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No. Clear penalty even in real time. Broja recovered from the first lunge at him outside the box and ref played advantage, hence second foul in box. JWP redeemed himself with the spot kick as he had not made a tackle all afternoon.

The least worst side won. Usual roller coaster ride with Saints.

I imagine in your childhood you delighted in pointing out to your little school chums that all the evidence available combined with simple mechanical principles proved beyond reasonable doubt that Santa Claus did not in fact exist and that it would have been scientifically unfeasible for his sleigh to circumnavigate the globe in 24 hrs and deliver presents to over 7.1 billion expectant folk without anybody hearing or seeing him. For my part I'll hang up my stocking on Christmas Eve, snuggle down in the duvet and put my trust in belief and hope.

Very doubtful that we'll see any activity from Saints in next month's window especially with ground closure threats with further potential huge loss of income.

For the same reason that if Saints draw against Man City & West Ham then it should have been a walkover v Norwich. In plain English, there are far too many individual, social and environmental variables at play than the simple statistics that you have drawn upon.

Leeds seem doomed unless Bielsa is sacked immediately. Classic second season syndrome. I hope they drop as that will be one less place to worry about. Frankly I can't stand the bloke and will be glad to see the back of him simply because he is too arrogant to bother to speak English or to look people in the eye when he is talking to them.

Moving Christmas message from Dave on Solent this morning. Deeply thoughtful and sensitive, didn't know he had this in him. Talk about "hiding your light". He also announced this was his last Christmas message to fans as he is retiring soon. More in this man than meets the eye. We'll miss you Dave! "What we don't want to see now is a late Christmas lockdown just before full time"

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It will go on for years as herd immunity seems unachievable. This will be the new 'norm' for our lives well into the future. We all need to find a way to live with the virus depending upon our individual circumstances and risk assessments but only a fool would disregard reality and throw caution to the wind.

Spot on. Couldn't have described last night's performance any better.

Watching Saints these days has become very unappealing, there is a boring familiarity about the way we play and the inevitability of the outcomes. It is so predictable that any hope of a change of fortunes has evaporated. So it proved again last night.

I hear that he has a stiff neck from ball watching

Heaven forbid that Stephens starts.

Come on chaps, credit where it is due. Stephen Gerrard did a fantastic job at Rangers and is doing a similarly good job at Villa Park. The man has something about him, he knows football inside out and he knows how to motivate a dressing room. We need to move away from the old agenda that all English mangers are crap and accept that one day we will produce some really good managers. It will be the intelligent younger guys who have played in the modern game that lead the charge and we should be excited about it.

It doesn't work like that. Effective protection from current vaccines seems to last about 3 months so people like me who were boosted at the beginning of October will suffer waning effectiveness of the booster by the beginning of Jan 2022. I am expecting that there will then be an announcement of a second booster, hence the rush to complete first boosters before they free up resources to start administering "second" boosters. Vaccine passports will need to be updated at each stage and individuals will likely need to be at the latest level of vaccination protection fro the passport to be valid.

Ralph seemed very distracted and downbeat at his press conference, do you think Palace is his last throw of the dice?

Palace are a vastly improved side under Viera playing some of the most exciting football in the Division. They have front men that can put fear into any defence irrespectively of how defences are set up. It is a joke now to suggest that Saints and Palace are anywhere near on a par. Saints have little chance on Wednesday on current form and with their regular strikers on sick leave what hope there was of getting anything from the game has more or less vanished. With another 3-0 defeat on the cards the main interest may be the fall-out after the game. Surely there will be one bridge too far for Ralph soon, this may be it.

Only 4? Shame we didn't sign him up. Leicester scored 9 against our current flop of a manager!

They were one of my choices at the start of season prediction thread but most on here ridiculed the suggestion.

Dreadful. An appallingly bad performance. Nowhere to go from here except downwards. Yes indeedy Hodgey. On the nail!

No vision and no money

Where will they park the Away coaches and how long before new residents start moaning about match-day crowds, anti-social behaviour and excessive noise from the PA and when Saints score the odd goal (although the latter is a fairly academic question for now).

The absence of Romeu has decided this match IMO. 3-0 to the Arsenal is about the best we an hope for.

Not funny at all. One suspects that the people doing the check-ins were as lax as their British counterparts and just waved people through so in effect nobody knows how many were actually vaccinated.

The fact that so many experts on here can see the limitations of this club, are they surprised at the apparent lack of interest in buying it?