Midfield_General

He 'won us points' in this game, right? The one where his positioning was so bad he managed to get lobbed by a wafty header from outside the six yard box?

It's why modern professional football is fucked. Most of the people involved at the top end are simply parasitic capitalists out to make as much money as possible out of businesses that happen to be football clubs, so getting the money for being in a particular competition every year is far more important to them than silly secondary concerns like the sporting glory of actually winning them. So they make decisions that reflect that, and put forward convincing-sounding justifications for those opinions, which some fans end up nodding along with. While that's sad, if you put yourself in the shoes of those businessmen or agents or whatever who don't give a toss about sport and purely see the opportunity to make millions for themselves or their families, you can sort of understand them doing it, from a purely selfish point of view. What's weird though is like you say when the fans start talking like that as well, even though they don't actually see any of that money.

Yeah, I'd hate to spoil a league game for sixth in the Championship with a waste of time like the FA Cup 😉

I do wonder sometimes why some people bother with football. The FA Cup is the only major honour we've ever won. It was fifty years ago, before many supporters were even born, but that date is still burned into the soul of most Saints fans. Half a century later, we're still bringing out a special shirt to remember that one thing we did. We won that as a second tier side who no-one gave a prayer to against a much stronger team with much deeper resources. But somehow we did it, and it's the biggest thing that has ever happened to the club. Now we're in touching distance of having another go at that, and some people would basically rather not bother trying, because of some small imagined advantage it might give us in a league game a few days later which, while important, won't even decide this season on it's own. As a football fan and a supporter of a team that has won almost nothing in 140 years, if you can't get excited about having a crack at one of the best sides in the world, in your own stadium, to go within one game of a major cup final, honestly, what's the point?

Something something gets caught Sleeping too much Something something Satellite club

£120 for a nylon football shirt that probably cost £3-£4 to make. They can get to absolute fuck. I was born a month after we won the Cup, so it's my 50th anniversary this year as well and it's made me kind of want one even though I don't actually ever wear football shirts. But that price/ mark-up is absolutely outrageous, and if the club want to try and take the piss out of the fans like that then two can play at that game and to be honest I couldn't give a toss if they get the money or not. I'll probably only ever wear it once or twice, maybe for a 5-a-side kickaround or in the event that we get to Wembley, so if the option is there to pay £11 + shipping for something which to the untrained eye is basically exactly the same and not like you say obviously some rubbish Kho Sanh Road knockoff, then that's absolutely fine for me. Anyway I'm going to get one off the back of the excellent feedback from others who have already bought one, so I'll report back

This was really helpful mate - didn't realise I'd missed a whole discussion on this exact issue! Thank you

Nice one - cheers fellas 👍

Has anyone bought the 50th anniversary shirt from DHGate? If so, is it obviously a snide? Thinking about getting the anniversary shirt for a friend and don't want to pay £120 for it but similarly don't want to get a DHGate one if they're obviously a poor imitation. If you put the DHGate one next to an official one from the shop, is it easy to tell the difference - e.g. different quality of material or quality of logos etc?

Like a top ten Premier League team? 15 days ago

This one is a lot better https://watchfooty.st/en/stream/4825499/southampton-oxford-united/easy/1

Stream went down just as we took the corner I take it we scored?

GET INNNNN

https://antenasport.org/embed.php?id=bet11581784&rtitle=BET Not the best quality but you can just about make out a football match in there somewhere. Anyone got a better one? Fawa not working for me

‘Bazunu wasn’t one of the big factors in why we were crap’ is right up there with ‘managers and formations aren’t that important’ as the gold standard for the most staggeringly deranged viewpoints we’ve had on here this season, and there have been some absolute belters