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Neither penalty was dubious, just shown them on Sky, both stone walls. Merson had to eat his words when he watched the 2nd one again, blatant hand ball by Millwall player

Its a game of 90 minutes, so how can you say we played excellent yet admit we were poor in the 1st half. We were OK in the 2nd but not excellent, spent most of the time passing the ball around because we were out of sight of a very poor Barnsley team, when we should have been going for more goals.

Did we? We were awful in the first half against a very poor side who stopped us playing. Better in 2nd half but would not say we were excellent.

Every Spanish language site I can find mentions Southampton as the origin. Its only Wiki where some Mackem is currently making mischief that contradicts this. Elorduy was at college in southern England, there is no way that he would have gone to Sunderland to purchase the kit, and anyway there are plenty of references to him sailing from Southampton. There are even some strange references to the colours being connected to the White Star Line (Titanic etc), although this seems a little far-fetched given that the Titanic sailed in 1912, over 2 years after Elorduy allegedly departed from the same docks. I am reasonably sure about the Bilbao/Madrid connection though. Athletico Madrid was a junior offshoot of the Bilbao Athletic Club for Basques in exile in Madrid.

I don't get it, we sing Pompey songs, why would anyone else sing them to us. We must be the only team that sings about our rivals more than about our own team, and then we slag others off for taking the **** at us.

Mostly the ones written by Sunderland. It is not disputed that people from Sunderland, as well as from Southampton and Portsmouth were instrumental in the set up of Athletic Club, but it is usually accepted that Juan Elordy took the kit back to Bilbao did travel from Southampton (he had been staying in London, so not very likely to have gone to Sunderland to catch a boat to Bilbao), and purchased 2 sets of kit in Southampton, not Sunderland. The other set of kit was given to Athletico Madrid I believe, who were set up by Basque players living in Madrid (Madrid use blue shorts I think, as Southampton did in those days of course).

I hate the huge red patch on the back. They should stick to copying our kit, since they play in red and white stripes as a result of buying copies of our kit back in 1909.

Maybe they were fired up because someone called them Spanish. Doesn't go down well with Basques.

Seems like a completely reasonable request to me. Because of the nature of the hospitality suites evacuations due to fire etc (other than during the actual match) are completely different to those actually seated within the stadium. As well as that they are trying to make sure that you are not bringing John Westwood with you, since he is a health and safety hazard.

So surely that means he supports Manure

I've seen some crazy explanations for our blip, but to make out it was due to Martin really takes the biscuit. Martin proved to be a more than able stand-in for Jos, now have total confidence that if needed (hopefully not though) Martin could come back in. But we do need another CB, if not right now then in the future. 3 CBs is not enough (Raidi and Dan will be gone before we play in the PL).

Wrong Nigel, in my opinion Pearson would be a better bet for England (but probably because I prefer NA to stay with us). Hodgson is head and shoulders the best candidate if the manager has to be English, it requires as Arry says someone who can coach, so thats Arry out of the running.

This. I know it shouldn't annoy me, but it does. Why can't people at least have the decency to check the fella's name, its not difficult.

Why not, Swindon is a ****-hole, surrounded by Wiltshire which is God's Own Country. Oxford is an even bigger ****-hole than Swindon though.

More interested in what we do than them, not sure that everyone else has the same view which is sad. They are going down anyway, with or without our help.

Bale was Young Player of the Year in 2007 Billy Sharp was League One Player of the Year in 2007 as well (I know, I know, he was at Scunny at the time)

Looks like a real glitzy event. Appears to be in a typical average corporate hotel room usually used for training courses or the like. Suppose they had to keep in cheap otherwise the Skates wouldn't have been able to afford their 2 tables. Well done RL, think Adkins should at least have been nominated for Manager award though. And Chung's goal probably came too late for the Goal of the Season award.

Of our remaining games, we also only have 4 at home. We have some pretty hard games as well, including Reading at home. But I'd still bet on us going up automatically. I hope its us and Reading, in that order.

We should try loaning Barnard out to Bristol City or Barnsley for the rest of the season, you never know he might make a telling contribution against Wet Sham (although perhaps on balance as he is reportedly a Hammers fan maybe not). Unlikely he will ever get a look in at Saints again. Shame really is a decent League One or mid-table Championship striker.

No, no, no, definitely no. We owe Scotland some thanks for being so stupid to take him off our hands before he did any further damage. Maybe you were joking, I certainly hope so.

Boro are poor at home (7 wins from 19), much better away. Hull have only won half of their home games, Blackpool only just more than half. We can get something from any of these. Palace is probably the hardest away game to come, only lost twice at home this season, although only won 6 of 16, and Posh are as good at home as any of the three previously mentioned. I don't think we will go unbeaten to the end of season, but there are no games we should write off as hopeless causes, we can get something from all of them, but can afford to lose 2 or 3, as long as we win most of the others.

Of course, now run along.

Well although I am not religious, in our specific case God, whether or not you believe, is relevant to Southampton, since our Club was formed by the St Mary's Church of England Young Men's Association. If it had not been for the belief in God there would have been no St Mary's Church, and while there may still have been a top class professional football team in Southampton today, it would be somewhat different to the club we recognise and associate with today. We probably would not be called The Saints for a start. Here endeth the first lesson :-)

Why? Its not uncommon when a player is transferred from a big club to a small club (like Saints to Arsenal) (perhaps I should put that the other way round). I suspect that this was part of the agreement, but there are probably words in the contract that say something like "unless Southampton are promoted or Arsenal are relegated this season").

I can only assume that you weren't at the game on Tuesday then. He gave away possession so many times it was embarrassing, and every time it was after Guly or Chung or Adam had fought hard to win the ball back. Hammond is our weakest link at the moment, Morgan and Cork in the middle for me every time. Hammond's role really is only shoring things up away from home if we have some defendiong to do. I will concede that he was better today than Tuesday.