Sergei Gotsmanov

I can remember Leeds doing it to us....i think that was the Championship though

A good guy and a loss for the dressing room. For all of the gloom merchants just remember the 23 goals in the promotion seasons.

Do you not think it would not lift the dressing room....

You seem to set a very high bar. A player that scored around 10 goals from midfield for us, is articulate and intelligent, a good guy to have around the club. Somebody who is a Southampton stalwart. Not succeeded in the premier league yet fetched £35m!

In Scotland the lowering of the limit was shown to have had no effect on road deaths but our government chooses to press on anyway and clobber the pubs. It is a basic human right to take drink with your community. It probably helps to keep thousand of people's mental health in balance doing so. Words fail me why they would not want to follow the path of common sense! As an aside my local's business rates have gone up from £21K to £55K. Add onto this the rise in minimum wage (tips don't count) and you can see why pubs are failing.

It will just put more pubs out of business. In Scotland it hit golf courses hardest.

I hope you are OK Old Nick and make a full recovery. Your eloquent post suggests that you are most of the way there.

I don't blame Sport Republic, they have spent the money. Who the hell is advising them?

With the creativity in the team now his pace should mean he is a twenty goal a season striker in the championship. I had not appreciated this. I hope Tonda noticed.

The thing with the conveyer belt of football management is that somebody will unwittingly become available soon. Wait I say and that also gives Tonda more time to justify his candidacy.

Michael Atherton wrote a very nice piece in the Times yesterday. He was a Hampshire icon and I did get to meet him once in the Taj Hotel bar in Columba Sri Lanka back in 1993. It seems amazing that International sportsman in those days could be found in the hotel bar in the middle of a test match. Anyway it was a brief encounter as he borrowed my matches to light his cigar and conversation was limited. He was very pleasant though and he went onto score a century in that test.

Well they were good enough for Barcelona

Don't forget Fabrice!

I love that. I just hope that he is not to matey with the players because that never works out well.

Scary stuff. The right to be tried by a jury a key plank in a free society.