Non-Saints Games - 24/25

[woodsaint1]

Worth adding that Will Still's Lens only lost 1-0, 2-1 (late winner) and were beaten on pens in the Cup by this PSG side

[benjii]

Lol. Ref can't be arsed with added time.

[Colinjb]

No injury time played. Some mercy shown to Inter. 

That was one of the most one-sided spectacles i've ever seen. I include the two 9-0's in that.

[HarvSFC]

Maybe teams and upcoming managers around the world will copy PSG's tactics now, and they've been entertaining to watch in all of their Champions League matches this season.

[LGTL]

Hopefully this spells the end for the worst era in Football history. Tippy tappy possession bollocks can get in the bin. 

[AlexLaw76]

1 minute ago, LGTL said:

Hopefully this spells the end for the worst era in Football history. Tippy tappy possession bollocks can get in the bin. 

totally agree. Guardiola is obviously an excellent manager, but he has bored the shit out of this country largely thanks to the wanna-bees wanting to emulate him

[Saint Neil]

Spurs v PSG Super Cup should be a cracker.

[Turkish]

1 hour ago, LGTL said:

Hopefully this spells the end for the worst era in Football history. Tippy tappy possession bollocks can get in the bin. 

You’re kidding me? The Barcelona team with Ineista, Xavi, Messi were wonderful to watch. 

[Turkish]

1 hour ago, AlexLaw76 said:

totally agree. Guardiola is obviously an excellent manager, but he has bored the shit out of this country largely thanks to the wanna-bees wanting to emulate him

The problem isnt Guardoila his teams are a joy to watch when on song. The problem is managers who think they’re Guardiola and try and play that way with players no where near good enough. selles copied the inverted full back role for example and as for Russball trying to play like prime Barcelona with Jack fucking Stephens.

drop the ego. Do what you can with what you got from where you are. 

[Andrew Watson]

Did not see that score line coming, but delighted at the same time. Only seen brief highlights [ will watch bbc highlights tomorrow ],but how wonderful to see brilliant fearless attacking football from such a young vibrant side. Doue and Yamal at Barcelona have the footballing world at their feet, I hope they are not enticed by the Saudi millions for years to come.

[benjii]

9 hours ago, LGTL said:

Hopefully this spells the end for the worst era in Football history. Tippy tappy possession bollocks can get in the bin. 

Brexit means brexit!

[benjii]

9 hours ago, AlexLaw76 said:

totally agree. Guardiola is obviously an excellent manager, but he has bored the shit out of this country largely thanks to the wanna-bees wanting to emulate him

Lol. What do you actually think PSG were doing? 

[benjii]

8 hours ago, Turkish said:

The problem isnt Guardoila his teams are a joy to watch when on song. The problem is managers who think they’re Guardiola and try and play that way with players no where near good enough. selles copied the inverted full back role for example and as for Russball trying to play like prime Barcelona with Jack fucking Stephens.

drop the ego. Do what you can with what you got from where you are. 

Exactly.

[skintsaint]

At least the new champ league format designed to help bigger clubs worked.

[AlexLaw76]

1 hour ago, benjii said:

Lol. What do you actually think PSG were doing? 

Playing fast attacking football?

[danjosaint]

23 minutes ago, skintsaint said:

At least the new champ league format designed to help bigger clubs worked.

It didn't really though did it, Psg should've been out of initial round when 2v0 down to city but City collapsed, Liverpool should have had easy route finishing top but got Psg, same with Real getting Arsenal , so the format bought up some cracking games especially the Barca v Inter, it would've been possibly best final had Barca gone through against Inter 

[Turkish]

Blood hell, 2 dead, nearly 200 injured and over 400 arrested in Paris celebrating their win!! Bonkers 

[Midfield_General]

15 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Blood hell, 2 dead, nearly 200 injured and over 400 arrested in Paris celebrating their win!! Bonkers 

Jesus. Hate to think how they’d have reacted if they’d lost. Detonated a small nuclear device over the arc de triomphe presumably 

[benjii]

4 hours ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Playing fast attacking football?

They were playing like a Guardiola Barcelona team. Very similar system and approach.

[Weston Super Saint]

1 hour ago, Turkish said:

Blood hell, 2 dead, nearly 200 injured and over 400 arrested in Paris celebrating their win!! Bonkers 

Was it like the time the skates smashed up their own town after cheating the FA cup?

Edited yesterday at 11:57 by Weston Super Saint

[ecuk268]

Had an enjoyable few hours at St Mary's yesterday watching my grandson play in the Southampton Cup.

It's a 2-day tournament featuring 123 children's teams in six age groups from 7 to 12.

The morning sessions start at 7.00 and run till about 14.00, and the afternoon sessions end at around 21.00. The pitch is divided into 4 mini-pitches and each game is 15 minutes. 

Each team emerges from the players tunnel with their name being announced over the tannoy. All teams play at least 5 games so get 75 minutes on the pitch. They also get a tour of the dressing rooms and other facilities. The whole ground is open to parents etc and you can wander around the perimeter. Food and drink was available in the Northam concourse. 

It was all very well organised with games on all 4 pitches starting at exactly the same time (using a clock on the big screens) and  then a 5-minute break for the changeover to the next game.

Although it was all qualified referees, it was interesting to see the different styles. Some just let them get on with it and only blew for obvious fouls, but others were blowing for the tiniest of infractions. 

He loved it and can't wait to go back next year ( he also had his picture taken with Frannie Benali).

https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/news/article/the-southampton-cup-is-back-for-2025

Edited 21 hours ago by ecuk268

[AlexLaw76]

2 hours ago, benjii said:

They were playing like a Guardiola Barcelona team. Very similar system and approach.

Yes, which is a fair bit different to the current Man City team, let alone the wannabe teams like we were

Edited 22 hours ago by AlexLaw76

[Suhari]

1 hour ago, ecuk268 said:

Had an enjoyable few hours at St Mary's yesterday watching my grandson play in the Southampton Cup.

It's a 2-day tournament featuring 123 children's teams in six age groups from 6 to 12.

The morning sessions start at 7.00 and run till about 14.00, and the afternoon sessions end at around 21.00. The pitch is divided into 4 mini-pitches and each game is 15 minutes. 

Each team emerges from the players tunnel with their name being announced over the tannoy. All teams play at least 5 games so get 75 minutes on the pitch. They also get a tour of the dressing rooms and other facilities. The whole ground is open to parents etc and you can wander around the perimeter. Food and drink was available in the Northam concourse. 

It was all very well organised with games on all 4 pitches starting at exactly the same time (using a clock on the big screens) and  then a 5-minute break for the changeover to the next game.

Although it was all qualified referees, it was interesting to see the different styles. Some just let them get on with it and only blew for obvious fouls, but others were blowing for the tiniest of infractions. 

He loved it and can't wait to go back next year ( he also had his picture taken with Frannie Benali).

https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/news/article/the-southampton-cup-is-back-for-2025

That sounds like a simply fantastic day out. Amazing experience for the youngsters.

[spyinthesky]

All I bit different to when I signed on for Saints as an amateur when Ted Bates was the First Team Manager.
That  year there was the option to participate in open trials at the old CPC ground at Rownhams House.
We all got to play around 15 mins or so.
About a dozen of us were asked to sign on to turn out for the 'A' and 'B' sides who played in Hampshire Leagues 1 and 3 respectively.
I ended up in the 'A' team with quite a few Apprentices, as they were called then, who went onto play in the First Team & Reserves.