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No offence taken,I agree with you there. What I meant was little thought in making them individual to any particular club. Seems like each manufacturer designs 2 or 3 templates (which probably does undergo the research you suggest)and that's it, each club just has to have their colours fitted into that. In Euro16 England, France, Portugal, Croatia, Poland and Turkey all have exactly the same Nike shirts, just different colours. At least Croatia have the balls to insist on their red and white check.

The whole reason that a Gucci shirt costs that - not that I'm condoning that sort of pricing - is that they are not mass produced and you are not going to see 1000s of others wearing the same shirt. But as you say, £50 for a performance type shirt with the added detail a football shirt usually has is not too bad. My gripe is that little or no though seems to go into the design process, why should they bother when they know from past experience that x thousand people will buy one whatever they come up with.

Kit takes it's inspiration from classic English culture.

In response to "Good he had a bad attitude" Guan posted a video of "You got it, (the right stuff) KBSS followed up with a pic of a guy totally of his head looking like he's on something dancing with 2 cats. Add that to the knowledge that he "turned up late" a couple of times and there's only one interpretation I can put on it.

Maybe they considered as we didn't turn up there last season we won't be needing one this year

Well I liked it

The list was PL appearances, he only breaks the 300 if you count the 2 seasons in the championship. Seems general consensus matches my own, 3 years is a decent stint nowadays, anything longer shows good club loyalty (or no-one else wants them lol )

Once again, with Wanyama's imminent departure, questions are being asked as to why can't we keep our top players? This begs the question in the title, how long do we expect them to stay? . Clearly certain players can be very influential to the team and we'd want to keep them forever. Conversely if we started a season without making any changes over the summer we'd be complaining about no ambition / treading water. As a point of reference the list below are the only players (in order) that have played over 300 times in the PL for just one club. It's a surprisingly short list. Seems nobody stays around anywhere very long. Ryan Giggs Jamie Carragher Steve Gerrard John Terry Paul Scholes GaryNeville Leon Osman Jason Dodd Gary Kelly Gabriel Agbonlahar Sammi Hyypia Dennis Bergkamp

Nope, me neither.

In The Know or ****ed It Up ?

First game was 67/8 with Ted Bates in charge, so McMenemey was first appointment. If I recall correctly he had already been taken on as Ted's assistant months beforehand - with a plan to take over when Ted was good and ready - to ensure continuity. That's a practice I'd like to see us continue today, although I guess only a young up and coming manager would be willing to play that waiting game. As for who I wanted, in a pre-internet, pre-clubcall, pre-pretty much everything era it never even crossed my mind there was a choice.

We'd have to change the hashtag from #WeMarchOn to #RideOnTime

Thinking the same a few days ago. And ties in with our American links. 33/1 eh? Worth a punt

http://www.espnfc.com/united-states/story/2888187/united-states-results-under-jurgen-klinsmann-now-what-we-hoped-for-says-sunil-gulati Looks like the USA are preparing to part company with Jurgen Klinsmann. Can I be first to nominate him as the mystery man.?

BIB .... or as we call it, a Stepping Stone

Is it a cover version of this?

As much as Pelle, Tadic, Mane and Wanyama have been good players for us, I can't help thinking that if they all played for other teams this season none of them would be top of our HCDAJFU list.

If it's Virgin Media could the deal include our own channel?

Since 1958, when regionalistion of the old 3rd division ended Saints have NEVER been in the lowest division of the Football League . (some teams are still there now )

My thoughts exactly as soon as i saw it. There seems a genuine warmth there. could have been a picture of a mum* and her 3 sons, really sums up the "family club" spirit. *Even though Katerina is possibly the youngest of all of them, I have no idea of her age or even if she's married. She has managed to keep her private life just that.

Not bothered reading the linked article but MotD running order generally always appears to me (without any scientific data to back it up), 1st - match involving highest placed team playing that day based on that mornings table, 2nd -match involving next highest placed team, 3rd - match involving next highest placed team and so on, with the odd late change for exceptional matches such as our 8-0 against Sunderland or the relegation of last place for a boring 0-0 or 1-0 with few incidents (ManUre seemed to be well down the order on several occasions this season). Never once have I considered they show any anti_saints (or anti-anyone come to that) bias.

Keep it simple "Ryan Bertrand" is the same number of syllables as "Champione". See if anyone can come up with something based on that

And launched in .... London. Says a lot about their target market

He isn't and he might do. The OP is talking about having adequate top class cove, not a replacement.

He doesn't anymore. Works for SkySports now.