that signing him would put our squad on a solid footing going into the new season. I think it would put us right in the mix in the battle for promotion.

Sami Mokbel channeling Alan Partridge's The Day Today sports reporter, except instead of laughing I just felt sorry for him. He might pass muster for Radio 1 Newsbeat, not the fucking ten o'clock news.

At first glance, thought this was the outcome of FA's spygate conduct hearing. Mourinho's laundry basket would be an suitable workaround for such a verdict.

When Koeman used to manage us I used to find myself applauding defence-splitting passes almost before they happened, as you could see the runs our players were making to end up through on goal. I'd say that I've grown out of doing that sort of thing but I think the reality was a combination of Puel coaching them to go backwards and sideways, along with a lack of capable players ever since.

Must have a holiday booked for November already

There is footage of the last 20 minutes on youtube, but amidst the madness of the playoffs I totally forgot that Scienza had a goal chalked off for offside early on, so I've gone with the match highlights. Too bad we couldn't hold on, I'm certain we would have won the final if we'd made it.

Now that Koeman has left his post as Netherlands coach, I had a look to see how many former Saints managers are currently working in football management: Still (Auxerre) Martin Juric (Monza) Jones Pellegrino (Lanus in Argentina's top flight) Pochettino Poortvliet (FC Eindhoven in the 2nd tier) Turned out to be a longer list than I was initially expecting. Honourable mention to Strachan who is technical director at Dundee, and his predecessor Stuart Gray who has been assistant coach at Fulham for ten years and is currently their interim manager.

It's been dissolved and applications are now open for the new Phoenix FAB, so you might as well just apply to join and then we can moan at you when you fail to deliver, while you stick you fingers in your ears and enjoy your prawn sandwiches.

Think there are other alternatives out there who could do the same job but at a more competitive cost of transfer fee... think Pedro Lima, Demir Peco, or even Graham Farish for that matter.

While there's not much going on at the moment football-wise, I came across this on Reddit. I'm only halfway through but there's lots of interesting insight into his early years at Southampton (and why he didn't stay the course at Oxford, which I knew nothing about).

It's not though, providing they sell £6M worth of players before the end of month, which according to the owner won't be an issue.