Jimmy_D

Seems to be saying that talking about football can lead to being sexist... so you shouldn't talk about football... I'd like to see the research that suggests that talking about football leads to sexist behaviour. Also the research that suggests that preventing talking about football would stop the following sexist behaviour from happening. Seems ridiculous to me.

Gerrrrrin! Been a good game of football, looked like it wasn't our day but we deserve that!

Result of spending the start of the season doing a pretty good job of keeping up with Liverpool and going into the same mentality they had when the won the league.

That's a cracking finish for Rodriguez there!

http://www.sportsclubstats.com/England/Southampton.html On the stats website that estimates everyone's strength and then simulates the rest of the season thousands of times after each round of fixtures. Looks like 38 points would be almost exactly 50/50 to go down. Anything above that and it drops off dramatically.

Looks like it's a choice between trying to break into Saints first team in the Premier League, or break into Leeds first team in the Championship. On top of that, with the obligation to buy for 20M only kicking in if Leeds actually get promoted, there's no guarantee it'd be a permanent transfer, especially as Leeds always fade in the second half of the season. He's not going to be pushing too hard and burning bridges, for at best a sideways move, if he might have to come back.

Long's almost like a defensive midfielder that happens to play further up the pitch now. You're not playing him because you're expecting him to score a load of goals, but because the work he puts in helps the team massively. That said, I'm sure he'd be the first to say he'd expect himself to be scoring more often than he does.

That's the way to respond to a game like the Wolves game! We're three points off 5th

Jeez, annoying to lose because of three goals that ****ing spawny

My gut feeling is that this is mostly agent driven, seems to make more sense than any other option. Probably he's taken a disappointing start to Saints career, plus Leeds absolutely desperate for a striker and willing to pay most of our costs so far, and Adams possibly willing to move down a level and closer to home, and is presenting player wants the move to Saints and Leeds in an effort to get them to deal and give himself a payday. Hasenhuttl is seeing the potential in Adams and must think that him coming good is more likely than being able to bring in a new striker that'll perform better, so for his part of the transfer committee is against the move, with the club willing to back him on that.

The results we’re getting against the top teams again.... it feels like the seasons where we were competing for the European spots again

Oh that one tastes sweet.

Jeez, fair to say we’ll be counting ourselves unlucky if we don’t go on and win this comfortably.

Looking promising so far since the equaliser but we really need another one of our chances to go in...

Fantastic game to watch, brilliant performance and a fantastic result. Keep playing like that and getting results like that and we’ll turn a relegation battle into European qualification Happy New Year!

It might have been the pass he was about to make... but he didn't. We had an awesome bit of build up play, followed by a defensive mistake, followed by a great finish. It's still an amazing bit of football we put together for it, but it feels incomplete in my book, in terms of greatest goal anyway.

Not that it makes the goal worth any less, but it’s a shame that last touch was off the Chelsea player for our second goal. That goes down as one of our best goals of all time without that.

Sorry, I know it’s a bit late now, but the Amazon games have a ‘stadium atmosphere’ audio option.

Hell of a performance and the win to go with it that was well deserved.

Have to think Chelsea will improve 2nd half, it’d be a massive result if we can hold on to this. We’ve at least given ourselves a chance, that’s more than we normally get at Stamford Bridge.

Gerrrrrrrrin!

Absolutely massive run of results, that's in effect a 12 point swing against our direct relegation rivals. We're still in a relegation battle, but we've found at least three teams that could well end up worse than us.

That has to be the first comfortable victory we've had in quite some time.

Near perfect set of results today as an early Christmas present

Oh jeez.