Gloucester Saint

Because finishing 6th and 7th, back to back to wins at Old Trafford, 8-0 against Sunderland, 6-1 v Villa, 4-2 Liverpool and Man City, under Ronald, that was so boring wasn’t it, leading to playing in the boring San Siro? And it’s so interesting this slow, error-ridden, constantly losing and not competing style under Russell Martin.

It was on the UI first by a poster of the same name.

A memory of rapid counter attacking football from players with pace and a moment to make the hairs on your neck stand up. This is who Southampton Football Club were

Southampton FC press office and media partners are certainly busy on here with ‘Steve O’ the latest to pop up.

Brilliant, top quality, shame on the club for kicking them out for that.

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PGMOL is rotten, has been since its formation. Every major tournament, other countries supporters have to put up the type of blunders in open play and added VAR ineptitude English officials bring to it.

In his own way, as unsuited to the Premier League as Nathan Jones. Well done Sports Republic and Rasmus, both were your hires. Great work lads 👍

JDW but double the prices.

Those two will be non-league in 10 years time. So will we if the Bearded Fraud stayed a decade.

He will be gone by then, only benefit would have been the whole ground (all 10k of them) giving him grief.

I’m not surprised, there’s a lot of smoke without there being some kind of fire around his departure. Not just rumours in here but the board meeting during the Chelsea game and his own behaviour post-match. He won’t change his approach for anyone though at SFC and therefore if the objective is win/draw the Spurs game, that won’t happen, even with rotten form they are in. He’d rather die on the hill of a million 5 yard passes between his defenders and keeper.

Surprised he didn’t mention his acca - Glasgow used to struggle with his gambling. Very likely him though, or as you say Deppo.

Interesting article here, quite a tightrope they’re walking between modernisers, extremists/hardliners and the international community https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0q0w1g8zqvo

That’s true but they are quite often telegraphed and the keeper has time to get set. Fraser has specific issues with shots that are low, some aspect of angle and the key is getting them away early. He struggled to get down to them after his severe knee injury v Burnley. Can’t imagine that part of his game has transformed in his mid-30s.

Yes, it skimmed off Danny’s head, through bad positioning. Then the players panicked, I went for a piss and left my seat in the Kingsland N as I was hoping by the time I returned that the final whilst would go but all I heard mid-slash was the Boro fans jumping up and down and the tannoy announcement of Downing’s goal. Sliding doors moment that.

Because populist politicians have manipulated the figures to stoke anti-immigrant - including overseas students and dependents in the net figures by Braverman was fraudulent as the vast majority don’t stay afterwards, don’t use the NHS and pay a shedload of fees and health surcharges for coming here. They’re visitors. Then they sold us the lie that we’d take back control with Brexit, we didn’t. Then Rwanda would be a deterrent, it wasn’t, it was an hideously expensive white elephant. What Osborne was doing instead was building R&D and civil society capacity in some of the countries where illegal migration is coming from to improve sanitation, economic performance, reduce conflicts. Not perfect but as part of the Cameroon 0.8% of GDP as overseas aid it had quite a good impact on making some of the potential departure nations more pleasant to live in and enhanced the UK’s soft power. Good outward-facing policy, not always working out but the idea was sound. I don’t think £100m will make much of a dent from Lammy by comparison, but the principle isn’t wrong as it wasn’t wrong 10 years ago from the coalition. What has been counter-productive is slashing the overseas aid budget (raiding what’s left of it for the hotels and hiding more of that in the public finances), and pretending to be tough on immigration with the fig leaves above, and undeliverable slogans such as Stop the Boats and misaligning skilled visitors and essential inwards movement for the health service with illegals immigration and asylum. No party or government could stop it, but we can invest in two ways to slow the flows - as I’ve just described at the likely departure side, and by having legal routes with faster processing and the bulk rejected. We will never stop the flows from places like Eritrea where it’s conscription permanently from 14 for men, but we can be proactive with other nations. And pre-Brexit we had of course more collaborative tools and data with EU partners to manage a continental issue.

Getting down to low shots is a flaw of his, reference Watford home in 2017. From the Itchen, they looked saveable but when you saw the highlights later the two shots weren’t even in the corners especially.

That started prior to Brexit, one of the first things May did was push Osborne before he jumped. Plenty of beef there. And Theresa’s ‘hostile environment’ didn’t work either, other than to usher in the Windrush scandal with plenty of people who really were British.

Glad if he has turned SR down as well, last thing we need is another plastic Pep.

Cooper is another. And probably more attainable.

Probably will happen but we will struggle to finish top half next season with that absolute 🤡 in goal.

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Potter won’t join but Ashworth as DoF is an obvious move. So SR won’t make it.

SaintsFan86 is one of his other logins.