VectisSaint

We were probably 8-0 up at half time.

Excellent, thanks for clarifying. Pity you didn't keep the ball, imagine a memento of the 1969 Combination Cup Final, Fiona Bruce would have wet herself on Antiques Roadshow ?

So what was the answer to the second part, who went home with the match ball? This usually means someone scored a hat trick, but no one scored more than one in the final, Channon, Sydenham and Thompson, and Bobby Stokes didn't play, though he scored a hat trick against Swindon in an early round.

Football won't restart for weeks now, in my opinion. The way forward is to call the season now. Positions based on average points to allow for the teams that have played less games. No relegation from this season, promote top 2 or 3. Next season bottom 5 or 6 relegated to get divisions back in sync. Next season play all teams once then spli league, top and bottom half and play each team in group once. If Europe goes ahead next season (it might not) then positions in unfinished season count as normal. Liverpool are crowned Champions. Some reworking of position based prize money might be sensible to compensate for teams being disadvantaged by early finish. FA Cup to be played at beginning of next season.

Scored the winner yesterday against Real Valladolid. Leganes won 2-1. [simulation]

Fit healthy players are at very little risk, but they are very good at spreading the virus, and then spread it to their family, their friends and others, footballers have vulnerable family members as well. That's why playing in empty stadia does not work.

Likely that the market for players will collapse this summer with the Virus impacting football now. Chances of shifting Guido not looking good.

It's not insignificant and it's not flu. Wise up. Read the reports coming out of Italy. You might be OK with it, I might be, but a lot of people with underlying issues are extremely susceptible and will die. Try considering others.

Maybe not but Dominic Cummings couldn't give a flying ****

Agreed, as I said I don't see how the period can end Friday but that's what is being reported.

Apparently the 14 day quarantine ends this Friday. I'm not clear how, but assume some players (and staff) have been in quarantine already for 12 days, and did not participate in the West Ham match. Were there some players missing? Doesn't all quite add up. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51829511 "The 14-day period ends on Friday and Arsenal said they were "looking forward" to the players returning to work before their Premier League game at Brighton on Saturday, 14 March."

Have said it all along, Boufal is a talented footballer, he 's even quite goo defensively, but he has a fundamental flaw in his game, that is he never looks up and so has no awareness of what is going on around him. Unless or until he can be coached out of that (and it seems like it can' t) he will never be a successful professional footballer contributing to the team. It is a team game and he is unable to be a team player.

Protocol/guidelines say a player should not return for at least 6 days following a suspected concussion, so likely that Stu would not have been available tomorrow whatever the seriousness. The question that should be asked though is why was he allowed to carry on playing last Saturday. Did he actually leave the pitch to be assessed by a doctor? I haven't seen the incident so just asking.

But he wasn't between the ball and the keeper, that's the whole point. Line of sight from keeper to ball would not have in luded his legs whi h were flat on the floor, his body, upright was way off line. The camera angle from behind the right hand post showed clearly he was not in line when you take account that de Gea was standing up. Line of sight doesn't go from the keepers feet.

It didn't run under his foot at all, he moved both of his feet out of the way while he was sitting on the ground. Whitey is spot on with his observations, this should never have been offside. The vital point people seem to be missing when talking about line of vision is the third dimension. Gylfi was sitting on the floor, legs outstretched, only his legs were in line, while de Gea was stood up (admittedly slightly crouched), no was was he unsighted by Gylfi. Usual bias to big teams, no way was decision going against United.

Some posters on here don't seem to understand that many of the teams below us have to play against other teams below us. That means both teams can't get 3 points. Basic stuff, incredible that it needs pointing out on what is supposed to be a football forum.

Glad you confirmed this, I was beginning to think that I had dreamed this reading some of the absolute garbage being written on this thread by some of our hard of thinking posters. Too many people judge our whole season on a single performance (usually the last one). We don't do well against teams that bully us and are direct. West Ham and Burnley are two such teams (not sure I can think of many others like that). Of course we aren't safe (mathematically), but then we also still have a chance of runners-up in the League. We had a gap after last week of 10 points over the bottom 3, the chances of anyone closing a gap of 10 points in 10 games is almost nil (as well as other teams closing smaller gaps), yesterday was just a natural to-ing and fro-ing of the gap. We have a pretty easy run in (a tricky bit in the middle).

Funny, thought we beat Villa last week. Was that a dream?

Painer was/is President of Southampton FC (Honarary)

Might be right if they paid us a substantial loan fee instead.

Savage and Carragher by far the worst. Lawro and Danny Murphy get (dis) honourable mentions.

So just about everyone then ?

If its truly Player OF THE SEASON then there is no argument, Ings. He was the only bright spark when things were looking bleak. There have been a few who have shone in the last couple of months, Armstron, Stephens, JWP but none have been good for the entire season so far. Armstrong and Stephens weren't even in the team early on, JWP was absolutely awful back in late Autumn. Credit to all three who have turned things around massively but they don't deserve Player of the Season.

You really believe Fonte didn't play because he was being rested? Nothing to do with Les pushing him out having promised VvD the captaincy. Well, each to their own I suppose.

My view is that a 10 point gap to the bottom 3 represents safety. Depending on today's results that could be today.