TheAlehouseBrawlers

This is as a level playing field as it gets between these two sides, tough to call. But still seeing too many frailties with England, hoping we can step up on Wednesday. Will be interesting to see how many fans we have inside the stadium, the Argies always seem to take over and with no segregation hopefully all goes well whatever the result.

Didn't the Egyptians play up in the same area a few days before too?

A bit closer to home... https://news.sky.com/video/football-fans-clash-with-police-in-london-after-france-morocco-world-cup-game-13562162

Breaking news…just signed for Barnet

I quite like it

There's mortar this than meets the eye....

Hoping Larin’s still got “hungry eyes” now his World Cup is over.

No doubt phone calls are being made to suspend Belguim's 4 goals for a year. USA back in, Trump happy again.

They hold the Trump card that trumps a red card… https://www.facebook.com/reel/4238244753172851/?hpir=1

'ave it!

To call JWP a ‘journeyman’ is bizarre in my book. 20 years at Southampton and 3 at West Ham, very likely not his choice to be loaned out there to a couple of clubs, that’s not the definition of a ‘journeyman’ for me.

Yeah, saw that, still a bit harsh. Where would Mexico have had to play if they hadn’t won their group?

No doubt the Mexicans gain an advantage playing all their matches at the Azteca but I think a host nation should play games at their biggest venue. So got to spare a thought for Canada fans who had a minimum 2000 mile round trip (probably double that for many) having to play their last match in California. Tough going for a host nation.

Mexico 1970 was the first World Cup I remember (I was nearly 4 when we won it in ‘66 but no memories) so looking forward to this but may need drugs to stay awake!

At least the weather forecast is favourable on Sunday, around 23 degrees, plenty of cloud and some rain.

If we make it to the Azteca I guess there won’t be so many England fans nabbing tickets so will be up against it in, as someone mentioned, a cauldron of a stadium. Add in the altitude and I think we would be setting up to conserve energy which they may thrive on. Tough gig but let’s try and get past ‘Doctor’ Congo first!

Reminds me of when we used to go up to Wembley with my tyro league team to watch a few England schoolboy matches in the early 70s and seeing a banner with 'England FC' on it. Gave us a chuckle, was that you 😀

“Spy, spy, wherever you may be, but he only hid from behind a tree, and it could be worse, you cheating skates are thieves who like to rob from the charities”

There’s been plenty of fans saying they’d be happy to win the league but stay in the Championship where it’s more exciting, well, not a million miles from that. I’m happy enough to watch another season where, hopefully, we’re winning more often than losing and in the mix again come the season end. I’ll renew my membership but match prices with a ST are still pretty good and if we want to stay strong there’s no use in starving the club of funds for the season ahead.

If delayed ala Man City, very possible 🤪 they were going on the average lifespan of a manager at one club being around 18 months

Saw a reasonable theory on the UI about this, it was suggested that we've appointed top legal bods in an attempt to continually delay the proceedings, much as City and the like have done. The thinking that by the time any sanctions against Tonda are filed, he may well have already moved on, be it that it was a successful season and headhunted or just contract up.

I think he'll do alright there, similar to how he did for us in the promotion season. Surely he must have learnt and moved on from us and Rangers and moved on from the dull, pointless passing for the sake of it......? Even if he hasn't Leicester should have too much for L1 sides. But you can't ignore the long unbeaten run and he got us up. You also can't ignore, despite all that, some tedious football, losing LC first round at Gillingham in a shocking performance, thrashed at Sunderland and so poor home to Leicester soon after. Superb first halves away at Swansea and Cardiff then shockers after the break. Then later in the season the home games against Hull, Millwall and Stoke were shockingly bad and the away at Blackburn and...of course...Leicester again were as bad as it got. Maybe they should quickly ditch him if he gets them promoted.

Should have been a bit of a promotion party........probably a bit soon for a stadium fight really, maybe somewhere like the O2 Guildhall first may have been better (like the Steve McCarthy (RIP) fight when the other fella's mum jumped in the ring and attacked him 😁). Unfortunately also clashes with Paul Weller at Southampton Sessions that was always going to be popular and I think the IOW festival is on too. Hopefully gets a late surge in ticket sales.

It’s certainly something to think about….the charity and taxpayer thieves got promoted and won an FA Cup with players they couldn’t afford and shouldn’t have had like the ones that turned the FA Cup game at St Mary’s when we were in L1 and well on top of the (then) PL cheats. Would be sweet wouldn’t it…..

Whether it's to be believed it will happen or not, this is part of the joint MOU between SFC and Southampton CIty Council that was on the SCC planning portal regarding the stadium in the overall Itchen Waterside redevelopment: 'Expand the current footprint of St Mary's Stadium to allow future growth of the stadium (minimum 45,000 capacity stadium for football events and minimum 50,000 capacity for concerts/music/other entertainment events)' Even if it progresses it's probably many years away, the wharf leases go to about 2040 so unless they can be relocated/compulsory purchased then little is happening any time soon.