Pat from Poole

Gary Neville may be an insightful pundit, but I'm not convinced he's all that as a defensive coach. Certainly, some of England's defending since Hodgson got the gig hasn't been all that great. Sweden's two goals against us at Euro 2012 were embarrassing, and the Ukraine game last week again was dicey defensively at times, particularly down our right-side, as it happens.

Darren Kenton? Wonder what happened to him.

Les Reed will be the next manager.

I think he looked absolute class, albeit not the right-sided midfielder we were in need of. So we may well be stuck with Puncheon until January by the look of it.

I think the best away Saints support I've ever witnessed was on a snowy Tuesday night in West Brom, the game when Prutton missed a sitter in the Redknapp relegation season. We had about 3,000 up there, and made a non-stop racket all night, though in hindsight I wish we hadn't sung "Harry & Jim are Red and White" for about half-an-hour.

Highly amused by the Cheats fan on Twitter earlier today asking Agent Al Fahim if he could (quote) "help get Pompey back-to-back promotions like the Scummers got", to which Agent Al-Fahim replied "What are back-to-back promotions?" Genius.

I have to say that Souness is also very good indeed when SKY have him on as a pundit. Interesting also to compare Jamie Redknapp (who is quite a decent pundit) with his father, who was predictably a heap of shooiitte on MOTD on Saturday night.

A bit of Googling this morning leads me to think there may be the possibility of a live stream of the game on the Net.

Very funny.

Ince probably is the better player, but if he's anything like as disloyal as his father, he wouldn't be with us for long.

Or "with this stuff" , even.

Are you lot going to be coming out of this stuff when we're in the, erm......, Champions League?

I thought Adam Blackmore was from the Midlands. He's an excellent broadcaster in my opinion, talks a lot of sense and also seems to be able to get inside info from very high up within the club. He seems to be one of the very few people who Cortese will talk to.

The loan is supposedly to fund new signings. It is a bit odd; the other shareholder (the Russian chap) is seriously minted, so not sure why they needed the loan.

Most schools broke up two and a half weeks ago. I know we live in a digital age with smartphones etc., but I doubt Cortese would sanction any deal to sign a player without being in the country to approve the terms and necessary paperwork etc.

Must admit, old bean, that does seem a bit harsh on Richardson. I think my mind was made up on De Ridder in the last 30 seconds of the 2-2 home draw with Blackpool when he didn't play the ball across.

Just checked. Looks like I wasn't completely wrong (warning, some people may find this link incredibly dull......) http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/vatfinmanual/vatfin2320.htm

I might be wrong about this, but I have a feeling that the clubs make more profit out of charging it as a ticket tax rather than adding it to the face value of the ticket price, as the ticket tax is possibly exempt from VAT, meaning that the clubs don't have to pay 20/120 of its proceeds from ticket tax over to HMRC in VAT. Apologies if this is incorrect, probably should have checked on the HMRC website first.

Genius. The tackle by Massing is possibly the funniest foul of all-time. Made even better by the look of innocence immediately afterwards. Thanks for that Scott.

One of my favourite ever World Cup moments. Never fails to make me laugh.

Inzaghi is the scorer of one of my all-time favourite goals. Watch from 8:30 onwards to see distraught Cheats FC fans. S****** s******.......

What a Mickey Mouse club they are then......

West Ham away in 1998. We won 4-2. Not sure what was more difficult; applauding West Ham's goals or keeping quiet when we scored. Think our cover was almost blown when my mate got up and screamed "Come on, West Ham, this is f**king s**t!!!" as we scored the 4th. Whilst laughing.

He never would have got in the Saints side ahead of the likes of Trigger Dryden anyway....

I would imagine that QPR would offer double the wages that we would, when you consider the wages the likes of Robert Green and Barton are on there. I'd expect him to sign for QPR if they have agreed a fee with Vitesse.