Lighthouse

Only 3 strikers in the England squad, none of them have scored for the NT. Sturridge, Welbeck and Campbell. The latter has 2 goals in 6 appearances this season, surely with such disappointing options up front someone like Lambert would have been worth a shot.

I'd go with the same team as Watford but with Sharp in for Lee and then De Ridder and Barnard on the bench instead of DC and Lee. Possibly Frazer in from Butters if he is fit.

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He's not, hence he isn't worth £35m. Liverpool thought he was the man to lead the line for a Premier League/Champs League push hence they spent all that money.

I thought Skacel and Phillips did alright for us, it's just that a fair sized chunk of the fan base had ridiculous expectations of them. Kanchelskis was a bit of a gamble by Strachan, clearly well past his best but worth a try. Hajto was signed by Redknapp as cover at CB, but ended up mostly at RB. Had a decent crossfield pass on him (usually to Kosowski) but looked out of possition most of the time. He came back playing CB for Derby a few weeks after leaving and did alright, think that was on Ostlund's debut.

The value of players goes up exponentially with the leagues. Top League 2 striker (eg. Le Fondre) - £500k Top League 1 striker (eg. Lambert) - £1m Top Championship striker (rumoured bids for J Rod, Maynard etc.) - £5m Top Premier League striker - £20m and upwards Top Champs League striker - £35m, £50m, £80m etc. You can't really make comparisons for prices and different leagues.

Well, the penalties are looking a bit 'English' so far.

Good heavens! Have to say this game is a fantastic advert for football.

I'd say a Cardiff win if history is anything to go by. Brum collapsed after winning last years competition and Cardiff have been inconsistent at best since reaching the final. Plus it's a chance to laugh at some Scousers, although the candle lit vigils might be a bit annoying after.

Basiclly if every fan at FP today chucked in £2,277 they would be absolutely fine. Having said that some of the fans were kids and might not have enough pocket money for that. Oh, and that is dependant on 3,000 Leeds fans chucking in a couple of grand each aswell.

3 ferkin brilliant results their with Saints, Brum and Wham. Get in.

Just popped out for a lucky mid-game bobsled run. I bet nobody has ever said that in the history of Saints Web! :-D

Greetings from the Alps. Hopefully this place doesn't have the same effect on me as it has on certain other Saints fans. COYR!!!!

There was some good effort there but a distinct lack of quality. Davis - decent keeper James - an average League 1 standard player even now Perry - a top class head on ancient shoulders Saeijs - a decent player for us, which he'd stayed over into the Leibherr era Skacel - a very good winger and one of the few quality attacking players in the squad... So we played him LB Surman - a decent Champ and now Prem player Wotton - a good leader but he really wasn't very good. Weird to think he played for us at Wembley Euell - a complete cart horse living off his Charlton reputation. Couldn't score and put in about 5 decent performances a season. Smith - was gash Liptak - complete enigma DMG - lazy and crap. Can't believe we got £1m for him. BWP - just about Championship quality, but not for a team with any top half ambitions.

I think that selection was based largely on the visit to Highbury about 2 weeks before the final where we got battered 6-1 and Fernandes lack of covering left us horrendously exposed down the right, Pires got a hat trick if memory serves me right.

He actually looked pretty crap for large parts of it. Not his fault, he simply wasn't ready to be chucked in like that. Same with Morgan who also looked like a fish up a tree for large parts of the season. I was really annoyed that we'd signed Morgan at the time. Buying players for £1m plus when you're skint is something I'd expect the Skates to do, not us. Back to the OP, it's hard to judge a player who is parachuted into such an awful team like that. It hardly makes a defenders job easy playing behind gash like Jason Euel, (world class) Ryan Smith and Lloyd James.

Free parking Now closed because you don't own the car park and the man who does is owed a lot of money.

Violent conduct is 3 games. A professional foul is only 1

Knock knock Who's there It's a bear Hello bear how can I help you I've just run over some children in my car That sounds unpleasant Yes it was

We're just lucky Adkins is able to translate our tactics into Scouse for the benefit of Rickie Lambert.

Ljungberg is old, injured and a long way past his best. Really don't see why HCDAJFU, especially when we have Holmes, Falque and De Ridder who can't even get on the bench at the mo. Weird suggestion. Don't see how his sexuality is in any way relevant. A bit like saying, 'he likes green veg apparently'

Who was that muppet who just kept playing until Arsenal scored at Highbury in the relegation season? I think the 4th offical gave about 2 minutes stoppage time, RVP scored in about the 4th and the ref even gave them another minute after that to get a winner. I can remember Wigley stabbing at his watch in disbelief from the touchline.

This just cropped up again in the lounge. Maybe we could just rename the 'Overseas' section to 'overseas and travel'.

I went in 2008 and found a street where I'm sure all the hookers were trannies. I'm just saying, if you wanted to...