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Try this analogy then. You work for a company for 20 years, giving unswerving loyalty, then you retire. Would you expect said company, to keep giving you free products for the rest of your life, or would you expect to have to pay like everyone else. I love MLT, have met him several times via charity functions, I even organised one for the Wessex children's heart circle, that he and Mike Osman, were heavily involved in. But is ML had to pay for his own season ticket, then I see it's only fair, that everyone else should do the same. Anyone else here manage to get a block booking of ten seats for the Utd game?

Bought a red woollen pompom hat when I was 17, now 57, and it features in my will . I wore it everywhere whilst in the Army (minus the pompom), and have several photos of me and hat, taken all over the world.

So true, but flip it, because the vendetta, if such, is being carried out against the club imo

I be very careful if I were you. Some sweeping statements there, bordering on being Libellous. Re the house business, there is a second side to this story, not everything reported by the itk Hypo, is true!

A dark force, or part off?

Guess that's Hypo 'owned' again!

Oh! and Hypo, may I remind you of this. I was replying to a post about him in this thread but I was referring to the wider issue of fan communication rather than the specific Nick issue which has nothing to do with NC really. Topics as long as this do have a tendency to go off topic a bit and that was one example. I never discussed the merits of NC in relation to the club withholding Nick's ticket and I never used this issue as an excuse to have a pop at NC like Marco is suggesting.

He is suing him. I was told (by a relative of Benali) that it was to do with his flooring. I received a PM on here about the pool but absolutely no idea if that is true. He is suing him though, he confirmed it on Soccer AM. Make your mind up! You really have an issue with NC Hypo, fail to sign your autograph book or something?

I thought he was co-owner?

Also, a response to the Daily hell article.... There have been spats with both the local and national media and, more significantly, also some of the club’s all-time greats, notably Matthew Le Tissier, Lawrie McMenemy and Francis Benali. It continued this week with reports that the current squad and manager will not be attending a dinner to celebrate 125 years of the club’s history. “Everyone knows me and him don’t see eye to eye,” said Le Tissier. “Most football clubs treat ex-players which served them for many years quite well but that doesn’t seem to be the way under this chairman.” Cortese says that he has a good relationship with many former Saints players and is keen to respond. “There are two sides to every story, and I have more important things on my agenda to deal with,” he says. “I am well aware that there are people, who used to be involved in the club and who behind the scenes are trying to destabilise it. “In reality their actions are completely ineffective and serve only to damage their own reputations. These same people are obviously frustrated as they are not involved in any way with the club and I can understand that.

For the doubters amongst you.... “We came with a very serious intention to take this club where we genuinely believe it can be. This is a long-term project and we have taken so many decisions, some invisible, some behind the scenes, but they are all set for a plan and the plan is long-term. “Short-term, it would have probably been the wrong deal to buy a club in League One. You would have done a different deal, come in and, a year later, try to off-load it. “This was never a financial transaction. This was a transaction with a very, very strong belief that we can achieve something here that will be special.” That vision has been funded by Markus Liebherr, the Swiss billionaire who owned Southampton until his death last summer. Liebherr’s daughter Katharina is expected to inherit the empire, including Saints. Cortese remains adamant that his work - and the level of funding and commitment from the Liebher family - has remained intact. He has also dismissed local rumours that the club is up for sale. “I gave my word to the family that I will remain involved and people who know me very well know that, if I give my word, I don’t break my word and that is what I’m going to do.”

We really need the official take on this wonderful news....Corp Ho ho ho, come on down!

‘The way he is ignoring the club’s history is so sad.’ Matty! Matty! Matty!, what shirt are we playing in? I really hope those are not direct quotes from you.

Thought that myself! if I was a player, and wanted to go, then I'd go, simple as that.

Don't encourage him Nick

A select club, but we are few in numbers!

Lol...so it's ok for two aging Homosexuals to adopt a boy child, and you see nothing wrong in that , but you think it would be wrong for it to be a girl! Whereas, imo, they shouldn't be able to adopt at all, as I think it is immoral, but in this wacky world of ours, it appears that it is very PC for this to happen. So I'd say it should of been a girl child, then there would be less stigma attached.

I think he does!

I also found it strange, as I won sole custody of my three children in 1989, with no social service involvement as such. They were interviewed by SS, but it was pretty plain sailing.

You know this to be a fact, How?

No, but are entitled to your views on this, however disjointed they appear to be. The fact is, integration hasn't worked, nor will it. Trying to impose 'multiculturalism' onto the indigenous population, was doomed to failure, this will be a steady process, over a couple of generations, then, and only then, will there be no 'English' left. History is littered with these episodes, alas it seems, our time is nigh!

I would suggest, that before you encourage Sharia law taking a foothold in this country, that you go and live in a country governed by it. I did for 18 months, it is not a pleasant experience. As for marriage guidance....lol BTF, they tell you who to marry, you would of loved that as a woman!

Spoken like a true armchair manager............get some qualifications, as it seems the game is just waiting for you to become the next best thing!

Yeh right! just like they did down the road. Some of you live on cloud cuckoo imo

Disagree I'm afraid. It's a natural thing, that like for like stick together, they do so all over the world, Spain is a fine example, you tend to gravitate towards those of the same background and speech. The problem has been exasperated in this country, by being told that we have to be multi cultural, so by default, we are loosing our national identity, whilst all those that have 'arrived' here, get to keep theirs. The Welsh are welsh, the Scots are still Scottish, the Irish are Irish, but we have to be 'multi cutural', we can't even fly our National flag without causing offence to these new elements in society, yet they continue with there own customs and speech, hell, they even want us to adopt certain parts of Sharia law, now that is scarey imo.