Jimmy_D

To be fair we’re one of Villa’s biggest bogey teams. Unfortunately... just not today.

If you want to go back to that time, you don’t need to compare with those countries, you can just look at the actual Russian invasion of Finland. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War

Never easy after conceding early, feels like we’re not quite at it. Need something special 2nd half, we’re capable of it so let’s see which Saints we see...

If Russia have had logistical problems in Ukraine, that’s nothing compared to what they’d face in Finland, never mind the level of gun ownership in Finland, and the level of attrition they’ll be facing from taking and trying to hold Ukraine at the same time.

Just saw that myself, I've no idea how they got out of that, must have been terrifying.

Very sad, and very shocking, it’ll take a while for this news to sink in RIP

Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been under attack by Russian shelling, and has a reactor on fire that, although currently inoperable due to renovations, does contain nuclear fuel. Feels kind of surreal to be typing that.

Ah, that’s that then.

You’ll have to paint it red and white while you’re out there

Boreham Wood’s luck definitely ran dry there... or not? VAR looking at handball... and it is!

If it really was fixed, they’d have avoided giving City an away fixture against Saints at the moment.

At least we’ve taken the last chance to face them at St Mary’s, instead of most likely having to face them at Wembley. Always a long shot but probably not the worst outcome in terms of overall chance of lifting the Cup.

Speculation increasing that Russia are preparing to impose martial law and close the borders imminently. Sounds like the protests there are starting to grow too big to ignore maybe?

The draws are almost certainly fair, just due to the number of different people that do the draws, but I’d still be interested in seeing an infra-red camera feed of the draws

Initial reports indicating it’s probably due to weather. Sounds like Romanian Migs haven’t had the best reliability record, but hard to imagine the timing could be worse.

Gerrin!!! Quarter final!

That’ll do it!!! What a goal!

A bit more sloppy at times than the first team, lucky to get away with a couple of chances, but good to see us recognisably playing like Southampton. What an utterly fantastic goal that was too!

If we go on to win the cup, our highlight reel is going to be ****ing fantastic!

Not playing badly here...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0bqc59f/the-fa-cup-202122-fifth-round-southampton-v-west-ham-united Up on iPlayer now.

We’re not out of it before a ball’s been kicked of course, but feels like that line up gives us far less chance than we’d want. I’d have preferred to see us going full strength from the start.

Good luck!

There’s no tactical advantage in defending empty ground with very little cover. Who were these people thinking Ukraine had any chance against a huge Russian military force a month ago?

Putin might have claimed he was packing up and going home, but no Western intelligence believed that for a second. Most of the land mass currently controlled is empty, ceded in order to concentrate on defending key targets, and on top of that is still very much contested. Painting that as already having a huge success is ridiculous.