adrian lord

No - Bradford is not full of mawkish Scousers hoping for a payout.

If he goes and the big name players leave, we will dust ourselves down, promote some academy babes and buy a few decent signings and get a bright young ambitious manager in. All will be well.

A good chap and scored some crucial goals in our rise from the depths. Very unfairly scapegoated by a vocal minority on here and in the ground. Difficult at times not to conclude that there wasn't a distinctly unpleasant racial undertone to some of it too. A lesser man would have walked away from the club but he stuck with us and has genuine affection both for, and from, his team mates and the decent supporters.

Quite agree. The only exception being the Band of the Scots Guards playing at half time, marching, live and not over the PA.

I think MP will stay - De Boef to Spurs.

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.