benjii

Why are all Labour supporters so obssessed with class? It's ****ing pathetic and block-headed.

Good luck Slick Dave, give this country the walloping it needs. Good luck Nice Nick, keep the weird ones in check. Brilliant outcome.

Spot on!

I agree with your sentiments completely. If Pardew were to be sacked I would think he had been hard done by and I would wish him all the best (unless he went to Pompey!). I know, however, that in the long-term Liebherr and Cortese are far more important than Pardew is to Saints. People are justfiably scared of changing managers because we have a recent history (with the notable exception of Crouch's superb appointment of Pearson, and Pards himself) of appointing awful candidates. I am confident any replacement would be a good replacement. By the way, I also don't think Pards will be sacked (although I wouldn't rule out some sort of mutually agreed departure to West Ham).

The difference is that Bale is about 100 times better than Surman. Surman is never going to be anything other than a bit part player at a Prem club. I personally think it was a good move for him though. He will get financially secure and in a year or two can join a decent Championship side and enjoy playing some football again. He was never going to have a career that took him to the world cup, included major domestic honours etc... financial loadedness is a great result.

A few points: 1) the pitch invasion used to be a regular end of season thing and is just a bit of a laugh really (although personally I stopped finding it fun when I was about 14) 2) most of the people who ran on did look like utter, utter plonkers 3) some of the arrests made by stewards were very funny indeed 4) the repetition of that announcement three times was absolutely retarded - whoever was in charge of that is a plank 5) i don't think anyone was "celebrating finishing 7th" or anything of the sort, just end of season hijinks 6) we'll walk the league next season.

Bit melodramatic. Just a bit.

No, indeed.

Has anyone worked out WTF the premise of this thread is supposed to be yet?

I see mcjwills bothered to spell it out in a bit more detail.

FFS But we improved. If other teams maintained top form then obviously we weren't going to catch them. FFS If only we'd played with a bit more width and pace....

Why the **** would he stay away "as a protest". Doesn't make any sense at all. It's his club FFS and he clearly enjoys coming to matches. If he wants to show his displeasure about something he can do it easily - by sacking the manager, for example - he wouldn't have some silly temper tantrum.

This entire debacle would be solved by full devolution of Wales and Scotland. England > Tory me up.

What a drama queen.

Contempt? You're right, I must stand up for man's inalienable right to be sold a matchday programme. Shame on me.

Presumably it is also "Joe-say" (a la Mourinho) and not "Ho-say".

I imagine he has every programme since 1953, blah, blah, blah and is just really gutted about the whole thing. In which case... meh.

Well, according to Victor we may as well close down the OS then.

Agreed.

Interesting. If it is down to some sort of commercial dispute with the publisher or third party or whoever, and there is a possible claim of some sort then it would not be surprising to refuse to comment further. If there is some sort of footballing bombshell that is relevant then no doubt all will become apparent in due course!

I'm sure there will be an announcement about the programmes at some point. Why is it needed today? Can't you cope without it? Weird.

This is obviously the correct point to make. There are so many whiny, self-obsessed oddballs in society these days.

at this nonsense. Has a significant managerial announcement ever been made in a matchday programme at a football club? Ever? Clearly there was some sort of error. It might be one that is not readily apparent to the casual reader. Something to do with an advert, a typo, whatever. Clearly the error was not realised until a few copies had been sold. It must have been something reasonably significant to get them to pull the issue but was it anything to do with footballing operations... doubt it.