OldNick

John Terry's run of form has been so poor that he might not make it onto the plane either. I don't think Capello will put up with players who may unsettle the team. I suspect Capello will be watching how the squad are interacting with him during their get together for the Egypt game.

Keep on talking dirty to me, it does make me feel better

Benjii, you don't need to tell me that Lol. I would love to have your optimism, at least i won't be as disappointed as some, but I will seethe if the companies officers do not get serious penalties.

I thought he added a balance to the side that has been missing. He also seems to me to be an intelligent footballer, who linked well with AL Lambert and Barnard. One swallow doesnt make a summer but a cgood start, let's hope it is the first of many.

I thought that last night when MotD showed a still of the incident, it looked to me Ramsays leg was landing awkwardly before inpact.The picture above seems to show thw leg buckling before Shawcross is there. Either way it was an accident in my book

I did raise a wry smile or was it frustration when a fan in the Northam screamed at Lambert 'Jump you lazy ####'. Yep he doesnt try at all dies he ? Lollage

spot on IMO

Nick H here not MrG, i agreed he wasn't on top of the world but he definitely changed when the interviewer mentioned the poor perfomance at wycombe and that the fans sung his name. he then went into 1 word answers. Rightly so IMO

I saw Dougal walking his dogs in Woodlands a few years back. 'dougal is our leader.' and 'bootsie is our leader' used to be sung, I dont think the 'Sammy Sammy you're a ...' would get off the ground this day and age, and rightly so. He was supposedly the main Spurs man

VFTT, roll back 2 weeks 2 months etc and see how, so many were confident they were toast . They had the close call when the lady gave them a week which turned into 3 weeks and now however long. I have seen them not only survive but been enabled to carry on trading even though it seems they were insolvent. The HMRC owed 18m for only them to put the club into admin with the distinct possibility that the majority of their debts wiped. Chanrai can own the club for no new investment but take on the player assets ,as well as owning the ground. He can see that the debts will all be paid with the parachute monies and the wage bill slashed to manageble levels, even in CCC. As a billionaire he can easily fund a few purchases to take a small gamble to get instant promotion and then again have a PL football club that he can sell on with the new riches of the tv revenues.IMO he is on a no lose situation. If heaven forbid they did get to the FA cup final his investment will become a great profit quickly as those revenue streams would IMO be into the new company. That is of course if he takes them on quickly, and the way it is set-up it looks to me he wil do so. I am happy to come back and say Im wrong and eat humble pie, if he does not buy it and they fold or get massive points penalties.

Oh sorry vi thought you meant Merrington..oops now who played for saints with Mick Channon and moved to Canada? I dont know but no doubt is one of my heroes. Perhaps somebody could PM me who so i dont slag him off in my 'all our yesterday, nostalgia' type threads lol

I bet Dennis Rofe is spitting mad...only kidding Dennis you were a star

I think what this thread has shown is that the people running Pompey know every dodge in the book and the posters on here are getting to their conclusions that they play by the rules. I think I have been consistant in my views that Pompey will survive and still come up smelling of roses. Today's reports sadly seem to show that. Chanrai and co has been given time by the judge to screw everybody and whilst we all felt that the SoA was a great result it seems to me at this time now it was worthless. How does that make decent working people who slog all week for meagre pay to support their teams then to see fooball club owners take the rip out of us and the revenue. That is all football fans. We in the main are oblivious to these things until we see it unfold so publicly. It is hard to tell youngsters that crime doesn't pay when they see apparent wrongdoings going on.

Derry I have been going since 1968 and di not know Merrington played for us!!! He couldnt have played many games surely, did he sign from Burnley?

It was the best half time entertainment when I was 10 watching the fighting stood at the front of the Archers. I remember one time the police threatening to empty the milton unless the fighting stopped. The fans and police always seemed to love the bother.

but the plus was we had been solid for the first 2 minutes,

that was horrid, but to me Ramsay nicked the ball away and shawcross had committed to his action

No you did the right thing as my daughter and myself both said his attitude changed when the interviewer made a couple odigs as though he was fighting for his job,,,add to that the Avram interview and I was spitting feathers at the cheek of Grant

why do when we play well and make the opposition look poor is it down to them being lame and the worst side around. We played football above our league standing and from the off terrified them even though they scored from their first attempt. We would beat any team in this league if we could sustain that level of football. Norwich and Walsall have been put to the sword by some very good football. Well done Saints. MoM Puncheon, he linked play and made the side look far more balanced than we have for a long time...ps well done Pardew

WC he did mention tuesday and said it something like the 'debacle tuesday'

Exactly, the interviewer said some things that got under his skin. The sarcastic comment about the fans singing his name was pathetic. The fans have been in the main behind him and I wish the solent interviewer was as niggly when interviewing Grant, who comes out with so much nonsense but they let him get away with it.

Mourinho V Ferguson if you please, Im the suave good looking one.

I listened to that interview and was incredulous. 'i believe in fairness, and that it should be decided on the pitch.Well he should look at the squad he should have been able to have and then see how fair it is. Again he said about that the PL stopped him having a full squad. No wonder they are in the state they are when this mentality rules

Danny Wallace had Hanson fouling him all the time, the ref let him get away with it. Only a weak backpass by Bond let Rush in to score and then it was game over. We were only likely to nick a win but while it was 0-0 there was always a chance

Now that is fantastic news for you. I dont wish to brag but I have won the lottery, got 3 numbers but fortunately I ticked the box no publicity , I didn't wan begging letters from FP