Matthew Le God

Saints kit 125 years ago looked like the picture below according to http://www.historicalkits.co.uk 2010/11 season kit imo should be in this style/colour scheme. The badge could change to something like the original badge aswell instead of the current badge which was designed in the 1970's. Modern version of 1885 Kit Badge (50% current 1970's designed badge and 50% 1885 badge) Use this badge for 2010/11 season

Lloyd James for a start

I think you have got confused there, he has never publicly said any such thing. btw we have spent 5 times more than any other League 1 club this season

Taking quote out of context, scandal, shock, horror. Selling papers with unsubstantiated stories is not good journalism even if every newspaper seems to do so.

Guided Missile can you name a few ground shares for teams from different cities sharing a stadium in one city? Milan, Munich, Rio etc have both clubs from the same city. Inter Milan and AC Milan fans both come from Milan and respect Milan thus "unlikely" to damage their own city or make it unpleasant for local residents. Portsmouth fans do not like Southampton and having approx 20,000 roaming Pompey fans in Southampton twenty times or more every year is a bizarre idea. The annual police bill would be HUGE. It was bad enough for south coast derby games with 3k Pompey fans once a year.

GM I'll ask again Manchester and Liverpool are a similar distance apart to Southampton/Portsmouth. By your logic... Does the M62 mean Manchester and Liverpool are the same city? Can you imagine the annual police bill for policing 70k Liverpool fans in Manchester city centre at least 19 times every year

Manchester and Liverpool are a similar distance apart to Southampton/Portsmouth. By your logic... Does the M62 mean Manchester and Liverpool are the same city?

John Lennon also said "I am the Walrus, we are the eggman coo coo ca choo" Because football is modern tribalism and we are evolved apes and it is inbuilt. As I said before every other ground share is two clubs from the same city, not two clubs from rival cities. Having 20k plus fans from another tribe on "your land" won't work. Milan is the home city of AC Milan fans and Inter Fans. Southampton is not the home of any Portsmouth fans(well a tiny few) and tribal instincts will make any groundshare impossible.

Pretty much every example of ground sharing is from 2 clubs from the SAME city sharing a ground. Pompey and Southampton are 20 miles apart. It would be a policing nightmare having 20k Pompey fans in a city they don't like. With the two Milan clubs at least both sets of fans respect Milan. If 20k Pompey fans were in Southampton 23 times or more a year it would end in tears.

I'm sure we would all like to hear from the club if anything is happening if anything. Just a guess but as this has been in the Echo as main story for last couple of days if the club were not in talks with the FA then they would release a statement to end media speculation saying Southampton can't bid. The lack of anything from the club to me suggests they are still talking to the FA and will disclose what has gone on after talks have concluded either successfully or not.

Well the guy from Pompey city council would have been talking to the FA very recently yet still thinks Southampton have a chance and so do SEEDA(South East England Development Agency).

According to the Portsmouth Council leader it may not be too late.

Well it is weighted very heavily towards the north and has no venue the large conurbations in the South East. A good spread of 12 stadiums would be... 6 stadiums in the South Plymouth, Bristol, Southampton and London (Wembley, Spurs, Arsenal) and 6 stadiums in the North Manchester (Old Trafford and CoM's), Liverpool, Nottingham, Birmingham, Newcastle

This shows why a bid from Portsmouth or Southampton could be import to the FA as FIFA may look kindly to a good spread around the nation for venues. With no Portsmouth that is a big gap in the map!

Who'd have thought it...Portsmouth council supporting Southampton for a World Cup bid. http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/news/4764104.Potential_Southampton_cup_bid_backed_by_Portsmouth_leader/

Saints have averaged over 30k in seasons when in the Premiership before so we could get close to 40k for alot of games if doing well.

Not a 40k stadium they wouldn't even if in the Premiership. Population of the two cities may be similar but the surrounding area is thinly populated compared to the Southampton conurbation.

John B said it had nothing to do with him, I was just saying it has.

Lord Mawhinney is on the executive board in charge of the World Cup 2018 bid.

Dan's story made the front page today yet has nothing from the club that backs it up. Deadline has past it seems and Dan offers nothing to substantiate that it is anything but that for any Southampton bid. No dates are given when the councillor made those quotes and as it is deadline day today it seems this is just the Echo trying to sell papers on a pointless article with no evidence of any substance. Of course I'd like to be wrong as I'd love the World Cup to come to the city.

The second part didn't stop them with Terry Venables.

Would be good to hear from the club what is happening if anything.

If Torquay paid a loan fee it is impossible for a loan to be recalled.

If it is a direct quote from Andrew Cowan why use the word "apparently", you were in the room so he either said it or didn't so quote him on it if he did? As the Echo has had a number of stories about a World Cup bid over the last few months and it is on the Front Page of the paper today why not contact the architects and council to find out what the club had it plan from the original designs. I did a university research project on the stadium and its impacts and I know exactly what the architects had in mind for future development of the stadium as I contacted them and asked them. It was very quick and easy to do and may provide the Echo with some information to write an article on "The future expansion of St Mary's".

FIFA dictates that all World Cup stadia have to be of a size upwards of 40k (45k to allow for press and segregation)