The Cat

Especially for Enskied, from a time before the game lost it's soul

Empty grounds would be a real show of intent but it will never happen en masse as for every fan committed to a protest there will, for the better supported clubs at least, be someone willing to take their seat. I would never pay for Sky Sports, but I bet plenty of the people moaning about how football has been screwed over are more than happy to blindly fork out money to the company that has all but ruined the game they profess to love. I also rarely buy merchandise, and have never paid full price for a Saints shirt - not even for my kids. But again it makes no difference for the big clubs who rake in obscene amounts of cash from people around the world who randomly profess to support a club they will never see play live unless it's on some money making pre season tour the club have whored their players out for. It's a sad state of affairs, but sadly not one I can ever see being rectified.

Football is fu.cked and there's little the common, match going fan can do about it. The problem is the top clubs, with the blessing of the authorities, call the shots and clubs like Saints will never be able to compete in the league without massive, unsustainable spending. The FFP rules actually work against a club such as ours being able to compete at a higher level. But as long as people in the Far East are ploughing money into our top clubs through sponsorship, merchandise sales and tv revenue the rest of us will just have to lump it. So the winners are your fans from around the world who manically watch our league without any links to the local areas the clubs come from. And the losers are us, those whose only purpose now is to make an atmosphere in the ground for the billions watching on tv.

He'd be a fool to go there. Would barely get a game. If he wants to leave far better somewhere like Everton.

Not by himself no. But he knows a lot of very rich people.

Fact or guess?

Isn't this trousering the cash theory complicated by the fact transfer fees are paid over installments? I'm presuming that none of the clubs buying our players are paying up front.

He must have a "Saintsweb Takeover Alert" set up on his phone. It was uncanny how quick he jumped on this.

monkfish joined the site in 2007 and makes their first post 7 years later. Mmm.

Any chance of Crab Lungs stating where his info came from?

Askham/Lowe dream team.

Ebbsfleet (formally Gravesend & Northfleet) were the team who were bought out by My Football Club, a scheme that involved football fans from all around the world buying membership in the club in return for a say in the running. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyFootballClub It all went tits up.

Annoying that we don't get to see him develop further into the top class player we all know he'll be. But good luck to him.

I don't support English teams playing in the CL and in fact mostly want them to lose. The exception is Arsenal who tend to go about their business in a decent way, so I'm always quite happy to see them do well.

How was it avoidable? Unsustainably doubling or trebling his wages?

He could be a parody of the most extreme members of this board. Or just a complete bellend.

The time to sing about mugging them off would be at in the home game if they have an ordinary start to the season, not now when they probably won't give a toss home much they've paid for our players.

Plus it's not a fire sale anyway. It would be if we were knocking them out at ludicrously low prices, but we most certainly are not.

Turns out I couldn't order the Nibiru from China becuse the seller told me they are not allowed to ship lithium batteries to the UK. Not sure if that's totally correct but no matter because I bought a barely used second hand THL W200S for under £100 off Amazon marketplace instead. http://www.amazon.co.uk/THL-W200S-IPS-LCD-Screen-MT6592W/dp/B00IRWOFHC So far I have to say it's superb. It's fast, has a beautiful screen and a great camera. An absolute bargain.

They were excellent. I'd only caught the last 15 minutes of them at a festival last year so made sure I got to see them this time. When they went from a 5 minute feedback tinged psych jam straight in to the balls out punk of Master Of My Craft and Borrowed Time back to back things got pretty messy.

I'm sure it won't be long until Koeman is asked where Chambers is tonight.

How long until our first moron fan starts laying into him on twitter?

Any radio commentary? Just checked online but Solent have some Tony Blackburn special listed. My nipper wants to listen to the game in bed. I'd let him stay up and watch it but he's got his first football tournament tomorrow and has to be in best condition to impress the watching scouts.

If you like jangly, summery, reverb soaked indie then the forthcoming albums from Horsebeach and Childhood are sounding pretty tasty