Saint_clark

Pretty emotional as we get close to kick off, my father got me into Saints and passed away from covid at the start of February. Sat here having a drink for him wearing his favourite shirt, wondering how I'm going to hold it together if he ends up just missing out on us winning the cup.

Makes even more of a mockery of the fact that United were allowed to buy their way into the top league after only just setting their team up, while we were turned down.

Two cracking goals scored by saints too, well worth a look.

Pre match show on YouTube shows the highlights of the women's FA cup and I thought the presenter says to Hammond "not seen you bury one in them, Dean". Was talking about the goals, but made me double take.

Bit weird that Adams, Ings and Walcott have all played really well up top together in any combination of the two but we aren't going with it recently. Redmond is playing better, but if he's up top I'd rather he be running off the shoulder of the last man than coming deep - if he's going to drop deep he may as well play off the left or right.

Big, big test for Djenepo here. Walcott causes so many problems with his direct running so Moussa really needs to justify the faith Ralph has shown in him.

Oh no, I absolutely believe they should be banned. In fact it should be an IP bans and all social media platforms should get together to form a system like a local pub watch, where if one bans you they all ban you. I just get fed up of this kind of abuse being used as "evidence" of a huge problem with racism in football when most of the people posting it don't actually believe it, might not even be football fans and could be from literally anywhere in the world. If we're going to address a problem i'd rather we do so with an accurate picture of why the problem exists rather than creating false narratives. Anyway, it's cup semi final day, I'm going to leave this for now, have a drink and cheer the boys on. Enjoy the game buddy.

Was pretty pessimistic before today, now I can't help but imagine the feeling at full time if we are the winners.

My opinion on this is always the same, if they want to go then fucking let them, the domestic leagues will be more open and competitive for it providing we reform TV and prize money to make it more even. People say "but the best players will all go to these clubs"...they do already, so we'll just be drawing from the pool of players outside the top 6.

Telling me what I do and don't believe is pretty sanctimonious. I know for a fact there are people out there who post things that they don't believe purely to get a reaction.

Classic misunderstanding of the kind of morons you get on social media. Majority of the time the people looking for a reaction don't even slightly believe what they're typing, they're just posting it because they know it's the most offensive thing they can say. As I said above, they abuse everyone regardless of skin colour...but you're not exactly going to use racial slurs against white players are you, you use something else. Is the abuse Lallana got about his son not being his any less distressing from his point of view?

Good point, hadn't thought of it that way.

Proper amount at the funeral itself isn't it? What happened outside the venue is essentially people just lining the street, whilst socially distanced, which would be allowed.

Neither me or him have said it's OK, just that they're addressing the problem as if it's one thing when it's another. If social media companies put instant IP bans on anyone posting racist abuse and eliminate it, will we then be satisfied or will someone tweeting abuse of a non-racial variety get the same treatment?

He was 100% onside and you could see that from the first angle ffs. I don't give a flying fig what his leading hand might be doing, he was onside.

If you're purely using goals conceded as a metric, sure.

Thing is it's not a problem with racism, the problem is the subset of utter wankers who love nothing more than spending time on social media abusing people. They'll use anything they can to get a reaction - I'd wager that people like Aguero or De Gea get just as much abuse as Rashford or Pogba, it's just largely ignored.

Ings has been fucking wank as well.

Sure fire way to get to the cup final.

Fucking hell.

Wrong, they quite clearly didn't give a fuck in the first half and to be honest neither did I, when you have a semi final coming up and we're safe who cares.

Fucking hell Redmond how much time do you want to get the shot away in and around the box?

Redmond should have shot first time there.

Deliberate stamp on the back of his foot for fuck sake!!!

Ings down in the box, let's have a penalty please.