Lighthouse

And I’d be astonished if he was on anywhere near £200k back then either. Even today it’s nothing compared to a top lawyer, banker or medical consultant.

Two women are on a girls night out and whilst walking home they desperately need to p*ss. They sneak into a nearby cemetery and crouch down behind a tombstone but suddenly realise they have nothing to wipe with. One woman thinks, ‘sod it I’ll just use my knickers and leave them here’. The second grabs the wreath for the grave she’s crouching on and uses that. The next day one of their husbands texts the other and says, "no more girls’ nights out, my wife came home last night with no knickers on!" The other guy replies, "think you’ve got problems? My wife had a card in her crack saying, ‘from all the guys down at the fire station, we’ll never forget you!’"

David Nugent is an England international. McCarthy has one cap, Forster hasn’t been in the squad for about five years now. I don’t care what they’ve got an eye on, both are a noticeable weakness in our team.

I’d look to offload both in summer if I’m completely honest, I’ve never thought either were anything special.

There was a Kenyan bloke on here a while back who, wouldn’t you know it, just so happened to have lots of inside information from connections within the club. It’s a privilege to have access to this forum, it really is.

He’s not a left back though, just filling in there. The only chance we’d have would be if City went and bought a decent LB, told OZ he wouldn’t get any game time at all and we promised him regular game time playing AM. It’s still unlikely but I’d much prefer that to signing Walcott permanently.

Our squad is no smaller than Man City. Obviously we have nowhere near the depth and quality but we could do a fair bit better if we could finally offload the dross accumulated by Reed and Wilson. If we can offload Forster, Lemina, Hoedt, Moi, Long (what were they thinking) and don’t keep Walcott we’ve suddenly got some wiggle room on the wage bill. Easily enough for a couple of half decent fullbacks and an attacker, possibly Minamino. Do that and half a dozen Europa League games suddenly looks plausible.

That’s a honeymoon if you live in Tipner.

Why on Earth would Zinchenko come to us? He’s playing regularly for the league leaders.

He’s not good enough for City. If he goes it’ll be Spurs, Everton, Leicester or West Ham.

My opinion of that is basically the same as when it comes to racism and other abuse. Social media is a means by which any nutter in the world can contact you in an instant. All this really proves is that they’re out there.

I’d take one for a cup win. Not for another QF or whatever round this is next.

Probably because your average army recruit can’t phone his agent and demand a transfer to the Navy Reserves if the corporals are being mean to him.

I think Alisson’s been on the disco biscuits.

Gundogan watching the rugby before the game it would seem.

I'm really not sure the rest of the football world views a man who has been at Southampton for two years, and has them firmly in the bottom half after two 9-0 defeats, as an upgrade on Mourinho.

Well if we knew that, we’d all be making billions from the bookmakers.

It's the irony more than anything. The hateful, f**king irony. In our very next game life says, "hey, now let's see what YOU can do against 9 men!"

A win and three draws in 16 games would be a miracle? The bottom three will struggle to get where we are now, let alone 40 points.

Can we finally put to bed the myth of underperforming at St Mary’s because of negative fans? They’ve been playing in empty stadiums for a year and it’s the same gutless, feeble bunch of bottle jobs as ever.

Should we have kept Long because of that display by Ings?

It’s like they’ve come home from losing 9-0 again and thought ‘how can we take the p*ss out of our own fans even more?’ I know, we’ll play against 9 men in our very next game and fail to score at all.

Form. We aren’t as bad as the team that lost 9-0 and we aren’t as good as the team that was top of the table.

What’s betting when that does happen it ends up being someone like Djenepo, with Stephens moving inside.

Newcastle bought us a packet of profiteroles to cheer us up?