stevegrant

The Capello experiment has merely proven that no matter whether you've got one of the best managers in the world or not, a turd is still a turd.

What a hit, son.

He was still infinitely better than Gomez who replaced him, I genuinely can't remember him having a touch

Fabiano costing me points already

I suspect that's not the point being made. The lack of pre-match drinking time is a bit annoying, IMO.

Correct. In the Premier League, it's a contractual obligation, but it's entirely optional in the Football League. However, any club rejecting the "opportunity" to be shown live on Sky runs the risk of simply not being picked again.

As per the subject, really. Saints' first game of the season, at home to Plymouth Argyle, has been selected for live TV coverage by Sky Sports.

Now fixed. No idea how that happened, the payment shows up in PayPal, but it seems the transaction confirmation didn't then get sent back to the forum to automatically update your subscription. Slightly worried that could have been a recurring problem for others (given that we don't use the saintsweb.co.uk/forum/... directory for the forum anymore), but it seems others processed in the last week or so have all gone through fine!

It's included in the original entry cost. I'll need postal addresses from everyone at some point, but I'll worry about that a bit later.

Haven't watched it yet, but will be looking out for it, certainly. It's still not right, tried to play 6-a-side last night and it's still giving me grief

I have the master copy of the DVD now, so will be getting the copies done fairly soon.

Quite, but the same can be said for both "sides" in this instance.

You may wish to practice what you preach. I would draw your attention in particular to the bit I've highlighted in bold.

You're confusing the ill-fitting replica shirt-wearing Sulieman al-Fahim with the never-spotted Ali al-Faraj... Interestingly, Radio Solent's Twitter feed has just revealed that: and the best one... Er, why have the club's lawyers been in touch with HMRC if a) there has been no appeal, and b) the CVA is - as they claim - watertight?

I've not managed to find the root cause of it yet (mainly as I was away all weekend and busy last night), but I suspect it's to do with the Yahoo-sourced JavaScript files... Rather than source them off our server, I can retrieve them from either Yahoo or Google to improve the performance, so I might try that later.

An unofficial page.

Here's the original thread: http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?22677-Saints-official-Facebook-page

Given they announced its launch on the OS to a big fanfare, I think it's safe to say it was official, unless it's a cunning piece of misdirection

Thing is, they could easily have prevented user comments and just used it as another means of alerting people to OS articles. Interestingly, there's been nothing posted to the officialsaints Twitter feed since the Facebook page was dropped, and the original OS article announcing the launch of the page has mysteriously disappeared.

To be honest, I've generally got very little sympathy for those involved - firstly, the surveillance is magnified at derby games; secondly, Maze Hill should have been a reminder that, rightly or wrongly, football-related disorder is generally treated with much harsher sentences than you would expect for similar crimes in "normal" life; thirdly, regardless of the harshness (or otherwise) of the sentence, they've still broken the law and as such can expect to be penalised for doing so if caught. That said, the entire situation would probably have been avoided had the police done what is normally done for derby games, i.e. keep the away fans in the ground until the home crowd has dispersed. One might even speculate that they may have set up such an incident in the hope of nabbing a few "faces" and in order to justify the expense of policing the game (even though it's covered by the club).

Considering their faces were plastered across the front of the Echo as part of a request for information by the police, I'd say it's pretty much guaranteed that they were unknown in Football "Intelligence" circles.

Did they insist that their customers don't take on credit to buy their products as well?

The one caveat I'd add with that is that the club has (or had, no idea what the deal is for the coming season) a contract with Avensis to provide the coaches for the club for the whole season. As a result, I think it would have been Avensis operating the third-party coaches on a sub-contract basis, rather than the club going direct to those companies. Therefore, it's entirely possible that Avensis saw an opportunity to screw the club (and, by definition, the fans) for a bit of extra cash, as they would have wanted to make a markup on each of the sub-contracted coaches as well as their own.

is all I have to say, really...

I suspect it'll be a one-to-one interview with Cortese on Radio Solent where questions and comments are pre-screened for "suitability".