Sheaf Saint

Smeg!

Always the way. All the top teams seem to strangely have an off-day when they visit SMS, yet no commentator ever seems able to work out that it's not a coincidence.

I reckon Mike Dean thinks he is already on holiday. How did he miss that handball by Evra FFS!?

It looks as though the groundsman was on acid!

Pah. I've given up hope of us ever being awarded a penalty for handball again. There's another blatant one not given to add to the list this season. How many is that now? 7 or 8?

I bought a set of their headphones a couple of years ago... They were crap.

From the very same newspaper that last week insisted he 'has his heart set on a move to Liverpool'. I will not believe a single word printed in any newspaper between now and August. If Ads or anybody else starts next season in a Saints shirt or not, so be it. No point stressing about it IMO.

Please forgive my naivety, but if Nigel Farage is so against the notion of a European parliament, then why is he happy to take a salary and extremely generous expenses as a member of it? Surely somebody who is so vehemently opposed to it would, having won the vote, have chosen not to take office to make a point.

I grew up living just down the road from him and went to school with his two sons at Bitterne Manor. Sadly our house was further down the hill and on the other side of the road, and didn't have the same views. I spent most of my spare time during my childhood playing in the wooded area between the waterfront and the railway at the very end of Quayside Road. There would always be a large group of local kids who would congregate there in the evenings and just mess about. We weren't causing trouble or anything, just making rope swings on the trees and playing games. Last year I was back in Southampton for the first time in a while and I had some time to kill while I waited to meet an old friend, so I decided to drive over there and go for a walk down memory lane. It was early evening in late summer and twenty-odd years ago it would have been humming with activity, but it was absolutely deserted. Are kids too addicted to Playstations and Facebook to go and play in the woods these days or are parents just too scared of the evil paedophiles that the Daily Mail would have us believe are lurking on every street corner in modern Britain?

I want it to be good... I know it won't be

The writer of this piece appears to be adhering to the classic tabloid football transfer reporting principle that if you throw enough sh!t, eventually some of it will stick. If Adam Lallana goes to Liverpool for £15m this summer, I will eat my own sh!t.

Not stonewall at all. His hand was down and behind him and it was completely accidental. Not surprised it wasn't given.

Another great little move results in a corner.

Very impressed with how we are playing so far. Perhaps the fact that we have nothing to play for has taken some pressure off us but we look really confident. Everton look a little nervy by contrast.

Ooooh. So close from Davis.

Brilliant from Clyne there. Superb tackle.

Why the hell does the BT commentator always insist on reminding Michael Owen that it was Pochettino who 'fouled' him for the penalty in the 2002 WC whenever they show one of our games?

The man is a genius. What amazing insight.

Yes I fully appreciate that China's economic boom over the last 30 years has created a burgeoning middle class, and there are a number of environmental effects of this increasing affluence, mostly due to the rising demand for energy and a more westernised, meat-heavy diet. I wrongly assumed from your initial post that you were holding the common misconception that China is building a new coal-fired power station every week (a statistic that somehow entered the public consciousness a number of years back and doesn't appear to have gone away). I was attempting to counter that by showing that even China has identified the need to reduce dependence on fossil-fuels and has now set carbon reduction targets and is now investing in a renewables program of its own. As for India, they are currently investing heavily in a new generation of thorium-based nuclear reactors which, while not exactly carbon neutral, will still make a big contribution to lowering the country's overall emissions.

Are you certain?... http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v443/n7108/abs/nature05072.html

No, they can't... No, they aren't... http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2012/01/18/china-sets-new-greenhouse-gas-emission-reduction-goals.html http://ipcs.org/article/india-the-world/carbon-footprint-reduction-3027.html I do have to agree with your point about population control though. There is hardly a single environmental issue affecting mankind today that could not be solved simply by having fewer people on the planet.

In the early 90s my mates and me had a custom team we created on Sensible Soccer called Tripout City. It included players like E'in Rush, Gary Speed and Diego Marijuana, among others which I can't remember now (Can't imagine why that would be! )

All these Man U fans who reckon they will be ecstatic if he is sacked... Are they the same ones that were calling for Fergie's head after they finished in the bottom half in 1990?

That doesn't really tell the story though. We played some neat stuff in the final third at times and got into some very dangerous positions against a well organised defence, but the lack of a shot at the end of those moves doesn't make it bad play either.

On current form, I would have to agree. Apart from their blip against Palace in midweek, Everton are on fire. Whereas we seem utterly incapable of even shooting at the moment, let alone scoring.