Jimmy_D

Maybe he wants to create that association in his own mind, so that it's linked to something positive for him, and not a reminder of what happened to his father? Everyone has to deal with this sort of stuff in their own way, and I can't even begin to imagine what it must be like. I'm not going to judge him on something like this.

Whether they like it or not, players are looked up to and emulated. They're paid unbelievably highly for a highly public role, and with that comes the expectation that they act as role models. That said, seems like The Sun have well and truly stepped in it here. Ironically, they may well have helped Sterling out a bit, by making sure the story behind the tattoo is widely public knowledge before they have a chance to draw their own conclusions.

If you want to make that argument, you'll be arguing with a LOT of people. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/10595457/Schadenfreude-is-the-dominant-emotion-for-football-fans.html https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/university-study-examines-schadenfreude-in-football-fans-300012052.html

It's been there two hours already... can't believe he hasn't seen sense and deleted it yet

That was the most fun I've ever had from a Real Madrid win

Holy **** I hope that's the winner!!!

https://mobile.twitter.com/SouthamptonFC/status/1000124405953933312 Heh. 'Sparky'.

Unlikely any time soon as the top four associations are now all guaranteed four CL spots. Especially with English teams doing well this year, that'll have our coefficient pretty good for a few years. In any case, I'd like Real to win with a goal by Bale.

If you want to query an infraction, normally the best way to do it is to reply to the infraction itself. That way I get a notification about it that I won't miss, instead of it being in a thread that I might have missed. That being said, I admit that I read it completely wrong and completely missed that it was a reference to Boufal's celebration, apologies for that. I've reversed the infraction now.

Think it's expected to be three at the back with two wingbacks that Southgate will play.

Rose has looked a shadow of his former self since his injury, hence consistently being dropped for Spurs. His own manager doesn't rate him any more, let alone pundits.

On the reserve list.

Apparently the combined cost of sacking Allardyce and hiring Silva could stretch to £16M

I think it's less that Bertrand didn't deserve to be dropped and more that the others didn't deserve to replace him.

The fact that Rose has been injured most of this season means he's a lower injury risk than Bertrand?

https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=bertrand&src=typd Seems that 99.99% are mystified by the Bertrand omission.

The 2058 Walking Football World Cup?

http://www.thefa.com/england/mens-seniors/squad Bertrand misses out.

It definitely feels weird this season. I was a kid supporting Saints in the 90s. Saints surviving relegation battles wasn't just something I just believed would happen, or even just expected. As a kid back then, all I'd ever known was Saints surviving when they were in a relegation battle, it was something I KNEW would happen each time. Of course, the fact that we kept on surviving whatever the odds just continually reinforced that. This season is actually the first season I've ever had where I've gotten to the point that I expected us to get relegated, had accepted it, and then we've actually stayed up.

Yeah, I'm sure it was always planned for Man City to score with a tricky finish with the last kick of the game after the ref could have already blown up for full time.

This thread is like Jupiter. Any discussion about that rabble usually ends up in here and avoids polluting the main board. Look on a Pompey forum and sometimes half the threads there are about us, but that just doesn't happen here.

Actually feels a bit weird that we're still in the Prem! When we were 5 points adrift with 5 games to go, on a run of 1 win in however many.... it seemed unlikely we would stay up. I'd started to come to terms with going to watch Championship football next season. Even after we beat Swansea, the close nature of the last three games, sqeezing out results, doing just enough and finally getting some luck actually going our way this season... it still doesn't seem quite real that we actually pulled it off, to the point I was going to the game today almost expecting some sort of karmic retribution and the 10 goals to be turned around. It'll sink in at some point that we've done it and I can relax

His football wasn't pretty to watch, but it should have been more effective than it was. One of his main problems was that on top of everything else, he wasn't a lucky manager. Our goals scored is well below our expected goals from the chances we created this season. That meant the players lost confidence, which contributed to poorer performances. Bringing in Hughes helped to give the players confidence and belief again. That alone got us playing better, as well as the more positive tactics.

Should have won that, never mind losing it, but at least we've stayed up.

To be fair, Stoke could put wheelie bins out on the pitch and Swansea would still struggle to score at the moment. It's possible it could be turned around, but how confident would you be if the situation was reversed and it was Saints needing to make up 10 goals and 3 points?