Matthew Le God

They were accused of cheating, I asked what have they done to cheat. That is not an unreasonable question.

What have the FA done to cheat?

None of that is relevant to meeting a definition of being a journeyman. A journeyman is about moving from club to club throughout a career. Ward-Prowse has two main clubs and two loans in circa 25 years! That isn't a journeyman career. Your point about England caps is also wrong, as Rickie Lambert and James Ward-Prowse both have 11 caps for England!

Not overly comparable as Lake Titicaca is over 5,000 feet further above sea level than the Azteca Stadium!

1) The stats show otherwise regarding his passing. 2) The other players who stayed weren't PL quality, he and others who were sold for big money were. That is why they were wanted and the others weren't. So it would be daft for them to hold any kind of grudge against him. None of them would have stayed with us in the Championship if a £100k+ p/w contract was on offer to them.

He was here for 20+ years. He is hardly disloyal! He then had the opportunity to keep his £100k+ wages and continue at Premier League level after our relegation. Daft to blame him for not turning that down. Clearly it didn't ultimately work out well for him in footballing terms, but he wasn't to know that at the time.

Haven't you done what you accused @hypochondriac of doing? 🤔

We didn't have our current one for 89 years of the clubs existence. Things change.

If such practice was commonplace with agents leaking false claims to the press, why would the clubs take such stories seriously enough to the extent it impacts their actions?

They are not all players who can only play as a holding midfielder role.

He is an out of contract player, so of course he is available. Why would an agent need to invent this story for Wolves and West Ham to know that he is available? They'd know regardless that he was out if contract and even if they didn't... the agent could just tell them directly rather than making up stories in the media.

It isn't a single spot. We play with two central midfielders in a 4231 system and Charles is seemingly going to leave. So if Neil joins, it would be 4 players for 2 spots which is reasonable.

We did not have it for 89 years of the club's history.

Or an urn...

If the chimneys can't be on it as they are now rubble, what would the image of Fred Dibnah look like given he died 22 years ago?

Stoke have redone theirs based on elements of their multiple old badges...

The game is in a SO postcode, so not much of a trip, and in mid July it's probably better to play in the cooler evening.

Why are you writing him off due to height and his club? In 1997 would you not want Claude Makélélé to sign for Saints because he is 5 foot 9 and plays for Nantes?

Flynn Downes isn't as small as his Wikipedia page and other websites claim. He is not 5 foot 8! Heights of footballers on lots of websites are often nonsense.

They aren't both 'crap' in the Championship.

I think random Saints fans on X with 120 followers are unlikely to get transfer exclusives. X is a hive of random fans making up transfer rumours. I don't think it even warrants an "apparently"!

Is this your source...? (It isn't a good one)

Saints also would have no transfer fee to pay, so can inflate the deal from a base of having significantly more money than Hearts.