Lighthouse

So this season we've done the double over Swansea, West Brom, Palace, Hull and Fulham. Have we ever done 5 teams in a season before? Could have been 6 if we hadn't cocked it up against Cardiff. Imagine where this team would be if it could score though. If Osvaldo had been the player we hoped and we hadn't had long injury layoffs for Boruc, Lovren, Victor and JRod we'd have been pushing for a CL place.

A win would put us 2 points behind them in the final table which is pretty much level really, just one last minute winner or equaliser difference across the whole season. If someone had said this time last year that we'd match Man Utd this season you'd have laughed your arse off at them. I know there are no prizes for it but to finish 2 points behind the reigning Champions, who've since spent about £63m on transfers, isn't a bad achievement. Even though it says much more about their season than ours. Bearing that in mind, I'd go for our strongest possible line up. I know it might risk injuries to WC hopefuls but they still have time to impress Hodgson and some squad places might be up for grabs. If it is tight between Lambert and Carroll for instance, a brace against Man Utd might just be the clincher.

I hadn't forgotten the marshal in Canada although he was run over by a tractor after the race, as opposed to being killed in a racing accident like the two in Monza and Melbourne. That whole weekend was indeed terrible. The little known Wendlinger accident at the next race put him in a coma. Whilst he did eventually return to racing, he was never competitive again and it ultimately ended his career.

Reminds me of the Hodgson/Townsed/monkey 'racism scandal'. The one which was only ever a racism scandal in the media and everyone else knew it wasn't actually used in a racist context. I don't think Clarkson is racist, just an idiot. It's as if he is just saying it to get himself in trouble, like the last Top Gear in Burma when Hammond said there was a 'slope' on the bridge.

April 30th and May 1st marks the 20th anniversary of the deaths of these two drivers at the same race weekend in Imola, Italy. Since Senna we haven't had a single F1 driver fatality, although 2 marshals were killed in 2000/1. There have been near misses. Hakkinen, Wendlinger and Massa were all involved in near fatal accidents, whilst Panis and Schumacher have suffered broken legs. All recovered to the extent that they returned to racing. This has to make F1 one of the safest motor sports in the world today, despite also being one of the fastest. The safety record compared to Indy Car for example is fantastic. I was too young to be interested in F1 back then but I'm sure that weekend in 94 will stick vividly in the imaginations of a great many motor sport fans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCsMNurn3bQ

I used to live in Hahn. What a place that was, a 60 mile dead zone around it Hiroshima would have been proud of. In fairness to Ryanair, it's not like they keep these destinations a secret. They don't advertise 'Frankfurt' Airport, they call it 'Frankfurt Hahn', although it might as well be called 'Luxembourg Hahn', 'Cologne Hahn' or 'Spa Francorchamps international'. If you book a flight to a place like Hahn, Prestwick or Girona without checking where it is first, that's your own stupidity.

Didn't Rasiak do something similar in a cup tie against The Posh once?

A female colleague of mine is off work tomorrow attending a seminar on sexual innuendo in the work place. I've offered to fill her slot.

Riise's was pretty good but my personal favourite was one MK Dons centre half smacking the ball off the back of the other and into the net. Pretty sure it was the JPT Southern final.

They are basic but they will generally get you where you need to go on time. However this summer may be different. They have already had to cancel a fair number of flights due to a lack of pilots, who are leaving in their hundreds. They are attempting to plug the gap by wet leasing aircraft from Air Charters in Ireland and some Slovakian company called Air Explore (at hilarious expense to Ryanair I might add). I will always avoid them on principle if I can. Stick with Easyjet or Norwegian for a decent low cost service (free wifi on the latter).

Players will only leave if we show no ambition, sell our best players and make no attempt to replace them. If Shaw and Lallana move to title contenders for £50m, that wont be seen as a lack of ambition, that's just what happens in football. If we use that £50m to buy another 4 Lovrens, Wanyamas and J Rods, the other players will stay. More to the point, I can't see anyone meeting the asking price for any of our other players. Someone might take a punt on Morgan but if all our players were better than those at Man City and Chelsea we'd have won the League.

No they wont. Players leave clubs, it happens. The entire Spurs squad didn't race for the exit when Bale was sold and it wont happen here either. What's important is how we reinvest the money if and when players are sold. If we get £50m for Lallana and Shaw and spend it on 4 or 5 decent players, the rest will stay. They are on decent money here and wont be getting big offers from elsewhere. Morgan is the only other player I can see being snapped up by a big club.

Hey, not bad Swap Liverpool and Man Utd, move Palace up about 9 places and that's not a long way off the table now. It's a shame we didn't all put money on Saints finishing 8th. We would probably have enough money to buy Pompey, demolish FP and build an affordable housing complex.

I don't think we will start with 3 academy players like that, especially not leaving Shaw out when he is fighting for a WC place. I'd say if anything we will see Gallagher start and possibly a sub appearance for Reed. Putting out 3 youngsters and having them get well beaten by Swansea isn't going to help their careers. This will be a tough game even for our strongest XI

I'd stick with the same team, even if Morgan is fit. Lets see if this Cork and VW partnership has got what it takes.

That game seems to be the Southampton version of Hillsborough to some Saints fans. Every time we play Everton it's "we owe them one for 84, Heath, Highbury etc." We don't owe them anything, we've beaten them about 10 times since that semi. If giving them one doesn't actually make things better, there's no point saying we owe them one.

Chelsea and Arsenal away are the only games we've conceded more than once with Wanyama on the pitch. Let's hope he can put injuries behind him and be consistent player next season.

I can't hope for anything other than failure at QPR. Aside from Redknapp and Austin, the ridiculous fees they've been chucking at average players is what's ruining football. Brighton and Reading seem to get pretty cocky whenever they're near us in the league so I'm not so sure about them. I think I've just about forgiven Derby for 2007 so I'll go with them. Also remember going there when we got promoted and they packed the place out with 30,000 in the Championship. Hopefully they would make a better fist of the Premier League without that pr*ck Davies.

That's not a statement of intent, that's a statement of idiocy. If we try and sign Theo, AOC or Januzaj people will laugh at us. I don't know by what criteria you define the new board as soft. The window hasn't even opened yet.

I would if I were you, some people are never going to figure it out. alpine on the other hand knows everything his posts is nonsense but he has a compulsive need for attention, which he gets from strangers on the internet. It's sad really, his life must be quite tragic if he is doing this for fun.

Normally for me it's a protein shake immediately after the exercise. Then either a steak and a load of veg or turkey breast with some peppers, mushroom and whole wheat pasta about an hour later. I try and drink milk too but not before eating as it ruins my appetite.

We will have experience, that's my point. We don't need everyone to be experienced, just look at Rooney in Euro 2004 or Owen at France 98.

Like taking a hopeless penalty against Italy in Kiev a couple of years ago? Shaw is a Premier League footballer. He has played at Old Trafford and Anfield and come away with 4 points. I doubt he would sh*t himself if called upon against the likes of Uruguay and Italy.

I don't get the media mentality of wanting experience for the World Cup squad. The experience of what? Losing, under-performing and generally being useless? I could buy that argument if we were talking about taking a team of Luke Shaws but we aren't. Baines, Johnson, Cahill, Gerrard, Rooney, Hart, Carrick, Milner, Welbeck etc. have been playing for England for years and will all likely be on that plane. One teenager isn't going to kill us (although I have a suspicion the 'experience' rule wont apply to Raheem Sterling).