Ivan Katalinic's 'tache

Good press conference (Saints taken over, money to spend) or bad press conference (no one able to complete, assets to be sold off: "who can I interest in this lovely picture of a train?")?

So basically, we can get rid of a lot of the players who believe they're better than they are and who's ineptitude conspired to get us relegated without having to pay up their contracts? Take us over on Friday Pinnacle and it's win, win!!

My 3 year old boy is called Matthew too, after the great man. My daughter would have been called Lucy but this plan was thwarted when my missus realised after whom...

Don't worry, be happy - Bobby McFerrin

Friday, I'm in love - The Cure

Take your sensible notions back to P*mpey and allow us to continue our delusions of grandure and feelings of being mistreated!!! I know you're P*mpey but, even then, it helps to have perspective from someone from outside.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/southampton/8113850.stm At the end of this article it says that TL says the staff will paid (obviously I'm more concerned about the support staff rather than the overpaid numpties who consigned us to League 1)! That shows a certain degree of confidence that Pinnacle will close out the deal soon.

At this late stage, it does smack a of lack of confidence as to whether this will get done. If TL is as confident as he seems, then let's know who the money man is because it'll all be sorted soon n'est pas?

I can't sit tight much longer. It's turtle head time - things need sorting fast.

If (and it's a big if) the FL did back down, you can bet it will be dressed up in a way that suggests the situation was of our own making. It would probably something along the lines of "being presented with fresh evidence" and "if Southampton FC had not terminated discussions with independent investigation early then this could have been resolved more swiftly" - i.e. we're backing down but it's your own fault that it even came to this.

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/news/4451357.Pearson_not_interested_in_Saints_return/ The Echo believes it to be Peter Reid too. League 1 or the international footballing great that is Thailand - a tough choice for Reidy.

Thanks for the update! Nice for the fans to be presented with an awareness of the situation (as much as can be made available, anyway). What a pleasant change... I can't say my mind is totally at rest but it's thinking about finding an armchair and having a cuppa, on the back of this. On a more surreal note, one image I can't get out of my head, with the FL when they're supposedly discussing matters, is whether they resemble the Newman & Baddiel History Today characters: "You see that Iain Dowie?" "I'm aware of his presence" "That's your girlfriend that is..."

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11700_5228800,00.html About halfway down this report, at the time SLH went into administration, Lord Mawhinney indicated we had a right to appeal the 10 point deduction. At no point has it ever been mentioned that if we found a new owner, who wanted to take up that option, would we lose that right of appeal (which would be a nonsense in itself).

Agreed. We know we had to satisfy the FL's 'fit & proper person' test but it seems like we overlooked the 'have you got any outstanding disputes which we might lose' test.

Can't we just agree with the FL that the 2 were linked, to get the takeover done, but secretly have our fingers crossed?!

Pardon us for wanting to dispute an injustice!

To all involved in the takeover: please hurry up and make an announcement that the takeover has gone through. I'm at work and I wish to glory in the fact that we're no longer skint before the weekend and you're not giving me much glorying time. Thank you.

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/news/4447995.Wotte_denies_Egypt_move/ Then again, maybe he's not yet gone...

My sentiments exactly

Maybe we owe so much money to HMRC, they had to send the Governor of the Bank of England round to collect it?!?!

Dear Kev, You walked away from us once; please do not let us down again. The mere mention that you might be on your way has allowed our hopes and expectations to rise. Following the reigns of King Rupert, let me tell you we are not used to this! Now take the job; there's a good chap. IKT

Just cos they've not even finished 2nd in the last 25 years like wot we have.

Gordon Brown has told the BofE to find a place to stow away his expenses money until the storm blows over. Fortunately, Merv King knew of this desperate soccer club in Southampton who were in need of a few quid and, hey presto, we have our new owner, until the heat is off. NB - this might not be true.

Dowie? Tisdale? Strachan? George Lawrence? Give us another clue man. Oh, and thanks for p*ssing on our parade (if you're right!).

As long as they are a proper football manager, they will have my unstinting support - Keegan (would be fantastic), Ince, Dowie, Tisdale whoever it is. If the new owner is going to fund them properly, then to make up the 10 point deficit, we're going to need to be 100% behind the team and back the manager accordingly. That said, given Saints record of c*cking up on a grand scale, I am preparing to see our new manager, Clive Woodward, sitting next to Tiss at the announcement tomorrow, with news that Rupert has found a few loose mill down the back of his sofa to fund it all...