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could be couldn't it. Or Constantinople Con men.

if it is 0-0 I'm handing my ST back. I want to be entertained this season. And I want decent frickin pasties as well. And soft white hand paper towels in the bogs, not those cheap rough blue ones that are abrasive on the skin.

depends how the logo is stuck on. If it is woven in to the front then great. If it is another plastic sticker like the second Flybe shirt then poor. It is all in the logo.

This would have been better, imho:

thanks, so how much movement (running or walking) must I do per day to burn off a plate of pasta? There must be some rule of thumb like x many miles brisk walk to burn of y number of pasta shells....

and good to see that he shops in an up-market supermarket. It wouldn't be right to have our manager shop where the pikes shop like Tesco and Asda. Maybe when we get back in the Prem he can shop at Waitrose.

Dune - do you applaud when Guly scores a goal? Or when Jaidi or Fonte stop an attacker from getting passed them? Immigrants all.... Or do you reserve your hatred of other peoples for poor people looking for a better life?

As useful as a bra on a kipper

I can't understand why I am getting fatter. I used to be as thin as my whippets. Someone suggested it could be because I usually (4 times a week) have a big plate of pasta for lunch. I only ever have a few dollops of pesto to give it flavour, so none of those fatty sauces like carbonara. Apart from that I eat healthily. Although I do have about 20 pints a week and with out fail have two bags of crisps in the evening. Is it the pasta that is making me wander around with the top button of my jeans undone? If I don't get to the bottom of this soon then seeing my willy in the shower will be a thing of the past.

Nessum Dorma

All this talking up our Nige but at the end of the day he has been in the building for a year now and we still have not won the Champions League. We should have been on the party bus a long time ago. Its not good enough. What's he ever done for us? And he's got a great set up with great players and a great sports science unit all pulling in the same direction. Its as simple as that.

spot on. So the dodgy shell corporation hiding behind a dead man can launder more drug money on route to the far east.

Go get yer farvaars gun And shoot the Pompey scum And surrrporrt the Saints We ate pimpey We ate plompey (only to be sung by beered-up illiterate yoof in the Norfam stand when we is losing 1-4 to Pompey in the cup)

Before you start your fitness regime, ask yourself one question and answer it honestly. Is it likely you will have a decent pension pot when you retire in 34 years time? If the answer is no, and these days for most people the answer is no, then fek it. Live life to the full and hope a massive heart attack carries you off before you retire. The idea of sitting for hours on end in a puddle of my own urine in some God-awful 'home' whilst the minimum wage earning 'carers' play Nintendo at reception scares the shat outa me. Screw the gym. Love your belly, eat drink and be merry. Got to go at some point. St Peter must be sick and tired of all the clingers-on that eventually find their way to the pearly gates. Surprise him and pitch up completely out of shape and out of breath.

I am usually able to arrange my signing-on interview every other week for just after lunch on Wednesdays. This is convenient because the Hove dog track opens at 2pm on Wednesdays and is right next door to the job centre. I tend to sleep in until 2pm most other days. Except for when my mate needs some casual labour on a build he has going. Then it is a ***** getting up early but I get cash to supplement the Jsa and housing I get.

Will you calm down please! As of 03/07/2011 the one and only share holder of the holding company which owns Southampton Football Club Ltd which in turn owns the club is listed at companies house as Markus Liebherr. When my gran died it took over a year to process her will and she only had the house she lived in. ML's affairs will have been much more complicated. The club has stated unequivocally that the ownership has passed to 'The Estate of ML'. This means that the executor of the will (or what ever the legal term is in Switzerland) will act according to ML's wishes.

If Rickie even thinks about trying that this season I'll beat him up.

The programme was factually correct. This DMWSL613 ltd owns Southampton Football Club Ltd which owned the club. SFC ltd was incorporated in 1897 and has been the operating company of the club for the past 114 years. In the Lowe era SFC ltd was owned by Southampton Leisure Holdings plc.

I thought it was general pertinent information which deserved its own thread to stand out. The information is not per se anything to do with the tv programme.

One thing the programme did highlight was how easily - and naively - ex footballers get involved in the business side. Remember Le Tiss parading himself around in front of the cameras talking about how he was looking forward to being the Chairman of the club when the 'consortium that never was' made its 'bid'. He was made to look very stupid indeed, and if he hadn't already been a legend in our eyes he would have taken a slacking.

#32 amused me more! 'even the fake investors weren't interested in us'..

Yup, well found. So all the other DMWS xxx ltd companies are just for other clients of the law firm and a convenient way for them to catalog their clients' interests. Blimey, and we have 'discovered' all this in half an hour on the internet. Really shoddy journalism by Channel 4 to insinuate something dodgy in our club's set up.

Here is the latest information straight from Companies House. The Club is owned by an English limited company called DMWSL 613 Ltd. Company number: 06951765 Registered Office: St Mary's Stadium, Southampton, Hampshire, SO14 5FP Company Secretary: Mr Gareth Rogers Director(s): Mr Nicola Cortese Share Capital --------------- Number of ordinary shares allotted: 1 Aggregate nominal value of shares: £1 Amount paid per share: £1 Statement of Capital ----------------------- Total number of shares: 1 Total nominal aggregate value: £1 Full Detail of Shareholder(s) ------------------------------- 1 Ordinary shares held as at 2011-07-03 Name: Markus Liebherr That's all. So as of 3rd July ML was still the owner of the only share in the company which owns the club. Now, of course ML is sadly deceased so from this latest filing we can safely say that his one share in the company (and therefore ownership of the club) is still working its way through probate by the executors of his will. Big news to all of us. Pity the Channel 4 programme couldn't have told it like this. I would easily say that given this the ownership of SFC is the most transparent it could possibly be. Most other clubs will show the shareholders as other companies who are owned by other companies in tax havens etc. This Annual Report tells us that there is just one share and it is owned by the late Mr Liebherr who is a human. ** All this data from Annual Return ***EDIT: The Club is actually owned by 'Southampton Football Club Limited' whose company number is 53301 - as reported on the official site of the club (http://www.saintsfc.co.uk). Doing a companies house check lists that company as having been incorporated on 12th July 1897. This company is wholly owned by DMWSL 613 Ltd. It is nice to know that the operating company (as opposed to the holding company) has now been a going concern for over 114 years! Makes you proud, doesn't it?

DMWSL 613 Ltd - is the holding company of SFC and Companies House has the company's registered office as St Mary's. If you do a Companies House Webcheck (http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/bc64222dee22ff622cbc1b2071034341/companysearch?disp=1&frfsh=1311020182#result you will see a lot of other companies starting with 'DMWSL xxx'. In all likelyhood ML used the same company name format to separate his many different UK business interests. This is not uncommon. Rather than have to dream up interesting names for each time you start a new venture etc it is just easier to instruct your lawyer to create a new company with the next number in the series. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if wealthy business people bulk register companies so they can get up and running in a matter of minutes. Whatever, no need to worry just because the holding company has a weird non-name.

The only thing that documentary really said was that consortiums buy football clubs these days and that it is technically possible for the puppet-masters to own more than one club at a time. Well tell us something we didn't know. The programme lent heavily on the 'sensational' fact that most discussions were carried out in a bar and casino. Again, bugger me. Most business deals are solidified in bars/restaurants/clubs before going on to lawyer's offices. And that one man was bigging up his relationship with a 'celeb'. Shock! Horror! That's never happened before! I'm not sure the programme was really worth the hour of my time, to be frank. I guess when they set about making it they were hoping for something much more juicy but on the evidence presented nothing was indicated to be illegal or even shady. Just business men getting around a rule (not law) by using special purpose investment vehicles - something the City has been doing for years. It is perfectly legal. Sorry, no news here.