Whitey Grandad

As they say at school, please explain your reasoning.

And Ralph got us to an FA Cup semi final which is equivalent. 8th on 46 points is a fluke and if anybody wants to look at what the 8th placed team has achieved over the last twenty years it would be a useful comparison. Last season it would have given us 13th position. We were on a downward heading. This does not mean that I am in favour of Ralph staying.

We wouldn’t have finished anywhere near 8th in the next season and if the end of season trend had continued we might well have been relegated. Analysis from the BBC, “They only scored 17 goals in 19 home games and didn't score in six of their last seven home matches.“

Yep. Idiotic isn’t it.

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The sound of a Merlin engine. Better still, the sound of four Merlins on a Lancaster. I have just watched the 1950s film The Dam Busters one more time and the combination of the sound of the engines and the music of the Dambusters March just have me welling up every time.

No footballer should ever be just ‘standing’

How racist of you.

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Fonte had signed and was playing for West Ham for half the season, but we've discussed this further above.

It’s a lot easier for four defenders to mark one player than it is to mark two.

Second time. The previous season we were under Koeman.

You have never been so wrong. You will never understand ‘The Beautiful Game, El Rey de los Deportes’. All football clubs are businesses. Only a few can make money by winning trophies. The rest make money by selling something that people want to pay money to watch. Not supporters who watch their games on Teletext, or it’s modern equivalent.

Not at all. Fonte was effectively forced out. Puel obviously didn’t want him. That much is clear. But there again, Puel is not a very good manager as his subsequent career has shown.

Do you actually pay to go to our games?

We won; get over it.

Yes, it’s all there. "Of course I'm disappointed. I want to play every game. I'm fit to play every game.“ You have to ask yourself why Southampton/Puel didn’t want to offer him a new contract. If Puel had valued him he could have stayed.

Do you have an explanation as to why he wasn’t selected for any European games? Nothing to do with Puel then, obviously 🙄 One of the consequences was that we ended up with Jack Stephens against Ibrahimović.

Constructive dismissal.

Think again. Why do you think Fonte was so desperate to leave in January? Don’t you think that not being played in any of our European games had something to do with it?

Puel’s football was crap, and I don’t want Sean Dyche.

That’s because it was mind-numbingly boring. We we’re without Fonte because he drove him out of the club. Fonte didn’t play in any of our European games and wanted our in January. If only we’d had him instead of Stephens at Wembley.