adrian lord

Every move in a match has it's origin in a 'dead ball' situation if you go back far enough. How many players does possession of the ball need to go through before 'open play' is declared?

Lovely irony!

If he hasn't come good after a year, he never will. Flogging a dead horse. He's a part timer, to boot! Incredible...nice work if you can get it mind.

Cortese will be in a black mood tonight. Awkward phone call to be put in from MP on the coach home.

Cork-Spider partnership was arguably the best in the league last year, position for position. Even the media were purring over them when not licking Fergie's arse. Then there was the superb stats. Cannot believe MP has effectively dissolved such an effective force, even if he's not sold.

The rest of this goes on to describe in detail how the new signings have unsettled the way we play!

Not sure the morale in the team is quite what it was...there's a ponderous lethargy and lack of inspiration, no intensity anymore.

Can't believe we've eschewed the superb Cork-Spider pairing for these big-money, big-time Charlies.

Awful. Team seems unsure and unsettled with the new signings. Going backwards.

The way national cricket and rugby teams bend nationality is totally undermining international sporting credibility. Football is not yet so bad. Saints have a great blend of home grown talent and foreign trimmings. Long may it continue.

Good read. Where's the bit about the billionaire benefactor blueprint though?

Remarkably intelligently composed thread, that Pompey one. Hats off to them.

NA needs his legendary motivational skills now.

There is, perhaps rather disconcertingly, a kind of morbid fascination in seeing the poor man's death throes at Reading.

It is not working out for NA at Reading, is it? I always thought he went there a little impulsively.

+1 Carragher is dreadful, can't see him lasting.

The team will be devastating in a few matches, with JWP, Shaw and the new boys all on song and on the same wavelength.

Sunderland: horrible team, from a horrible place and with a horrible manager. We should have won.

I remember when Man U put us out of the cup at St Mary's in the mid 2000s, the refrain from the Northam and substantial sections of the Saints support was "Ruud Van Nistelroy takes it up the Arse!" Now my question is this: Is that Nistelroy-phobic, homophobic, or both? It certainly was offensive and I don't mind admitting I joined in and thoroughly enjoyed it. Is just being offensive illegal now? Would the entire Northam be liable for arrest if repeated now?

glol

lots of fixing expect floodlight failures, funny mistimed throw ins, balls inexplicably hoofed out....

No - finish 'er, bruv!

thats a ****er as its my local

SSN interviewing Gold from WHU on the deal....FFS

SSN interviewing Gold from WHU on the deal....FFS