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Love to see a similar article based on our current tactics. Think it would be considerably shorter,and the words "rigid" "backwards" "restrained" and "standing still" would appear a lot.

Agree with all that. X number of reviews per team per game, but a successful one doesn't reduce the number available. As for BIB, big screens not exciting enough. With today's technology Captain/manager/designated appealer could indicate an appeal to ref electronically for any incident whilst play continues, and the goal posts could turn orange whilst a review is happening, then red or green depending on the outcome. Players and spectators alike wouldn't be able to miss that and imagine the extra excitement/hope if you've just scored/conceded in an orange goal.

Too late, he's gone to Fulham.

Ironic that they sponsor trophy hunters but pick a football team that would fail to hit a cow's arse with a banjo

It was easier to make sense of a MoPo interview, and he wasn't even speaking in English. i think RK has a very overworked PA who uses a random word generator to save time writing speeches/soundbites for him, which he then reads out verbatim without checking them first.

One thing that Saints are consistent with - big announcements always come when we least expect them! Hopefully the start of another new beginning for The Southampton Way, or even a New Way

This, this and this again

Could be a bluff on his part. It's no secret we seem to take ages over appointments (managerial and playing) maybe the China story is hi way of saying "Give me the job NOW or I go elsewhere" Disclaimer: This post comes with a large serving of wishful thinking

Netherlands must be in dire straits if he came just to watch him!

And guess which one on that list was there yesterday according to Solent commentary (who saw fit to mention it twice in case we missed it the first time).

Surely with our current forwards' levels of finishing there should be no such thing as an expected assist in our statistics at the moment.

Not too dissimilar to problems on the pitch. Lacking a leader when the going gets tough. Yoshida looks like the only one even half willing to take on that role and he's only just found himself back in the starting line up.

That report refers to the pitch being laid and the goalposts put up. What else is needed to put on a match? If the pitch is ready they should be made to play in an empty stadium until it's ready to accommodate spectators.

I'd love to see that EU "problem" challenged. The PL - and all other leagues - is a competition. As such it can set it's own rules as to who can participate. There would be nothing to stop clubs employing as many EU nationals as they liked, but if the rules of the competition was that at least, say 8, players on the field at any one time have to be home grown, then clubs would naturally look towards them first. EU rules also (I believe) bans gender discrimination. FA rules are that men and women can't play in the same team, because that's the rules of their competitions.

Posting this from phone, my laptop has crashed 4 times this week, on every occasion it's whilst I was on here. Not happened at any other time and I've been on plenty of other sites in that time.. Can't be coincidence.

Ditto

Same here although since I changed the privacy settings turning all the options off it seems to be mainly empty shells where ads should be. Constantly getting an "X" about 3cm up 4cm across in bottom left of screen (laptop, firefox browser) seems to be approximately top right corner of where a floating ad kept appearing before I changed the settings. Clicking it makes it disappear but it's back every time a page loads. Also every page load runs through loads of "transferring data" "waiting for" and "loading" messages followed by various names in bottom left corner despite settings switching them all off.

Honours aren't just awarded out of the blue, recipients have to be nominated for consideration in the first place . So if anyone with time on their hands wants to set the ball rolling ..... https://www.gov.uk/honours

Or based on that idea Danny Ings Danny Ings We've not got a song for you... has a certain ironic humour to it ;-)

If we can't come up wit something based on Chuck Berry's My Ding-a Ling we're really not trying. For our younger readers ....https://youtu.be/UaEC-lWSlmI

Transfer Window Days just ain't the same any more

Not just a dressing room. Sounds like the OP has never spent anytime interacting with normal male human beings.

Probably explains why he rarely gets past his man then

There's not many games at this level where a team isn't in danger of losing at some stage during the 90 minutes. The important point is they DIDN'T lose those games. They COULD have been 3-0 down in the semi - most teams at this level will create/allow a few chances during a game, the important point was they weren't. They didn't play the youngest team to reach a semi final, they played them in the final. Agreed they wern't a brilliant team, butnor where many others. I felt that this years WC was a bit like the PL when Leicester won it with nobody really outstanding, France were deserved winners and Croatia deservedly second.

Indeed, he's always been under-rated as a player but as a "person" he's head and shoulders above many in his attitude to both himself and the game. I've read his book, the effort and commitment he has put in over the years to keep improving deserves success. Compare with Neymar whose talent seems to come naturally but as a person seems to be a total kn0b.