Matthew Le God

It has been confirmed from both sides that stuff did happen in relation to Saints bidding for Sharp in the summer.

The BBC and the club have a good relationship, with BBC Radio Solent staff and the media department at Saints seeming to get on very well. Along with certain broadsheets I think Cortese likes the BBC and has given two interviews himself to them. I have a feeling this "leak" about Sharp and Maynard may be deliberate as the BBC wouldn't want to upset the club behind their backs.

Barnard signed a new deal in the summer, I doubt he is going to be sold in January.

Sounds sensible really.

What "hard work"? I haven't had a single problem with it, really makes no difference. At least give the free demo a try.

£12m rising to £15m for Chamberlain was fine though.

Schneiderlin signed a new contract in August... http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2426115,00.html

8 days ago... http://www.not606.com/showthread.php/110153-Fonté-about-to-sign-new-deal.

The game being on Steam has made no difference at all for me. If anything it is better, as it auto updates.

19th December... http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?34542-Saints-interested-in-Dutch-goalkeeper

Ruddick came back to Saints and is youth recruitment officer. http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/Management/0,,10280~1640469,00.html

I'm led to believe a number of Saints players are on more than that already.

Ahead of one or two of Chaplow, Schniederlin, Hammond, Cork? If he were still here, he'd be 5th choice central midfielder and rarely even get on the bench.

It won't be on BBC iplayer, it will be the main BBC Sport website. Available right now on Saints Player - 11 minutes of highlights.

No it wasn't. It was smacked hard at Richardson from close range, he couldn't move his arm out the way in time if he tried and he wasn't even aware of it coming towards him.

Under UK laws for inciting hatred, you could make a case for the Bible to be banned from publication. It incites genocide, slavery, murder, rape etc etc.

How have you "always been a Christian"? I'm guessing you were introduced to the religion because it is the religion of your parents or peers. Thus there was a time when you weren't a Christian. Had you been born in a different country or time period you wouldn't have become a Christian and you would have been exposed to one of the many other thousands of human created religions. Shows how arbitrary it all is. Not all religions can be right, they can all be wrong. What have you "experienced, read, and lived certain things that make me believe rather than not"? Sources for this?

It was a 6 year deal from 2005. There has been pretty much no mention of it for many years, so I suspect it stopped when Lowe left in 2009, if not when he left the fist time.

You didn't imagine it. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/southampton/4241121.stm It was on old versions of FM.

He went on strike and refused to play for Saints until he was sold.

Islam isn't a race. Anyone can be a Muslim, it is a choice that can be made at any point in anyones life. Do you really not know the difference between a religious choice and genetic ancestry?

You should ask yourself which is more likely... Mary having an extramarital affair and telling a lie to a gullible husband or the laws of biology being suspended with a virgin birth?

And you are hardly Peter Hitchens! You talk of "offence", yet call people "cocks" quite happily. I set out an argument why I see religious mockery no different to political mockery. Should we ban "Have I got News for You"? Both religion and political persuasion are personal choices. You have made no attempt to counter that. Can you explain how the "The Satanic Verses" actually caused distress to anyone? They didn't even have to read the book if they didn't want to, quite how it impacts their lives I don't know. All it does is raise questions, questions it seems the Ayatollah didn't want people to think about. It really isn't a healthy mindset.

Please answer these three questions... 1) Do you have a choice of religion? 2) Do you have of your ethnic background or sexuality? 3) Why does someone mocking your faith cause "distress"? If you were confident in your faith it shouldn't matter to you. Maybe your faith isn't as watertight as you first thought. To blindly have faith isn't healthy, if faith withstands mockery and questioning then it strengthens it. If you feel "offended" or "distressed" then you should really question why it does and it is most likely because your faith doesn't stand up to even the most basic logic and questioning.

I would categorise mocking faith with mocking someones political beliefs. I see no problem with mocking either as they are personal choices. Mocking sexuality or ethnic background is completely different as these are not choices. If your faith or political beliefs can't stand up to mockery or questioning you should really have a long hard look at them and think if it is worth continuing.