Lighthouse

What a day that was. When the equaliser went in I went mental, haven't gone that nuts since Rickie scored at Fratton. Voice - gone. So proud of the team but if that isn't the most typical Saints vs Man Utd cliché, I don't know what is. Out play them - check Miss chances to win it - check Big officiating error in their favour - check One world class player bails out their underperforming superstars - check Media w**k over said player despite obviously better performances from Saints players - check Anyway, fantastic performance all round. Yoshida, Gabbi, Cedric, JWP and Romeu all exceptional.

I'll just move this up here. Will a cup final being heavily influenced by a fairly obvious (on the replay) offside decision be enough to spark debate within the powers that be? Should it? Was today just part of the entertainment of the game? Taking our Saints hats off, did that decision add to the spectacle, from a neutral POV?

Niemi Cedric - Yoshida - Svensson - Bertrand Oakley - Romeu Gabbi - Boufal - Tadic Beattie

Bournemouth take the lead after 5 minutes and are losing after 22. Boruc howler for the second. Pretty much Bompey in a nutshell.

Talking about the game on Soccer Saturday. First 10 minutes, didn't mention Saints. Just talking about what José thinks about Zlatan and will Rooney go to China. I hate the Premier League.

I occasionally wonder just how bad Forecast was. I think at one point he couldn't get a game for Thurrock in the Isthmian League. He must be quite astonishingly untalented.

I'd almost forgotten Stoke were in the Championship with us. Feels like they have been welded to the middle of the Premier League table since the beginning of time.

Yeah but she's going to be mad at you for something, so might as well make it something worthwhile.

Can imagine we would sell J Rod in summer but doubt we will see a replacement. With us only playing 1 up front, the club will be happy enough with the other three we have plus Gallagher, I'd have thought.

If you want...

Actually men are feared for being thugs. My girlfriend is East European, says a lot of the men there are alcoholics or drug addicts and dealers. If you respect that, fair enough. I don't.

I'd be interested to hear the views of anyone who IS planning to go to Russia. I don't think any football match is worth getting the living sh*te kicked out of you for.

Would love it if literally nobody went. A tournament being played in empty stadia would be a proper embarrassment to that regime.

Useless Safri

Zlatan vs. Stephens should be a good one. Basically I'm just going to drink 'til I don't care about the result beforehand.

We have never been in a relegation battle. Having a poor run of 6 games and being "only" 8 points above the drop zone isn't being in a fight. We're now in 11th, 10 points clear of safety. The idea that Hull and Palace are going to overhaul that kind of gap in 3 months is laughable.

I think CR will be able to rally Leicester just enough to put some decent results together and stay up. They've got enough about them I reckon. Bompey will probably score enough goals to beat a few teams who struggle to score but will run it close IMO. If it was a starlight shootout with everyone on equal points, maybe but they've got a 6 point head start on their competitors. Sunderland, Hull and one more team from Swansea downwards in the table. Honestly can't decide who, I thought the Swans were nailed on a month ago, now they look the most likely to get out of it.

I'm going to be unpopular and say Leeds. I know the older fans who remember Revie's "dirty Leeds" team won't agree but I think it would be good to see them up again. They've got Monk and Beattie in charge and I'd like to see them have a decent swing at the top level. Plus it really annoys Man Utd when they beat them.

The problem with basing things on 6 games is that they're based on 6 games. We have never at any point this season looked bad enough to go down. Bottom half, probably but you've really got to be something else to go down. Just look at our defence when we ctually did get relegated. To a man they were dreadful, we'd have stayed up if any of them were as good as Yoshida.

A white wine spritzer too many for Charlie this evening.

Sunderland are absolute dogsh*t.

Boufal, easily. Tadic is left side or nothing IMO.

Just knew there would be 2 late goals FFS

No point being Long on when our midfield keep knocking it to square leg.