Lighthouse

Bit of a cliche Trousers, you could say any game against a team below us is a banana skin. A bit disrespectful to Villa too I think, we shouldn't just go there and expect to win despite recent form. Don't forget we only took a point off them last year, although how they won that game at St Mary's I'll never know. Wont be an easy game and a point wouldn't be a disaster. A win would set us up brilliantly for our tough run of fixtures though and we have to be favourites. I wouldn't change the team from the Leicester game but with 17 international players departing we need to hope there are no injuries.

That's sort of a default setting for Roger whenever he reads Chambers name on here. Chambers will do alright at Arsenal and has time on his side. He isn't a stand out talent like Shaw is and I'd say £16m was a decent enough price for him.

I can't wait for the next edition of #asklovren on Twitter. He never did tell me what his favourite non-ferrous metal was and I'm eager to find out.

If results carry on like this it wont matter. If we're doing the business against everyone outside the top 6, whilst Arsenal, Man City and Liverpool are throwing points away we can stay ahead of them. West Ham and Stoke beat City Swansea beat Arsenal Leicester beat Man Utd Everyone beat Liverpool No reason we can't do likewise. The only team I look at and think we can't beat is Chelsea.

If you take Liverpool out of last years table then Everton would have been 4th on 72 points. I would say that is roughly the bench mark this year.

One has to feel sorry for Poch.

Pelle was offside. Had he challenged for that it would have been a free kick on the half way line and would have allowed Leicester to get men forward.

He doesn't look like the kind of bloke I'd want to have a misunderstanding with. "Ronald, I want to play up front." "Yes Victor" "Ronald, I want to play in goal next game." "Yes Victor, of course you can"

I asked my Liverpool supporting mate (from Norfolk I sh*t you not) what he thought of LALAL so far and he called me a smug tuuat and told me to f' off. It's hard to draw conclusions from such a short statement but the general impression I got was that he isn't happy.

Aguero really is carrying Man City Alexis really is carrying Arsenal Pelle, Tadic, Wanyama, Bertrand, Davis, Forster, Schneiderlin, Cork, Clyne, Fonte and Alderweireld really are carrying Southampton.

Never!

If that's him on the far left, he is playing further up the pitch than Leicester's strikers did today.

Wonder if any of the Lallana payments are appearance based. Could be a few years before we get our money.

Tadic for me, he has that little something special to unlock defences. I could so easily have given it to Pelle, Wanyama, Morgan, Clyne, Toby, Fonte or Bertrand. Then there are Cork, Davis and Forster who have been consistent and done little wrong. The agony of choice.

Better than the Vergini o.g.? Looked an absolute howler from where I was sat.

I haven't seen anything to suggest we only have £10m to spend. Pelle himself cost less than that, as did JRod. I think you can find a much better player than Lambert for under £10m. He would turn 33 about a month after we would sign him in January and at that age players go down hill fairly steadily. It's all well and good saying his game isn't about pace but in for periods of last season he looked lethargic and lacked the energy to lead the line. We've had by far the best years out of Lambert and quadrupled our money. That's a success on all fronts, it's time to let go. I'm sure our scouts have been looking at much better targets.

Not for me thanks. Taking all sentimentality out of the equation, if someone asked which player I want to sign in January, a 32 year old who can't score or even get on the pitch at Liverpool wouldn't be my answer.

I think the often hilarious Glen Johnson may also be a factor.

'Andros' Markovic

The football equivalent of 'I'm not racist but...' I think what Redslo is trying to say is that we need to sign Cherno Samba and Tonton Moukoko in January.

Walcott the first team regular at Arsenal? I'll have a pint of whatever you're drinking. Huntelaar would be a decent shout if he would take a reasonable wage offer for a 2.5 year deal. Imagine bringing him on for Pelle with 25 minutes left, or both if strategy dictates 2 up front.

Teams like Bilbao, Braga, Fulham, Middlesbrough and Rangers have all made the final in recent seasons. None of them are what you would call giants.

What makes you say that. IF we were to qualify and make it into the group stage we wouldn't be playing 3 European giants. Even this season's sh*t Liverpool team stand a good chance of making it into the knock out phase. I can't see this Saints team getting slaughtered in the CL group stage. Maybe by Madrid, Bayern, Barca or Dortmund but we could give the rest of them a game.

I seem to remember in our last/penultimate game of Pardew's season we had Carlisle at home and Harte scored an absolute belter of a free kick. Every bit as good as the ones he used to score for Leeds when the big debate was him or Beckham. The game was completely meaningless and when that went in everyone around me just looked at each other and said, "fair enough, you can't really argue with that." There were a few people clapping too. I was at Stoke last year too and had a chuckle at Begovic's goal.

We could have done if our form after Christmas hadn't been awful. I think we went on a run of one win in 13 or something like that. Anyway, that was a different team in a different era. It bares no relevance to what we can achieve this year.