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I not convinced that internet trolls and misinformation is really that much of a threat, the press is full of all sorts of lies around election time anyway. Any input from Russia is just a fart in a jaccuzi.

Russia is effectively a police state and I would hate to live there. I agree with the OP about the World Cup but I'm not sure what threat it is to me, today, in Romsey?

Is that really much of a threat though, considering how good our political parties already are at manipulation through the media and misinformation?

"hackers, trolls, paid protesters and misinformation " - scary stuff

This. Playing a weakened team in the Sunderland match was unforgivable considering we were pretty much guaranteed to finish 8th. Pellegrino showed more guts in the cup and we were up to our necks in a relegation scrap. That could very well have been our year for the FA cup, had we taken Sunderland’s place we would have played Hull in the quarters, Sheffield Utd in the semi and a beatable Arsenal in the final. But mr ‘no trophy’ Pochettino ****ed it up the wall.

That's nonsense, Lawrie brought through youngsters as well but anyway, the job of a manager is to win football matches and trophies, the age of the players is irrelevant. Getting the best out of top players at the end of their career is fantastic management for a club our size. Jimmy Case is still one of my favourite ever players.

If they are investing that amount of cash it is just a matter of time. Likewise if our club continues to cash in and not invest it's just a matter of time before the inevitable happens and we go down.

I'm too young to remember the Keegan/Channon days so it's 89/90 for me. The 4-1 thrashing of Liverpool is still my favourite game, Le Tiss, Wallace, Rideout and Shearer up front with Case pulling the strings in midfield. Dodd, Benali, Stomper and Osman at the back, Flowers in goal. That was in an era when Liverpool actually won stuff as well. After that is was probably Strachan's 2002/03 season and then Adkin's Championship season.

Could be decades, could be next season.

I don't think Poch is no good but ZZ was a one-off and an internal appointment, their three previous appointments all had previous won the CL and each had a long list of trophies won. Poch has been a manager for almost 10 years and has not won anything. Madrid are top of the tree - they don't have to hire potential.

I doubt they would go for him anyway, probably go for someone who has actually won something.

Not sure being under contract would make any difference, as we well know.

I’m sorry but if you can’t laugh at the misfortune of those who striked or acted like spoilt brats and engineered moves away from your club who can you laugh at. It’s no more irrational than laughing at Pompey’s failures just because they happen to be quite near us geographically.

I dunno, it looked to me like Ramos did it deliberately, he’s vastly experienced and knew what he was doing. Whatever happened before is not really important, he could easily have let go of his arm as they both fell, instead he did the opposite. Makes the way they lost even funnier.

Rat face in tears

Ironic that after all the players they’ve nicked off us they end up getting dicked by an ex-Saint.

Yes Bale!!! Love to see an ex Saint do well

****ing brilliant

Glad we’ve got it sorted, was the obvious thing to do. You get the impression that Hughes has walked into a set up and group of players superior to what he left. No reason why we can’t go for that Europa spot next season, as long as we invest in a few key areas. From Burnley downwards there is not a lot between anyone.

I hope the victims get stuffed but I have a horrible feeling they are going to win it.

Well put. I for one wont be spending another penny at that club until Gao shows some sort of commitment to investing in players, the very minimum we need to do is invest all of the VVD money.

There is no problem with getting rid of players but if we HAVE to sell to buy it just means another net loss in players. It also means we have been blatantly lied to by Kruger who has said more than once that all the money we get from VVD will get invested.

So did we miss out on our first choice last year because Les was topping up his tan until mid June?

If we don’t have all the VVD money to spend then Kruger has been feeding us a pack of lies.

Hopefully that is bullish!te. If it is not we’re nailed on for relegation next season.