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I agree, NC and MPo are professionally wedded and will either triumph or crash together.

Cortese's mood must be darkening by the minute. MPo must be slightly uneasy going into the debrief this morning. Lose Saturday and then at Newcastle, Spurs and it suddenly take on an air of relegation form.

Just as the media plaudits had reached an hysterical crescendo, Saints' form catastrophically slumps. You just knew it, it's the true Southampton Way, and it dies hard.

2 weeks, 4 defeats, 0 points, and a clutch of injuries could leave our confidence, morale and indeed the season in tatters. Let's pray we pull something out of the mire.

Never in the field of Association Football has so much possession been so recklessly squandered for so little reward.

I'm getting ****ed at a restaurant in Mayfair. Is it meltdown yet?

I hope he's right - we need to win tonight to prevent the sun setting on our tilt at Champions League qualification!

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It is all about price.

If Kelvin is still unfit, who will be our sub keeper? Gazza could easily get injured himself in a match and who do we sling on?

Snap! Was at the Beattie early goal game too, high up in the Chelsea stand. Was dismayed by their fans' arrogance even then, and the sneering when Crouch came on as a sub.

The one being sung when the Queen is being introduced to the players before kick off on May 1st 1976. Get the DVD out and listen.

Yes. For 15 mil, aged 27, you expect the finished article and rapid 'adjustment' (anyone would think he's switched codes, and playing at altitude all of a sudden...FFS!).

A torrid brace of away defeats to title contenders have been a salutary lesson in how far we have to go to break into the top 4.

Arrivederci Danni !

Some of us been saying this for done time but it's not been a popular view till now

Windmill. Great memories of great goals. Does he still breed and train race horses - he had a first rate second career in that arena? I must confess to not knowing these footnotes to his football career: After Southampton[edit] He lasted barely a month at Newcastle before joining Bristol Rovers. His impressive career seemingly on the decline, he failed to score in nine games for Bristol Rovers before a sudden departure again, this time to Norwich City where, at the age of 34, he found some of his old touch. He played 88 games over three seasons, scoring 16 goals, and suffered a mixed end to his Norwich career in 1985 when the club won the League Cup — Channon's second and final domestic honour — with a 1–0 win over Sunderland at Wembley, but were then relegated (with Sunderland) at the end of the same season. Channon joined Portsmouth and Finn Harps (where he played in 1 League of Ireland Cup game) thereafter,[1] before retiring from the game in 1986.

There is an architectural problem with Emirates that also kills atmosphere: The corporate boxes form a ring around the entire stadium at mid-terrace level, forming a very effective fire-break that prevents large scale, en-masse singing spreading across large banks of fans. The top tier is totally cut off from the lower half. Apparently Arsenal realise this but are stumped as to what to do about it. They can't redesign the incredibly expensive stadium. Might be looking at 'safe' standing areas. This, combined with an ABC fan base, and tourists with iPads makes for a theatre matinee atmosphere.

The whole iPad/iphone filming stuff phenomenon is a major factor killing live entertainment atmospheres, not just football. Go to a gig and all the lemmings there are watching it gormlessly through their screens, jaws slackly agape, tongue lolling half out, shoulders hunched over slightly in a bent posture, as they record it all - but for what? They aren't really there and not immersed in the live entertainment, and are detracting from the very experience they have come to apparently be part of and ****ing film. It is purely vicarious attendance and the sole point seems to be the ability to bore to death your work/class mates and extended family on Monday morning by making them view your pathetic little video.

This tells you what are the big clubs if all-time attendance is the main criterion: We are 1 spot above the blue few. http://web.archive.org/web/20120111003541im_/http://nufc.com/2011-12images/attendances-all-time.gif

Spurs maybe 'big', 'huge', 'massive', 'colossal' even. But they've consistently under-achieved and show no signs of changing that trait. They won the league twice half a century ago, and since then have been plucky Cup specialists.

It was obvious these stories would surface with spurs hammering at city and us doing well with a trendy foreign hotshot young coach. As someone else mentioned the irritating thing is the assumption implied in the articles that Tottenham only need click their fingers as Poch would come running. Like Saints are inherently undesirable to the point of leprosy.

It's hard to convey the magnitude of winning the Cup back then, to people under the age of 40. It was the Blue Riband event of the season, simply a huge event.

No it is not - he's a big name who plays for the biggest club on the planet.

Looks like the table will assume a more 'natural' order after the end of today. Us in about the right place, competing with Everton for lower end of the Euro spots. Still, not bad and at the start of the season would have been delighted to be told we'd be in this place at end of November.