VectisSaint

Given they have already had their heritage changed dramatically once in their history when they changed to all white in the 60s, it probably is not much of a bother for them. Traditionally they played in blue and white or blue and yellow. so your usual sniping at anything Cortese-inspired is a bit silly really.

No-one is wearing it wrong. There is no wrong way. You seem incapable of understanding that the issue is with the badges that are on EBay. I guess as I have explained already that you are just dense, no other explanation that I can think of for your being so incapable of understanding something quite simple. So, for your sake again, here is an explanation in as simple terms as possible. Poppy Badges are made in association with the Royal British Legion, and money raised by their sale or from donations goes to this excellent charity which helps our war veterans. The Poppy badges sold by Southampton Football Club were made in association with the RBL (as most other clubs did as well). They are to the copyright design of the RBL, and will always have the poppy on the left (looking at it) with the leaf at 11 o'clock, and the other badge (football crest) on the right. The badges on EBay are not official RBL badges, and therefore any money made by them does not benefit the RBL in any way. Therefore they are a con in that people may think they are donating to the charity, when they probably are not (give credit to the EBay sellers, maybe they are donating). Hopefully that was an explanation at a low enough level for you to understand and stop making yourself look a complete ****.

It hit him below the shoulder. But that's not the point. It was not deliberate, therefore it was not a penalty.

Quite right, we should really be equal points with Man City and Arsenal (before today's games), if we hadn't played so badly against Man U and Leicester in the second halves of those two games. That would have meant 25 points, and Leicester would be below us. There are times that we are playing better than last season, but there have been at least three games now where we have been abysmal in the second half, and that's what needs to be cut out of our game. fortunately the worst one cost us nothing.

Stek hasn't done anything wrong (and the Willian free kick was in no way the fault of the keeper, personally don't think anyone would have got that in the same circumstances, it was just a superbly placed and paced free kick which he has now repeated several times). Personally I think Stek is as good if not better than Fraser, but has not had that much to do to be honest. But when Fraser is fit he will be back between the sticks regardless, because he is our number one keeper and will be better long term.

There is no doubt the ball hit his arm, but no way was it deliberate, so not a pen.

At least now the Island will get a Southampton postmark instead of Pompey. Would be better if we had IW back, but postmarks are a thing of the past, eventually there will be 3 or 4 regional centres only.

Thought they only did that to injured horses. Seems harsh.

Pelle booked twice, 46 and 90 minutes. Which one wasn't a yellow or has the ref ****ed up?

Looks like the second one wasn't...

Thought he was booked at the start of the half as well. Certainly showing yellow on my app and I remember Big Adam saying it straight after half-time.

Football or Novel Writing?

It Suggs!!

Another one of Ronald's weird selections. Midget midfield to cope with bfs hoof ball. Really don't get the Cedric thing.

Redknapp talking ********, whatever next...

He lost his front teeth in the early days at Dirty Leeds playing in a reserve match, probably 12 or 13 years before he joined Saints. He earned his nickname Jaws as a result, likened to the character in the Bond films. Still I guess the income he received from Heineken adverts went some way to paying his dental bills. A more appropriate image:

The counting of chickens is going well. The same was said about J-Rod.

Really hard to believe that some people are seriously suggesting dropping Davis, after his recent run of form (or even regardless of that, just that he is key to our game). He is nailed on to be a starter in this one. Can't really see anything other than a straight swap of Vic for Romeu, assuming everyone is fit. I do think we will see Reed on the bench though.

New Adidas "Emperor" design. Not just Laceless.

They had 3 against us...

Ronald just said we don't have a player like Vic, so we can't go like for like (but I would expect he will be picked). At least now it is very unlikely that they can be suspended for the same game.

He met up with quite a few of my friends as well. We must have some friends in common I guess

Those high notes are a killer...

Its not a myth that the ones that are designed and made to be associated with and raise money for the British Legion, will always have the leaf at 11 o'clock (if they have a leaf). Therefore it is perfectly clear that these are unofficial knock-off items that provide no support to the Royal British Legion charity. You may like to own one, but it just would prove that you have not supported the charity in any way, and nor has the person selling them. Red Poppy item designs are copyright of the RBL, this one is not to the official design and is therefore a fake (in my opinion). There is also nothing in the link that you provided about the leaf, only the way they are worn, this refers to the often mentioned and discussed opinion of whether they should be worn on the left or right. There are myths that women should wear them on the right, but these are myths.

The pattern was the same, just that we were only 1 goal up. we backed off and let Man U back in the game. They were desperately bad that day but we managed to encourage them so much that they were able to score 3 times (IIRC they were their only shots on target). The only difference with United was that we suddenly woke up with a few minutes left and managed to sneak a goal that mad the score look better.