Patrick Bateman

We've got the best James Ward-Prowse in the world. Best stadium called St Marys in the world. But in answer to the original question, even with players Saints have sold, I don't think Bale, Bridge, Shaw and co would be considered the best in their position unlike Van Dijk and Keegan. Shearer was competing with the likes of George Weah who probably WAS the best in the world at that time.

Would sort Saints out a treat and ensure mid table mediocrity, but hopefully, a proper cup run again.

Because people are ignorant pricks. It's not hard, stick a f**king mask on.

I'll be very surprised if Howe isn't Saints manager by the end of the year.

This. Every single corner he takes is telegraphed and NEVER manages to land to a player on his own team, they are slow and obvious.

Utter vermin.

Got me thinking as I remember I think it was on the Network54 version of this forum that most people agreed the new stadium should be "St Marys Stadium". Then it came out it was the "Friends Provident Stadium" to wall of disbelief.

Pleb.

Agree with all of this, except the point on electric cars. The actual way forward is to drive less! Cycle, walk, public transport (which needs to be better and also more green as well), but drive less. Personally I've driven about 3000 miles in a year, not just because of lockdown, but many reasons - walking more being one. There are many things people can do; plant trees, ban fake turf and have real grass, stop the obsession with cheap throwaway clothing and buy quality that lasts, repair said clothing like used to happen, don't buy a new mobile every year, stop the obsession with loads of make up fake tans and injecting crap, stop making fans of Everton and Manchester City (for example) travel to London for a cup final, play it up north, stop bloody flying around the world so much, drive less, eat less and eat what you buy stop throwing it away. Generally the theme is "less". We do need to be less consumerist and repair what we have. Just my view anyway and what I'm doing - now. Yes, like everyone I've been part of the problem, but it's not too late to make a change.

It is dreadful.

No words. Actually I do ... thick and stupid f**king simpleton pricks and the human race is doomed.

Ward-Prowse has been sh*t recently. Slow, ponderous, sideways, backwards and completely incapable of landing a corner or free kick on the head of his own team mates. Every single time, the opposition gets an easy head away. I think there was ONE free kick that was quick, low and dangerous, but the rest are crap. Dead ball specialist ... He needs to step back up.

This is such low quality

Just need a decent striker on the pitch. No end product.

This, there is enough fake celebrating and throwing beer around in helmet venues like box park without the dins in the ground doing it as well. I've sat at Twickenham drinking a whisky in one hand and a pint in the other, it works there, I just can't see it working in a football ground. I'll stick with queuing for 5 hours to buy 3 bottles of crap lager and then throwing two of them away 10 mins into the second half ...

"Pep" 🙄

Absolutely ridiculous. When clubs are starting to talk about carbon neutral games (gimmick or not, at least it's being pushed and talked about), the club sign up with a platform enabling a hugely negative environmental impact; https://www.ft.com/content/1aecb2db-8f61-427c-a413-3b929291c8ac "Sarah Batters, Director of Marketing and Partnerships, said: “We are proud to be partnering with learncrypto.com, a non-profit crypto education platform that is providing opportunities to learn about blockchain and crypto, during a time when the sector is growing exponentially" Growing exponentially and contributing MASSIVELY to climate change. Bravo.

Christ. I remember a game, think it was 0-5 vs Newcastle, he was bloody horrible.

Ramirez was too clever for the rest of the team and they couldn't spot his runs, or something ...

Do adults really play that? Christ.

No. Walker didn't touch the ball, at all. The way I (and many others I think) saw it was he (Moss) was checking whether it was a red card offence, then overturned the whole f**king decision. It was stonewall penalty. Little push, then a complete clatter and no ball touched.

This.

F**k off. How is that not a penalty? No attempt to get the ball, ridiculous. My goodwill with football is waning again ...

I don't think I've seen a full up ground at any match on TV, so I think there are a couple of things a) pricing overall for football is ridiculous right now, especially considering the rises in costs of everything else like energy, so people maybe prioritising and b) there are still a lot of people who don't want to sit in a crowd which is fair enough.

That was incredible - it was a brilliant display of tennis all round and both players showed maturity beyond their years. Amazing!