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Southampton FC ‏@SouthamptonFC GOAL: #ColU 0-1 #SaintsFC (@sammcqueen123 ) He's done it again! McQueen heads home at the near post to give the visitors the lead.

FFS. They're never gonna get out of Division 4, are they?

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Congratulations!

'Deluded Pompey fans' and 'Pompey Mythology' Bingo cards at the ready.... Neil Allen: "Despite what happened in later years at Pompey, fans can still say 'We won something'. Other clubs in that past have got into financial trouble but not won anything, but Pompey do at least have something to show for it"

Thorpe Park or Alton Towers?

I'm in the "bought the bundle but have only received the Sparta Prague tickets so far" camp

http://m.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/14765064.Fonte__waiting__for_improved_Southampton_contract_offer/

Talking of England.... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/26/exclusive-investigation-england-manager-sam-allardyce-for-sale

General rule of thumb with the M3 between Fleet and the M25 is to avoid between 06:30 and 09:30. And that was before they decided to install roadworks for what seems like the last 17 years...

Great result! Another step closer to escaping to Division 3 and lifting the clouds of nutjob tedium that languishing in Division 4 for years on end brings. Bring on the hilarity that will accompany their 'progress' up the leagues.

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I used to stay just around the corner from there whenever I stayed in Malta, although haven't been back to Mellieha for a few years now. There's a small bar in Valletta called "The Pub" (somewhat imaginatively! It's claim to fame being that it was the last place Oliver Reed had a drink before he died) which shows football games. All I need to do now is convince my football loathing missus to pop in there on our first night to watch Saints v Be'er Sheva.... I'm not holding my breath!!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/09/25/southampton-striker-charlie-austin-shows-west-hams-owners-exactl/ Sammy Lee, who is now Sam Allardyce’s England assistant, was at the London Stadium and, with Harry Kane and Andy Carroll both currently injured, will surely have taken a particular interest in Austin’s form ahead of England’s World Cup qualifiers against Malta and Slovenia. “I hope Charlie can find the England selection,” said Claude Puel, the Southampton manager.

Which bar was that? I'm off to Valletta on Thursday

MotD2 drooling over our performance today

Forster Martina Fonte VvD Targett HojbJerg JWP Clasie Tadic Austin Long subs: McCarthy, Bertrand, Yoshida, Romeu, Davis, Hesketh, Redmond Be'er Sheva 0 Saints 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWQuomZaQM4

No, it sold out last week.

On Sky Sports, Theiry Henri said that was Puel giving Tadic some coaching advice. He said that shows how much of a perfectionist Puel is - saying its normal for him to give players coaching tips even just after they've been substituted. Puel has all the hallmarks of being a superb acquisition for the club IMO.

The club normally charter a plane to long distance games. Might be a restriction at the Israeli end? Sport Options said they weren't doing a fans' charter flight due to not been being able to get an air traffic control slot, or suchlike

How was the dinner and sunset ?

Gotta be in with a shout for forthcoming games, especially with Kane out injured?