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Maguire is OK but not world class BUT he will be replacing Smalling or Jones , so Jones for Saints ????

It apples more to Rugby Union where the team can’t even manage a whole match ! But cricket has got stale due to too many matches , doesn’t matter if you lose because you will be playing them again soon . Too much football now , fifa keep trying to add more teams to World Cup . So much tv footer now that people just want to know who won , not how the match was played.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/49192239 I do agree with the general points and it applies to all sports , we used to have Ashes series every few years , now they turn up nearly every year !!!!! In the old days sailing to Oz , playing 5 test matches and sailing back took 3 months !!!!!

Drinkwater looks like he will be available soon , looked good at Leicester but has stalled at Chelsea , worth a punt or has he peaked ????

Cobra and Kingfisher started off as good beers , when they became successful they were bought out and changed to Gnats **** along with Stella and Singha .Singha used to be a tasty 6% beer that was a good tasting beer . It is now a standard 5% lager . Nearly all the craft beers have now been taken over and are not the same. As well as all lagers being reduced in strength to max 4.8% , presumably to save duty tax !! Still it could be worse Boris could be running the country with billionaires the priority , who needs regulations when you could have CJD !! (Mad Cow disease).

Arsing about in training is one thing , doing the business in a high pressure match is what counts . Mental strength determines your success as shown time and time again in any sport . Shaw had it beaten into him at Utd and is now considered a better player.

I remember he was in the Dutch World Cup team and it seemed to be a good idea on here that he was coming to Saints . However he didn't play as we expected and as said before after 60 mins seemed to struggle but I was hopeful when he was signed !

Don't worry they will rub off after a few games in the winter !

No I don’t believe everything I read but I read more than once that Poch told the players if they want to win things/play in european competitions then move to a bigger club. It was plain to see at the time that Saints were planning to spend less to remain financially viable while Kat was looking to exit the club . This turned out to be the case and hasn’t changed much under Gao.

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We could gift them a CB ! No money need change hands ..................

I read it somewhere at the time and Koeman also left because of lack of investment / ambition . It came out while LaLa was throwing his toys out of his pram because he wanted to go to his spiritual home of L pool.

I think the problem stemmed from the exodus in previous seasons so Les thought that issuing long term contracts on big money would keep the players at Saints and if they wanted to go meant a big transfer fee . Unfortunately it didn't work out that way . The exodus IMO was due to Poch telling the players that the money was drying up and if they wanted to make a name for themselves then they should jump now along with him !

Not before we stopped buying cotton from Asia having started our own cotton mills , exploiting child labour has no borders !!!

Which one's Bertie ? Don't recognise him in that photo !

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It was mentioned that Saints and FF had sorted a deal last season where he was rehabilitated on reduced wages , no idea if true but explains why he is still here .

They certainly reacted to the VAR issues in the qualifying games , much better in the knockout although the England handball , really ????

I watched Ings at St Marys last season and though he was just jogging around in the opposition half , watching MotD he was featured as being a major influence with his link play being involved in both the goals !!!!

A dignified exit for him I think , thanks for the goals Charlie hope you stagger on for a while !!

Perhaps Zaha is a one club success ie will only prosper at Palace so interesting to see if this move works .

I seem to remember from CH4 days that the pitch usually looked in poor condition , perhaps modern pitch systems will fix that in a new stadium .

I agree it is difficult to decide what constitutes offside in a measurable way for VAR . The rule was changed years ago to say level was not off side to encourage attacking play and more goals. Did the ball cross the goal line technology works because it's measurable and quick plus is accepted by all . I think they would need to come up with a new idea for the technology perhaps to show it from both sides of the pitch and a way to measure the torso but that may be impossible !! You could have 4 linos !!!! but whatever they do it needs speedy results , perhaps VAR ref just tells Ref the answer rather than Ref looking at screen pitch side etc

USA now benefiting from VAR joke decisions, how can they let this go on ? Whoever wins the final now will be forever tainted by VAR .

VAR has been discredited at this tournament FIFA/UEFA need to set proper ground rules , off sides need calling for more than a bit of a boot in front , last night they gave an offside when they were running away from goal and being a few inches out. Obvious fouls , off ball stuff etc OK but only given after repeated slow motion replays NO In cricket there was quite a long period where Umpires called for assistance where they would have given a decision and their authority was undermined. The refs need clear guidance , VAR rules must not be introduced on the eve of a tournament , 100 min games are not the way to go , we thought Fergie time was over !!