Lighthouse

Is Gary Linekar really that amazing that BT need to chuck him millions to prize him away from the BBC? There must be other orange people out there with a disturbing aura of self satisfaction.

Apart from the Southampton badge on the front? And the fact that Saints will be playing in it against Englands top clubs next season? And the thousands of Saints fans who will be walking around wearing it? But no, you're right. Appart from that nobody will ever know it's a Saints shirt. We should have stuck to looking just like Sunderland, Stoke, Exeter, Bilbao, Red Star Belgrade, PSV, Athletico Madrid and Brentford instead.

If you don't like it fair enough, but statements like this bit are plain stupid. We don't need to celebrate our own history because Norwich have a yellow shirt in tribute to our '76 cup win.

He couldn't handle Terry, Cashley, Drogba, Torres and Anelka correctly. Doesn't mean he couldn't do a decent job elsewhere.

I actually think AVB would be a decent manager for a team, it just didn't work out at Chelsea. They have an ageing squad full of big wage packets and egos. He had to deal with £50m Torres not hitting a barn door and the pressure of a boss who wants immediate results. Given time, reasonable funds to build his own team and the full backing of the fans and board, he CDAJF someone.

He last scored in 2009.

Played 3 games last season. Anyone know how bad his injury is? Can't say I'm overly enthusiastic is any case.

I think it would be sh*t. Once the novelty of seeing F1 cars driving down the Mall wears off, it will just be another crap street circuit like Valencia, Monaco or Singapore. All tight, narrow, angled corners with little chance for overtaking. As for the race going spectators, it would be a complete nightmare. 200,000 people decending on London with half the roads closed would be a nightmare. I've been to Silverstone, that was gridlocked chaos driving out after the race and that's a purpose built race circuit, surrounded by dual carriage ways in the middle of nowhere. Even once you get there, actual viewing spots will be pretty limited with very little space for a decent sized grandstand. Silverstone is fine, appart from the fact Bernie isn't getting enough money from them, which means it will probably end up on the scrap heap along with Spa and half the other decent racing circuits.

I would suggest that people refering to a plain red shirt as "utterly f**king s**t," are getting a little bit worked up. 'Boring', 'not really Saints', 'a bit too much like Liverpool' 'I don't like it' - That's all fair enough, but some people are talking as if it's got a life-sized portrait of John Westwood on the front.

Some people have raised the bar for over reacting on this one. It's a shirt we will keep for 1 year and it doesn't even look too bad. Okay it looks a bit like a Liverpool kit, but how is that any worse than looking like Stoke, Sunderland or Red Star Belgrade any other season. It's not like we're getting blue shirts with Jobsite on the front.

3 Mobile broadband. Trying to cancel that, even after the 24 month contract had expired was just a nightmare. Just a series of unanswered emails and an Indian call centre bloke who ignored what I was saying for half an hour whilst he tried to sell me a laptop I told him 50 times I did not need. Eventually I cancelled the standing order to try and they started sending me letters threatening to send debt collectors round to my house. Never again. United Airlines were pretty poor too.

Err... where?

I know it's just some numbers, but I'm moderately bored this afternoon. After last season's almost obsessive compulsive allocation of numbers, what do you think we will see next season. The following numbers are free; 5, 15, 16, 21, 22, 24. To me that looks like #5 for Jos, 15 and 16 (Martin) another 2 CBs, 21 a goalie and the other 2 could be anything. Rod could well take Barnards #9, maybe #22 for De Ridder.

Last year 9 of his 11 goals came from playing up front with Lambert. Once Sharp and Lee came in and Guly moved to midfield the goals completely dried up. He hasn't scored any since they signed.

Actually I think we shouldn't have laws against discrimination for private business', then the people who run them would get shown up as the biggots they really are and go bust.

I'm not one to make jokes about cancer, but has he tried looking in Portsmouth?

Don't be silly, everyone knows it exists. It's just South of Prussia.

It's kind of sad that the cost of consumer electrical goods is pushed up by people buying chavy looking tacky jewellery.

I hope you develop an interest in Thai lady boys and all your work colleagues find out about it.

Was bitten by a snake once which refused to let go. Had to run the little b*stards head under a tap to get him off in the end.

You could have John Viafara on the right, if you're really desperate.

Swap Le Tiss for Paul Wotton if you want.

Eyal Berkovich, Forgot him. Uwe Rosler too, although him wasn't what I'd call good

Niemi Golac Lundekvam Hooiveld Bale Fernandes Svensson Le Tiss Skacel Pahars Ekelund Subs: Bart, Petrescu, Delgado, Lee, Kachloul, Kenwyne, Guly This is harder than it looks really.