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It's only a game.

Few times I saw him he seemed like a good little midfield player. Remember a great defence splitting pass with the outside of his left foot away to Millwall (cup I think), to Harding who crossed for Lambert to score. think it was him anyway. We seem to have a super abundance of short arsed, fair haired midfield players.

The resemblance is uncanny. Wish we could send him down Niagra Falls in a barrel.

Don't knock it. It's where we went on holiday as kids.

I remember this song and that he had sparrow's legs. That's it. Can't remember the matches I'm afraid. Envy some you for your recall.

It's interetsting that the likes of West Ham and Stoke are linked with Lambert. What do they take him for? Rhetorical question. Money and Saints being willing to sell would maybe smooth the passage but you can't see Lambert deciding to go for footballing reasons. In any case he definitely won't drop a division having taken so long to get to the PL.

If you insist, you're "a Nutter FFS".

Nice idea but in practice we'd be up and down like a fiddler's elbow. Anyway the beer's rubbish. Why would you want to drink more of it.

There's still time.

Seems like continental managers use the term project a lot simply to describe their employment. If Po used the word "proyecto" it can mean venture as well as what we would call a project or plan. In any event a project has a beginning, an end, and a bit in the middle, which at Southampton involves winning all your matches or Cortese will terminate it. Yeah, so Po has a project and Cortese is building for the future.

A good read and by and large sound judgements but for maybe the Villa fan. I think he knows, it's just difficult to admit it. I genuinely hope they stay up with us by the way.

No I'm not deaf. You have no manners.

Yeah we won because it was our cup final. Nothing to do with the pressing game and team of "Intelligent players with a great capacity to assimilate ideas and adapt," (to the system). It's true that players don't have to get up for the big games, like the 6 pointer at Wigan for instance. Neither of those pundits last night is much good. As someone said already it was obvious they hadn't watched us much. It was equally obvious they hadn't understood much from what they've seen.

Recall he was asked about England in an interview recently and said no I am French.

Didn't notice it live but saw it on Motd where someone said he might get into trouble for that one (wiping his @rse).

He's been great recently. Talking to a Polish football fan recently who said he'd lost it, not ability but in his head. Well somebody has sorted his head out if that's the case. A real bonus for Saints.

Well played Danny, especially as he didn't always have the best of cover in front of him.

He was cr@p and his linesmen kept giving offsides against Saints that weren't.

Think you've fallen out of context. You need to be in p1sstake mode.

Did Lineacre say we were 16 points above the relegation zone? What more evidence do you need that they're taking the p1ss.

Fair play to you for coming on and admitting it and you are not the only one that didn't rate him, like to hear from Derry for example, but Morgan's quality has been evident from day one.

England beckons. Motm closely followed by Morgan ans Rickie.

Here's a well informed article by Alan Smith writing in the Independent. Manchester City face tough task as Mauricio Pochettino has Southampton players marching to his tune You cannot say it has been a bad start for Southampton’s new manager, Mauricio Pochettino. Two draws, against Everton and Wigan Athletic, flank an impressive performance in narrowly losing at Manchester United. Sir Alex Ferguson, in fact, went so far as to say that in the second half the visitors were “the best team we’ve seen here this season”. Instant impact: Mauricio Pochettino has impressed since taking over from Nigel Adkins at Southampton Photo: AFP/GETTY IMAGES By Alan Smith11:00PM GMT 08 Feb 2013Comment High praise indeed for a side battling against relegation, a side coming to terms with Pochettino’s methods following the harsh sacking of Nigel Adkins. When things like that happen, people talk about players being upset and maybe going to the owner to protest at the decision. In reality, they tend to just get on with it. These things happen in football and, to put it bluntly, it is every man for himself, as it is in many walks of life. The players have got to look after themselves. They have got to be single-minded by forgetting about Adkins and concentrating instead on the new man’s demands, otherwise their own prospects will take a hit. As it happens, the Southampton lads seem to have taken to Pochettino pretty well. The Argentine might not speak much English but, judging by recent displays, he appears to have got his message across without any problem. As a result, confidence should be fairly high going into the home match against Manchester City on Saturday evening. One obvious change is the new man’s preference for pressing opponents high up the pitch. He did it against United and again at Wigan in a match Southampton really should have won. By pinning them back, Pochettino wants to stop the other team from passing the ball under no pressure, even though it is in areas regarded as harmless. But those areas are not harmless if you win back possession. You can quickly strike at the heart of a team having committed men forward in decent numbers. It is certainly a brave policy and also a risky one should the opposition be good enough to bypass that press. You can easily end up with several players out of the game. Yet the tactic worked well against United, so may be used again when City come to town. With Jay Rodriguez pushing on to Pablo Zabaleta, Jason Puncheon doing the same to Gaël Clichy and Gastón Ramírez helping Rickie Lambert to close down City’s centre-halves, Southampton will hope to stop the visitors building from the back. Under these circumstances, Jack Cork and the ever-improving Morgan Schneiderlin become very important because, as the team’s central midfielders, they are responsible for holding the fort, for keeping an eye on the movement of Yaya Touré, David Silva and James Milner when City do work the ball past the initial press. On top of that, Pochettino will be hoping that his side can defend corners much better than of late. Wigan scored both their goals from this avenue when Maya Yoshida and Jos Hooiveld got caught underneath the ball to lose the header. In addition, there seems to be a bit of uncertainty as to whether someone guards a post. Goalkeeper Artur Boruc did not have either covered for Wigan’s first goal when Gary Caldwell found the gap at the front post. That is Boruc’s prerogative. It is the keeper’s decision. In response, though, it looked like Boruc changed his mind afterwards, because for Wigan’s very late equaliser Luke Shaw stood on the near post. Unfortunately for Southampton, the youngster was slow to push out when everyone else did after the initial header, playing goalscorer Shaun Maloney onside. Listening to Pochettino this week, it sounds as if they will have worked on their organisation at corners in readiness for the champions, a very threatening team in the air when Vincent Kompany and Yaya Touré are around. On a more positive note, Saints do have several players in form. Boruc, for one, is pulling off some excellent saves to make the position his own after the previous chopping and changing, while Lambert continues to prove what an intelligent striker he is, not just through his goals but with his overall game. It was Lambert, in fact, who came off the bench to equalise for Southampton in their opening day defeat at the Etihad. An awful lot has happened since then, including the appointment of a new manager. And if they keep playing like this, Pochettino’s first win cannot be far away.

Quite witty for you.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/saint-or-sinner-nicola-cortese-drives-southampton-on-8488069.html Evidently he's upped his PR game.