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Ooooh. so close!

We're just not causing them anywhere near enough problems so far. Ramirez looks nothing like a £12m player at the moment and out other forward players seem to want to be able to walk the ball into the net.

Yoshida lost him completely there

Gonna have to do it the hard way now. Good finish from Caldwell though.

FFS still trying to walk it in!

Phew

Miss of the century from Ramirez!

Feck me what a save from Boruc!

Good positive start from Saints

Pure genius this one... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH3y6l7gKZU

Well it isn't often you see Man Utd hanging on for dear life at the end, but then I don't think there was ever any danger of us getting an equaliser for all our efforts. A team like Utd will mop up those diagonal balls all day long and for all our possession in their half, we didn't really create anything like a decent chance for the entire game (dodgy backpass in the 2nd minute excepted)

Reading 0-2 down now

This is incredible. Totally different side from the one that finished the first half. MAKE IT COUNT!

Brilliantly won back by Spiderman there!

Much more positive start to the 2nd half. Looking more dangerous than we did at any point in the first 45 anyway.

Would need to be bloody good fortune. Our deliveries into the box tonight have been appalling so far. No quality whatsoever.

Rooney totally unmarked there. Schoolboy defending. Very poor.

Yeah I remember that well... I went to that game. 'Arry was apparently under pressure from Lowe to pick some of the lads coming through from the youth team, so he deliberately picked a weak squad of youth-team players and reserve seniors (Neil McCann amongst others) so when they inevitably lost he could prove a point to Rupert. It still to this day boils my blood to think that this chancer was ever given the Saints job in the first place, and more so when I think about the disgraceful way he conducted himself during his tenure.

Not unless you believe people should receive the death penalty for robbery, no it is isn't. Of course he shouldn't have been robbing the place, but did he deserve to die for his actions?

http://www.jobhustler.com/jobs/new-york/General-Labor-Jobs/Earn-Quick-and-Easy-$20-for-an-hour-or-less-of-work.2:16.php Well fancy that - the denialist movement having to resort to paying people to protest for them.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/exclusive-billionaires-secretly-fund-attacks-on-climate-science-8466312.html

Just watched Samsara Absolutely mesmerising piece of visual art that draws you in completely, contrasting some of the most beautiful sights the Earth has to offer with the suffering caused by mankind. A stunning film that highlights, if you didn't already realise, how f***ed-up modern human society really is.

This post has articulated my feelings about the matter far better than I could have. All bragging aside, we are just a medium-sized provincial club with an average fanbase. To gamble the future of the club on some delusions of grandeur about regular Champions League football, as Cortese appears to be doing, is sheer madness. We only need to look a few miles down the M27 to see what happened last time somebody adopted this strategy. The reason I was in favour of keeping Adkins is because he was exactly the kind of manager that could maintain a stable team with realistic ambitions. We all point the accusing finger at the Pompey fans on the PTS thread about how they happily ignored the impending train-wreck in order to bask in the short-term glory, and less than a week after Adkins was replaced, I see a good number of saints fans apparently doing exactly the same. I really don't want to be the one to say "I told you so" when it inevitably goes horribly wrong.

Has it occurred to you that perhaps the players are actually sensible and mature enough to recognise that mouthing off to the press about the negative aspects of the situation would undoubtedly be counter-productive?

I agree with you. I'm not so naive as to believe that football is exempt from ruthless business decisions, but this whole episode is one step too far for me. I don't want to support a club that has a 'win at all costs' attitude. Look how that worked out for our fishy friends down the road. Winning isn't everything, and Cortese's delusions of grandeur (challenging the top six and getting into the CL) will only ever end badly for everyone.