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Just what purpose would it have served for me to get involved and inflame the situation further? Some people had obviously already made their minds up that they wanted some trouble so I fail to see what I could have achieved by speaking my mind to them. Knowing from previous experience how indiscriminate police can be at football matches I didn't want to get thrown out myself because I was there to watch the game, unlike some. FWIW there were a group of lads (I say lads, but some of them looked like they were in their forties at least) a few rows in front of us who seemed as though they weren't even the slightest bit interested in watching the game cos most of their time was spent watching what was going on in the home supporters stand next to us. These 'fans' were being watched very carefully by the stewards and the police all afternoon and when they did join in the singing it was pretty much just the anti-pompey songs that they bothered with. Like Delldays mentioned, some of our fans appear to developing (even more of) an obsession with Pompey lately and I find it utterly cringeworthy.

Right, so just because I found the schoolyard attitude of some apparently grown up men to be appalling, that means I'm knocking the saints does it? :confused: OK... whatever you say. I'm guessing that you must be one of the kids who looked about twelve who were very bravely () arguing with the stewards from behind the safety of a barrier a few rows back while all this was going on. If you are the future generation of Saints' away supporters then god help us.

They did though. They were moved away by the stewards very early on and asked to hide the flag, and when they gave it to somebody else later on it was confiscated by the police. Don't really see what more they could have done.

I think he might have taken exception to some Saints fans singing "You're too short to referee" and "The referee's a midget".

It was right down in the left corner so you wouldn't have seen it from the other end of the stand.

Trust me, they were shocking. Kept giving free kicks against us just for 50-50s, yet books one of our players for diving when he clearly had his legs hacked. He was an utter, utter joke. I'm still at a loss to understand how he came to the conclusion that their player was fouled when he went for an overhead kick and fluffed it completely falling on his arse in the process. Apparently nowadays that deserves a penalty. Maybe I missed an important rule change or something.

...who decided to start scrapping with the stewards and police at the final whistle just because you were being taunted by a bunch of teenage kids with a Pompey flag. Well done, how very courageous of you, you must be very proud of yourselves tonight. Utter, utter morons. You are a pathetic embarrassment to our club and we can really do without fans like you.

Yep this was exactly how I saw it too. Tranmere player went for an overhead kick and completely fluffed it, ending up on his backside with no contact from a single Saints player that I could see, and the ref gave them a penalty for it. Then a few minutes later Fonte clearly had his legs taken from under him by their defender and he got booked for diving. Utterly ridiculous referreeing. We didn't really do enough to deserve to win, even though on the few occasions we did get the ball down and play possession we were a class above Tranmere, but it seemed like every Saints player struggled to control the ball all afternoon and always needed an extra touch which gave Tranmere the time to close us down. Our long ball tactics didn't work and IMO AP left it far too late to bring on Antonio and Waigo cos they hardly had any time to make any impact on the game. Tranmere lacked any real quality and it's easy to see why they are where they are in the league. They didn't look likely to score from open play, but they closed down the midfield and denied Saints the opportunity to play our normal game. They obviously did their homework on us so fair play to them - they worked harder than we did and got a massive, massive slice of luck with the referreeing decisions.

Didn't we go on a lengthy run of games without conceding under Hoddle?

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It was only about one minute in fact if you are referring to the game at Naaarich last weekend.

Either he was just trying to sound 'down with it' by showing concern for something that millions of people in this country care about (football I mean - not the skates ... obviously!!!!) or he has seriously got his priorities wrong!

Uh-oh... He don't look happy!

So now administration has been confirmed, isn't it about time the thread title was changed again? Somehow 'takeover saga' just doesn't seem to hold any weight any more.

So is it supposed to be pay day again today?

You should be getting decent speeds because gaming is traffic is supposed to be prioritised 24-hrs a day on the Premium package. You might want to raise a ticket with the tech support team to have a look at it. I haven't had any training on that side yet so can't really tell you what's causing the slower speeds.

Which package are you on?

And yes, I work for Plusnet ;-)

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Aah, don't forget though that the selling players outside the transfer window was the PL's idea remember? Well, according to Storyteller anyway. He would like everyone to believe that the PL had the idea of allowing Poopey to sell players outside of the window, then made it public that Poopey would be asking for this special dispensation, then refused them permission for a scheme that was their idea in the first place. Riiiiiiiiiigghhhht

Just watched Eden Lake... :shock::smt104:smt103:vom::smt089:smt100:smt087:-(:shock: Need to find some comedy to watch now just to balance things up a bit! Good film though - 8/10

Happy happy happy. To go away to the league-leaders who are in superb form and give them a lesson in how to play football getting a clean sheet in the process - you can't ask for better than that!

A Single Man Went to see it with my GF the other night. Wasn't expecting great things but she wanted to see it so I went with an open mind. It's all centred around a day in the life of an English College Professor, living and working in LA in the early 1960s, who is struggling to come to terms with the recent death of his partner and contemplating suicide. A decent enough performance from Colin Firth in the lead role, though I could not escape the fact that with his glasses on he looked the spitting image of Michael Douglas in Falling Down at times. Some of the narrative (from Firth in character) resonated with me on certain levels, and considering the premise of the film it never really felt overly sentimental, but overall I never quite warmed to the character and I think that you would need to in order to appreciate the film fully. It is directed by Tom Ford who is more famous as a fashion designer than a film-maker, and this kind of shows as there are plenty of moments where he tried to get a little too artisitc with the camera work which didn't really add anything to the film and felt just like they had been included for the sake of it. Having said that, it does look great at times as well. There are some nice moments in the film, and the chemistry between Firth and some of the other characters works well, especially with Julianne Moore as his semi-alcoholic divorcee friend who moved from London with him, but on the whole I never really connected with any of the characters and that, for me anyway, is the most important aspect of any drama. 6/10

OK, Leeds showed that it was possible, but it took an almighty effort from them to do it. I hoped we could follow suit but was not confident that we would. It was always going to take time to get what was effectively an entirely new team to find their rhythm and start performing, as our start to the season showed. After the sh1te that we have been put through over the last 5 years, I didn't expect things to turn around overnight. I also didn't expect us to be getting to a Wembley final, so the fact that we have is a very welcome bonus IMO and should not be offered as an excuse to why we haven't set the league alight. Just my humble opinion.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that starting the season on -10 is a pretty good excuse. But only if we are within 10 points of the playoffs come the end of the season, which I think we will be. People may say that our cup runs have harmed our chances of reaching the playoffs, and they may well be correct, but none of us seriously expected us to get to the playoffs this year after starting on -10 and not appointing a manager until just a few weeks before the first game did we? I know I didn't anyway. So I think that our cup runs this year have been a welcome distraction, and a good way of showing that we mean business.