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Puel is supporting Stephens as Guardiola supports Stones. Stephens is comfortable on the ball which is a big plus for the way we play. The raw material is there. The rest will come with coaching and experience.

Thought we played really well. Loved the second goal. To say the scoreline flattered Watford would be an understatement. They are a limited team of lumoxes who play very basic football imo. Chalk and cheese with Saints. By the way, they're first goal shouldn't have stood. The bloke taking the throw in, might have been the skate, had almost his whole foot over the line.

"Hopefully he can become cleverer with his movement, he is going to be some player." He could learn a lot about movement from Gabbiadini.

You're making a fool of yourself but carry on...

Give it a rest for fuc.ks sake.

Scholes suggesting the injury is 10 days and so thought Sunday would be too soon. Even if it's just a tight hamstring he might not be risked. Here's hoping anyway. St Etienne have been rubbish. Hope the manager's told them to get stuck in.

8m people in London. 7000 pubs. You don't need to be south of the river to avoid meeting people who might embarrass you.

I'm gonna give one of them a Chinese burn if they're nasty.

It's something to do Lyon and St Etienne both being drawn to play at home second leg and Lyon having first choice (Thursday) or something. Works to Utd's benefit unfortunately.

I trust you are not referring to my earlier post. I couldn't be more pleased, for the reason I mentioned. It's ironic though, that for all the complaints about away attendance not having been recognised, it was possible in the end to pick up good quality tickets in the very last category, 3 aways. All things considered, the club has done a good job.

Don't know but my brother has just secured a better seat than I bought as a season ticket holder. It pays to go away I guess. Pleased that he's got one. We've been to every final since 76.

Nice one. Pleased for you.

Yes Kingsbury. Although Wembley is maybe 20 minutes from my house on a good day on the North Circular, Cup Final day obviously isn't a good day. In the days when I was lucky enough to get Cup Final tickets, I used to drive to Kingsbury, one stop north of Wembley Park on the Jubilee Line. There is a pay and display behind the shops on the Main Street, maybe 50 yds from the tube station. If you are prepared to walk a bit you'll probably get free parking in the residential streets.

You can't separate the recruitment from the decision to allow Fonte to go without a replacement having been secured. LS has a good record but retreiving the CB situation looks like Houdini management to me.

In the words of the great Howard Jones - What is love anyway? Does anybody love anybody anyway?

Reads like newspaper speculation to me. They list a number of available players. The piece on Caceres makes no mention of Southampton. La incógnita es saber si está completamente recuperado de su lesion - the unknown is knowing if he is completely recovered from his injury - suggests that the journalist doesn't know that he's about to sign for Saints or that would surely be another uncertainty they would mention.

Man Utd haven't lost in the league since a 4-0 loss to Chelsea in late October. But since then they have lost to Fenerbahce, and to Hull City (EFL second leg). We were bigger underdogs in '76. Being underdogs this time will help us. A repeat 1-0 win counter attacking style would do.

It's a 9 minute train journey from London Marylebone Station, nearby Baker St, to Wembley Stadium station, located very close to the stadium. There were hundreds of Saints fans in the pubs around Baker St before the JPT final.

Whereas you can make a case for and against for homes, aways, previous purchase history, or whatever criteria, the club giving supporters the option of buying a membership and jumping the queue is the one thing I think is just plain wrong. Why would anybody have bought a membership at the start of the season, except in expectation that should we reach a final they would have a reasonable chance of securing a ticket? It doesn't affect me personally but I think it's very unfair of the club to have done this. They should ditch the membership scheme from next season (won't be many takers anyway) and implement the points system they initiated a few seasons ago.

Irrelevant. The point is we didn't or weren't able to play our strongest team in any of the rounds yet we won and fully deserve to be at Wembley. (As an aside I believe he knows his strongest team and did so from early on. His comment about not knowing his best side was, I believe, to encourage the lesser members of the squad to play with confidence. I mean, you know our strongest side, why wouldn't an experienced coach like Puel?)

Did we play or were we able to play our strongest team in any round of the EFL Cup? We did not. For the sake of balance I think that should be acknowledged.

I think the sale of Fonte is the issue. He should not have been sold without a replacement having been secured. Unless, for reasons of which I'm unaware, Fonte's position at the club became untenable, then it should not have been beyond the wit of LR and the coaching staff to have managed Fonte's situation. A few extra months on his contract and Puel could have had him onside as his captain. I doubt we'd have lost to West Ham had he been on our side rather than their's. Weakening our team and strengthening a rival's is absurd and we got the inevitable outcome on Saturday.

You stress the syllables which have accents. So, second syllable of Martin and first syllable of Cáceres. Second "c" in Caceres would be a soft "c" in Latin American Spanish.

Take into account plenty of travel time to Wembley. Around Ealing is the slowest section of the North Circular at the best of times.

"No matter what division in" - they would say that wouldn't they? This is Sunderland making contingency for the possibility of next year in the Championship.