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It wasn't deliberate but you can't claim it's not a foul because it was an accident as Shearer just called it on MoTD.

Profligate in front of goal but also errors in conceding goals. Lovren played their man (Borini?) onside and maybe he'd switched off a bit having scored seconds earlier. Boruc should have saved the first.

It just says he'd be interested in the job. I bet he would. It's a great job and he's unemployed.

Yet we're being told it's within the laws of the game to follow through (if indeed Brown got any meaningful touch on the ball which I think he did not). So something's wrong. Either it's a foul and a yellow (or red) as with Schneiderlin or it's perfectly legal within the laws of the game and warrants no penalty, as with Brown. That's without even considering the recklessness, degree of force etc relative to the two tackles.

So what are the laws of the game?

So if his ankle's broken is it still a fair tackle?

That's just not credible. A man breaks into the England team in the twilight of a career spent mostly in the lower leagues and just 12 months before a World Cup Finals, makes an impact......and the he decides to give up. And my old man said be a Pompey fan. Pull the other one.

Didn't Schneiderlin get a yellow earlier this season for a tackle where he very clearly took the ball first but the follow through was deemed dangerous?

What is the point of referee that cannot protect players from this.

Sorry but that was an appalling decision.

You're funny.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/columnists/paul-merson/361008/Southampton-are-living-in-a-dream-world Didn't know where to post this before it goes in the bin. Is there a thicker football pundit than this chump?

Well said. How things are done is important. Cortese had form but no class.

Think he'll score tomorrow.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/southampton-transfer-news-dani-osvaldo-3033473?#.Utm8ORyQFD0 "Cortese was negotiating a £7m move for Rickie Lambert to West Ham days before his exit but that looks to have stalled. England striker Lambert wants to stay at Saints and has two-and-a-half years left on his contract."

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jan/16/katharina-liebherr-southampton-football-owner-german-markusd Is KL in it for the long term?

http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/patrick-barclay-southampton-saga-shows-football-and-capitalism-are-not-great-bedfellows-even-on-a-magic-mattress-9064016.html "That’s how it works. If you’re a Blackburn supporter, you get the glory under Jack Walker and the exasperation of the Venky’s. If you follow Chelsea or Manchester City, you just want your sugar daddies to stay for ever. If you support Hull, you’re revelling in the Premier League but fear you’re about to become a Tiger. I do often wonder if football and naked capitalism are an ideal mix."

The bit I found most interesting was disagreement about the terms of a sale.

The club statement says the manager and players will get all the support they need. It will be interesting to see what support Pochettino gets at tomorrow's press conference. It won't be an easy one. He and the players need the heat taken off them.

He wrote this. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25420261

"Isn't that a bit like "can you keep up with us?" Like when he was at Brighton" I think that's exactly what it is. Witty by Pochettino.

Can you stay with us? Bit cosy.

We're just past the midway point in the season. Anything can happen. Though given the squads above us we'd do well to get above 8th.

He told him " you're very different now, since you played for the under 21's".

Other than not clamping down on the time wasting he was ok. Having said that we've had some right duffers this season haven't we.