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All aboard the banter bus http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/131843274411?_mwBanner=1 This would be quality

What's the theme for fancy dress for Milan? Also "he's got a tiramisu on his head" is going to sound epic with 8,700 saints fans signing it. #terracebantz

When I'm managing teams on football manager and one of my strikers has a loss of form I'll drop him and bring him on the next game with 30 minutes to go and they usually score. It worked when I took Plymouth from bottom of the conference to world club champions in 10 seasons.

Mines a cross of St George with a stone island badge one side, saints badge the other and "Sinners since 1885"

Are you every happy Fitz? You don't like the way we're run, you don't like the current or any other owner we've had, you don't like the manager, you seemly don't like many of the players. Now after a decent win all that's on your mind is making it into a pop at your least favorite player, which is some achievement from Tadic by the way. Every silver lining has a cloud in your world it seems. I thought history was written by the victors? Doesn't seem to apply in your case now does it. Surely any modern history book you'll ever right on the club will be the biggest tale of woe since Juliet and her Romeo.

Lots of players with intelligence but very light on pace and power by the looks of it.

Utter horsesh*t. Being accused of being an unstable creep by someone like you :lol:

Please explain What's being a c*nt about suggesting if someone who has lived in Italy, know football and presumably speaks Italian call up the club in that country and help out their fellow saints fans by confirming if this is true? Oh no, rather than do that she's getting abusive and calling people c*nts without even knowing what they've posted. Utterly pathetic behaviour and the usual abusive insults I've recieved for years from this individual.

Who was the poster on here that used to live in Italy? They used to go on about it all the time, can't remember what their name was though. Maybe they could call inter and speak to them in Italian and ask them if this is true? Would certainly help having someone with extensive expertise of Italy to lend a hand.

So the ones losing interest aren't actually Saints fans, they're premier league fans. The ones that are only interested in big name players, TV games, the ones that deserted the club in 2005 when they were needed more than ever. The ones that would rather have gone for a walk in the new Forest or had surprise great aunts 90th birthday parties when we had games against Rochdale, Oldham, gillingham etc. The ones who believed we were on an unstoppable March to the champions league because so midget from Italy told them what they wanted to hear. The ones that are losing interest are the ones who don't get southampton FC. This is only the third time in our history we've achieved 3 consecutive top 10 finishes. We will have more European games this season than we've ever had. Although our team might not be the best we've had in recent seasons or our manager hasn't got a few onliners for the media How can anyone who knows anything about saints lose interest now?

You'd do it a lot quicker if you didn't stop every five minutes to update Facebook about it.

Pretty much to keep up with what other clubs around Europe are doing as Puels system seems to be fashionable at the moment even if you lot don't like it http://m.bleacherreport.com/articles/2432605-breaking-down-footballs-in-vogue-formation-the-midfield-diamond

I've tried to condense the context into a few paragraphs above. In short as I say there is a feeling in football that black players aren't trusted to play the intelligent roles on the pitch, they play the roles of pace and/or power it's white players that provide the intelligence. He gives a list of names of players that play these roles as evidence. It appears we are getting critisised for our development maximising on racial stereotypes inside the game. Is there anything wrong with this? Personally I don't think so. Look at the Olympic 100 metre final, most of them were black, no one is shouting racism then. It's the same in other industries you'd be quite happy to use an Asian accountant but you won't find many doing work on your house, no one shouts racism there either. Horses for courses. Just because a certain type of player is suited to a particular role it doesn't mean it's racist is what seems to be the implication. By the way I love it that rather than discussing the issue we get the usual angry "he's a w*kner" reponse because it's something they don't like or people like the charismatic and interesting AdrianSFC having a go at me for simply outlining the point he is making for sensible debate which is afterall what everyone claims they want. Maybe we should go back to talking about saints players cars. :rollseyes:

It's too long to do so it written across 9 pages 142-151 if anyone wants to read them. The opening paragraph where he goes into it says "there is a lot of critisism right of of the southanpton academy for going after players who are predominately young, white centre midfield players who can control a game"

Reading the new book and he claims saints academy is the subject of a lot of criticism inside football for interesting reasons. The back ground is that there is an unspoken theory in the premier league that black players are not trusted with roles that require intelligence and discipline such as a 'tempo' midfielder. He says that if you look at the evidence to support the theory then it tends to back it up. Of the players who are the tempo/passing players in the premier league they are almost without exception white, Carrick, Fabregas, Cazorla, Coutinho, Ramsey, eriksen etc and the black players are used for their pace and power down the wings. In fact even if you look at the likes of Paul Pogba at his best for Juventus wss when he had Pirlo alongside him. What he says saints are being critisised for is that we know what players the likes of man united, Arsenal etc want to buy so we deliberately produce or sign ball playing white midfielders or quick and/or powerful black players as we know we can sell them on as it fits the racial typecast that runs through the premier league right now. So what do we make of this? Are saints stereotyping in their recruitment? Are we not signing white wingers or black midfield play makers due to some underlying racial prejudice that white players provide the intelligence and the blacks the pace or power? You've got to say on the evidence of the players that have been signed and come through the academy of late then he might have a point. Before anyone suggests this is my view or a racist post I've repeated what is in the book The Secret Footballer Access all areas.

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Didn't you live in Italy for a while?

Same old mongboard always whinging

Minimum of one extra game

We get a by in the second round of the league Cuo so its actually only one game more than before Christmas last year. Yet people are wetting themselves because we got so many games to play. One frigging game more than last season, one.

No surprises there. This is the club where a lot of its fans turned It's back on its greatest and most loyal player because a little Italian bloke told them what they wanted to hear.

hi Ralph.

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Saint86 is right, we wanted both. We would have brought them both in last summer if things had worked out. As it was we missed out on Alderweireld so brought caulker in. He was to be groomed as the long term successor to Fonte and it was felt with a bit of time under Koeman he could develop into a top class centre half, however his off the field problems as well as general work ethic meant that the club were thankful we only for him on loan.

Yet 99% of your posts are either moaning, very boring or very serious. Not quite sure I've ever seen your having a laugh routine. Although it may be your humour is lost on me and you're sitting behind your laptop right now lolling uncontrollably at all the hilarious stuff you've posted.