Nordic Saint

I remember driving to the 2nd leg of the play-off semi-final and making the mistake of switching on BBC Radio Solent, expecting a positive pre-match build-up, only to hear Adam Blackmore talking, pretty much as you describe. Tw@t. I switched him off after less than a minute and really don't want to hear him ever again.

Why not? Leeds won the Championship trophy and Bielsa was voted EFL Championship Manager of the Year the season after their Spygate scandal.

The cloud may have a big silver lining. If we can win the Championship next season, not going up via the play-offs will be one of the best things that's happened to us in recent years. We'll have a league winners trophy and be better prepared for the Premier League, like Leeds after we beat them in the play-off final. It certainly sounds like Dragan is up for it.

Leeds United and Marcelo Bielsa win Fair Play prize at FIFA Football awards for role in Aston Villa game despite 'spygate' row | talkSPORT

This is grossly unfair of Arsenal. By encouraging the opposition to watch their training sessions less than 72 hours before a big game, they are gaining an unfair advantage by intimidating them.

Bielsa was rewarded with the FIFA Fair Play Award at the end of that season, and given the EFL Championship Manager of the Year award the following season.

Bruno Fernandes throws himself down, clutching his face and screaming, trying to get players sent off, if they make even slight contact with him anywhere above waist level, and he's just been voted Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year for 2026. Yet many of these same sports writers wrote that filming part of a training session on a phone was something terrible.

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And with the poll not going the way they wanted, it looks like that fin has fallen off and they're frantically flapping against the tide.

Where did you see that? It doesn't surprise me though. I haven't seen a Saints team playing for their manager like they have for Eckert for a long time. Rival teams will be hoping that he's not still our manager next season. In fact, they'd all probably take him if they could,

No, we fight back by not doing what 100% of Pompey and Boro fans want us to and sacking the best manager we've had for years. It's time to stand up to the pressure from those who don't have our best interests at heart.

If he's been promised a job for life at Boro, he wouldn't need to look for another job. He probably knows too much for them to risk letting him go anyway.

Yes, like the Middlesbrough connections on the independent commission, purely coincidental, of course,.

if a young analyst were sent from Middlesbrough to spy on Southampton for a couple of months, then returned to Middlesbrough with information he'd gathered to be used against Southampton, and then told to delete his linked-in profile on the day some of that information was made public, that would be OK, wouldn't it? Purely hypothetical, of course, because nobody could get away with it, could they? Anyway, even if it was possible, it couldn't have been Taylor as, according to online profiles, he was never at Southampton: Jason Taylor - Manager profile | Transfermarkt

You'd hate Sir Alex Ferguson then. He could be mean and nasty with youngsters. As for Brian Clough, he would often humiliate them. What you need is a warm, cuddly manager like Russell Martin.