spyinthesky

As I understand it Everton have been given permission to build a £500m stadium on redundant port land in Liverpool. Any supporting developments will be by third parties I think. However it seems that Everton dont want to capitalise any revenue from selling the Goodison Park site and intend to retain it for community projects associated with the club.

I played with both Wayne and Brian in my youth along with Bob Wakerley who I think was also from the IOW. RIP Wayne and sympathies to to his family.

I have to agree with other posters about our lack of aerial presence in the final third. Long balls forwards, particularly from Forster, basically gave the ball away to Leicester. We havent had an aerial presence since Pelle left. Shane Long (bless him) had a bit of a leap on him but that was about all. We dont have the creativity to play balls through the middle so a big target man, to my mind, is a useful asset as is more physical prowess in mid field but doubt we have the cash to stump up the necessary transfer money.

We are a less than average team with less than average players. Dont blame the Manager. He can only work within a limited transfer fund. Those responsible are those who spunked away the Van Dyke money

Presumably this will be the day when our 2021 perfect FA Cup defensive record goes down the Swanny!!

The Mail would probably like Katie Price as our Monarch given the profile they give her on their media stream

As a long standing Saints fan, it is quite normal to ship loads of goals. Historically we have never had a decent defence. However we normally score a lot too but not so many this year!!

Interesting that at the start of the season most Hammers fans were up in arms about David Moyes, the Board and the team generally. Bournemouth beat them 7-0 in a pre season friendly and there was a sluggish start to the League campaign. Look at them now chasing a Champions League spot!!

Think we should dispense with shirts and each player should be contractually bound to have the team's kit design tattoed on their torsos. In addition platers will be covered in foul smelling grease to prevent opposing players getting too close to our players

Mack An 'orse?

Jim Ratcliffe also funds the Ineos Cycling team (ex Sky Cycling team) Didnt he get turned down for a big expansion of the property he owns (owned) on Beaulieu River?

Apparently there were quite a few cruise passengers both from the Uk and abroad were amazed to see all the trains to London full of 'socca' people from a relatively small English city clad in red and white.

I was a Remainer but no way can the Liberty Steel fiasco be blamed on Brexit

Definitely over 50,000 Saints fans there Crowd was 75,000 and Carlisle only sold 17,000 tickets, which to be fair wasnt a bad effort as Sunday trains from the area were sparse and coaches had to leave about 5am to get to Wembley in time. If you looked round the stadium it seemed as though Saints fans had taken up the vast majority of the stadium and looking at the figures, Saints fan could have made up the 58,000 difference. There were somewhere in the region of 120 coaches which went up from the area, all that could be found on the day and the trains to Waterloo were rammed. Understand quite a few fans caught trains going east terminating at Victoria.

Question is, what is JWP worth in today's market? He certainly ticks a lot of boxes for a relatively young central midfielder. Fingers and toes crossed he doesnt get injured.

The goalkeeping reference is interesting. The only 'keepers who I recollect coming through the ranks and playing more than the odd game for Saints were Bob Charles in the 1960's and Gerry Gurr in the 70's. The club had hopes for Alan Blaney but he suffered from homesickness I think and went back to Ireland. Overall the club's development programme is arguably in the worst state it has been in my memory.

I have always wondered how the best teams of today would fare against the best teams of yesteryear. The yesteryear team would struggle with the fitness and strength of modern players plus the different style of play now in use. A bit like the first ever home defeat for the England national team against foreign opposition in 1953 when the Hungarians, with a 'modern' style of play walloped England 6-3 and then repeated the experience later with a 7-1 win in Budapest. However you put our modern players up against players, say in the 1930's, on a mudheap, a heavy ball and boots and a very lenient Referee who wouldnt penalise a player for over robust play or an 'attack' on the GK (George Kirby style) and that may be a different story.

Agree with comments on KWP I initially thought this was a poor, over priced, transfer. Just goes to show how little I know. Stuart Armstrong has got fitter and better as a consequence. JWP was another I thought was a bit limited but has now become an integral part of our team. I think most of us had negative views on Vestegaard only for him to prove us wrong on current form

He invited my girlfriend to his hotel room when out at the Concorde Club one night. She declined!! Give him credit for trying.

Looking at todays games would have fancied playing against Chelsea more than Leicester but it what happens on the day and whatever happens it seems the winner will have to get past Man City in the Final

Such a shame as I have met him on a number of occasions and he has always come across as a decent and relatively intelligent person.

It seems that Ted Bates hasnt come out of the report too well and I guess there are other senior members of the club at the time will have fingers pointed at them.

Havent looked it up yet but think this could be one of our worst run of crap results in my memory. When Lawrie McMenemy first took over we were doing OK in the first half of the season and then had a very poor run of results including a home defeat against other relegation candidates, Birmingham, at Easter. We also had another very dodgy spell (I think under Chris Nicholl) after an encouraging start to the season, which was only interrupted by a late penalty by Neil Ruddock in vital game v Newcastle in front of a sparse Dell crowd under lights late in the season.

Recollect he was on loan at Weymouth earlier in the season Dont think he impressed