ooh it's a corner

Once this all blows over, I would love to see Professor Whitty sit in front of Sky Sports and tell them what is wrong with VAR, and how the offside rule should be updated. The football world would blow a fuse, telling him to keep his beak out. Why any celebrity thinks they have the authority to comment sensibly on this beggars belief. Offer support, re-iterate the guidelines issued, but anything else is kamakaze.

I think Nicola Sturgeon has just summed it up nicely, If your life feels like normal, perhaps you should give your head a wobble. My neighbours, who are possibly the most inconsiderate tossers on the planet, are having a mothering sunday party. full family gathering - 8-10 adults. kids running in and out, playing with neighbouring kids. It makes you so cross. Rather than advising Doctors to make the horrific decision as to who gets the best treatment and who doesn't, based on their age and fitness, we should allow Doctors to base their decision making on patient intellect. Stupid bastards that think it won't affect them, should be left in the hospital car park.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries The figures are also born out on the worldometer site. But what is more scary, is that Lombardy was shut down at the end of Feb and the whole of Italy on 9th March. If we track 14 days behind them, we should have shutdown London by now and the entire country tomorrow. The Italians did warn us that they thought our reaction was insufficient.

For a good while, I was definitely in the, "what's the big deal, more people will be killed in car accidents today...." (or any other common form of checking-out) But, the thing that has brought this home to me, is the statistical chances of checking out, with this "winter-flu" versus your risk group. If you are in the group of people that are invited, nay advised, to have a winter flu jab, you are in that group. And the thing that brings the message home to roost is how many people I know in that group. I am a bloke in my mid-forties and every single family member north of me, is in that group. Hell, I should be in that group. This isn't about our safety, it is about everyone's. Particularly those who are more vulnerable. My 76 year old Dad is clearly vulnerable, but is fit enough to have been planning a 500 mile walk along the Camino in France and Spain in the summer. He isn't superman, but he is at risk. If the fit and healthy among us do as we please, we will wipe out the generation above us. Let's not do that.

I haven't flown from Manchester to Southampton, but I have done Southampton to Leeds, with my family, for a weekend with friends. Finish work at 4:30pm Friday, leg it home, get a taxi, catch a 6pm flight to leeds, with 1 bag checked in. Arrive at Leeds at 7:15pm, out and in my friends house by 7:30pm (they are close to the airport). Absolutely brilliant for me. You turn a weekend away with friends into 2 full nights and a chunk of Sunday before returning. I know Greta would have us believe it isnt the way to do it, but 10-12 hours driving cant be much different on the carbon?

Yes it is. Do try to keep up. But thank you for recognising that it might be. :-)

Good.

I had a post match pint with a few lads yesterday who were occassional attendees at St Mary's and they all said £40-60 a ticket for Newcastle (depending on where you sit) was too much for them to go. Add in the dreaful home record over the past 4 years and the club has simply got its pricing strategy wrong. We average 29,650 home attendance this season (in the league) and I would suggest that is 1500 down on where it should be in the premier league. A combination of crap football, poor results and over-pricing.

That depends on what assets Newcastle has and what assets Southampton has. If Newcastle have a smaller, less developed training facility, no Jackson's Farm, no housing stock scattered across the city, then you could argue that Saints have north of £50m more assets than Newcastle. (Obviously I have plucked a random number from the sky, but the principle is that valuation will come down to the finance numbers, more than the size and stature of the clubs). As someone mentioned on this thread, Sunderland was a £35m acquisition and given our annual fight with relegation, I'm not sure there is a £265m differential between us and Sunderland. But, exciting times. I look forward to various reports of yacht movements, ear lobe spotting and my mate's taxi driving uncle rumours......

I agree with a lot of the sentiment on here that it doesn't seem to make sense from either Saints or Adams's point of view. However, if somebody offered a sale of Adams and in return we got a loan for Martinelli for the rest of the season, would you take it? (assuming Adams and Martinelli earn the same and we get to retain the cash from Leeds for Adams)

flipping marvellous. Well done boys. What a result. I cannot remember enjoying a victory so much. Amazing

He started at Tottenham with a degree of humility, and I did wonder whether his fall from grace and recent lack of success had taught him a lesson, but it has taken a matter of weeks, before he is back to his familiar, arrogant, condescending, self. He even managed to moan about our ball-boys being "well trained in time-wasting". Does he genuinely believe his team lost yesterday because we took 30 seconds longer to make a substitution, or because the ball-boys were not quick in their distribution? Of course not. He has just called an opposing professional coach, an idiot. He makes himself look petty and bitter. What a pillock

he's too good to stay unemployed for long.

sorry, missed the sarcasm !!! Even the Spurs fans think it was a pen, but that said, they felt Ali should have had a pen in the first half, and I thought he should have had a yellow for diving. Repeatedly.

looked a pretty clear and obvious mistake to me..... if we see another handball like that, in the area, not given this season, I will be very surprised. Ultimately it was of no consequence, but Mike Dean is right up there with the worst officials at this level.

How was that not a penalty for handball? He was yards away from the cross, he had his arms above shoulder height and the ball struck his arm. As soon as we went to VAR I thought, great we have a penalty. bonkers.

Late goals, like defeats, are harder to take when you are there in person, so for me, these are my top three. My first semi-final was in 1984. I thought we would win it, Everton were a nothing club (but about to go on their best post-war cup winning streak). That still hurts, as everyone has said. Norwich away, 9 men. awful. Made mildly amusing by a policeman's helmet flying down the terrace in a post match scuffle and the bloke near me shoving it up his jumper and taking it home as a trophy. But my winner goes to Oldham's Andy Ritchie. As BeatleSaint mentioned, the most extra-ordinary amount of additional time and a 97th minute equaliser, took us back to a plastic pitch reply at Boundary Park. I went to the away game, on the coach, full of tonsillitis, and the chaps near me were smoking all the way up. Boundary Park was -14 degrees (it never gets above freezing), and the coach home decided to go via the M5 and a "short-cut" through Cheltenham town centre. Where the coach got stuck in a narrow road. Got home about four days later. I hate Andy Ritchie. bald headed ****

Everton boards are full of this story. He is also 1/12 with the bookies. Sven Goran Eriksson is a name being banded about. Wow. Didn't see that one coming

JWP scores from open play. That doesn't happen often. :-) (puts on tin hat)

Hope not. Rumour has it, he has a DoF lined up...... (rumour started by me, with absolutely no merit whatsoever)

Nope. Don't get wrong, I really enjoyed the football under Poch. I was miffed when he inevitably left to join a bigger outfit. I have also enjoyed the brand of football that Spurs have played, with what little I have seen of them on European tv games / MOTD highlights. But the football world lauds him as a managerial general, and yet he has no trophies to his name. As you have pointed out, Alex McLeish has won trophies, including a League Cup win with Birmingham. Of course, this does not make him a better manager than Poch. My point was, and is, I don't think Poch can be considered great without winning something.

Changing the subject from my debates about greatness...... Weren't we talking of a DoF appointment between the international fixtures, probably due to someone working their notice period with current employer? Former Saint, but not a player.....at least not a Saints player It couldn't be, could it?

Sir Bobby won the European Cup with Ipswich. He was a great manager. Won nothing with Newcastle, but he had the trophy already in his cabinet.

But you've swapped the manager greatness for a player greatness? Plenty of great footballers have won nothing. Name a great manager who has won nothing? (and don't be lazy and throw Pochettino back at me) :-)

I agree. A trophy doesn't make a great manager, but I don't think a manager could be considered great without winning something?