Miltonaggro

Richard ‘Dick’ Dunn, the fighting Para. Ended up challenging Ali for the world title.

Cheers GS, that’s brilliant! If you watch the big match revisited on ITV (currently on another chronological rerun) you begin to notice a growing interest in Saints and McMenemy after the cup win, and the club starts to be featured much more in 77/78 and 78/79 into the heyday. The producers clearly saw Saints as odds on to provide entertainment and they were dead right. Few years ago Steve Williams (my favourite player back in the day) was interviewed and said that his memory of those sides was the team spirit, workrate and pure enjoyment of playing professional football - they would be relentless until the final whistle. Thus, not scared of anyone and happy to go toe to toe with any side. You watch these matches (nice clear footage on TBMR) and this really stands out, top pros in a final hurrah alongside young talent keen to learn from the maestros, giving it everything they’ve got for the shirt -nostalgia can be incredibly refreshing.

Alas for Phil, only CEO of one leg of the tripod...

Of course, every complex organisation has a few such specimens. The dupes who suggest that he's not been interfering are either naive or ignorant, perhaps both.

By now, we must assume that he is, TDM!

Of the two remaining 'co-founders' at takeover, Solak is the Chair (as majority shareholder) and Ankersen CEO of Sport Republic. An organisation which prides itself on existing as a 'group enterprise / project'. All other executive roles at the three clubs are ancillary to these two senior positions, which essentially have control and oversight. Ankersen appointed Spors, and described himself on the SFC website in the following terms: “brings to Saints extensive experience as a football executive, previously leading Brentford FC to promotion to the Premier League in 2020 as Co-Director of Football and overseeing the most successful period in Danish club FC Midtjylland’s history as Executive Chairman” Of course he's still involved with day to day football matters at Southampton!

A considered post. I saw us beating Stoke on their patch as a positive sign in terms of capability - they are above us and a good few Saints fans would have been happy with Robins as manager to replace Still. The hit and hope is that Tonda can keep the learning curve going, as the board are clearly gambling on Stewart's fitness and a loan forward who last scored double figures in 2020-21 in the Turkish league to close the gap towards the play offs.

It does in that we are apparently solvent and likely to be in this league come May, but nobody is paying what Solak & Co. would want, methinks.

At least we've got rid of the song for now.

He looks over the fucking moon!

Rasmus saw him on the beach in Magaluf!

Lest we forget...

We've been anal-ysing him for a number of days...

Not putting my faith on anyone on the Board, merely musing. It would be impossible for Cirque de Cunts to disappoint me any more than they have done already.

Yes, and it’s not Bundesliga 2!