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Second in the League with no hope of European football? You really are a melon sometimes.

Why would you weaken your team for the fixture you are most likely to win? Why leave him out because he is on a yellow? It just means he misses 2 games instead of 1 when he finally does get booked.

Well it's not a sell out is it, for two reasons. 1) Giving away free tickets to 10,000 people who have little or no intention of going isn't 'selling'. 2) You can't claim you've sold out just because there were only 55,000 tickets available. Using the same logic, I could print 2 tickets to see me picking my nose at Wembley, give them to two random blokes in a pub and claim I've sold out Wembley because all available tickets have been taken. Why the need to question my sexuality? What is it about not wanting Sunday League standard football on TV which makes you think I'm gay? Why would that even be an issue for you if I am?

Was looking for team news on Saints twitter feed and had a small heart attack when I saw Gazza starting. Thank f**k it was just the U-21

That's where you're wrong IMO, it is less worthy of being on TV. I think the England women's team would probably be beaten by a half decent Sunday League men's team. You wouldn't sit watching a men's Sunday League match on TV, so why would you watch a women's game of similar quality. There is no other reason to watch it other than the fact that it is women playing. To me that's positive discrimination in favour of women, which I disagree with.

23 for me. The only ones I missed in the top half were Ships, Maddison and gorgeous Iain who were all before my time so I'm not to ashamed about that. Took me a while to remember Lallana for some reason and I was surprised to see Gaston on the list, thought he only had about 3.

I think that's the one where Enckleman got sent off and was replaced by Postma. This was in the days before we found out he liked a dildo up the bum.

We don't generally lose when we're on Sky, that's the biggest myth out there. Off the top of my head we've won against Everton and Fulham last year and Reading me Man City the year before. We also got a 1-1 draw against Arsenal. The home win over Liverpool 2 years ago was also on one of the subscription channels.

If tickets were limited to 55,000 how come 10,000 of them didn't turn up? Surely if they were that hard to come by people would be selling them on the black market for a nice big mark up. On the subject of which, does anyone know the prices for this? If you're after equality you need to be asking at least £50 a ticket for a game at Wembley.

More 'Spurs away' defending from Lovren for the second.

This kind of stuff is all possible for some people but not everyone. Bingo bus - It saves money but you then have to get to St Mary's (or possibly Winchester/Eastleigh is the other pick up?) through rush hour traffic. That means leaving work even earlier which isn't an option for everyone. Sure you can eat before you set off but again that will take some time and mean leaving work earlier. Then you're going from about 4pm to 1am without any food. We can sit here splitting hairs over the finer details but it's different for every individual. Even if the bingo bus works out perfectly for you, and you go max. cost saving you're going to spend 5 hours sat on a coach, have to leave work early, get to bed after 1am and fork out £60. That just isn't everyone's cup of tea.

The ONLY reason I would want to go to this game instead of watching it on a warm comfy sofa is for the atmosphere and to cheer the team on. Sitting in silence, even if we score in order to avoid getting kicked out/head kicked in just isn't worth going at all for. For me it would be away end or nothing. Even cost saving and with a fairly efficient car (baring in mind the traffic) you are going to spend at least £85 and be starving by the time you get home.

£40 a ticket, £50 for a return drive to Brum. A pie, a pint, a Burger King at the services and parking will easily make up the rest. Even if you find someone to share a ride with you're still looking at £75

Brenda, if it's any consolation, we don't have any sympathy for you either.

Personally I reckon all tickets for TV fixtures should be half price, with the resulting drop in revenue being covered Sky or BT accordingly. For many people £100 on a evening out in Birmingham just isn't an option. Not when it could be a choice between that and buying the kids X-mas presents.

Rush hour traffic on the M40 Getting home at 1am with work the next morning £40 a ticket with another £50 in fuel a month before X-mas when it's on Sky for free. Can't really blame people for not going to this one.

The standard of football is just bad. I only saw the highlights of that game but it seemed to be played at the same pace as that Saints Web match we played about 5 years ago, without too much extra talent. Still this is the BBC so anything to do with 'equality' and they're all over it.

I'm surprised that I am still surprised about Liverpool. Just when you think they can't get any worse they delve into new depths of badness.

"What are you laughing about?" - Dad

Not even close IMO, has done nothing against anyone decent since Euro 2004. A tap in against Uruguay being his only contribution to any of the World Cups. Bagging them in during qualifiers against San Marino, Estonia and Montenegro does not make you great.

This reminds me of that Roy Hodgson comment about Townsend being a monkey, in the sense that nobody was actually offended but the press felt the need to tell everybody it was a big offensive racism scandal. All I see is an old man making lazy stereotypes. In a world where we've got busses full of people being executed because they haven't memorise the Qur'an I don't think we need to get to excitable about some old bloke in Wigan talking nonsense.

I've got Hull, Palace, Lewis Hamilton and Sunetra from strictly in an accumulator.

Just looking at Utd's away kit, why would you put buttons and a collar on a football shirt? Like it's some sort of smart-casual evening wear.

A draw at Goodison perfect for us IMO.