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Martina's fall looked pretty innocuous initially, but not moving like that... I really hope he's ok.

That was a ****ing handball

Thanks for that

How Lovren managed to make that £8M look well worth it for us is the one that's got me puzzled. Liverpool seem to have well and truly destroyed any confidence he once had.

I'm looking at his record with Everton since the summer, without Lukaku he's not been able to find the tactics to get the best out of the attacking players he has left. I don't think he'd be such a good fit for us at the moment.

He really would have been far better off if he'd stayed here.

Lovren defensive mistake leading to a VvD goal. Aaaanyway, Pompey lose, then Saints win with one of the best goals seen at St Mary's, then we get to see Everton and Liverpool slaughtered back to back on TV. It's been a good weekend for football

Controlled the game throughout, restricted West Brom to scraps, but for a while there it looked like they were going to get the 0-0 draw they came here for. Then that was blown apart by quite simply a sensational goal. Close to a perfect individual goal.

What a legend he was for us. Sounds like he's hinting at going into coaching at some point in the future, can't help but feel like I'd like to see him here for that.

****ed all over them, utter robbery that they got the 3 points off us. Some losses ruin the whole weekend, but this isn't one of them.

Well played

I love our current badge personally, and wouldn't want to change it. One of the biggest things in its favour as far as I'm concerned is that everything about it, even just the silhouette of it, is unmistakably us.

Kelvin Davis vs Leeds was pretty unaminous too, can't remember the exact figures though.

I nearly just put all 14 options as Lemina.

Gerrin. Where the **** did 6 mins of stoppage time come from?

Refs head's gone there.

Lemina's been awesome today, can see why people were comparing him to Schniederlin when we were linked with him.

**** me that was a hell of a save!

A few sloppy moments, but we're playing really well so far today.

Bloody hell! Good save, got away with one there.

We haven't just turned down 70M to let VvD rot in the stands If he wants to do that himself now, that's up to him.

Apart from all the players that aren't VvD that we still have.

Potentially we get to see a world class player in the team this season if he knuckles down and gets on with it, maybe even beyond that. There are other more intangible benefits though. Players hopefully realise that signing a long contract means they're signing it to play for Saints. Keeping a player like VvD, appearing to knock back a world record fee, and humiliating Liverpool in the process, it starts to change the perception of Saints. Out of the teams above us, Liverpool are possibly one of the weakest with that defence, with the potential for a terrible season, especially with Europe to possibly bog them down. If we're going to to get higher in the league, avoiding strengthening them is a decent start. For me the big one is that teams might think twice before tapping our players up. The damage might have already been done with VvD himself, but if doing this means teams are reluctant to get burned again, that we know about interest in our players as it happens, and it's more difficult for them and the players themselves to go behind our back... that could be a huge benefit for us going forward.

They've missed out 'and will now hope to sign him in January...'

Makes a change to be watching that sort of silliness from the outside