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I never really warmed to him whilst he was in here anyway. The way he arrived was disgraceful (although not really his fault) and the angriest I've ever been about anything in football ever.

This bit as well is interesting

Add Pompey fans to that list, who still sing about 'sending us down'

Liverpool are the ones known for slipping #SlippyG

I am optimistic, although realistically I do expect Liverpool to win over the two legs.

One positive is that I'd rather lose at this stage then lose at Wembley... It would be typical Saints for us to do the hard work, beat Liverpool over two legs... and then lose to Hull in the final.

Obviously Fonte and his agent have been playing games, presumably in an effort to either get more money from the club or get a move to a top 6 club. Unfortunately for him, it has spectacularly backfired, and there doesn't seem to be much interest from any big clubs. So this is how I see the different options that Fonte is left with. If he hasn't burnt all of his bridges yet, and the contract(s) we offered him are still on the table, then perhaps he might decide he'd be better off staying here. However, it would appear both the player and the club have decided that his future lies away from Southampton. So that leaves: Palace, who are desperate for new signings and would probably match his demands. Portugal, and a return to his 'spiritual home' (let's home that phrase doesn't get uttered in the press release ! ) China, for one last mega payday.

My personal opinion, having watched the games, is that he has gone missing and hasn't had much of an influence in those games.

He contributed nothing to their team's performance. He's always gone missing. It'll be interesting to see on Wednesday if he finally shows up. Law of averages and his recent form suggests he probably will, but let's hope not.

Every single time he has come back, Lallana has completely bottled it. He hates the abuse he gets. And remember when Lovren had to be taken off at half time because of the abuse and we scored three second half goals to win?

Just scrolled through twitter to see if I could find anything else amusing. A fake account managed to troll Pompey fans by thinking they had sold their star player Chaplin A fan was tweeting Crouch, begging him to move back to Pompey to end his career there. And a couple of others were moaning that they hadn't won the FIFA award for best fans.

Liverpool and Man Utd guaranteed Derby v Leicester might be a good shout, I reckon our game as well and the Man City one.

They normally play the reserves anyway so not a bad draw Will probably be on TV too

That'll be a TV game I imagine

4th round draw coming up now

A fan posted this on Twitter. 20 years go when they were redeveloping the stadium "The stadium will rival other football grounds in the country"

I was hoping to give them the benefit of the doubt that these people are just a bit dim but unfortunately I think you're probably right.

Puel said he might play at Burnley

You think he's been changing around the team on purpose? He'd love to name the same side but the amount of games means that squad rotation has been (and will continue to be, at least until the end of January) a necessity. I can't believe some people STILL cannot grasp this. It's not that difficult to understand. At least he's trying his best in English, even though he obviously isn't fluent (yet). If he wasn't speaking in English and using a translator, there'd still be people criticising him. Contrary to popular belief, not everyone in the world can speak English very well. You try a press conference in a foreign language and maybe you'll have a bit more sympathy for him.

Puel wants us to have more of the ball than we did when we last played Liverpool

Puel says that Fonte won't participate in the Liverpool game, but might play in Burnley. He's staying with the same defence of Yoshida and VVD.

It's a skate on a wind up. He'll look a bit of a plank if we end up winning the EFL Cup or FA Cup whilst Koeman wins nothing in English football AGAIN.

Yeh I'm not sure I could stand 210 minutes of that Hopefully we'll try and attack them a bit more, given that defensively they are frail. Unfortunately at the moment, so are we.

Liverpool forum expects a win, although it looks like they might be a light in midfield. Milner and Henderson are out, and Coutinho probably won't be risked. There a mix of views about whether they should start their strongest XI, given they have Man Utd in the match afterwards. Perhaps one or two youngsters will start, but it'll probably be a strong team.