Miltonaggro

I agree with all the other 'senior' posters above who mention Stevie Williams (in particular) and Micky Channon, but another who always sticks in my mind from that era was Channon's replacement, Phil Boyer - very tidy player, great for Saints and 26 goals and a Golden Boot in the 1979/80 season before his departure that summer. Transferred to Man City for £220k as a 30 year old (recouping half of the Keegan fee), crocked in his first game, and only 20 games and three goals for City in a three year spell (he'd managed 138 and 49 for Saints in a similar period) - career over thereafter. In more recent years, the centre back Richard Hall comes to mind. Great for Saints and left us pretty much in his prime at 24, looking a cert for an England call up, to join West Ham (fairly acrimoniously if memory serves, which was gutting), injured in a pre-season friendly for them, and only played seven more games as a professional. We are a local club, for local people; you can never leave

The club should really offer both of them counselling

Dream moves for all of them - like the recurring dream when you're falling into an abyss without a parachute! In reality the parachute will be activated in the next year or so and will be Hull, Sunderland, or WBA shaped...

A somewhat subjective and self-serving research methodology, flawed on a number of levels; about 68! How very SKY...

Very good Brendan Rogers is giving a motivational team talk after the Liverpool players return from their summer holidays - 'Now that Raheem has decided to leave us, if there are any f*cking idiots in this room, will they please stand up now!' After a long silence Adam Lallana rises slowly to his feet. 'Now then Adam, why do you consider yourself a f*cking idiot?' says Brendan. 'Well, I don't really boss' says Lallana, 'but I hate to see you standing up there all by yourself'...

Ah, it's a historical name Enskied, from the rich tapestry of our club's heritage - you should at this point remind me that historically the Merseyside sense of humour is also the 'best in the world' - Stan Boardman, Tom O Connor, Alexei Sayle, and Ken Dodd et al! Not to mention Brendon, the master of mirth...

That's the last time he will win anything for the next decade then! But we are sure to hear about it every single day...

Top Ten Man Utd Man City Chelsea Southampton Arsenal Swansea City Tottenham Stoke City Liverpool Everton Down Bournemouth, Watford, Aston Villa Manager of the year Ronald Koeman Player of the year Jordy Clasie Celebrity Big Brother Ed Miliband Euromillions 3, 8, 9, 22, 35, 38

Sammy Lee is the Harrods version of Wally Downes for Saints, part mascot part cheerleader part mentor. He can also see eye to eye with Jordy, which can only be a good thing.

Superb signing, Clasie will be our team's heartbeat, reminds me of Alan Ball in his pomp - rarely wastes a pass, and a right terrier in defence! Onwards...

We need an enforcer in the Guy Askham mould!

I think Koeman is a decent guy who will see out his Saints deal and move on. Seems well suited to the Prem, and would not be surprised to see him stay in England and manage the likes of Liverpool or Spurs.

Wijnaldum would have been a strong signing for us. Have to trust that the Board have some gems lined up...

Les is fast becoming the football equivalent of Neville Chamberlain :-)

A little known fact is that off the pitch for the past six years Nathaniel has been North West Ambassador for MIND UK and Volunteer Patron of the MHTF (The Merseyside Hard of Thinking Forum). All the criticism directed towards him about just moving for the money, flipping like a burger etc. is very wide of the mark, he's moved to be closer to the people he loves, the inbred throng of low intelligence that make Liverpool the bestest club in the world - YNWA...

You can always count on Lollana to stick to his convictions...

With Richard Chaplow and Russell Crowe, the flash bastard!

In That about covers it!...

Amen to that!...

Very good start to the summer, and an absolute steal it appears. More of this please Lesser!...

Man City at home, put your house on it!

If it is, and we've nabbed him for £5m (22 years old, 120 La Liga appearances and recently capped for Spain), it may well be the steal of the summer!

The mutts nuts!...

It does. On average several degrees higher than Newcastle, the English equivalent of Monte Carlo...

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