adrian lord

I wouldn't be surprised, but would be dismayed to see them all go. I was railing against the 'journalese'.

Shaw "preparing" for a move to Old Trafford. What bolox, is he already packing his stuff up, and booking the removal men? Reading up on Man U history? **** off Mail.

Actually the original Guardian article reads as a largely prescient and in-depth piece, in retrospect.

Yes - the thesis being attendance inversely proportionate to number of docked yachts at Ocean Village.

While Arsenal "sell out" every week, the place is always peppered with empty seats because the season tickets are held by legions of bankers and corporate lawyers who are so often overseas on business or yachting in the Bahamas that they cannot actually attend. Maybe Saints have 5-600 yuppies too?

A good day all round. And a surfeit of homo-erotic sentiment on the forum!

Well done chaps

Triumph

Now Owen bigs up Toffee academy....

Clyne MOM

Owen is determined to sell Lallana for us

Lallana is Messiesque.

England should be a Saints/Liverpool closed shop this WC

Taters literally willing an Everton revival

Absolutely correct. Osman mistimed his dive.

Yet if you merely brush an attacker and he goes down it's a penalty. Game turning into netball slowly but surely.

Owen sounds like some random northerner dragged out of a pub.

I thought it was a very absorbing game, not at all boring. I have to say I find tic-tac possession games often very dull. As an aside, has Cole converted to be a Moslem, with that new beard?

Doping with EPO and transfusions improves endurance and speed at threshold. Both useful to footballers especially in the final 15 mins of a gruelling game where that edge can mean beating a tiring opposition. Doping with anabolic agents improves power and acceleration - very useful for explosive attacking runs, jumping for headers and bruising defending. So I conclude that it is naive to think there is little or no football doping, given the ££ involved, the egos and the lack of policing.

Moyes did more good for English football in 9 months than Fergie did in 27 years! As others have hinted, a nightmare scenario is Man U eviscerating Saints by taking Pochettino and a clutch of our young stars.

Sunseeker, Rolex or Louis Vuitton. We're going all 'Riviera'.

Moyes not clever, not charismatic, not cultured enough to manage at the very highest level. Way out of his depth compared to Mourhino/Guardiola/Klopp/ Van Gaal/Wenger/Ancellotti et al. I'd not even want him at Saints, simply doesn't fit our club ethos, too dour and negative.

Interesting, and what I suspected to be the situation. Does tennis have a similar easy ride? One or two female players look like they've been exposed to masculinising anabolic steroids to me.

id bite their hands off for 7 mil - he's in free fall career and value wise.

I would have thought Chelsea's club culture would be a fertile breeding ground for misdemeanours by staff and even some players...but I know nothing. A conspiracy theorist would say that was the real reason Mourhino refused to take questions from press yesterday, not wanting to have to field tricky questions about his colleagues.