Golden Balls

I didn't realise half was going to the club. That's disgraceful! Why am I even surprised?

Would love that. But seems a bit too premium to be a main sponsor in football.

Thought he looked back to his best. Amazes me how many fans we have who refuse to accept a good performance so they can have a good moan or scapegoat. VW misplaced one pass in the 2nd half which lead to him conceding a free kick. So many blokes in the pub just then wouldn't shut up about how crap he is and what a waste of money he is. Yet if Lallana makes a mistake, it's unlucky. Wanyama does his job well and we're a better team when he's in it.

It didn't send us down though. Not even close. We were terrible that day but had we won our last game of the season, we'd have stayed up. In terms of soul destroying, I'd say the late goals conceded against Villa, Everton and 'boro had more of an impact.

Odd isn't it. We've beaten them 5-1 3 times.

Thought it was quite funny. They'll probably reply with something but then what could they really do? 4-1? FA cup? Wow. WTFILN. Shame is wasn't done when they were in terrible form

Text into radio Solent after their game along the lines of... "We're a fantastic side now Alford has taken over. We could easily compete in the premier league" Delusion really is in their DNA down there.

True. I won't be leaving the house this weekend. So embarrassed.

the skates are in meltdown on twitter. I had nothing to do with it but know who organised it. It was offered for free as part payment on a bet.

True. Although we used to attract a lot in our Championship days when we had a few Polish players.

You've avoided Shirley then. I used to work in Fitness First on the high street. Bloody loved the Polish. Easiest sales, lots of mates who would join together and generally nice people.

Well yes, defensive midfielders will score less than attacking midfielders like JRod and Lallana.

Both well deserved nominations. Would expect a Liverpool player will win it though.

Disagree with the op. I'm also into my second decade of a season ticket but the club have it spot on. I have had 2 friends who have asked if I could use my ST to get them a ticket to the united game. The answer is simply no. Even if I could, I wouldn't. Why should they get priority over those who actually have attended games?

Yep I saw this article. Never once heard it sung in 20 years of being a STH. Even when we had 3-4 polish players in the first team.

12th for us between 1992-2013. Would be interesting to see where we'd sit between 1992-2009. Rarely finished in the top half of a table between those years. 2 relegations and a lot of close shaves.

Only ever had one dog, a collie. Grew up with her from the age of 4 until my early teens. She got lung cancer and started to struggle. One particular bad day I stayed home from school to be with her (I couldn't believe my mum allowed that) and she was in clear pain. I told my mum when she got home from work that I think we should have her put to sleep. Her reaction - "I've been thinking it for a week but wouldn't do it until you said". She thought I'd hate her for killing my mate. We went to the vets that evening and I held her through the whole lot. As she drifted away she silently haemorrhaged and the vet told us she would have died that night had we not gone ahead. That made me feel a lot better. Still to this day, 13 years later I still miss her. She was family and like a best friend. As much as it hurt, I'm looking forward to having another dog.

You'd have thought they'd have learnt from their mistakes this season and will mount some form of promotion push next season. But when have they ever learnt?

Can't blame them for doing it if we all end up paying it. I just winder what the tipping point will be when we finally see only half full stadiums at the majority of PL games. It will happen.

Bad news if this goes ahead. Not only in Southampton but anywhere. Will just produce racists. I'm sure some fame hungry people will accept being filmed.

Been saying for years we should have gone for Kasper Schmeichel but I think we've left it too late now. Begovic would be my next choice but again, he'd cost a lot unless Stoke went down.

Good luck to them.

2 that I can think of. Steven Davis against Man City away last season. Was in Avondale and the place got trashed during the celebrations. James Beattie against Man Utd in the last minute in 2004ish. Was on holiday in Spain and watching it with a Manchester family in a bar. The game on afterwards was Man City V Arsenal so the place started to fill with their fans. When Beattie scored the place went nuts and I was the only Saints fan in there. Got a lot of free pints which was more than I could handle at 16. As a bonus, Rickie Lamberts goal against Scotland. Watched it in the Winston. There was beer on the ceilings.