OldNick

I dont think that the Spurs fans appealed for a penalty at the time. If you watch it they are just disappointed with the miss

I see that the FA couldnt decide if it was intentional. At the time the gaqme had stopped and there was no need for him to carry on the way he did

sadly most of out support lay on their backs and get their tummy tickled by the club and trot off happily. When we have season on season taken in massive fees, we could have used that advantage over other clubs who didn't, by buying other players who would have made us a decent side. Now the league is shaping up to normal order and the top 6 are going to keep the rest out for ever, our chance is gone to break into the top echelons of the game. Personally I believe had Marcus been here the club would have achieved more and invested more to get us where he believed we could get to. Your mindset of us being a minor club is part of the problem, whilst we stay small minded that is where we will stay. If the club needs to sell £20 m plus worth a season to survive then our business plan is not very good. Poch and Kpeman were right leaving as they can move and actually build, any manager at our club has to rebuild every 12 months, Koeman says that he is going to strengthen in January, I can't imagine any manager of ours saying the same. At the end of the day, it is Katrinas business and she can do as she likes.

We underinvested in the summer and as a club complacent that we can use boys to do a mans job. The focus on making 20M plus players to sell instead of making us a team for the fans to watch can only send us in a downward spiral long term. Each season we are looking less competitive, and whilst fans point to us getting higher positions each season we are deluding ourselves as we have had a few seasons where the top 5 teams have underperformed, hence Leicester winning the title

You are wrong about those players IMO

Dave Watson is at fault IMO. Not one of our keepers has improved under his watch. None command their area and sadly when you watch him on the pitch coaching he is more interested in pushing back his golden locks than coaching.

Not according to the BBC

The vote was to leave, to show your hand is ridiculous and so her job is to get the best deal for us all. all this nonsense about voting for the terms, so if it is voted that that is not acceptable, we have to go back and renegotiate and the people on the other side can see our hand. It is an impossible job and so we needf to leave it to the chosen people to get the best they can.

Lol

I think his arrogance in time makes the players and his bosses get cheesed off with him and cant take anymore

Amazing, and people were saying he should be England boss!!

Yes we do to other clubs what we have done to us, but a lot of them were hardly the 'star' player of the team

I like his articles, and have to admit I did put him forward for journalist of the year 'Best newcomer in Articles for Sale' category

I suspect your former coleagues were happy as well lol Only teasing

It all depends on the wording of the contract of course. Perhaps the fans want to keep the players more than the club, whose policy is not to get the player to adhere and stick to the contract but just use it to get higher fees. You may gain much pride in paying top dollar bankrolling to see our players developed and then sold so that they can go on and win trophies and get true success. Yes we get patronising fans of other clubs telling me how fantastic it is that we find these players, but really they dont give a toss they just want to see our ex-players taking them onto better things as they chase the real goals. I wish i could support a glory club but i was born in Southampton and its my club, it doesnt stop me from realising how foolish loyalty is as the employees of the club show none of it.

well we started going at the same time. I agree we had many years of dogfights but we had our share of being a very respected force, we had European Footballer of the year. Yes the playing field may have been closer, but if you keep selling the players good enough to make you close the gap can only get wider. In the last 3 seasons we missed our chance again, a bit more quality and we could have easily been top 3, especially in the season where Chelsea won the league.

were you around in the early 80's, we were a force and only a whisker away from winning trophies. The heartbreak of Highbury 84 still digs deep inside. Had we won that day there is a probability we would have gone on to be the side that won the cup. We finished runners up to Liverpool for the title amongst other near misses.

Very good post but it really gets my goat that fans put up 'that plucky side that came up the divisions and are punching above their weight.' Why is the 27 years of being in the top division forgotten? We were a major force for years, OK it was not matched by trophies but we were still a major team. Due to some mismanagment we fell, but that was for a short period of time. We are hardly a Pompey who were in the wilderness for decades and then popped up again before going back to their place in the leagues.

If we have to sell 50-60m worth of players every season then our business model is unsustainable. How all the other mid size teams survive is amazing if this is really the case. IMO we swallow it time and again, and the club know how to turn the fans against the player by subtly making them seem disloyal. I suspect there are pretty tight non disclosure agreements made whan a player is sold. We have a superb club and we all are proud of it, but how can we ever have heroes if as soon as you put their name on your shirt they move. I totally understand that if big clubs come calling then their heads are turned, but if we really do intend to make it bigtime there has to be a time when we draw the line and say, 'youve signed a 6 year contract and so get on with it.' Personally I believe that the long contracts are for the financial benifit of both sides. We can get more money, and the player has security and a bumper pay rise.

This all the fault of supermarkets charging for plastic bags, the shirts will be binned but the bags they come in will be most handy

as much as they want a rivalry, there aint one

to be fair, they were rattled by Fratton Prk, the way the ground was set up with the fans right at you is intimidating, the same was when e had the Dell before the seating came in

So you qualify your side by saying private banks and then do a blanket we all did the killing. The Swiss people are just as complicet as Iam about the Afghanistan Iraq debacle. I never voted for Blair, it was him who started the ball rolling, I wonder if you voted for him and so have more blood on your hands than me. Personally I am proud of our countries history, some was distasteful I do agree, but if it wasn't for our past none of us would have the lifestyle that we enjoy now, As much as you don't like the thought you are enjoying the fruits of the 300 years of the Empire and pirating our forefathers took part in

No doubt all the poor people who had their lifes possessions taken away and the gold and art deposited in the Swiss banks by the Nazi's. Oh yes claiming to be neutral has always stopped people invading you lol

health, wealth and happiness indeed, but at the expense of who?