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You can understand why but it just shows that occasionally basic decent humanity can shine through no matter what the circumstances.

Hi Alps, full of Christmas cheer I see!!!

For me the most impressive result of the season and for all those slagging off Koeman, a great response. And as someone who has slated Yoshida, fair play to him today. Still a great time to be a Saints fan.

Duly noted. Fair play.

Ron seems to have dismissed the rumours.

Can't help with a band but be careful about the cost. I have a mate who has a 3 piece rock band playing the Maidstone area. He charges about £300 for pub gigs and I know this as I was trying to get him to play my local. He did a gig at a workmates wedding and charged £750 for the same set just because it was a wedding!!!

You aren't Rolf Harris by any chance?

This is all yours alt-J

REO Speedwagon. Wings. Larrry Fast - although he may have been a keyboard player.

With difficulty I guess.

Just seen that Sony have pulled the plug on releasing The Interview following threats from N Korea. So much for the land of the free!!! Bottlers.

I'm with you on this. Why these people think that booing and slagging off the players is going to make things better I have no idea. To me you support your club for better or worse. How would these morons feel if they were having a bad day at work and people came over and started slagging them off in the office? Surely there is enough pressure on the management and team without the so called supporters turning on them as well?

Christ, it is just a game of football. Perhaps we should put the lazy b@stards up against the wall and shoot them next time they lose?

I remember that winter well. There was snow on the ground in London until April from Xmas. I fell over on black ice and broke my are so couldn't go sledging with my mates! There was a stand pipe for water at the end of the road as all the pipes had burst. Bloody nightmare. No central heating in our house in those days either so used to wake up and scrape the ice off the inside of the windows. People nowdays don't know they are born

I think the production team choose two or three possible winners and the rest are brought in to add a bit of entertainment value. Agree that the format should change now. Also where do they get off saying that £250k is a lot of money? It is chicken feed nowdays.

They were saying this on Talksport last night. Goughie was suggesting that you need a larger squad to constantly cope with a high pressing game. With all the injuries and suspensions we have had it has left us exposed. Being overly reliant on Pelle hasn't helped either.

Dear God. is it just me but do the contestants get worse each year? How the smug, back stabbing Mark has made the final I don't know. The business plans of all of the candidates last night were rubbish. Surely the candidates have their business plans at least looked at when they apply? This is also the programme that launched the talentless harpie Katie Hopkins to the World. Whilst I am at it, get rid of Karen Brady and bring back Margaret! She says more with a raised eyebrow than Brady has in all the time she has been on the show. Rant over. Oh and it should say The Apprentice 2014

It was in the Echo the other day too.

Even with the changes we should have had enough about us to win that game. Perhaps the players thought they just needed to turn up but they need to have a look at themselves today.

It does. We def need some more quality come January!!!

B@stards!!! Why do that to us?

Yeah, good call. That was trauma inducing!

We dominated Manchester United and did well against Arsenal. I haven't seen all of the stats but we seem to have the same amount of possession we had last year too. Winning games when you don't play well is what the top teams do and what United did against us. We just don't have the depth of squad to continue playing the way we play all season as Poch found out too. For the first time RK is coming under the microscope. He needs to take a breath and regroup. I still think we have had an excellent season and am not going to start wetting the bed over two poor matches. If things are still cr*p come the end of January though I may invest in some rubber sheets

But he is good going forward so why not? Okay, it didn't work this time but it is hardly asking him to do something he doesn't know how to do.

There is a difference to be unlucky and to playing crap. Just look at QPR. To me we have only had two really poor performances this season - last night and against City. We are not 5th because we have been lucky. We have been a good side. Yes we need to score more goals but you could say the same about Pochettinos sides. Adkins teams scored goals but also conceded. We haven't got the balance right yet but I would rather be us than any of the teams below us.