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Weston, Do you believe the other midfielders that Matt was up against in the early 90s for the england berth were better? What else could he have done, run around more to find himself in the wrong areas of the pitch to do any damage? Matts failure of an England career rests on the shoulders of the spiteful England managers who thought workhorses could score enough goals. IMO of course!

MLT is for me the reason i got into football. Yes Southampton are my home town club but football had never appealed to me until i watched him play. Yes who could be lazy, but boy he to things with the ball that 99% on the current day footballers just cannot do. People bleat on about his fitness issues and all that but who's to say that were he to train harder he would lose that split second of timing to to hit the ball the way he did. The double standards where people go on about C Ronaldo showing no loyalty etc just p i s s es me off when we have people citing a lack of ambition in MLT. By staying at Saints he was playing AGAINST the best players (in the prem) week in week out. It was his way of saying screw you guys i am better than you! Hell he even made Iain Dowie a half decent Striker. Nowadays its all about fitness and power, where any players with a shred of creativity have it "coached" out of them. Look at Joe Cole for instance. The spectacular goals these days amounts to hit and hope rockets. People say that he doesn't work for the full 90 minutes but not that many players do! does the keeper for example? Carlton Palmer ran around a lot (usually chasing a ball from his own loose touch!) but it doesn't make he great. Yes i am slightly disillusioned with modern day football!!! hahaha MLT has also put Saints on the map. On my travels its the first thing people say when i say i am from southampton. Not Rupert Lowe!

any trusted member of the SWF able to get one signed for me. I'm out of the country at the moment so can't do it myself.

Did he keep up with play? Maybe we finally have a forward who knows what the offside trap is!

after the scandalous way MLT was treated by a succession of england managers. club every time....

BTF how old are you if you don't mind me asking. Didn't picture you as a grandma...

Le Tiss????

Relocation 6000+miles away....

You miss me then? I'm still a no at the moment....

I still stand by the fact that the court case kept him in the Saints job for far longer than he should have been. We were crap the last 2 months he was here. Then the whole court case appeared and Lowe couldn't be seen to sack a man under stress. The whole hoodle interim manager thing was not handled well granted...

The no charges thing only counts for europe. I think they are charging for rest of the world now....

+1 . Hoddle is a **** and what we need now is someone to unite the fan base not divide it. I will not be going to SMS if comes back. Plus the football was sh!te under him, we got lucky and ground out 1-0 wins when BT was on a hot streak.

Geez, you still fantasizing about Metsu!!!

The match is on you tube now...

Thing is why has the administrator come from barclays and not AViva? Surely Aviva have the most to lose and they should be calling the shots, and not barclays? Surely whoever buys saints (if we find a buyer! ) will have to continue to service the mortgage, abet maybe with renegotiated interest rates. If not there is no way Aviva would agree to £14m its why i asked what the £14m covers. If the £14m covers barclays debt (+ other smaller creditors) + assets then i can understand it. If it covers barclays + others + assets + SMS Then i can't see there being a resolution. goddamnit!!!!

That was what i was thinking....

What does this £14 Mil cover? I thought Saints debts were mainly £4 mill to barclays and £25 Mil for SMS? Does this £14Mil include the mortgage? I wish somebody could give me actual FACTS!!!!

Told you it was an ageing strikeforce! You couldn't last the second half and the reds came back to win!!!!

I believe the match will be won in midfield... Mike will have his hands full against the young whipper snappers but duracell bunny should be around to help him out... The aging strikeforce of baj and the9 are eyeing this up as their last big payday...... So 0-0!!! Joking i reckon it will be 3-1....Damn i wish i was there...Now i am off to sleep

So f-ing jealous....... If i go to the airport now i might make it for half time!!!!!

+1 I totally agree...

1 f***ing header won in 23 starts... You have got to be kidding me.... Even i could do better than that! and i am 5 foot 6....

I'm gonna ache tomorrow.... I blame Si for blasting the ball into me a few times. I'm not the goal ok!!! But thanks for the lift!

I flew 6000+ miles for that crap.... Right my honest assessment. I haven't seen size play yet but the defence was poor today. You could get a bus though the centre! Thompson to be far isn't a right back. Rudi's positioning was terrible. Wotton is $hit!!!!! i could have done a better job then him. He was too deep couldn't tackle and slow as ****! Lallana, Surman were both rubbish. No tactical awareness, and gave the fullbacks no cover whatsoever. DMG tried hard but had no support from the rest of the midfield. We were so narrow! Sag tried but wasn't so good. I didn't think Euell did that bad, he tried, but again had no support. Sticking Smith and BWP on opposite wings was flipping stupid given how narrow we were. I have lost hope!!! we are as good as down...

The demise started when Michael Svensson got ****ed on that $hitty fratton park pitch in the warm up... I blame Portsmouth for everything!!!!!