Deppo

Was it audible then? If this is the case, he should definitely be banned.

No need for personal comments

Well, the BBC apologists need not sign up to this letter - just bury your heads and let the damage be inflicted. Anyone else who cares about the club, read this email I'm going to send off and let me know if you think I should add anything to it/remove anything from it: Dear Mr Thompson, RE: BBC website - League 1 football section, Southampton FC pages I am writing to you regarding the Southampton FC stats page which can be found on the BBC League 1 football pages (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/southampton/club_stats/default.stm). I was studying this information today (Sunday 10th April 2011) and was taken aback when I looked closely at some of the "statistics". For example, despite being on a winning run which has taken Southampton to 2nd in the table (7 wins out of 8 games) we are informed that the "games since win" statistic is 0. Well, this is clearly wrong. It hasn't been 0 games since a win - how would a team rise to 2nd in the table with such a figure? Another stat on the site is "games since clean sheet" which is recorded as zero again. This is the day after we won 2-0! How on earth can this be justified? When this abuse of statistics is combined with the pathetic coverage of the Saints game on the FL show, it is not surprising that many Southampton fans are coming to the conclusion that the BBC has some kind of vendetta against the club. This isn't just a handful of people, literally thousands have expressed the same opinion on the Saints fans forum (Saints Web Forum). I would appreciate it if you could explain your organisations actions against my club and I am more than willing to discuss the Saints Web Forum opinions with you, either via email, over the phone or in a face to face meeting. I look forward to hearing from you soon. Deppo

I am not being sarcastic.

I've found some more interesting stats for this season: Most goals scored in a single season by players with names ending in vowels (Lallana, do Prado, Forte, Fonte, Jaidi) Most points taken in a season from grounds with names ending in 'Park' Least number of grounds visited with electric hand driers in the toilets in a season Most number of patellas reflexed over an entire season on a message board community

Who are you asking?

I like all these great new stats coming out. Are there any more out there? Please post any interesting new stats on this thread as I'd be interested to see them. I'll try and dig out some.

We have won 7 games out 8 - it hasn't been 0 games since a win. The BBC is trying to make us look bad.

I like the way that the preamble has nothing to do with the reason then given.

It was a good guess though. You have to admit that.

It was mentioned on the football league highlites (sic) thread that the BBC seems to have a vendetta against us. There is further evidence of this on the Saints page in the BBC football section. Take a look at this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/southampton/club_stats/default.stm It's the Saints stats page from the BBC and there are some clearly deliberate mistakes. Having just reported on our 2-0 victory they claim that our games since conceding a goal is 0. They also say "games since win = 0" as well. This is crazy. The casual visitor to the Saints stats page would get completely the wrong idea about us. If those casual visitors don't look at the tabe after looking at our stats page they will think we're some rubblish lower/mid table team (is this the BBCs agenda?) and those that do look at the table after our stats page will see us in 2nd and say "Hey! This doesn't tally with the stats.....whats going on here.....have Southampton been cheating?". Now some of you may bury your heads and say that sounds silly, but a Saints fan themself has mentioned how we've managed to overtake Huddersfield despite Huddersfields amazing run and wondering if we've been cheating (can't get the thread right now, but will dig it out in a bit). If one of own can think this, why wouldn't the casual Saints Stat viewer on the BBC? Again, what are the BBC up to? Part of a vendetta? To this end, I am going to fire off an email to the Director General of the BBC and what would be great is if I could say that 3000 people from SWF agree with me. I'll draft an email later and post it up. If you agree then say so and I'll add your name to it when I send it off.

What a difference a week makes...... http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?29239-Playoffs-it-seems-then

Yes, good point. A lot of away goals have come in a just a few games meaning that we're not scoring as many away as some may think and are, in fact, better at home.

The bloody BBC hate us and are clearly biased.

We now have 38 goals from 20 homes games and 34 goals from 19 away games. This is better than before when St David rightly highlighted the issue, so well done lads. It certainly looks like some of the players have been reading the forum.

2? What do I win?

"The better team lost" is right up there with "We had to burn the village in order to save it".

This thread is better than the one of the same name on the Orient message board, which has one post that simply reads: What a ****.

Terrible marking on Lambert for that first goal. Looked like the Orient players were just training.

I actually think its easier to predict failure, as you do. That way you can be smug if it happens, but happy if it doesn't.

Wasn't the Orient chairman squinnying about how, if Spurs or West Ham moved to the Olympic Stadium, it would impact on their home support? What home support?

http://twitter.com/#!/RadhijaidiOff/status/56758269871538176 @Radhijaidioff Well don Saints fan ... Felt like I'm home.

Did the book come first or the film first?

Has Ashley Cole joined the Navy?

I'm sure that Baj will find some and infract me for it.