Matthew Le God

The club's media account has yet again involved itself in matters of religion with the announcement Mother Teresa becoming a Saint. Previously they've tweeted "thoughts and prayers" about incidents. Southampton FC ‏@SouthamptonFC 3h3 hours ago Southampton FC Retweeted The Associated Press Welcome to the family, Mother Teresa! #saintsfc The club should remain secular, its supporters aren't all religious. I guess at this point some will be thinking "oh, but Southampton were founded as a church team". Even if you applied that argument it fails because St Mary's is an Anglican church, not Catholic and Sainthood's are done by the Vatican, not Church of England. Mother Teresa is hardly worthy of praise, she did far more harm to the world than good... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65JxnUW7Wk4 Southampton's supporters aren't all followers of the same religion and never will be, so the club should be neutral and secular in the 21st century.

I'd imagine he'd have agreed a deal so he can work from home a lot of the time. But given his excuse in the past he is terrible with technology, will he be able to keep in contact?

Harry Redknapp is on the verge of becoming Derby County's director of football. John Percy ‏@JPercyTelegraph 18m18 minutes ago Breaking: Harry Redknapp is poised to become Director of Football at Derby. Talks ongoing. More to follow @TeleFootball #dcfc In 2014 he said this of director's of football...

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They signed him for £28m in 2014. They've kept him through the winter 2015, summer 2015 and winter 2016 transfer windows. 3 transfer windows is not a huge amount of time and they are unlikely to sell him unless someone offers them a profit on the £28m they paid.

Don't worry... Johnny Phillips ‏@SkyJohnnyP 8m8 minutes ago Ronald Koeman confirms Southampton will appeal Sadio Mane red card

It was barely a foul, let alone a yellow. To give a red enters the ridiculous. If it isn't reminded there is something wrong with football. The Stoke player should really be punished for rolling around on the floor holding part of his head that wasn't touched in order to get Mane sent off.

Some of you are setting your sights very low! We wouldn't improve our starting line-up with the vast majority of that list.

At £30 ticket for every Premier League away day, how much would you charge for a Championship, League 1 & League 2 away day? With Premier League prices coming down, Football League clubs will be under pressure to reduce and lose income despite not overly benefitting from the new TV deal. Next season will see every Premier League away fan have a cheaper ticket than many games in the Championship for away fans. I'm not disputing today is good news, just that it will have implications for Football League clubs as they'd struggle to justify prices close to or above Premier League prices after a reduction. Championship, League 1 & League 2 clubs may face a tricky decision to fall in line price wise for the standard of football on offer. What price can Pompey charge for a 4th tier fan at Fratton Park if Saints charge Arsenal and Man Utd fans £30 at St Mary's? Could be a awkward balancing act for the Skates.

If you are going to criticise him, pace and skip would be a strange thing to go with as he is very quick and skilful... Lack of strength on the ball is his main weakness, something Koeman acknowledges and wants to work on. I wouldn't write him off yet, he has some useful attributes.

I'm struggling to believe you've seen him play if you think Juanmi is slow. Look at this match winning goal vs Barcelona for sheer acceleration and pace... [video=youtube;z8CgMUh8-Z0]

Off where? The list of clubs that would be a more attractive opportunity than Saints is relatively tiny. Koeman would face fierce competition for any of those roles. You say "slump in form", but we've gone through spells of both good and bad runs throughout the season. Go back a mere three games and we were on a 6 match unbeaten run, top of the form table, no goals conceded. Before that we had a long poor run, before that a long good run.

The winter update was released yesterday on Steam.

??? We went from 8th (2013/14) to 7th (2014/15) in the last two seasons. We are currently 8th and only 2 points behind 7th (a team we play next weekend).

Why don't refs follow the rules for injury time? - Ref decides there will be a minimum of 4 mins injury time. - van Dijk Goal in 93rd minute - Saints players celebrate and it takes time until Sunderland restart the game - Ref blows full-time at 94:08 when Saints were on the attack. Goal in injury time should = longer time... not 8 seconds.

They've denied that is the plan, it is apparently for the pre-season tournaments. Even if a Super League did happen it is never going to be as you suggest in place of the Premier League, it would be instead of the Champions League so there is more money for the big sides. I'm not sure why you think those 5 teams leaving the Premier League would be good for Saints. If they did Saints would become significantly weaker as future Premier League TV deals would be significantly smaller and Saints wage and transfer budget would drop off leading to a lower quality of Saints team.

We are still in a good position to equal or better our best ever Premier League season and qualify for Europe again... so how exactly is our season over now?

On what basis do you think Crystal Palace have a bigger support base than Southampton? If you look at averages in the Championship season both were promoted... 2011/12 - Saints = 26,420 2012/13 - Palace = 16,933 Those are two successful seasons in the same league and Saints had circa 10,000 extra people on average. I agree West Ham do have more fans than us, but do you really think the gap is 28,000 (if David Gold gets his 60,000 capacity I linked to earlier)? The gap shouldn't be as big as that between ours and their stadium capacities.

Chelsea are planning for 60,000... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/12026719/Chelsea-submit-plan-for-new-60000-seat-Stamford-Bridge.html West Ham's might be 60,000 according David Gold today... David Gold ‏@davidgold 6h6 hours ago David Gold Retweeted Scott Yes, it's possible that the capacity of the new stadium will rise to 60,000 for the start of the new season. dg Liverpool's plan is for 59,000... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-29314614 Yes, the TV money is huge and it reduces the % of the income coming from gate money, but why are so many other Premier League clubs expanding their capacities? Crystal Palace Everton Liverpool Spurs West Ham Chelsea Are all either already in the process of expanding their capacity (Liverpool), moving stadium (West Ham, Spurs), redeveloping current stadium (Chelsea) or likely to be looking to expand in the near future due to recent investment (Palace & Everton). Others like Stoke, Leicester etc probably look to increase and if Bournemouth stay up this season they have said they will spend to expand.

Under 21 games are streamed live on Southampton's official youtube channel...

It has some bearing, as he'd count as a club grown player for European squads.

Form is generally done looking at 6 games, not one off games in the cup vs Man City reserves/under 21s. In terms of league form out of the last 18 points available; Saints have 16 and Chelsea 10. It is Saints in "blistering form" at the top of the form table, not Chelsea. You were talking about Chelsea still being in the battle for 4th, they are 14 points behind with only 12 games left. It isn't going to happen.