Polaroid Saint

very good

Any excuse for this really (quite possibly the greatest goal ever scored by any team EVER), but check out the two brilliant headers from KK, both powerful yet cushioned and placed perfectly: Not forgetting Cassels little cushioned header down to Bally either. Nice.

He's already been in the dressing room and started on the mentality side of things. but yeah, hopefully he'll be chatting with all staff and I suspect him and cortese to talk seriously about coaching staff this morning. I should imagine that at some point today he'll sort out his company car too. :-)

Sorry to say, (or am I?) but Pardew favours a 4-5-1 home and away against most opposition, always has done in the past anyway. at both WHU and Reading. dont know about the valley boys tho. not sure he ever had five midfielders available!

charlton is to pardew as southampton is to redknapp. PS that's the first time I've not purposely misspelt or put astrisks in ol saggy jaw's name since 'the debacle'. I'm softening to history now...

35 is, quite simply, NOT too old to play football at this, or indeed any other, level. If he is fit it really doesn't matter how old he is. There are dozens of examples of footballers (athletes) playing at their peak at that age. Whether or not he has the talent and drive is another matter and nothing to do with age. Personally I'm one of the ones who wanted him to come 'back in day' to partner Prutton in midfield. so, I guess shows what little I know ;-)

Wolfram tells me Bristol has a polution of 430713, with the greater metropoliton area having a population of 704639. Southampton comes in at just 246201. And has no surrounding metro area. so quite a bigger then PS I'd trust Wolfram over and above wiki (for numerical info like this anyway - they often take old figures are guestimate a current 'projection' figure) and the woodlands-junior info (although correct and brilliant - I love the WJ website, it has legendary status in primary schools maths and it departments...) is from the 2001 census. hope this helps

Plus, it's good for your bust, of course.

"Joseph Mills is staying alive, staying alive, staying alive, eh eh eh, staying alive" It's a new chant for the season!

You can actually have quite a good idea about who wrote it (and all other entries, including the arsenal/adebayo gag). That's the beauty of wikipedia, you CAN check the sources (try hitting the 'history' link and then using some basic IP lookup tools). ;)

Couple of comments from Reading fans: "He has a good eye for a bargain and will more than likely have you playing 451, we played some decent passing football under him. He loves his teams to wear motivational slogan covered t-shirts while warming up. Just make sure he doesn't start blabbering on about raping full backs and you'll get on just fine." "I think he is perfect for the job (at Saints). weakness; may leave for more money at a bigger job" Reads OK to me. 451 not very popular here at SMS tho... Although slogan T-shirts always go down well. ;-)

Very pleased with the appointment of Pardew. As promised by Markus and his team, a FOOTBALLING decision has been made! Although WGS or KK would have sold tickets, they would have been emotional appointments and not long term footballing ones. As someone else rightly said; a proper manager at last!

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I second this!

"Lowe Don't Liebherr Anymore" by Rose Royce. hmmm, too reflective. "Liebherr Of The Gang" by G*ry Gl*tter. no no no. oh sod it, just seen the youtube video. DO that.

Pardew is a good name to have in the hat, that's my thinking. Good record, decent bloke, normally gets his teams to play a classic 'English' style but can utilise class if his got it in his squad, all round everything we want as fans. Not as quotable as some managers but talks sense instead.

Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink!!! I would love it if he came to Saints, I'D Love It! Sorry, went all Keegan there. Great striker and one of the best names in the history of anything ever.

I'll set 'em up...

Aoooh!? Beer drinking women are the best. My girl loves her ale. Although she only drinks Guinness if she is ill (good for iron, blood pressure, white cell count etc) or abroad. Bust developer you say? Hmmm. So, either we move to Ireland or I convince her she's looking a bit peaky every friday before the pub? Latest opinion is; "It might not be Strachan, or it might be, I dunno. Look why don't you just wait till the game on saturday and give me a hand with the Chickens?"*

Set the dogs on 'em?

Sorry Micky, I think you misunderstood me, as SotonJoe has explained, I was merely suggesting that the desire to be a soldier is something that is encouraged from an early age, often in the most seemingly benign of ways. I would in no-way undermine the ability of those who have the, to my eyes, deeply unenviable task of carrying out these military roles you suggest. My one token is that I am not sure I believe they ARE doing it so 'my' world is a better place. In fact, most of the time I think the opposite. This not the indivdual soldiers fault of course, it is the military machine of which they are but a tiny replacable part.

I've just asked the missus, a girl who drinks London Pride (although our local has recently switched to Ringwood Best) and she says; "Could be." !!!

It looks like she's holding them back, in case they escape or somefink.

Can we combine the above and release, from a crane over the Northam, some white doves wearing flat-caps with poppies round their necks, to the sound of Jacko's 'Ben' through the main speakers whilst the Royal Gurkha Rifles demonstrate CPR on the pitch... ...have I gone too far?

I mean no disrespect to you DD, or to any other service personnel in or out of service, but the 'conning' and the falsehoods exist in our history and in our traditions and are re-enforced by each shift in society. Individually, the 'conditioning' starts with little plastic guns and John Wayne movies way before any of us get old enough to join up. As SotonJoe said, its the morals of machasmo; as a practising pacifist it's something I object to too. It's philosophical thing, I guess, made difficult to defend by the harsh realities of the world, but there you go.