Whitey Grandad

That seems a fair summary to me. Poor team selection, we should have started with BWP and Euell. With two United centre backs cautioned we should have been in their faces all the second half. I was expecting 4-0 but I would have liked a goal. United could see that the game was won after the second goal and did no more than they had to.

With Riley in charge I would only expect a yellow for Vidic but I stand by my assertion that there was not enough momentum in his challenge to do any serious damage, and Vidic had a clear view of what was coming so it was not as dangerous as a tackle from behind or from the side. Nobody in our part of the stand thought that it warranted a red card.

I agree that it was a lunge, but viewed in real time and not slow-motion I don't think that there was enough momentum in his motion to carry through and do any serious harm to the other player, and there was a ball between them that Patterson certainly got to first. Studs showing, one footed, slightly reckless at the time I considered it a yellow at worst. Maybe it looked worse in slow-motion? I'll have another look at it tonight.

It was right beneath me and it was a yellow card at the worst. One footed, studs showing, reckless? - maybe. Reckless with excessive force? - not in a month of Sundays. And it was played through the ball first and his foot then glanced off. I didn't see any contact with the United player but that might have been on the other side of the ball from me. It was a very harsh decision.

Exactly! If the club really wanted him to play then they could have made sure that his clearance was released in good time. He's an expensive asset and we should be using him.

****-up or conspiracy, it's one or the other. Either way it's poor management again.

If he had a go at McGoldrick then in my view his should be the first name on the teamsheet.

Actually........ it never quite reached New York and the loss of life was a tragedy for many families in Southampton.

Doesn't he want them back? Seriously though, give them all away and see the light! You know that you want to . Then you can look forward to watching Saints for many years to come .... ...oh.

There has been since the 1950s, don't fool yourself. I have lost many friends and relatives to smoking and I would encourage anyone who is willing to listen that they should give up whilst there is still time.

or a canoe.

Because he is an important part of our team and whilst a loan to a premiership team would be understandable, loaning him to Watford would (if it is true) indicate to me that something is lacking in the contacts between the upper levels of management at Southampton and Chelsea. A little bit of sweet-talking and some diplomatic discussions should help to ensure that we don't get presented with nasty surprises such as this - and Pearce too, whilst we're on the subject.

Is it just me or does anyone else feel that our club is falling apart?

If true, then this is seriously bad management.

Hi Florida M, wasn't there also a case of a widow suing Cessna after her husband crashed his plane because he was drunk?

Ouch, if they play him in the cup he would be no use to us in the later stages of our cup run!

I fully support your case for going outside at halftime, but please don't ever think that car exhausts cause anywhere near the pollution that smokers used to create on the concourses.

Now you're sounding like Rupert...

and I thought that was coffee!

As someone once said, 'having smoking areas in a pub is like having p!ssing areas in a swimming pool'

Just a question of degree.

Would you like it if I sprinkled blue asbestos dust all over you?

You can't compare a bus exhaust with what the concourses were like before the ban. They were a pernicious health hazard.

I can understand your problem if you need to feed your addiction, but I've had over 50 years of breathing in other people's carcinogenic exhausts and all I ask is that for the few years that are left to me and for the sake of future generations you and others in your situation can find the strength to forbear for a couple of hours or better still, give it up.