sandwichsaint

TBF if Saints signed Messi, Suarez and Neymar you'd still have it that RK would play Pelle every week.

Who's going at £41 a pop? Cheap holidays in someone else's misery.

Time for Trousers to post his graphic of 'two-bald-men-fighting-over-a-comb' me thinks.

The Dutch Micah Richards? Hopefully it turns out better for us.

Is this Besiec first game back? Has looked really good when I've seen him. Entertaining 2-2 draw.

Forster Coleman Stones VVD Bertrand VW Barry Delafeau Barkley Tadic Lukaku Everton 6 Saints 5 ...... maybe they are under-achieving ..... manager RK (6-6!). that's the difference.

Should last night's Barcelona pen have been a red card? 2 v 1 at the top of the D, the first player tries to play in the second (unmarked) fd who is 10-12 yds from goal. Sliding defender (deliberately) intercepts with his arm and denies the pass The forward would have had to collect and control the pass and then beat the GK from 10 yds. In the spirit of the law it was a clear red card, in the actual rules I think the ref probably got it right (I don't know what the panel said?) Either ways Leicester would have got away it.

I am just getting the tee shirts made up now, 'I was there, our most meh 3-1 PL victory .... ever !' A solid 3-1 home win and a mere 62 posts on the post-match thread at midnight on Saturday, there is literally nothing to say!

I'll see your Matt Oakley and raise you an Anders Svensson.

Completely different situation, one rules on 'fact' the other still relies on interpretation. Goal line technology has been excellent and I can't believe anybody would go back to not having it where it is available.

That's a bit harsh, if we were 4 games away from winning the PL and ML (God rest his soul) was sat up in the stands overseeing the club he'd rebuilt and enjoying his birthday I'm pretty sure we would all have been 100% behind any birthday celebrations. On a semi-related note it was 6 years yesterday that we won the JPT at Wembley, a bit of a better atmosphere at that one!

Fine margins.

And this, dear reader, is why we don't have a fan on the board.

We lived in the midlands in the late 60's our dad used to regularly take us to see Saints away at Wolves/West Brom/Stoke/Coventry etc. I don't recall there being any equivalent of the modern away day fans in their own segregated areas at that time. You would sometimes see Saints fans, identifiable by their colours or even rosettes "!" which were popular at the time and sold outside grounds and in the streets. In the grounds we just mingled in with home fans, more in the modern day rugby stylee. People were generally pretty good about it and we (my dad) had regular bantz with the locals and I don't ever recall any trouble although obvs we were a family group of dad and two lads, complete with home made scarves, wooden rattles, and a red and white stool to stand on! We must have just about got in at the end of the 50's-60's golden era of big crowds and brylcreem. The hooliganism probably kicked off in the early 70's and that's when the heavy policing and the segregation started to be brought in.

I was at both of those games and there were unmistakeably more at the testimonial,

And if you told the kids of today, they'd never believe you. Nice one spy! Small pedant alert, I remember the gates opening around 1-15 to 1-30, certainly not @ 2-00!

Doh indeed!

Surely they've missed out, You'll never (w)ank alone.

That'll be £120 for the whole garden then?

Wright and VVD .. .what a pair of 'total football' CB's they would be.

Presumably you have to factor in somewhere each players fitness/injury record too? Although TBF Alderweireld appears to have played more games this year than last.

Nice work Glasgow. TBF your (silly) football posts have gone under the radar for the last month or two but a troll can never resist the grandstand finish.......

I read it in the Guardian online at 8-30 this morning (can't find where now).

14-09-2015, 09:40 AM #166 sandwichsaint Full Member Join DateNov 2006LocationSandwich, KentPosts2,444 [h=2][/h] Originally Posted by Lallana's Left Peg Wasn't at the game but was VvD as good as people are making out? Excellent, had relatively little to do but looked class throughout, strong in the air, excellent tech ability with the ball at his feet, confident carrying the ball out (admittedly against a feeble West Brom who were happy to sit deep), great distribution. Good talker, seemed to click straight away with the keeper/Fonte/VW. Only downside was over-confidence, got caught twice over-playing but I'm sure he can eradicate that when he gets up to PL speed. Toby who? My first impression of his first 90 minutes at West Brom, looks like I got that pretty much spot-on.

I don't think you could ban Benteke for that, he's entitled to go down! It's probably the most marginal decision we will see all season, as Whitey said above, would a video ref have over-ruled that? I think, on balance, a video ref would have to say that was a penalty, they only judge 'facts' not interpretation, if the super super super slo-mo shows 'contact' then the video ref can't really say the ref's got it wrong.