Nordic Saint

£10

It was Gareth Southgate's best mate, Andy Woodman. He's manager of Bromley and used to be a goalkeeping coach. He's from that 'old school' group of English managers, like Sam Allardyce, only much more unfit and obese.

West Ham charged £1 and a maximum £10 for adults for their game v Pompey. We'd have had a capacity crowd with those prices and the Club would have made a lot more money from sales of food , drink and merchandise sold in and around the ground Closing the Kingsland will also put off several thousand fans, who don't want to be behind the goal, from attending so that's going to lose the Club even more money. It is stupid and embarrassing.

He keeps on winning. . 63.41% win rate now. The best of any Saints manager in history, who's been in charge for more than 30 games. List of Southampton F.C. managers - Wikipedia

Finn Azaz and Shea Charles are available on the subs bench.

He's signed for Bristol City, so we'll be seeing him play at St Mary's this season. Southampton FC academy graduate joins Championship rivals | Daily Echo

We might just as well call him the Middlesbrough spy. The information he reported back to Middlesbrough was far more useful than anything Saints gathered.

I'm not sure who's more desperate for Tonda to be sacked: Boro fans, Pompey fans or Alex Law.

As they only broke FA Rules more than 70 times over 13 years, the club have had a six-point deduction, which was suspended until 30 June 2027, "set aside" on appeal.

The Club does and the Club has already been punished. He is just one of many employees of the Club, for which the owner is responsible, including scouts and analysts. He didn't personally break the 72-hour rule and, by all accounts he didn't instruct anyone to break it. If it happened 73 hours before the game, no rule would have been broken. In a year when FIFA were telling teams they must make their final training sessions open to the public or face punishment, it might just as well have been Middlesbrough who were being punished for a petty breach of an arbitrary rule. It's hardly a serious crime like violence on the pitch. But, the FA will want the publicity that a big headline punishment will garner. Severe punishments are always popular, even if they are inappropriate.

What did he 'do'? It was a club scouting activity involving the actions and knowledge of scouting staff as well as others at the club, contravening a new 72-hour rule, for which the club already received a ridiculously harsh punishment. Such severe punishments are being handed out by the EFL and the FA, not because they are appropriate, but because they are good publicity for the organisations involved and popular with the media and fans of rival clubs, especially those in the Middlesbrough and Portsmouth areas.

Sport Resolutions recruit the FA appeal board members. You can't escape from them.

These are the requirements for an FA independent judicial panel member: "ESSENTIAL ATTRIBUTES REQUIRED The essential attributes required are: 2 • A qualified solicitor or barrister with a minimum of 15 years post-qualification experience. King’s Counsel level desirable but not mandatory; • Experience as a judge, arbitrator, disciplinary tribunal member or similar; • A demonstrable knowledge of sports regulation and the applicable law; • A significant understanding of the regulatory framework for English football; • Recent, relevant experience of involvement in sports disciplinary matters" Basically, the FA just contact the same agency the EFL did - Sport Resolutions -and ask them to provide 3 panel members. Sport Resolutions would expect them to support the views of the 3 members they provided for the EFL commission, and they could very well send the same people. This lack of independence of the FA panel from the EFL panel leads me to expect another draconian punishment. I hope I'm wrong, because it all seems very unfair.

As far as I can see, from a quick online search, the FA regulatory commission will get its members, who determine the punishment, from the same source that the EFL Commission did - they might even be the same people - Sport Resolutions. Even if any of the panel members are different, they are hardly likely to disagree with the previous commission drawn from exactly the same agency. They're not going to bite the hand that feeds them. So, it's a double whammy. Has this ever happened before?

Yes, English armies set sail from Southampton for centuries, from Agincourt to the Falklands and beyond. Whilst it's true they have a naval base, considerably more soldiers have gone to war from Southampton than from Portsmouth.