Miltonaggro

Lol! Les Reed always reminds me of Gregg Wallace, he is to football what Gregg is to haute cuisine. By the same analogy I suppose Ralph is approaching Ainsley Harriot...

It's highly doubtful he'd live that long!

Would love Ron to stay, but if we have to replace him it's got to be Villas-Boas for me - his record over the past six years (Porto and beyond) is remarkably consistent and he would seem to be a good 'fit' potentially - tactically smart and lucid in front of the media. I would also not be unhappy with De Boer, who like AVB is currently out of contract and 'awaiting the next challenge.' I think it's safe to argue that in managerial terms both would be an upgrade on RK when he joined Saints, and let's not forget Southampton FC has been instrumental in strengthening the coaching careers of both RK and MP - we've been as good for them as they have for us!

Dark horse that Cumberbatch!...

If Venables had included Le Tissier in that side they might have had enough to win it. Very frustrating at the time.

If we now don't Ralph has got a lot to answer for!

At the moment six places, sixteenth points and a Europa place above a nobody spouse team, and two places, three points and a Europa place above a deluded scouse team. Maybe with their history Everton could get David Starkey to manage them, more chance of that than Ronald Koeman...

I'd sooner have a video message from Ron, to be honest...

Koeman and Bertrand have won the trophy!

Les 'Carnarvon' Reed and The Curse of Tutankoeman...

Is it called The Grand Old Team Forum because it's based at a residential care home? 'I tell you what, we are going to win the league, that Pepe Gardinola going to be the manager, big club we are!'. 'Of course you are, now that's enough please Mr O'Malley, now sit down, and take your tablets.'...

Operation Yewtree, Merseyside edition...

It is indeed. If Lollana is still at Liverpool next season we can rightly sing 'Oh Lallana, went to Liverpool and he won f*ck all' - shortly before his big transfer to Hull. Barmbyesque!

Yes, credit it to them. For a mid table club that have never won the Premier League, losing in the two secondary cup competitions is not to be sniffed at...

Yes, well done BM, it is appreciated!

Class act, and I hope he is here for a decade!

The goon who wrote that should be renamed JJ Bullsh*t

Oh dear, did Righton lose and miss out, typical Daints fan I wasn't keeping up...

This was the package Pochettino passed on to Ferguson in the restaurant last week. Turned up today under the dugout...

Well said, and given the VVD contract, it may already be happening...

That was a (rare) lol, from me...

Some of the BBC website reporting has been mind-boggling over the course of this season, latterly with Southampton's 'faint hopes for a Europa place' juxtaposed with Liverpool's 'surge for the Champions League' for instance - I kid you not! It would be lovely to think that we are entering a period of change where, like the seventies and early eighties, the provincial clubs can upset the apple cart and give the worthies bloody noses every season. It would take several seasons of Saints, Leicester, West Ham and one or two others finishing top six and picking up silverware to bring real change about. Perception is telling, and a friend who is a good lad, Spurs fan, said to me innocently and frankly yesterday 'you will do well to keep hold of Koeman this close season'. I agreed, he's right, but when I pointed out that Spurs would do well to keep Pochettino from Man U and PSG the atmosphere changed as I'd clearly touched a nerve. Saints firstly need to arrest this perception that we are a selling club, doing 'amazingly well considering they sell their best players each year' (see MOTD weekly for this cliche). Secondly, we need to win something, League Cup, FA Cup, whatever to put 1976 to bed and show both players and the media that you can win things at the club. It's certainly going to be an interesting media watch this close season, with Leicester as well as West Ham, and perhaps Spurs having to resist approaches for their stars. I hope the 'new plan' mooted by the in the know posters, is one of resistance, consolidation, and longevity. Great time to be a Saints fan, and it may yet get better - b*llocks to the press!

Happy with Stek as understudy, it's more of whether he is...

Let's hope so, it would be brilliant to buck the trend and have him at SFC for a good while, I want Saints to win something with, and for, Ronald Koeman!

Superb Saints, superb! Now that the Portsmouth scum are dead and buried, there is nothing like beating Spurs and Liverpool - the clubs with the most worthy fan bases in football. Come on Arsenal and Watford!