Dark Munster

No problem, they've prepared for this. After they get promoted the massive PL and Sky income will take care of the £20 million hole. Oh...

I think most of us agree: avoiding relegation isn't going to help them. It's promotion or bust for the Cheats. Tragic, isn't it?

Difficult choice: sit on the bench collecting nice money, or play for the Cheats and take a massive pay cut. Unlike their supporters, Hughes and Brown seem to have some intelligence.

No Lallana = 1 goal

No Lallana = No goals

Now that their club is well and truly f*cked, shouldn't we feel sorry for the few? No, maybe not.

Now that Chinny's plan A has failed so miserably, as expected he's now moving on to plan B. An unpleasant year ahead for the few, methinks.

Forte as in Fonte. HTH.

He [stevie-boy] said: ‘We need two or three permanent signings. ‘You cannot all of a sudden end up with six experienced pros again next summer and try to put together 14 pros again. It’s ridiculous. Oh dear, Steve. It's getting even more ridiculous. What's happening, I wonder?

I would have preferred it in the 90th min. ManUre have a very scary bench.

He [stevie-boy] said: ‘We need two or three permanent signings. ‘You cannot all of a sudden end up with six experienced pros again next summer and try to put together 14 pros again. It’s ridiculous. Well it depends, Steve. If the loan shark owner's goal is to keep the Cheats steady and build a good foundation for the future, then yes, it's ridiculous. But if his goal is to strip everything to the bare bones (now that the promotion gamble looks dead), and wait to trouser the remaining parachute payments until casting off the rotten corpse, then as Del boy would say, you know it makes sense.

Meanwhile the Skates sign a deal with their car sponsors.

Isn't it standard practice for a manager and players to say nice things about their opponents a few days before the match? They don't want to give the other manager something to post on the changing room bulletin board that will give their players an added incentive to play well.

No Lallana = No Saints goals. Hernandez, Berbatov, Rooney, Owen You could be right.

Oh yes, indeed. . Wasn't it the manager of QPR (a club with billionaire owners) who said that they couldn't compete with what the Cheats were offering to players? Hardly the strategy of a skint club content with merely avoiding relegation. Not looking good for the few.

With Chinnys's promotion gamble all but ruined, and him now probably eyeing flogging everyone worth anything, it looks like a desperate attempt by Stevie-boy to avoid this by taking his boys into hiding until the window closes. Either that, or there is a contract out on him.

If that's the case we are heading for a Great Depression.

Berbatov definitely needs a rest. Come on SAF, you know it makes sense. And that young Hernandez guy while you're at it.

Puncheon II?

http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/cgi-bin/res.pl?keyword=Mush&offset=0 MUSH Mush is British slang for the mouth; face. Mush is British slang for a friend. Mush was British Second World War slang for a jail cell. Mush was old British slang for an umbrella. Mush is Southampton slang for a boy or man. Mush is Southampton slang for a man or boy born in Southampton. Or maybe that's a load of bollocks.

Oh deary me. Looks like Chinny's high-wage promotion push gamble is collapsing spectacularly. And the window closes in less than a week. Does he throw more dodgy money after bad in a desperate bid to get to 6th place, or throw in the towel now? What is a loan shark to do? Tick tock ......

You sound like a Storrie-teller.

I'd like to have a sixsome with Allessandra Ambrosio, Halle Berry, Angelina Jolie, Lucy Lui, and Salma Hayek. But I would settle for four of them.

This.

We'll forgive you this time, but don't let it happen again.