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Nice for me as St Etiene and Bilbao are my closest options.

Looked a lot better in the 2nd half, particularly when Pierre came on. The foward movement got a lot better and Tadic and Redmond started getting wide. If the 2nd half is how the top 3 are going to play every week then I will be a happy bunny. However, until PH came on we were being bullied in midfield and we lacked height across the pitch. Cedric looked a bit rusty, but he should not have been left on his own with Deeney for their goal. When Shane long retires he should have a double DVD set, one with hos goals against Germany and Villa, the other with his comedy air shot in the 2nd half!

Sorry, I should have put the sarcasm emoji in there, he does look very good. Seems like a natural morgan replacement.

The diamond fprmayion really needs a proper no 10 and we don't have one. Isgrove and Tadic were forced out of position to try and fit in. The diamond can work, but it is also easy to nullify if you mark the top and bas of ther diamond ( something like that anyway , from Jonathon Wilsons excellent book "Inverting the Pyramid"). On a more postive note, Hesketh looked good, as did all the young defenders and the Bayern reject. As for the dimond experiment." It's 4-3-****ing-3! "

The problem with this at the top level is that the worst culprit for effing and beeing at the officials is Rooney, and it would be too embarrassing for the FA if he was only playing one match a month, and then suspened for the rest.

Hope he does stay, even though he was in mid winter Pelle mode when I saw him play in Toulouse. If he does stay, can we see if Everton are interested in Batman ?

This is what Phillipe Lecerc of the Guardian podcast has to say about hime. https://www.theguardian.com/football/audio/2016/jul/03/germany-finally-get-the-beating-of-italy-just-euro-2016-football-daily 18 minutes 18 in All sounds good.

I've been working as a volunteer at EURO2016. Asked a guy at work, who coaches a local team , and he said that Puel is a very good coach, but it is his way or the highway. Very strict on discipline. Sounds promising to me.

Saw him score a belter against Monoxo in the league cup. Not the finished atricle yet, but a great left foot, ver good dribbler, think a young Adam Lallana, but with a shot on him. Hope this is right, as I e-mailed the club about him after that game.

I know that there are a lot of mountains out there, but that pitch seems to have a hell of a slope on it. All of the actin has been at the same end.

To show Spurs why we don't like them, I think everyone should go dressed as Frank Saul! My dad still hasn't forgiven them for it .

David Conn has produced this clip which explains the whole thing, showing the layout of the end . http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2016/apr/26/hillsborough-inquiry-anatomy-of-a-disaster-video In 84 I followed the obvious path into the centre tunnel and spent the whole match being crushed and lifted of the ground, unable to move away. Friends of mine went in the side pen and had plenty of room. The Leppings Lane end was always an accident waiting to happen. Saints fans were lucky, the Liverpool fans not so.

From the city of York, first it was Terry's All Gold, now it's football comedy gold!

Frustrating game, which should have been all over at half-time. Tadic was excellent. I don't normally like him staying on the right, but he completely owned Oviedo. Our crossing, as ever, could have been better but we still hit the woodwork twice, worked the keeper time and again and got Long in twice one on one with the keeper. Hope the new money coming into Everton results in a stadium move as I f@@king hate Goodison Park.

Reflex Moodys of Salisbury have years of expertise in continental moves. They moved us to France, plus most of the staff are Saints Fans. http://reflexmoodys.com/

A lot of people turned their nose up at Bertrand, because of his time at Villa. I hate to think what the reaction would have been if we had signed Allbrighton in the summer, now look at him. If we do sign him, and it's a big if because we may just of had the mad notion to send a scout to watch Villa before we play them in a couple of weeks, then perhaps it might be worth seeing how he plays for us before going into total meltdown.

Moving out of the EU has nothing to do with it. When I flew from Paris to Norway, I didn't have my passport checked at Bergen, as they are part of the free movement agreement. When I come back to the UK from France I always have my passport checked, and sometimes see people taken away for further enquiries. People can cross from Spain to France with no passport control, but not into the UK.

Good performance, shocking sending off! Nice to see Pelle back in form again.

From the four teams in the relegation scrap, I would take :- Sunderland : M'Villa as a replacement for Vic Newcastle - Winjaldum, or however you spell it, for the number10 role. Janmatt is great going forward, but there is a big hole at right back when they are trying to defend. Norwich - Redmond, although he is very inconsistent. Villa- uhm.... err ..... Ayew or Gil might be better with better players around them (Bertrand looked awful for Villa).

Mane is really lacking confidence at the moment. From the first minute, he was taking the easy option, or trying to dummy the ball on to someone else, rather than try something himself. This also results in players waiting to see if their pass has arrived at the target player before making a run themselves, which slows the play down, and stops 1-2's. He did seem to get a bit better as the game went on. The problem with a lack of confidence is that it is not improved by not playing. We need to just stick with him until he comes out the other side. There is still a good player in there.

I thought the same, the only bit of Cahill's body that touches the ball in the incident is his arm! It does feel a bit like Kevin Friend over again. Chelsea would have struggled to close a 10 point gap over 11 games, but now it is down to 4 they will probably catch us by the end of the month.

Mane scares the hell out of the opposition but as everyone else says, the end product just isn't there at the moment. Shane Long, on the other hand scares the hell out of both teams. That accidental back-heel to put Arsenal through on goal when he was running at the centre-halves was incredible.

Sometimes a winning youth team can be made up of players that have been together for years, because they aren't good enough to make the next step up. I seem to remember Saints winning the old Combination league with the likes of Steve Baker, Steve Richardson and Mark Whitlock in the team. Not very good, just consistent at that level.

I go to Bordeaux sometimes, if they have a decent afternoon, or early evening kick-off. The normal kick-off over here is 8pm on a Saturday which means I wouldn't get home till gone midnight. Saw them play Caen last year and I thought they were playing too many Hollywood passes all game, that kept getting intercepted. Turns out that it was Kante cutting everything out, just like he does at Leicester.

I think that Neil Maddison scored on his debut and then in the next 2 games as well. Can't be sure though, as Duncan's book stops in 1987.