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The opening gambit in Stevie G's application for the manager's job. Step 1: Undermine the manager with 'honest' comment about how bad the team have been Step 2; Repeat on carefully selected occasions so the fans can see how much more tactically aware he is than Rogers Step 3; Continue to drip-feed comments so fans can see how he has the club at heart Step 4; Blame everybody else, while carefully having little tugs on the rug Rogers is standing on.

The Great Un-Ironed Tablecloth, The Shroud of Turin. Are there two more similar sacred relics on Earth?

And with a choice of tour options. You can either take the audio tour, which consists of a tin can attached to a piece of string, with commentary provided by ex-Magpie host and avid p****y fan Mick Robinson who for those wish to buy shares* will supply Susan Stranks' phone number. The alternative is a personally guided tour by a volunteer dressed in the club uniform of oversized wonky blue and white chequered top hat, clowns trousers with braces, worn with no shirt but over a selection of garish, tasteless tattoos, accompanied by the sound of a clanging bell and various ner-ners. I'd go. I've been to worse museums.Halls of Fame. *Make a generous donation

To be honest, I think Walsh comes across as something of a dinosaur. It's the Redknapp old pro's mentality that only those who have played professionally know anything about football and wealthy people should just give their money willingly to football clubs and ask no questions. No doubt there is an element of truth in some of what he says, but as long as it continues the internecine warfare, who cares. Incidentally, Walsh is described in The News as "The p****y Hall of Famer." Where is this Hall of Fame? Is it housed in a grand, impressive building with a Palladian facade and bedecked with statuary and portraits of heroes? Or is it a few newspaper clippings hung in a toilet? It's just that when you talk of a Hall of Famer, the assumption is there is an actual hall of fame.

You're about as funny as a fire in an orphanage.

Who can help me with some Christmas present ideas for my missus. I'm plumb out of inspiration myself as she gets more difficult to buy for every year. I wouldn't dare to presume to buy her clothes and she's not keen on jewellery. I've done the gamut of pamper days and although in recent years I have bought her pieces of artwork, I don't think I can risk buying another. She's not an adrenaline junky, so something like flying lessons or scuba diving are out. She's not an animal lover so a cute puppy or other pets are out. I'd like to get her something unusual or distinctive. I think she'd be happy if I got her one of those things where you a buy a goat for an African family or something like that, or another form of sponsorship, but again, I'm looking for bright ideas. Help.

And, of course, one of the problems with going out of the FA Cup so early to a non-league team is that you have a Saturday with no income. How does that help the cash flow?

It's all very well, but if it doesn't suit the foreign-player laden Premier League clubs, it won't happen.

Agree with Griffith Observatory. It might sound old hat, but an 11-year-old would love Disneyland. The California one is the original, and although there is not much of the original left the Disneyland Hotel still has some vestiges of the original feel of the place. There's also Universal Studios. Not as big as the Orlando version and still has more of the original movie studio feel about it. Le Brea tar pits is also worth a visit.

Sorry, Jeremy is a big Saints fan. He doesn't need the services of a PR agency prompting him to write articles about the club he supports.

Agents command a fee from whoever commissions them. Clubs don't only pay agents a fee when they are buying a player. If a club wants to shift players off their books and the employ the services of an agent to assist in this, then they have to pay him. It comes under the heading of clubs using agents to 'help players find another club'. Agents also command fees from clubs for arranging matches, so the list doesn't specify what clubs have used agents for. Having said that, Chelsea's £16m is eye-watering, and Liverpool's £14m is laughable. In addition to the fees, they've had to cough up £14m to agents for a pretty disastrous transfer policy. Everybody talks about Everton being a parsimonious club, who are not big spenders, but they still coughed up twice as much as Saints did to middle-men.

What I like about Koeman is that he is not afraid to answer a question, unlike most English managers or those who have been around the Premier League a while and are scared of giving an answer for fear it could be thrust in their face at a later date. He was asked by Ed Chamberlain last night if Saints could finish in the CL spots, and he said; "Why not?" Other managers would have fudge the question with a mealy-mouthed response of "We'll take each game as it comes, it's a long hard season and we'll have injuries to contend with, blah, blah, blah." So we might not finish top four - I would be be very surprised if we did - but he has shown ambition and he has thrown down a marker for the players.

Are we presuming that Toby got a call from Forster on their goal? Had he continued on his the line of his run he would have been able to shepherd Agbonlahor at the very least to a poorer shooting angle, but the way he veered off to his right suggests he got a call. That will go down as our first defensive error this season. Not bad 12 games in.

With a relation. We were lucky when we went to Japan that we had a relation working over there and we stayed with him. He was in a house owned by the British bank he was working for at the time. (It was a three-bedroomed detached house in Tokyo, worth around £3.5m and that was a few years ago, which tells you all you need to know about the profligacy of banks). Sorry I've not been much help on that. As for places to go and things to see. Take the train to Nikko, the former seat of the Shoguns. Amazing temples and shrines amid fantastic scenery (not boring, at all) Also get on the Shinikansen (bullet train) and head to Kyoto. You can comfortably do a day trip to Kyoto from Tokyo. Visit Kyoto and you'll understand why American academics argued against dropping the second atomic bomb on it, and persuaded the military to drop it on Nagasaki instead.

To paraphrase even further. "He's so bad he can't get anywhere near our first team, despite the fact our midfield consists of teenage trainees, knackered old veterans with the mobility of a wardrobe, and others who couldn't trap a bag of cement. "I can't believe somebody else is interested in taking him off our hands, but if it gets him off the wage bill for a few months, that's fine, by me."

That's all right then. Everything's fine. No matter how crap we are on the pitch, we can still delude ourselves we are a big club. I think I can hear the sound of a straw being clutched. It will mean a crowd by far the biggest in the league will be that much louder when they call for your head.

How do we navigate the next six weeks? Let Schipper Ron steer the ship. He's done all right so far. Unlike us, he sees the players every day in training, knows their physical fitness and mental alertness and is better suited to picking a team based on the sort of conjecture we indulge in on a message board. Of course, there may be selections which may surprise, bemuse and frustrate us, but I certainly trust that Ron will make them based on his best judgement.

Apparently Levy has done what he normally does when confronted by a problem and thrown money at it. I'm told he's trebled Mitchell's salary to £300,000. But there's no flappage at Saints because he wasn't that key a cog in the machine. Even Mitchell himself has been surprised by all the attention and hype surrounding him. His role is more of an administrator than a facilitator. lack box? He put the right people in the right job. He wouldn't have much of a clue about the Black Box and what it does. But he appointed a man who does. Spurs might think they have pulled off a coup, but Levy has typically got the wrong man if he wants the secret to Saints player recruitment. That's Bill Green.

BBC Sport moved all its operations to Salford several years ago. It moved with a fair chunk of the BBC's other operations purposely to avoid that particular charge.

It would be better pinned on the back of the door of the home dressing room. No team talk required, just read that chaps, before you go out on to the pitch.

Alderweireld at Red Devils' presser earlier today. http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/16076/De-Rode-Duivels/article/detail/2117311/2014/11/10/Alderweireld-Zit-in-een-van-mijn-beste-periodes.dhtml Hopes that Saints will sign him on a permanent basis. Get him signed up!

At last on MOTD 2 last night they alluded to this, and in no uncertain terms, Shearer - who is turning into a good pundit inasmuch as he is not afraid to express an opinion - pretty much accused the players of hooking out Sherwood and AVB before him. Shearer would know all about this sort of thing, of course, as he led the dressing-room putsch that spelled the end for Gullit at Newcastle. There was always some doubt among the wise on here that the hugely egotistical Spurs players would have problems buying into Poch's philosophy. It seems that might be the case, although the way they consistently shaft any manager who comes through the door makes you wonder what they want as a group of players. It may only have been a small thing in isolation, but the incident with Adebayor's boots told you all you need to know about the players' attitudes at Spurs. He's whinged like hell about not being in the team, but when called upon, he's not ready and demonstrated that he really couldn't have cared less who knew it Contrast to Long, who admitted he was not happy about being left out (as a manager you would worry if a player IS happy at being left out) but instead of throwing a pink hissy fit or going into a sulk, was just straining at the leash on Saturday to get on and show Koeman what he could do. And as for Kaboul. Jeez, as a captain he's on a par with the guy who steered the Costa Concordia on to the rocks and was the first one off the sinking ship. Again, contrast and compare with Fonte. It's clear that Spurs' dressing room is not one unified group of disaffected martinets, but several little cliques and sub-groups, who plot against each other which makes it even worse to handle. It's not too difficult to work out how these groups are formed and their make-up. It might be this that saves Poch. Even Levy must see that the main fault lies with the players and not the manager and the only way to clear this up is to do what Hercules did with the Augean Stables and clear the lot out. That will take a brave manager, but an even braver chairman to give him the scope to do it. Still. what do we care? Long may it continue.

Don't know about favourites, but we certainly have nothing to fear, We are where we are on merit because we have beaten the self-same teams that the likes of City, Arsenal and Utd have been losing or dropping points to. They might well fear us now more than we fear them.

The difference between this side and last season is that we now find ways to win games which we would probably have drawn last term. That's got to be down to Koeman who always dares his players to go out and win games.

I like Ralph's account of Markus's first priority on entering the club. "It wasn't to spend money on players, but to find out how the small local companies and creditors were affected." Could he be having a dig at another club?