Nordic Saint

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He used to take great delight in defeating the teams he didn't like, including Arsenal and Saints. He also had favourite teams he helped win, like Man United and Spurs. He openly celebrated a Spurs goal. You could tell from which goal he faced most of the game which team he wanted to win and it was never Saints. If the team he wanted to lose was attacking, he'd stay still, waiting for his preferred team's next attack, which he would join in. One of his little games was pretending he was part of one of the teams. That 9-0 defeat to Man United was engineered by him and he delighted in it. Saints knew what he was doing. " Southampton appealed the red card issued to Bednarek, which was subsequently rescinded by The Football Association. Southampton also requested that Mike Dean and Lee Mason (4th official) not officiate their future fixtures." Arsenal knew about it too: There is no way he could be considered unbiased or fair. It's shocking that he was allowed to get away with it for as long as he did.

He scored again tonight.

What a terrible signing he was too. I thought of him when Leicester signed Alex McCarthy. There were a few things that stick in my mind from that game. The first was that Wolves took the lead after just 35 seconds with a Tony Knapp own goal. Another was that we felt slightly disappointed, that after scoring 9 goals in the first hour, singing, "We want 10" and thinking surely we can manage 1 more in half an hour, the 10th never came. That was a very good Wolves team we beat, captained by England star Ron Flowers at centre-half. They'd won their 2 previous games 4-1 and 4-0 and they also won the 3 games after we beat them, 3-0, 3-0 and 3-0. Then they beat Portsmouth 8-2. We, of course, got promoted at the end of the season, but Wolves finished 6th, just 4 points behind us. A similar ending to this season would not go amiss.

Our biggest ever win after going behind was 9-3 v Wolves in 1965. I was there.

No he did not. We had a brilliant season after Eckert took over. It was one of the most entertaining for years. But, Hull did the double over us and proved they were the best team in the play-offs so even if we'd got to Wembley, they'd probably have won. Good luck to them. They deserve to be in the Premier League. If we'd had any other manager, we'd have got nowhere near the play-offs. The transformation under Eckert was incredible. I'm looking forward to another brilliant season under Tonda Eckert and promotion at the end of it.

Hull seem to play best against top teams. They were the only team in the play-offs last season who'd not lost a single game all season to any of the other play-off teams. They did the double over us and It's some consolation to know that even if the EFL hadn't replaced us with Middlesbrough in the final, we'd probably have lost to Hull at Wembley. Better for us to go up as Champions this season anyway.

What an embarrassing, clueless comment.

"You whingeing bastards*, you know what you are." *Other words are available, especially if you like to alliterate.

Leicester fans have had enough of McCarthy and Martin already: Burton Albion Match Thread - Page 15 - Leicester City Forum - FoxesTalk

No surprise there. Bristol City got a bargain.

£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