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Wasn’t that a re-arranged fixture though?

This. It will be interesting to see how much Ralph is given to spend, particularly given that all we did in January is offload players and we’ve been told this summer is when we are going to rebuild. Ralph came here with a good reputation, I doubt he would have taken the job unless he had been promised some sort of war chest.

It was a meaningless game, Ralph wanted to try out some fringe players before the transfer window. Makes sense to me.

There is a whole host of players we could get rid of but above all I would get in: A Centre Back A Striker An attacking midfielder with pace

I can see Liverpool messing it up at Newcastle and it not even going to the final weekend.

I doubt he would have taken the job unless he had some sort of transfer kitty.

On MOTD Ralph seemed to think he will be able to rebuild the squad in the summer so I guess there is some money somewhere. Hopefully, Gao has got rid of Reed and Kruger so he can bring in someone he can trust to spend his money. I agree though that unless there is some sort of war chest it will be another struggle.

Bournemouth have had a few injuries in defence recently and were pretty poor defensively away from home anyway so I can see us winning by 2 or 3. They are a threat going forward though.

Maybe, but Newcastle away and Wolves are pretty tricky fixtures.

Great result for City. Now Liverpool’s run in is looking the harder, especially with the two semi final games to play.

A draw is a decent result but should have won that. Now means Cardiff have to get something from all three of their games so should be safe.

I don’t like the ***t but is protesting at a D-Day rememberance service really the right thing to do?

Saints - 43 points Relegated - Brighton Champions - Man City Other two CL spots - Arsenal and Spurs Promoted - Norwich and Leeds Playoff winner - Villa FA Cup - Man City Champions League Final - Barcelona beat Ajax Pompey - 2nd

Will hopefully mean City have a better chance of winning the league, without a two legged semi to worry about.

Do you accept that sometimes people get drunk, make poor descisions and regret what they have done and/or have little recollection of what happened in the morning. Without being incapacitated?

Isn't there a number you can text to point out the idiots? I think there used to be one in the programme.

This, especially considering the limitations of the attacking players he has to work with. Hopefully he will be given the resources to add a few players and sort the squad out in the summer, could easily be up and around 7th spot next season.

No justice system is perfect but a jury of 7 women and 5 men took just 3 hours to find him not guilty, seems pretty open and shut to me. They sat through the whole trial, you can’t just read some stuff on the internet and make a judgement, especially on cases like these which are very hard to prove.

How exactly has he bought justice?

For what it’s worth (probably not a lot) Merson in Soccer Saturday thinks it’s a really positive move and thinks it could mean the owners bringing in their own people and actually spend some money. I guess if you’re going to invest it makes sense to have the right set up in place first.

If he’s been found guilty then we can only assume he is, just like we should assume the Evans verdict is correct. Only the people in the court room have all the facts.

I can only genuinely remember a handful of racist comments watching Saints, that doesn’t mean it is not a problem elsewhere tho, Chelsea clearly have a bigger problem than most. Even back in the Dell days when I heard racist comments it was generally shouted down by more reasonable fans. The only comment I can remember at St Mary’s was when a black opposition player went down injured and someone shouted “quick, someone get him some fried chicken”, there probably were others but I can definitely say I have heard way more and way worse outside of football. You have to support the Kick it out campaigns because any racism is a bad thing. My only issue is that it paints football as being some sort of racist hell where in reality it is no different to anywhere else. In fact thinking about it, some of the worst racism I can remember hearing was at The Rose Bowl when a bunch of Asian cricket fans chanted “what’s the colour of your skin” to Monty Panasaar. Football players come from all around the world, players of any race, religion or nationality are idolised by fans up and down the country. When I was a kid there were no black people at my school, racist jokes were the norm, my parents generation racism was generally tolerated yet my hero was Danny Wallace. Football is way more diverse than many other parts of our society.

Was a Liverpool fan a few rows behind me in block 42. Took a lot of grief in the first half, then start of the second got wacked by someone then flung out by the stewards. Stupid ****.

This, and particularly the fact that the older generations views on Europe are very much influenced by the War. Even my generation grew up with the Germans being the bogey men, when I was younger 'Germans' = the bastards who bombed my nan's house and killed my great uncle.