The Cat

Just saw the red card, totally mental decision. You get to the point when you think we have probably reached peak stupidity with VAR and then something like that happens and blows the rest out of the water.

All new officers in the UK now have to do a degree while training or have gained one prior to being recruited. Whether that makes for a better police force or not is open to debate and won't be known for a good few years.

Thanks for calling me an idiot once I'd perfectly reasonably explained why I thought that.

Thought it was bottom left. I guess it depends if the graphic was from the keeper's view or the strikers! I think because I played as a keeper I looked at it that way.

Dumb as fuck from Djenepo. Also, why aren't our coaches looking at where Son puts penalties and telling McCarthy to dive that way? They put the graphic up on the TV for fuck sake so it's hardly difficult information to find. If he'd dived that way he'd have saved it.

We really should have been pressing like this the past couple of months. It's almost like Ralph woke up after the semi final and remembered the tactics that made us play better.

There's a huge gulf, however what hasn't helped is the top leagues carrying on while the ones below were cancelled. Some of these teams who lost might not have played for 6 months or something and been up against others who are playing every week.

Ings had a couple of chances to do that yesterday, passed one, lost control of the other. Just hit it man you're good enough.

Neville is funny... "I'd rather watch the champions of San Marino than Arsenal and Spurs at the moment, they are a joke". 😂😂

Marianne Spacey seems to be doing well with the women's team. They're beating sides from leagues above in the cup. Would be a promotion from within so would carry on the Southampton Way. Make it happen.

U16's beat Norwich at the weekend with a number of the U15's in the team.

Which is what I used to do before I started taking the kids to aways. Definitely would have gone today even though I'd have moaned about the ticket prices. It wouldn't have crossed my mind not to.

Not everyone gets the train and goes on the lash for away games. Plenty buy a ticket and a seat on the bingo bus and take a packed lunch. Wembley tickets are obscene though.

That's just plain weird. Who cares how shit we've been, it's the fucking FA Cup semi final and you'd rather watch people driving around in circles? What a joke.

The problem is we are playing a style that's not suited to our squad. If we aren't going to back him and sign players that will make it work then nothing changes. I don't think he'll leave. We probably can't afford to sack him and therefore we are stuck like this for a while.

One shot on target for both teams. Has to be some sort of record for the most turgid game in FA Cup history, let alone a semi final. We came out after half time with a bit more purpose but that soon evaporated once they scored and we realised we were too shit to break them down. Once Armstrong tired that was it because the rest of them were pretty pathetic from an attacking point of view. Really annoying to get to within 45 minutes of the final and then go out with a whimper.

Can't blame Bednarek for not being as fast as Vardy although he should have taken him out on the half way line. The problem with the goal was giving the ball away before they knocked it down the flank.

Such a lucky goal because the first shot was going way wide until it bounced back to him.

Walker Peters is not getting forwards nearly as much as he normally does, and considering he's often the outlet for our attacks I'd say it's a tactic

We're stifling the game but it's not bad tactic. Leicester not really done anything other than a couple of breaks when we've given the ball away. Would have been interesting to see what would have happened if we'd gone more attacking. Might have sneaked a goal but could have easily been carved apart. I'm not displeased at all so far.

They have the bottom 2 in the next 2 games. Should be an easy 6 points. I'd quite like them to lose in the semi's to Sunderland just so we can see more of those memes.

Forster has saved 15 penalties in the Premier League? No way is that true. I just checked and he's saved 4 out of 14 for Saints.

Fabianski 🙈

It's difficult for keepers. You see some stand in the middle occasionally but they end up looking a bit silly if the taker knocks it in the corner. Preparation helps and knowing where previous penalties have gone from certain players, otherwise it's a case of committing to a dive but not moving too early. In a shoot out you'll be facing people who aren't that good at penalties and probably don't have the skill to watch the keepers trigger movement. These are the ones who will probably leather it or pick a corner giving the keeper a bit more of a chance.

We'd miss the target with at least one and Schmeichel would save another. Our keeper will flop about while they roll them past him.