Sour Mash

In all seriousness, Dave Whelan is an excellent Chairman.

No, Dubai Phil is the only person on this board with business experience, we should all show due reverence to that.

Putting all your other BS to one side, this is a gem. You really can't have seen many Saints games over the years if you think that.

I think you missed the point. No-one has ever said that Adkins is a genius.

And for all of Lowe's many faults, he was ambitious and certainly wasn't one to "stagnate", see bringing in Redknapp and Woodward as an example of that.

Could be absolute b****s, but just seen on twitter that the Chelsea team have been staying at a hotel owned by the lad's old man. Couldn't make it up if true.

I'm not sure if you get my point. There is very little correlation between a club "choosing" to be ambitious or "choosing" to stagnate and success on the field. Football is full of examples of both failing. By your logic we should aim to finish first every season, as if we fall short we'll just finish 3rd or 4th.

Why should he? It's not like its all he tweets about is it? He's got every right to voice his opinion.

Rubbish. Plenty of excessively ambitious clubs have ended up being relegated. And lots of sensible, pragmatic clubs have been successful in the Prem. There is very little substance in reality for your theory.

You've got to be joking?

Yeah I know (see first line of my post), look at 2nd line of post I was replying to though.

Those ITK on such things, why do Inter not fancy Coutinho at all? He seems happy enough to stay and work for a place, young lad with loads of potential etc.

As I say, why did it get to the point where the player had to go over to try and get the ball off the ballboy? The Ref should have been managing that situation in advance, not allowing Swansea to take the P**s like that.

Non-stop tweets about being in Barcelona, nice bit of kudos training there, but don't need to over push it.

Think its all we could get in the end.

Look at the official twitter account, club website, Megastore bags etc. Subtle change, but it is a change.

I'm not necessarily worried about our spending, but we've taken a BVI loan for a reason.

He's right though. Never hear it at games, in the pub etc.

Spot on, very well summed up.

The faked injury was the bit that did it for me.

The FA should investigate Swansea, out of order putting kids in that situation and asking them to influence a game like that.

Hazard shouldn't have done what he did. But the ref should have done something about the ballboy wasting time in the first place. And the shove wasn't that hard, he deliberately laid on top of the ball. Ref should not have sent him off. If it was later proved that Hazard had booted the lad, the FA could have taken action then.

Exactly. What a c.o.cky little t**t. Terrible decision from ref. He should have been doing something about the actual, organised time wasting.

I could very well be wrong on this, but I seem to remember someone saying that it wasn't actually possible to bet on the time of the first throw in back when Le Tiss claimed they did this. Anyone know for definite either way?

'MatthewLeGod' really didn't pick the right username did he!