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Thank you for that, Private Frazer. I think you have no idea how a weak pound will enhance the value of UK stocks when the gamblers quit the scene and the long term value of UK plc is recognised. In the coming years the UK will be also recognised as the country that jumped into a lifeboat, not went down with the ship. I give Deutsche Bank about another 6 months before it all goes t!ts up and wipes the smirk off Frau Merkels face and bankrupts the banks in Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece, while our banks watch in amusement. The fear lot really got to you, didn't they? The only thing to fear is fear itself....

The negotiations on the TTIP between the EU and the US were started in 2013 and are not expected to be complete until 2020. The French will make sure they are never completed.

Calm down dear, it's only the EU...

A Washington based conservative think tank, the Heritage Foundation, published a paper on the best option for the UK, should we leave the EU, focusing on free trade deals. To me, this is the most important thing to get right. (" It's all about the economy, stupid"). In summary, the report states: The U.S. and the U.K. should negotiate a free trade area based on the principles of national sovereignty and economic freedom. For both nations, the barrier to this goal is the European Union. Britain cannot negotiate unless it leaves the EU, while the U.S. has wrongly supported the EU over the sovereignty of its member nations. The U.S. policy of using Britain as its Trojan Horse in the EU is wrong in principle and doomed to failure in practice. The U.K. must ensure that its referendum on EU membership offers a real choice. There is no reason why the U.K., the world’s sixth-largest economy, cannot negotiate trade arrangements outside the EU. The benefits of an Anglo–American free trade area would be both economic and political. It would insulate the U.K. from the damaging effects of further EU regulatory interference and signal the two countries’ shared political commitment to their close relationship For those interested, the full text is here and I found it exciting and stimulating. Onwards and upwards! PS. For any miners out there, ignore the name of the centre publishing the paper....

I think it's about time that wee Jimmy Crankie should realise that if the last Scottish election had been a referendum on the SNP, of the total electorate of 4,093,481, 64.5% - almost two-thirds - of eligible voters in Scotland did NOT vote for the SNP. This hasn't stopped this horrible little gob sh!t claiming she speaks for Scotland.

They had just asked him why he selected Benson and Hedges in the starting 11.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36575117

I wondered where I'd heard the poem that inspired England to victory over Australia in the recent rugby test match. The first person I am aware of that used it in a sporting context was our own Nigel Adkins who recited it to South Today after we got tonked 4:1 by West Ham. There's no video of Paul Gustard reciting the poem to the England players, but our own Nigel starting the trend. I must admit, I have a soft spot for our old manager and wonder where we'd be if he had been allowed to continue. For those that are interested, the poem goes like this:

What am I like?

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How the F*** can any resident of Southampton vote remain after the damage done to local jobs by the EU using state aid to move the Transit plant to Turkey? As reported in the Echo, at the time:

Roger Waters Net Worth: $230 MILLION David Gilmour Net Worth: $140 MILLION Another couple of f***in' champagne socialists...

Maybe the instructions provided with the postal votes, helpfully showing how to tick the remain box, backfired:

He beat me by two minutes....it's a total stitch up.

Steve is quick!!! Southampton 13 Aug 2016 Watford (H) 20 Aug 2016 Manchester United (A) 27 Aug 2016 Sunderland (H) 10 Sep 2016 Arsenal (A) 17 Sep 2016 Swansea City (H) 24 Sep 2016 West Ham United (A) 01 Oct 2016 Leicester City (A) 15 Oct 2016 Burnley (H) 22 Oct 2016 Manchester City (A) 29 Oct 2016 Chelsea (H) 05 Nov 2016 Hull City (A) 19 Nov 2016 Liverpool (H) 26 Nov 2016 Everton (H) 03 Dec 2016 Crystal Palace (A) 10 Dec 2016 Middlesbrough (H) 14 Dec 2016 8pm Stoke City (A) 17 Dec 2016 AFC Bournemouth (A) 26 Dec 2016 Tottenham Hotspur (H) 31 Dec 2016 West Bromwich Albion (H) 02 Jan 2017 Everton (A) 14 Jan 2017 Burnley (A) 21 Jan 2017 Leicester City (H) 31 Jan 2017 7.45pm Swansea City (A) 04 Feb 2017 West Ham United (H) 11 Feb 2017 Sunderland (A) 25 Feb 2017 Arsenal (H) 04 Mar 2017 Watford (A) 11 Mar 2017 Manchester United (H) 18 Mar 2017 Tottenham Hotspur (A) 01 Apr 2017 AFC Bournemouth (H) 05 Apr 2017 7.45pm Crystal Palace (H) 08 Apr 2017 West Bromwich Albion (A) 15 Apr 2017 Manchester City (H) 22 Apr 2017 Chelsea (A) 29 Apr 2017 Hull City (H) 06 May 2017 Liverpool (A) 13 May 2017 Middlesbrough (A) 21 May 2017 Stoke City (H)

Sorry guys, but I just can't help remembering my trip to Spurs for Saints game against them in 2003. By far my most satisfying away trip, until our visit to Chelsea last season. For those of you that believe in karma, read this piece in the Guardian written 2 weeks after that hilarious game at Three Point Lane. Required reading for Koeman, me-thinks.

It's not often that I'm lost for words, but...

Guys, I don't post as often as I did, but when business allows, I like to take a look at the excellent site Steve Grant et al have built and using the search function, remind myself of how far we have come. This old thread is worth a read, posted just after the match that confirmed our demotion to League 1, the lowest point so far witnessed at St. Marys. It puts everything in perspective and reflects well on the Spirit of Southampton, something lacking in many of the overpaid badge kissers and money grabbers that aren't worthy of our applause. F***'em....

Newcastle's total net spend for the 2015-16 season was just a touch more than £70m, or more than any club bar Manchester City. That ended well, didn't it?

I, for one think that a Greek exit from the EU is just as/more likely as the UK leaving. In fact, it is possible that Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain could leave, as the eurozone continues to struggle. A Bertelsmann Foundation study suggests Grexit would have a limited impact on the world economy but warns of a ‘severe worldwide recession’ should Grexit cause other members to leave the eurozone. The UK economy stands to lose either way, the study suggests, with UK real gross domestic product expected to decline by €6bn under the Grexit only scenario and by as much as €738bn in the event that Portugal, Spain and Italy also leave.

Here speaks another person who hasn't realised that for the past 40 years the population of the UK have been continuously bribed by the EU with their own money, with no say how it's spent. At long last we have a say.

Read all about it here...

After the game, I heard from a source at the club that Pelle simply didn't turn up to training. No message, not answering his phone and couldn't be contacted, despite being selected to start today. That's arrivaderci then..

Some old favourites:

Today, I made my mind up. It wasn't an anti-Cameron decision. It wasn't a defiance of the scare-mongering of the professional politicians and big-business leaders whose bleating, masks their self-serving reasons for staying in the EU. It certainly wasn't a love of Boris Johnson. No, it was the realisation that the only thing that ever attracted me to the European Economic Community, previously know as the Common Market, was the promise of economic barriers to mine and my companies progress were to be removed. The politicians conned us. They slowly removed references to markets, to economy and replaced it with a European Union. An unequal union the creation of which we had no say in and for much of what affects our lives we have no vote today. Still, I thought, nothings perfect, better the devil you know, don't rock the boat, be careful what you wish for etc, etc. Then, today, I recalled the trade deals we had forged over many years. The commonwealth trade that came through Southampton docks and, more interestingly, EFTA. The British helped set up EFTA, the European Free Trade Association, with Austria, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland in 1960. Of the founders, only Norway and Switzerland remain in the trade organisation today. What did this memory do to change my mind regarding the EU? It made me read an article in the Telegraph about EFTA, that has, for the first time, made we realise that we have an exciting future if we vote to leave, rather than uncertainties painted by the ruling elite. In other words, we will be in control of our own future. Here is the article. Read it and feel optimistic.