Lighthouse

Really was nothing to get excited about, unless your FF and for some reason need to make up extra reasons to criticise Tadic.

Adkins first game in charge wasn't it? Lost 2-0 at MK Dons. 4 years ago today we lost 6-1 at Arsenal.

Are we counting Brenda as an honourable mention in this thread? Apparently, "there's no embarrassment," in losing 7-0 to Barca.

Some people don't seem to accept that not everyone is a diehard fan. For a fair number of casual fans, the expense and inconvenience of some games takes the enjoyment out of going. Even at home.

No, alcohol is banned for everybody.

It wasn't crazy, we've seen nothing from Gallagher to suggest he is Premier League standard, yet. Long didn't miss those chances because he was afraid, he missed them because he's Shane Long and that's what he's done his whole career. As an aside, exactly 5 years ago we lost 1-0 away to Swindon and ended up in the drop zone, without a manager. We managed to avoid relegation so, I won't panic just yet. The goal scorer that day, a Mr Charles Austin.

You must be easily amused because I find him quite astonishingly dull.

"What's 20 million" How about £4m more than our record signing.

Really? You really don't understand why we sold a player who didn't want to be here, who we'd still have to sell next summer £20m cheaper anyway?

Never mind him, he's still upset because Adkins got the sack. As far as he's concerned no other manager is good enough.

It was blatantly obvious, as Long was missing those chances, that we'd get robbed in injury time. Didn't think it would be quite that awful but it was coming none the less. On the up side, getting robbed at the Emirates is hardly inductive of a team struggling in a relegation fight.

First team for me, we really need a win for some confidence. Today's team with Hoj in for Clasie please.

F**k off Long! Ridiculous.

If that was Yoshida he'd be crucified.

Really? I can only see one.

Wish we were Stoke.

West Ham

My stream's a bit slow, we're 2-0 down against Liverpool here. Need to get that clown Mané off.

I understand it too, lesser of 2 evils and all that. I did have the 'pleasure' of being in the Slug and Lettuce with a bunch of Utd fans before that game. The sang quite a lot, mainly about how sh*t City were, something about Barcelona in 99 and something about Januzaj being the next big thing.

Can't say I'm all that fussed. If the big clubs want to p*ss off and be global super franchises in cities across the globe then so be it. If it means teams like Saints have a half decent chance of winning the Premier League, competing with the likes of West Ham, Liverpool and Everton, it could be alright. I don't particularly care if Utd me Chelsea p*ss off with their £100m jet lagged players.

It could well be that different races have different mental attributes which make them better suited to different roles. I can't believe for a second though that we would pick and chose academy players based on race. I'm sure if we found a pale, white ginger kid who could play like Romario, the club wouldn't be saying he was the wrong colour.

Fonte won't be sold in January and I very much doubt he will leave at all now. There are only 2 deals I can see happening; 1. A loan to replace a long term injury. 2. An opportunistic, Austin type, 'too good to refuse' bargain for a player nearing the end of his contract.

Good shout. Think Guly scored a corker against Blackpool in the cup once. Vergini has to be up there for the Lolz I think.

Baird vs. Cardiff. Vignal vs. Leicester Pelle vs. QPR Lallana vs. Hull Lallana vs. Newcastle Beattie vs. Arsenal Skacel vs. Yeovil Thomas vs. Ipswich Tadanari vs. Derby Plus any number of Lambert and Bale free kicks.

This basically. They can't all be Lovren/Mané/Lambert triple your money signings.