Saint-Armstrong

Official Statement: http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/20150330-southampton-financial-results-2013-14-2367070.aspx

Classic - I wish something like this happened in response to every false story written about Saints in the media.

Yeah, they've spun it. They're operating at a profit, but the directors who took on loans to buy the club have put the company in the 'loss' section for the amount of interest accrued on the loans - apparently.

Pompey announce profit of £118k: http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk/documents/pcfc14acs-signed522-2366509.pdf

Rather, keeping updated on the progress of a loan player on big wages that we want to shift. But yeah, can't stop talking about him.

Scored again. 6 goals in 8 appearances since signing for Boca Juniors now.

BBC REPORT: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32090724

AUDIO: Gareth Rogers talks to Adam Blackmore about the club's finances - https://audioboom.com/boos/3033653-exclusive-saintsfc-chief-exec-gareth-rogers-tells-bigadamsport-what-s-most-pleasing-about-2013-14-finances

IF I have got that right, which as suggested above, may not be the case. I was basing it on the financial year - but may be different for Saints.

I would assume in the coming days. The Echo's URL still exists, it just sends you into a dead end if you click it. Suggests they jumped the gun, or meant to schedule it to upload at a certain time and something went wrong.

From 1st of April 2013 to 1st of April 2014.

Saints have revealed their first profit since the takeover of Markus Liebherr in 2009. http://dailyecho.co.uk/sport/11886270.Southampton_to_reveal_first_profit_since_administration/ Now a dead link, but the Echo had a piece up earlier - the headline figures... PROFIT: £33.4m (after tax) - £6.5m loss in 2012/13 REVENUE: £106.1m - up by 52.2% from £71.8m in 2012/13 COMMERCIAL INCOME: £8.3m - up from £6.7m in 2012/13 MATCHDAY INCOME £7.1m - up from £6.8m in 2012/13 TOTAL WAGE BILL: £55.2m - up from £41.4m in 2012/13 TOTAL STAFF NUMBER: 282 - up from 230 in 2012/13 STAPLEWOOD: Investment to date in excess of £25m - when new plans for the extension are complete, the final figure will be £38m LOANS: Katharina Liebherr provided a loan of £14.7m in the financial year The club also held a loan facility, secured against her estate for £14.5m. Katharina Liebherr injected a further loan of £20m into the club during the summer of 2014. Undoubtedly more to come when the report is released - but that's the headline stuff from what was put up, and now taken down...

Dean Hammond talking to the Echo, reflecting on the JPT win: http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/news/11886216.Hammond__JPT_was_catalyst_for_Southampton_success/?ref=rss&cid=dlvr.it

Part two now available.

Mandanda is 30 tomorrow, not exactly what I'd describe as young - even for a goalkeeper.

Saints have got a few videos prepared for the next few days, as tomorrow marks five years since we beat Carlisle at Wembley. Here's the first. [video=youtube;1-WoObSLn40]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3011264/Fraser-Forster-ruled-rest-season-breaking-knee-cap-Southampton-s-win-Burnley.html Oh dear...

VIDEO: James May's response -

Correct, his contract with the BBC expires in six days - so hardly any point in sacking him, from their side of things.

Absolutely, it's his responsibility to check what he's about to print, as it is also the responsibility of The Sun's legal advisors. It's understandable that he perhaps feels an underlying level of resentment towards Duckenfield and co, but he's not really doing himself any favours. He did, but he charged in without fact-checking, or the level of concern for the incident that others in the media did show. Yup, his mistake - that's why you've got to try and cross-reference things. But, The Sun place huge pressure to get lead stories out first and fast, which was ill-advised here.

Here we are...

Had a big lecture on Hillsborough and it's coverage, with someone who once worked with MacKenzie and someone who was there on the day it happened. They said the main issue with the way KM/The Sun went about business was that MacKenzie took the police's word as the instant truth, rather than questioning it and presenting it as the opinion of the police force. He ran wild and proclaimed it as 100% truth, rather than questioning it. However, he did point out that, generally in society, people do have that level of trust for the police. Maybe we shouldn't?! He was fed the line by South Yorkshire Police / Duckenfield, which was also fed to other media groups. The difference is, others were more pragmatic and sensitive and decided it wouldn't be in their best interests to run it, especially so soon to the event. The Sun, being The Sun, have an overwhelming desire to be bold, be loud, and be first - this is an occasion where they got it horribly wrong and rushed in. (That's what was covered in this lecture, basically)