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Took Kwsaint junior back to uni yesterday and took in Camb Utd v Accrington. Which turned out to be a cracker. The Cambridge winner on 80 mins was a worldie - volley from a 40 yard pass that nearly took the keepers head off. Accrington had a penalty saved on 90 mins after a defender was sent off. From the resulting throw-in the ball was crossed and punched off the line by a defender. The keeper saved the second penalty and Cambridge finished the game with 9 men. Bedlam as you can imagine. Brilliant for a neutral. Which got me thinking. Apart from penalty shootouts, has there ever been a Saints game where two penalties have been saved. The best that I could come up with was a game in 73-74 when Eric Martin saved a penalty (against QPR I think), then saved the rekick after having been adjudged to have moved. Any ideas?

The Saints gag is a bit too close to the truth to be funny

i do have a certain level of respect for noble. anyone who's willing to stick at one club.

Tadic penalty against Arsenal in the league cup wasn't much good either. We have been spoiled by the likes of MLT, Beattie and Lambert who didn't miss.

The disallowed goal was offside by inches. Lino actually got it right. Agree that Austin looks like the only one of our strikers who can score goals, but we need to play to his strengths.

Odd game last night. Looked good for 30 minutes and then sat back. But very comfortable. Penalty was ridiculously harsh. But the disallowed goal was offside by about 6 inches - really tight. Nice to see Austin get a couple of goals and Jay Rod took his well. Long can't buy one at the moment

Which is why technology should be used. The referee got the decision right to disallow Walcott's 'goal' in last night's game, but more by luck than good judgement. No way did he see that the ball got to Walcott via an England foot. Teams should have a limited number of appeals to video ref, and so should the ref!

I remember that game. Peter Walton wasn't corrupt, just inept. Gave a penalty against Fonte that was outside the area, and one when Lambert went down with minimal contact. But there were two penalties that he should have given for fouls against Lambert. Brighton were a nasty side that day, very much in the image of their manager. Interestingly there was an international friendly this week when they trialled video refs. Got to come, but they need to work out when and how often it can be used. Anything to help refs get key decisions right has got to be a good thing.

Why should Israel be the limit? It's not even in Europe but if you could go to any team in the world to watch Saints play against, who would you pick? For me, ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar in Iceland:

Would suggest Porta Nuova or Porta Venezia. Anywhere just outside the city centre where it wont take too long to get anywhere. Try to find a decent deal and check trip advisor. Metro is 1.50Euros flat fare, and the system is pretty good. I used to stay in Cesto San Giovanni which is to the north of the city, but was close to work. But at the end of a metro line so getting to the city centre was easy.

Bundle tickets go on general sale on Friday at 9am. Individual tickets for Prague home game on Monday 5 Sep. According to the website they have shifted 7500 bundles to season ticket holders and members. Not sure how many more they will release. Is it just me or is the official website completely pants? Do they ever ask use what we want from it? I know Milan well from work. It's an interesting city to visit. San Siro is at the end of one of the metro lines, so no need to stay near the ground. The city centre is where the really expensive hotels are, and it's rubbish for getting somewhere to eat or drink. Although the cathedral is a fabulous building whether you are religious or not. I found the Brera area (NE of city centre) good for food and bars. My suggestion would be to try to get a good deal on a hotel having first checked out the metro map. Cheers

England won the world cup in 1966 playing the diamond system - can't be all bad

Interesting how club myths become established facts. Total net cost of SMS was £17million, once sponsorship, grants and the proceeds from selling the Dell are taken into consideration. RL effectively took out a 10 year loan against the stadium to cover other debts in 2001. With an interest rate of 8%. If it had just been for SMS, then the mortgage would have been around 5-6 million by the time that we went into administration in 2009. Total debts in 2009 were around £30 million in 2009. We simply lived beyond our means and paid players too much after relegation in 2005. Having said that, administration got rid of RL and we ended up with owners who seem to know what they are doing.

Do we have a reserve keeper yet?

Do we have a reserve keeper yet, now that Stek has gone? I read that we were linked with the NI keeper

I posted that Wanyama would stay based on information received. Just goes to show that I am not ITK. Also shows that Wanyama is not very bright. Think we already knew both of those things

Got the email from Saints about membership. To be honest, I am not sure that it is worth the money Your thoughts?

Does anybody actually know anything?

Saints management seem to be going about this in a thorough way again. None of this going for big names or the chairman's mate. It will be interesting to watch how Mourinho gets on at Man U. Doesn't on the face of it seem a natural fit. Someone like MP would have fitted better. I think that we will be pleasantly surprised who we get, whether it is Puel or Garcia or someone else

Agree with the comment about Saints thinking left field Saints management will have planned for this scenario and will already have candidate(s) in mind. Relax

Just to clarify, I hope you mean on the earth's surface? Also that's more of an average due to the rugby ball shape of the earth. In reality, Newton's equation of gravity being g = -GM/r^2 offers a more comprehensive law for gravity although this was superceded by Einstein's theory of general relativity but I feel this is probably too much detail that it would subtract from the analogy the OP was drawing. As for Murder, She Wrote, I've never watched it so I can't comment.

Want united to win so that we go straight to the EL group stages. But it just feels so wrong wanting United to win. Almost as bad as if it were the skates in the cup final and our place in EL depended on them winning. Horrible

Asked the same question of a Celtic supporting work colleague. The only one that he mentioned was a very promising young left back called Kieran Tierney. I said that we had a left back factory at St Mary's and that it was probably one position that we didn't need to strengthen.

Was a great day out. Nice location to watch football, friendly locals and a superb second half performance from Saints. Happy days. Good to hear that there is another book from the Hagiology team on the way. So much of current football writing is really poor, but this team know how to write well. Looking forward to reading it. Just wish that they had written Matt's biography.

At least there will be no more threads on what the permutations are for getting into EL. Guaranteed a EL place in the group stages. We finish 5th if Man U lose to Bournemouth, otherwise we finish 6th. Think that I understand it now