SuperMikey

Tater on the stream i'm watching. He also said that Franny Benali was finishing his run off at St Andrews this afternoon, which I thought was a bit of a detour

"Steven Davis has been part of this Southampton revolution since the start, helping them to back-to-back promotions" .....errrrr

Taters said he scored one when he was on loan at Burnley apparently. Definitely his first PL goal for us though.

Newcastle are so bad even Corky scored! Haha

Wanyama on for Long at HT

We started very aggressively and quickly, I think taking our foot off the pedal is ok at this point because we don't want to tire by the 70-80 minute mark - Newcastle have strong quick players on the bench they could bring on to make an impact on tired legs. I fully expect us to control the second half and maybe try to snatch another one before the hour before bringing on Wanyama and playing slightly more compact while keeping the ball from Newcastle.

Great save Forster. Bad marking in the area though, Sissoko completely unmarked.

Pelle 2-0! Eeeeeeeeeeasy! Eeeeeeeeasy!

This is working ok http://www.eplsite.com/stream19.html

But what does it matter, 1-0 Pelle! Great header. Newcastle look absolutely shocking, can't remember seeing a worse start to a game by a team at SMS.

That was a red card imo. Ball had gone but he was clearly stopped by Krul inside the area.

15 seconds left, City have a free kick just off the left hand corner flag... ....aaaaand nothing. Great game though!

Nasri puts it in but offside! Oh my. Really bad marking again from Arsenal though, City's strikers are finding all sorts of gaps in their defensive line to exploit.

Heavy deflection from a through ball and it hits the post, Man City nearly snatched it. Arsenal not really looking like they have the legs to get a winner, have to concentrate now..

F*cking hell, Kolarov was close there. 6 minutes stoppage time...plenty of time for either team to snatch a winner

Squeaky bum time for Wenger now, 5 minutes left plus stoppage time. Debuchy injured himself badly as well, looks like he snapped his achilles landing awkwardly.

Appalling marking by Arsenal! Looks like set-pieces are how to score against them this season...great header by Demichelis though tbf.

Beautiful finish by Sanchez!

Arsenal looked great going forward for the first 25 minutes or so, kept the ball well and had some nice movement up top with Welbeck. Couple of scary moments at the back but they held on. On the 30 minute mark, poor positioning by the Arsenal defence and a great counter-attack from City makes it 1-0. Aguero has looked very good when he's been involved, but City haven't really been on the ball. Monreal and Flamini don't look good enough for the rest of the Arsenal team - they're definitely the weak links. No Chambers either which is interesting as he's been one of their best players so far this season.

Agreed, that is a bit farcical.

Did you forget to read the part where I said that Yes were doing the same thing? That's politics. It's just all that seems to be coming from the No side is negativity so naturally some people will gravitate away from that towards Yes. Scotland will not gain full independence in the case of a Yes vote until 2016. It seems a bit daft for people to be screaming about price rises etc when there's time for these things to be evaluated and debated before an agreement is reached on rates that could affect businesses. Obviously there will be increases in prices, but people in the UK get r4ped by utility companies anyway, and food prices are headed that way too. If Scotland votes Yes, and if in 18 months time there hasn't been sufficient progress in talks to keep prices sensible I will be worried - but you can guarantee that businesses won't readily throw away 6m customers. Some of them will, but I imagine others will take a slight hit in profits to keep their oar in the market.

He's coming with him, but only for the shopping

Well, look at the messages coming out of both camps recently. Yes are doing their share of putting down the other side as well, but there is a lot more positivity coming from Yes than No - who seem to be focused on letting people know what they stand to lose with a Yes vote than what they stand to gain with a No vote (mostly because they don't want to pander to a population who is already pretty spoiled in terms of funding).

Donated and shared on Facebook, it's so sad to see what Franny has put himself through and he's not even at 10% of his target yet. Hopefully the club will put some kind of sum in at HT - if we can afford to pay Gaston 50k a week we can afford to put 25k in for this cause!

Can't argue too much with that Charlie, although I might take issue with your description of Salmond's followers as "anglophobes". I think it's a bit simplistic to put the support for a separation down to a disdain of England - it's more a disdain of the current political system more than the allegiance with fellow UK nations. Now, i'm not saying that all supporters for the Yes cause are Anglophiles without a bad word to say about England, but I think a lot of people in the rest of the UK take support for separation as a personal affront ("If they want to leave then f*ck them", "What's wrong with the UK as it is?!") when it's more about Scotland developing in its own right. I'm sure a lot of people who will vote Yes would be happy enough in their lives had there not even been a referendum, but this is about seizing an opportunity. Following in the footsteps of nations of similar sizes (Scandinavian countries, Switzerland, Belgium etc) not to become some global superpower but to live comfortably and meaningfully with its own political agenda set by the people who live there. There's a lot of ill-sentiment towards Westminster politics and the "ruling class" from all over the country - we saw that with the floods in the West Country recently, we've seen it with the Hillsborough debacle and we've seen it for decades with people in former industrial towns who were stripped of their livelihoods by those they elected to represent them. A lot of people in my age bracket (20s-30s) are voting yes to get shot of the corrupt and morally bankrupt leaders in Westminster and to have a shot on the leaders in Scotland. Now, i'm not saying that they're perfect - Salmond does come across as being pretty sleazy and smug - but it's a shot to make a change and try to inspire people back into believing in their leaders. There is serious apathy amongst young people all across the UK right now that will come to a head with the political system in the future, and can you blame them? The betrayal of their core voters by the Lib Dems after the GE is a good example of that, although admittedly that hasn't had as much of an effect on the young voters of Scotland as it has elsewhere. The No campaign have fallen into the trap of using scare tactics to provoke swing voters into playing it safe, and that'll probably work. What it won't work on though is the large amount of disgruntled and unhappy people in Scotland, in the North-West, in Yorkshire and all across the UK who are fed up of our politicians and want to make a change. While I wouldn't expect an independent Scotland to be some sort of vastly different socialist utopia, it would demonstrate some kind of "people power" which with the events of the last 20 years or so (invasion of Iraq despite mass protests, severe cuts to public spending, more and more social injustice) would be a welcome change.