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Reply | Adam Armstrong scores on first start fir WBA
at 09:28 9 Feb 2025
He had the assist for the 1st goal. "The Blades took a 24th-minute lead when Ben Brereton Diaz released Gustavo Hamer, who drove into the box and curled a superb low finish inside the right-hand post." [Post edited 9 Feb 9:28]
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Reply | Juric calls Downes unprofessional live on air
at 09:21 9 Feb 2025
It's at every level. We could have a clear out at the top and still be stuck with the likes of McCarthy, Stephens, Bednarek and Smallbone. The soft core of mediocre players has been here for years. When we finally get rid of McCarthy, I'll start to believe the club is ready to change. I'm not holding my breath. |
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Reply | I think I will watch Rugby instead
at 21:53 8 Feb 2025
Ironically, South Coast football has rarely been more entertaining than it is right now with both Bournemouth and Brighton playing so well. What an FA Cup Final that would be.
The Newcastle v Bournemouth league game was one of the best games of football I've seen for years. [Post edited 8 Feb 21:58]
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Reply | Juric calls Downes unprofessional live on air
at 21:30 8 Feb 2025
Unfortunately, the nature of our club allows mediocre players, like McCarthy, Stephens, Bednarek and Smallbone, to stay here for as long as they like. We need a ruthless streak or we'll never get that fresh start. Realistically, I can't see that happening anytime soon. |
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Reply | Farce
at 17:21 8 Feb 2025
When you bring Smallbone on as a sub it's like saying we give up and hoisting a white flag. |
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Reply | Saints v Burnley FA Cup Thread.
at 17:09 8 Feb 2025
We were playing their reserves. Their first team drew with Pompey last week. We have to hope that Pompey get relegated because unless we strengthen the team considerably in the summer, they are going to be too good for us next season.
Burnley really weren't that bothered about winning today because they are in a promotion race, but in the end even their reserves could see we were so poor, that they thought might as well beat us anyway and have another run out in the next round. [Post edited 8 Feb 17:15]
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Reply | Officials
at 12:42 8 Feb 2025
I was at Old Trafford for that game where the Neil Shipperley goal was disallowed. It was an FA Cup quarter-final in 1996. Of course Man United went on to win the FA Cup that year, so everybody was happy. To be fair, Eric Cantona was at his brilliant best then so they'd have beaten us anyway. There has rarely been a more entertaining player than Cantona was in the mid-90s.
I like that spelling:
"It's a long way round Shiperery. It's a long way to go." |
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Reply | Officials
at 10:33 8 Feb 2025
Of course the linesman could see it was offside and if it hadn't meant cancelling a last minute winner for United or if it had been a Leicester attack, he'd have raised his flag.
There was a time before VAR, when almost 100% of all penalty decisions at Old Trafford were given in favour of Man United. Of course, even with VAR, the officials still err heavily in their favour.
I wouldn't call it corruption though. It's more a case of subconscious bias or taking the safe option. It's ironic that Mike Dean, who was the worst culprit, is now the leading TV pundit giving his verdict on controversial decisions. [Post edited 8 Feb 10:37]
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Reply | Top Three UK Acquisitions?
at 18:37 5 Feb 2025
After all, he's just a sweet, loveable old man.
Turn Gaza into a nice seaside resort. Sounds like a plan. Might need a bit of extra security for the Trump Tower Resort Hotel though. |
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Reply | Top Three UK Acquisitions?
at 15:02 5 Feb 2025
When Trump and Putin's representatives meet to discuss how they are going to share the spoils, I don't think we'll be invited. |
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Reply | 10 Greatest Players In Saints History Ranked
at 14:44 5 Feb 2025
Or Jack Robinson or Edgar Chadwick or even Alf Ramsey.
Where do you stop? Well to qualify as 'great' they at least need to have played for their country. Let's face it, in the modern era, when there are so many international games, with up to 40 players being involved for their country in a typical international week, if you haven't even been picked as a sub for one international game in your entire career, you can't be considered very good, let alone great. Even Alex McCarthy got one cap.
So, for a start, we've had 40 players who were capped for England as Saints players plus a lot more, like Alan Ball, who were capped for England when at other clubs as well as lots of other internationals, like Bale, Fonte and Mane.
Fonte won 50 caps for Portugal, most of them as a Saints player, and was in the teams that won the European Championship and the Nations League, which, obviously, no England player has ever won. [Post edited 5 Feb 15:14]
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Reply | 10 Greatest Players In Saints History Ranked
at 12:58 5 Feb 2025
I just had a look at the 10 Greatest Players in Chelsea History. Peter Osgood is ranked No.5.
He played 126 league games for Saints and even played in our FA Cup winning team, yet he doesn't get anywhere near our top 10. It's a funny old world. |
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Reply | 10 Greatest Players In Saints History Ranked
at 12:22 5 Feb 2025
Ted Bates was an average Second Division footballer. Even at the peak of his playing career, nobody, even in Southampton, would have described him as being anywhere near as good as his fellow striker, Charlie Wayman, or good enough to play in the top flight, let alone, great. We've had hundreds of players better than him. [Post edited 5 Feb 12:25]
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Reply | 10 Greatest Players In Saints History Ranked
at 12:10 5 Feb 2025
I have a mate who's supported Oxford United all his life and his list of their greatest players is headed by Trevor Hebberd, who no fans in Southampton or anywhere else would regard as great. As you say, these things can be based on individual memories of certain years in a fan's life or they can be more objective and based on how the football world in general regards that player. |
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