Whitey Grandad

It’s a family activity. And any adult that finds the need to use profanities has not grown up yet.

Unnecessary and undignified.

Nothing is that guaranteed. New additions in January are rarely effective immediately and usually take a few months to settle in and become an integral part of the team.

You have to draw the mark somewhere. £5m is not an insignificant amount.

No, that’s the route from Saints’ dressing room to the pitch.

Not the greatest defender, useless positional sense, but a useful left foot. Infuriating because I always felt that there was a decent footballer lurking in there somewhere. Sadly I was wrong.

Thoughts? I think you haven’t got the slightest clue about football finances and how transfers are handled. And if you think that owning a football club is a giant money-making machine then I have some Nigerian financial bonds that you might be interested in.

I think top-knots should be called bell-ends anyway.

International games always used to be midweek, and I think England used to play better then. This Champions League format has a lot to answer for.

We all are. It’s fundamental to being a Saints fan.

Bloody stupid idea. Sit at home on January weekends staring out of the window and twiddling your thumbs. Then have games frozen off in February and March. I can't see how the TV companies could support it. If it went ahead I would cancel my subscriptions and get back to my jigsaws.

No, that would be the referee.

Agreed. When I was refereeing local Sunday games I had more trouble from some ex-professional than I ever did from 'normal' lads. And please don't get me started on parents. They think that abusing the ref is all part of the fun.

Not really. Why concentrate on just the feet? Anyway, I prefer the way offside used to be 50 years ago. Off side and it's an offence. Plain and simple.

He could have gone in the direction that he was being pulled. Suppose he had not been tugged?

"Part of the body has been deemed offside" ??? Er... them's the Laws. If you don't like them then go and play something else. The referees and their assistants are schooled and drilled in every aspect of the Laws. If the supporters don't understand them then it's not the fault of the officials.

It’s not just headers. Most of our shots seem to be at a catchable height too. That’s usually caused by lifting the head at the moment of striking and not focusing on the ball.

Was that the average fee or the fee for an average player? These figures can get skewed by the extreme high prices for a few. Whatever, we all get skewed.

Would you pay that much to buy him?

Tug of war Tennis

But it's not West Ham's stadium, is it?

Build-up boots. There's your answer.

This is why you see a lot of what appears to be short-tugging. The defender watches the ball but also gets a grip on the attacker's shirt so that he can feel which way the player is going to move. Sometimes they forget to let go and give away a foul.

If we do all that then loving MP will follow. Can’t see it myself.

Six of one and a half dozen of the other from what I’ve read. Be thankful he didn’t concede a penalty.