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Brentford take lead vs Pompey. Bradley Wright Phillips

Lol @ Boruc

Clyne is marking Carroll on all set pieces

Morgan booked so early. Not good

"We are Southampton, we play on the floor. Hoof!"

Shoot first time Adam!!

Hoof!!

You do realise we only win when Glasgow Saint starts the match day thread....?

Reverse psychology time..... I'd take a draw now if offered....

Agreed

I'm pretty sure one of the tweets from a reporter in the court quoted the judge as saying: "the agreement should be published in full as soon as possible"... As you say, what's stopping someone at BDO uploading a document to their website within a few hours, let alone 2 days...? As ever with Pompey, something smelling slightly fishy... And the media, as per usual, not asking any 'difficult' questions, instead choosing to fawn over the biggest community takeover in the history of the planet...

Which mine is that?

The more parties the better IMO. Will be a good boost to the economy.

That better odds than I got during the week!

@whufc_official: West Ham United starting XI: Jaaskelainen, Demel, Collins, Tomkins, O'Brien, O'Neil, Diame, Nolan, Jarvis, Vaz Te, Carroll

@SouthamptonFC: On the bench for Saints: K. Davis, Fonte, Rodriguez, Ward-Prowse, Guly, Puncheon, Mayuka #saintsfc

@SouthamptonFC: Saints team vs @whufc_official Boruc, Clyne, Yoshida, Hooiveld, Fox, Lallana, Cork, Schneiderlin, S. Davis, Ramirez, Lambert #saintsfc

Yep; I guess the geezer that wrote that tweet was exaggerating to illustrate a point - some see it as a tad ironic to see the free market principles that Thatcher epitomised encapsulated in the quest to get a protest song to the top of the charts. There was a rumour flying around that it's ultimately Rupert Murdoch that owns the rights to the song but I can't find anything to substantiate that.

Maybe their creditors should get a banner made up too...."Businesses, Charities and Tax Payers.....We will never be repaid"

Neither

Try stopping me. There's plenty more drivel where that came from.

@pn_neil_allen: Here's a new flag which is going to be unveiled by #Pompey fans at Brentford today. http://t.co/9JDn62OJR5

Just a hunch, but I'm guessing Starkey does a wee bit of research into the subjects he covers rather than basing his documentaries on a few Daily Mirror headlines...

The poll (in the thread linked above) wasn't asking if sacking Nigel had been "done the right way", it was asking if people felt the underlying decision itself was correct. In other words, answering "yes" to the poll question wouldn't have compromised the almost universal view that it could have been handled better, especially from a PR perspective at the time.

Here’s a question for you – and an answer you may well dismiss as perfectly ridiculous. But which Premier League chairmen are looking at this Dortmund team, and justifiably thinking: “That could be us in five years?” Daniel Levy? Possibly. Nicola Cortese? Most definitely. Of course, we know what they do have in common. This season, both had the temerity to replace a popular English manager with an aloof whizz-kid from Iberian football – one who talked down to the press, and another who couldn’t talk to them at all. But if very few Spurs fans would now take back ’Arry, and duly remember their original outrage with quiet shame, then how bewildering must it feel down at Southampton? Both the aversion and the therapy have been far more extreme at St Mary’s. When Cortese replaced Nigel Adkins with Mauricio Pochettino in January, he was denounced from every rooftop. Here was the effigy for the bonfire of football’s vanities. The club simmered with mutiny. Even lifelong Saints anticipated relegation with grim relish. Fans of other clubs expressed scandalised fellowship. Just when the team had found its feet, it had been lurched into a tailspin: it was sickening, embarrassing, enough finally to extinguish the last embers of your love for the game. Only now it turns out to have been a stroke of genius. As their team glides stylishly up the table, taking the scalps of Manchester City and Liverpool and Chelsea, Southampton fans have quickly acknowledged that they owed Cortese more respect. " There were a few of us that didn't overreact...