Matthew Le God

I doubt Antonio if signed would cost anywhere near that. 150k to 200k I reckon, perhaps less.

Micky, If anything ooooterryhurlock post made the thread worse! Southampton council couldn't bid at the time as the club was in administration and its very future was in the balance. No council it its right mind would back a bid in that situation and risk spending money on a campaign which potentially had no future.

We were in administration at the time and in no position for the council to bid and waste the cities money when potentially there could have been no club.

Why would the other 19 Premeirship teams want their money used to help Portsmouth? They'd be uproar amongst the 19 teams if the PL kept them afloat and gave them a chance of staying up. It doesn't tarnish the league if a club goes into admin. It shows the inept management of the club not the Premier League. How would it affect the league?

Yes it is true. The Football Association looks after football as a whole in England (from the English national team to womans football to grass roots football for kids). The Football League is concerned with the Championship, League One, League Two and them ONLY. Lord Malwhinney is on the board of the Football League not the FA.

If the banks and creditors call the debt in, it doesn't matter how much leeway the Premier League give the club. Administration will happen in that case.

Well you don't! As you think it was the FA that imposed the -10 points on Saints As shown here... It wasn't the FA it was the Football League - both are different organizations.

I think his point is that Lord Malwhinney is on the board of the England 2018 bid and he is the one on the board responsible of the host city selection and also the Football League Chairman that imposed the -10 on Saints.

It is shocking how many people don't know the difference between the Football Association, Football League and the Premier League. All three are different organizations.

Why does that concern you? That £1m was from Watford chairman Jimmy Russo.

No chance. They'd be uproar from the other Premiership sides.

Thats rubbish. The Premier League can't stop a team going into administration. If it is going to happen it will happen because creditors and banks have had enough.

But it is completely unfair and there is no way you could make it fair. For example... Some teams may have played Leeds, Charlton, Norwich at home before January with a better chance of winning than a team that has only played Leeds, Charlton, Norwich away in the 1st half of a season. Some teams will have easier fixtures lists than others. Promotion can only be given when everyone has had exactly the same fixtures.

You are kidding surely? Quite possibly the worst football related idea I've ever heard. The team at the top of the Championship has had a different set of fixtures compared to every other club. How have they deserved promotion halfway through the season? A team top of the Championship in December is likely to be even worse than the team at the bottom of the Premeirship as they haven't had the millions that the teams in the Prem get to spend in the summer. If this was a real suggestion and not a wind up you, need help!

Or Championship players that are out of favour.

Why are you so confident about that?

This is why a mod needs to change the thread title to something less concerning for those that don't realize its an old story that has been bumped.

I've been in the Arsenal changing rooms and they are amazing. If St Mary's is now anything like them then I'm impressed A tour of the Emirates changing rooms on Football Focus. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLeGF0skapE

Told by...?

Sounds like he is willing to stay whilst we progress through the leagues

Or maybe she just didn't want to text back... http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/4775723.Lovestruck_student_broke_into_mortuary_with_an_axe/

Plymouth 5,000 members http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=123143047127&ref=nf Bristol 11,000 http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=95912219510&ref=search&sid=500257548.3158205237..1 Southampton's at 700 and in the need of alot more in the next 13 days if the FA based decisions on this. Which we are lucky we don't because Saints are miles behind showing the level of support these others have. Many of the other cities don't have a facebook group at all(or one with only a couple of hundred in it, does this mean the FA will reject them cos they don't have enough gulible faceble user fans?) Not that the FA would care anyway

Lallana plays alot further forward than Schneiderlin. It isn't really in his brief to be getting in loads of shots each match. As nice at it would be for him to be scoring, his role in the overall team strategy is very different to Lallana's and changing it may unbalance the team.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=african+nations+2010

They have qualified and as I said earlier, Jaidi hasn't been called up since Feb 1st 2009