buctootim Posted 28 January, 2011 Share Posted 28 January, 2011 Ahhh. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1351434/Sir-Alex-Ferguson-singles-Alex-Oxlade-Chamberlain-special-praise.html?ito=feeds-newsxml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmel Posted 28 January, 2011 Share Posted 28 January, 2011 Ahhh. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1351434/Sir-Alex-Ferguson-singles-Alex-Oxlade-Chamberlain-special-praise.html?ito=feeds-newsxml Menioned Shearer and the Wallace brothers, but no mention of Le Tiss...... Matty hasnt upset him as well has he- I always thought that Utd tried to buy MLT, but could be wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lighthouse Posted 28 January, 2011 Share Posted 28 January, 2011 Menioned Shearer and the Wallace brothers, but no mention of Le Tiss...... Matty hasnt upset him as well has he- I always thought that Utd tried to buy MLT, but could be wrong Didn't mention Bridge either. I doubt it's anything personal, he just named a few Saints youth products off the top of his head. I might say, "Utd have brought some decent players through their youth set up like Scholes, Neville and Beckham." Doesn't mean I hate Ryan Giggs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jam Posted 28 January, 2011 Share Posted 28 January, 2011 Didn't mention Bridge either. I doubt it's anything personal, he just named a few Saints youth products off the top of his head. I might say, "Utd have brought some decent players through their youth set up like Scholes, Neville and Beckham." Doesn't mean I hate Ryan Giggs. What's your problem with Beckham??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david in sweden Posted 28 January, 2011 Share Posted 28 January, 2011 Ahhh. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1351434/Sir-Alex-Ferguson-singles-Alex-Oxlade-Chamberlain-special-praise.html?ito=feeds-newsxml it's all a plot to get us to think he's a nice guy really! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekelund24 Posted 28 January, 2011 Share Posted 28 January, 2011 Menioned Shearer and the Wallace brothers, but no mention of Le Tiss...... Matty hasnt upset him as well has he- I always thought that Utd tried to buy MLT, but could be wrong I think he mentions the Walace brothers as a unit and Shearer because he is the most prolific of that era of the youth development, also mentions the two most recent players as well, Walcott and Bale! I think he comes across as very classy in the article, a good man to have on side for loans especially next year if promoted (which he thinks we will!!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Marco Posted 28 January, 2011 Share Posted 28 January, 2011 Wonder if he will say such nice things tomorrow "if" we win? I can see it now. Jaidi cripples Berbatov or Rooney (or maybe even both!) so they miss the champs league games and he will call us a bunch of hooligans no doubt! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 28 January, 2011 Author Share Posted 28 January, 2011 and the Guardian have a long piece about the academy. All good stuff http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/jan/28/southampton-alex-oxlade-chamberlain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Marco Posted 28 January, 2011 Share Posted 28 January, 2011 and the Guardian have a long piece about the academy. All good stuff http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/jan/28/southampton-alex-oxlade-chamberlain Yeah thats a really good piece. It is nice to be seen like that. Beats all the doom and gloom we have had over recent years! The only thing i don't agree with is the Lowe stuff. We had great youngsters before him i.e Wallace brothers,Matty,Shearer and others. A lot of what he say's is true and i agree he deserves some praise. But a lot of our future 90s stars were already in the club before he was. Meaning somebody else had brought them in. It is the same now. A lot of the under 18s were not here when Lowe was here for the first time. He can't really claim any kind of credit for those players. He helped with some of the infrastructure development. But it has advanced since then. And is continuing to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Samuel Posted 28 January, 2011 Share Posted 28 January, 2011 I imagine he would've mentioned Le Tiss if he was sold for a massive profit. I suppose a lot of non Saints forget MLT was a product of our excellent youth academy because he went on play for us for many years, so they remember him when he was a bit older. Nice words from Sir Alex though, a great example of how a manager should show respect to his opponents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Munster Posted 28 January, 2011 Share Posted 28 January, 2011 Isn't it standard practice for a manager and players to say nice things about their opponents a few days before the match? They don't want to give the other manager something to post on the changing room bulletin board that will give their players an added incentive to play well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eelpie Posted 28 January, 2011 Share Posted 28 January, 2011 Yeah thats a really good piece. It is nice to be seen like that. Beats all the doom and gloom we have had over recent years! The only thing i don't agree with is the Lowe stuff. We had great youngsters before him i.e Wallace brothers,Matty,Shearer and others. A lot of what he say's is true and i agree he deserves some praise. But a lot of our future 90s stars were already in the club before he was. Meaning somebody else had brought them in. It is the same now. A lot of the under 18s were not here when Lowe was here for the first time. He can't really claim any kind of credit for those players. He helped with some of the infrastructure development. But it has advanced since then. And is continuing to. The roots of Saints youth teams successes goes back even further - to Southampton Schools teams of the fifties, which won national cups and bred the likes of Terry Paine, John Sydenham and others - players who strengthened our last climb out of the Third Division. Respect to those days, to the kids on the Hampshire schools playing fields and to Ted Bates and others who made it happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Posted 29 January, 2011 Share Posted 29 January, 2011 Yeah thats a really good piece. It is nice to be seen like that. Beats all the doom and gloom we have had over recent years! The only thing i don't agree with is the Lowe stuff. We had great youngsters before him i.e Wallace brothers,Matty,Shearer and others. A lot of what he say's is true and i agree he deserves some praise. But a lot of our future 90s stars were already in the club before he was. Meaning somebody else had brought them in. It is the same now. A lot of the under 18s were not here when Lowe was here for the first time. He can't really claim any kind of credit for those players. He helped with some of the infrastructure development. But it has advanced since then. And is continuing to. Give it up for god's sake! I am not a lover of Lowe, but he is history and he did his utmost to forward the club in his way - we may agree that was the right way or not (that is life and democracy after all), but he lost a few million on Saints - how many of us can say that? Maybe misguided but he tried things out of the norm to differentiate us and make a smallish club compete at the highest levels - he who dares wins etc. As I said I am not a Lowe fan, but neither do I think he is the anti christ for SFC (RedCrapp etc are much better suited) - he tried his way - it failed - let it rest (and he lost millions in the process BTW). Let's celebrate the security and good times we enjoy now - sod the past, push on for the future :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 29 January, 2011 Author Share Posted 29 January, 2011 Good piece about Mick Channon and the cup http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/3378097/Giddy-up-for-the-cup-Southampton.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Boy Saint Posted 29 January, 2011 Share Posted 29 January, 2011 Funny how time mellows folks, I can remember beating them yet again when Dave Jones was manager, he said that he could not wait for the Dell to be knocked down and hopefully bring their bad run against us to an end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadgerBadger Posted 29 January, 2011 Share Posted 29 January, 2011 Good piece about Mick Channon and the cup http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/3378097/Giddy-up-for-the-cup-Southampton.html What a great article but wot a potty mouth Mr C has Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red and White Army Posted 29 January, 2011 Share Posted 29 January, 2011 The Daily Fail is wrong to say we were mired in financial strife when Adkins took over too - we were nothing of the sort. In fact he has taken over one of the richest clubs in the division, possibly in the country if you believe we are completely debt-free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supersubpuckett Posted 29 January, 2011 Share Posted 29 January, 2011 Funny how time mellows folks, I can remember beating them yet again when Dave Jones was manager, he said that he could not wait for the Dell to be knocked down and hopefully bring their bad run against us to an end. Sounds like a tonguer in cheek comment - he's always thought positively about Saints, I think saying something along the lines of us being a bogey team for him and how we always gave his side a good game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Made in Southampton Posted 29 January, 2011 Share Posted 29 January, 2011 and the Guardian have a long piece about the academy. All good stuff http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/jan/28/southampton-alex-oxlade-chamberlain That's a really good read. Makes a change to see so much positive reflection on our club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rory Posted 29 January, 2011 Share Posted 29 January, 2011 I think AOC is going to have a special game tonight, even though we'll lose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david in sweden Posted 29 January, 2011 Share Posted 29 January, 2011 What a great article but wot a potty mouth Mr C has I agree .... but it's always been a part of Mick, and he's not likely to change now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
so22saint Posted 29 January, 2011 Share Posted 29 January, 2011 My sister once went out with a saints youth player (Paul Harper) and Harps met Sir Alex in the tunnel at the Dell. He asked SAF who he would buy if he had his choice of any player in the league (this was 1991/92) and he said it would be MLT, but that it was well known in the game that his wife wouldn't let him leave Southampton. Later that year (I think) he signed Cantona from Leeds, who I thought was quite similar to MLT. I often wonder how he would have turned out if he'd gone to Man U - and how England would have done in Euro 96 with an integrated Le Tiss - (though well aware that we would have been in League Two or something -oh). there's a video of Berbatov on YouTube saying that MLT was his hero growing up by the way - a great watch but I've looked and can't find it now. It might explain his game, 80 minutes of seemingly not much, a few flicks, then a hat trick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedAndWhite91 Posted 29 January, 2011 Share Posted 29 January, 2011 My sister once went out with a saints youth player (Paul Harper) and Harps met Sir Alex in the tunnel at the Dell. He asked SAF who he would buy if he had his choice of any player in the league (this was 1991/92) and he said it would be MLT, but that it was well known in the game that his wife wouldn't let him leave Southampton. Later that year (I think) he signed Cantona from Leeds, who I thought was quite similar to MLT. I often wonder how he would have turned out if he'd gone to Man U - and how England would have done in Euro 96 with an integrated Le Tiss - (though well aware that we would have been in League Two or something -oh). there's a video of Berbatov on YouTube saying that MLT was his hero growing up by the way - a great watch but I've looked and can't find it now. It might explain his game, 80 minutes of seemingly not much, a few flicks, then a hat trick About 7 minutes in - http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/football_focus/8409567.stm - Berbatov mentions watching MLT and Shearer and wanting to score those sort of goals. This the same one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cabrone Posted 29 January, 2011 Share Posted 29 January, 2011 Forget the pre match waffle, lets see what old red nose has to say about us after the game. I hope he'll be fuming.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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