JackanorySFC

I am pretty certain you are in the minority there but respect your point of view. Will happily make a £10 charity bet with you the series viewing figures will be less?

As I said, I won't make an effort. If it's on and I'm in with nowt else to watch yeah, I'll give it a try. I'm not like these lunatics that hate Clarkson despite apparently never watching him or reading his excellent (IMO) Sunday Times Driving & News Review columns, I won't judge it until I've seen it, I'm simply not that fussed to watch it without the proper presenters. However the days of looking forward to the latest series and Sky+'ing the entire series are long gone. Clarkson had to be sacked, no doubt about that. Just a shame that the BBC's biggest money maker has the cash tap turned off now considering licence revenues are dropping at alarming levels. Just calling it like it is, viewing figures will be around half of what they were in the UK and maybe 25% globally, people love to have a go at him but JC and his pals absolutely nailed the formula for 5m+ Neanderthals like me in the UK (and 200m+ globally including that right wing, Daily Mail reading head case the Deli Lama who would watch it live without fail every week) that like a bit of un-PC nonsense on a Sunday night.

Viewing figures will half. Most people watch it for Clarkson and his mates. No way you can replicate that chemistry. Massive waste of licence fee money (not to mention future syndication revenues, Clarkson has a massive overseas following). I won't make an effort to watch it, I don't mind Evans either, in fact I like him. However no doubt viewing figures will tank.

Will 100% take off in a massive way. I've been working in Broadcast for the last 3 years and seen it's evolution, the picture is stunning, more realistic than 3D. It's 4x the definition of HD so allows you to sit closer to a TV or buy a **** off massive one. All major dramas in the last 3 years have been filed in 4K (UHD) and downgraded. Sony have done tests during the World Cup and Champions league final and football looks ****ing amazing in UHD! The only thing that has held it back is the fact it needs 4x the amount of data to be broadcast to a TV, now BT have this sewn up I'm going out and buying a monster 60" new TV and getting BT. It really is a big deal they are broadcasting in UHD, Sky will be gutted they got beaten to it!

So FIFA are set to announce that Presidential elections are going ahead on Friday. The game I love is rotten to the core.

This is potentially explosive, the statement from the Swiss Atorney General is huge! It looks like they've finally been caught out (I hope), it all happening today, just 2 days before the vote and in the same Hotel as the World's media makes it look like it was arranged by Michael Corleoné! Gotta love those Yanks, "today we settle all FIFA family business". Just cast your minds back to the day Russia and Qatar won their bids. I was in the pub due to a snow day and everyone was taken back by it, so obviously obviously corrupt. The recent news that Russia had lost/ destroyed all the computer equipment used during their bid was astonishing, the deaths in Qatar keep racking up. It's a ****ing disgrace and the sooner it gets fixed the better. No way Putin's Russia or a petro nation of 300k people in a desert with limited human rights should have the 2nd biggest sporting event in the World. I will also take particular pleasure in seeing Jack Warner taken to task.

100% agree with this. La Rat acted the absolute opposite of a leader.

Jesus, the Aidy Ward is off his nut! Talk about shots fired.... I actually hope Liverpool keep him for another season, nowhere near the finished article and wouldn't start for City or Chelsea IMO. The epitome of what's wrong with modern footballers and their agents, refusing to take the blame for failure or see themselves as part of a solution to a problem, instead wanting instant success/ riches off the back of a group of players already established elsewhere. Liverpool (for all their faults) are one of the few clubs big enough to make a stand against a wrongun like Sterling, good luck to them. Seriously though, Aidy Ward f***ing hell

I missed that game due to working a Saturday shift at John Lewis I couldn't swap. Not long after I left vowing never to working a Saturday again in my life, so far I've managed to be true to that. For Matt to score that goal in that way was exactly what the Dell and Le God deserved. Great ground (worth 10 points a season IMO), great memories. Still got my seat and a 12ft DRAPER ad' hoarding I somehow got back to Hedge End on the bus after the Brighton game!

In this post you've summed up exactly why I, and I imagine a lot of other recent conservative voters, are sick to death of holier than thou labour voters. How dare you imply that we voted anything except Labour because we are stupid enough to be influenced by Murdoch's publications (plural, although I can't remember a single Times or Sunday Times article on why we should not back EM because he looks odd?) and politics of fear! Using one of your examples by the way, living in the South of England and potentially being governed by a party that can only get legislation voted through with the help of a Scottish party whose main remit is to break up the Union, I think that for a lot of people down here is a genuine grievance? Are you saying we were morons to consider that as one of the many many reason to vote for or against a particular party. Why is it that we are all too thick to not see past these things but you aren't? Why is it, that because I and others made a decision that we think may be best for us, our families and the country as a whole, that is different from yours mean that we are easily led and susceptible to being taken in by "straight up bullshít"? These days we can access multiple, practically unlimited media outlets, Murdoch's media barely gets 5% of my exposure to opinion and fact. Before the election many here were saying with great glee how the Sun et al no longer have any real influence on the election. Now Labour took a pasting it is all the fault of the dumb electorate that blindly believe Murdoch. No it isn't, it's because those of us that are working hard, seeing the country improve economically and the money in our pockets go further have decided that the alternative of a party that wants to change course on the policies that has served us well for the last 5 years hasn't worked hard enough to convince us to choose that alternative. Sorry to píss on your chips but that opinion was formulated by myself thanks. Yours is the arrogant, bitter, fingers in the ears attitude that frankly písses me off and I hope for Labour's sake (as I have voted for them before and probably will again one day) they get a better, more realistic and optimistic outlook than yours and others I have seen.

Absolutely this.

FYI this is actually Steven Howard's column in today's Sun. Lazy tabloid journo scum etc etc

Not if you look at every opinion poll ever conducted when asked questions relating to Cameron's/ Milliband's standing on a World stage no. Like him or not, Cameron has gravitas and can hold his own with World leaders. Imagine Ed trying to negotiate with Putin? The possibility of that is a genuine threat to our national security in both my opinion and the opinion of the majority of poll respondents on every poll ever conducted on the subject regardless of party support. By the way I'm a previous Labour voter from a strong Labour voting family.

Because some of us would like to watch football in a World where some of the billions of extra TV revenue are passed to us, the fans and custodians of the game, rather than already multi millionaire players and agents.

Really happy with that, unexpected in the current age of clubs squeezing every penny possible out of fans. My seat also reduced by £29. Opportunity to sell ticket on for games you can't make very clever too, personally I always shift mine to a mate for £20 but know others will prefer the clubs option. I imagine at those prices the Itchen North could be pretty busy next season. Priority for potential European away games a big factor as well. Will be interesting what they do price wise for 2016/17 with the new TV deal, not assuming the worst like I usually do.

I agree with the Paris Angel

I'll be heading over in a camper van to follow the whole tournament. Planning on having my stag do there which I hope will see about 50 odd Southampton p*** heads heading over with me for a few days of my trip. All depends on where England are playing their group games. Oh, and when we set the date for our wedding actually... I imagine 100k+ English will head over there. Zero chance of getting a ticket, just go for the laugh/ drink. Great memories of doing the same in Germany 2006, 6 of us in a 4 berth motorhome staying under a Autobahn flyover for 5 days in Cologne with a few thousand other English with trips to Amsterdam on route there and back as well. The 2 lads next to us in Freedom Town (Scarface reference) were from Barnsley and staying in a battered old Ford Transit with a mattress in the back, both students who got credit cards and were staying in Germany until the money ran out. Irresponsible as **** but memories that'll last a lifetime, anyway thanks to the Germans we got knocked out nice and early so no doubt they stayed well in their limit :-). For a pair of Northerners they couldn't drink for s*** though. I'd encourage any young single (or, like me, someone with an understanding missus) lad to get over there somehow.

Atmosphere in the 2nd half in the Itchen North was excellent, considering there were a fair few empty seats as well. The constant OWTS actually shut them up completely for a good 15 minutes, no easy thing considering their away support is amongst the best in the league and they were very loud before that. Shows how much us supporters can affect a game when done right.

Agree. Better still he could have acted like the Captain and leader of our club he was supposed to be, stood up and reiterated he's recently signed a new contract and his comments at the time of wanting to see out his career here still rang true, he looked forward to meeting the new manager who's reputation of one of European football's greats was a fantastic statement of intent which allied to his statement should go towards stabilising the club in a period of transition. The song was abut his kid allegedly not being his. Due to his missus being outed on twitter as (again alegedly) cheating on him on a girls holiday, this led to Lallana leaving twitter. Similar to the old Kev Phillip's song whenever he came back "stand up, if you've ****ed Kev's wife". Phillips had twice the backbone Lallana has though, always played well unlike Lallana who (as Griffo says) melted big time. I've just watched MOTD2 now and he doesn't get a touch in the highlights. His defection 100x worse than Lovren's, who was just another standard mercenary in it for the money.

Not seen the highlights, but thought he didn't have a good game. Always had him down to be the type that couldn't handle a hostile atmosphere. Glad his pathetic PR offensive was ineffective and not taken in by our core support. The song about his kid was naughty though...

Pretty moody up in the Itchen North yesterday, as PAP says Lallana got dogs abuse and suprised the Liverpool support did nothing to back him and Lovren. Really quiet, nowhere near the other big club's away support (Chelsea, City, United etc). A real edge though led to some trouble, towards the end there were punches thrown between fans but before that 2 corporate boxes had to be emptied after going nuts at Liverpool's opening goad. The group of Asians in the box at the back of block 3 particularly inciting trouble calling everyone below them w***ers etc which led to people trying to get in the box. Really think the club need to look at how they sell these boxes as this has happened a few times (Arsenal and Man U off the top of my head).

Way more than 200 mate. I've been in Rome since Weds morning, spent some time with Fayernoord's fans on Weds and went to the game on Thursday. Firstly the Dutch are properly mental. I love em. 300+ Absolutely steaming at 3pm on Weds, I was in Campo de Fiori area and stayed for an hour or so having a few beers and talking Koeman, Saints, FFC etc. Glasses started getting smashed (dropped not thrown but signs weren't good), so me and the missus went on our way and wished them well. However after that it has been carnage! They had running battles with the OB in the square we were in earlier. All over the news here. Worse was to come on Thursday, they smashed up the 500 year old fountain at the bottom of the Spanish steps. WTF is that about? Worse was to come though, there was a booze lockdown in the CC which had potential to ruin our trip, however a corrupt Tabac worker took a €20 bribe off me to sell us some prosecco and beers to have before the game. Nightmare to get to the ground as roads shut down as 1000+ ticketless Dutch decided to March to the ground. As I say, properly mental the Dutch! Anyway, onto the subject of racism. We were in Curva Sud, great atmosphere btw, Gervinho scored for ASR, brilliant celebration, flares, air bombs, smoke bombs and all sorts of stuff we'd get life bans for getting lobbed everywhere and stewards doing nothing. Then after the goal every mistake Gervinho made was met with screams at the "mulanyah" (derogatory term for a black person). That along with monkey chants. All stuff that would cause our media to go crazy. Papers with 5 pages of pics of rampaging Dutch yesterday, no mention of open racism and non stop piro. Jodie Clasie is a class act btw. I'll be sending my scouting report to Koeman in homage to Turk's Morgan spot on holiday in France.

He's a rat and deserves every piece of abuse he gets. Epitome of modern football players saying one thing and doing another, supposed to be our Captain and our leader but let us down in the middle of a shocking summer when we needed him to install some stability in the club he was Captain of. We aren't a bad club, the people that manage the clucb and work there are decent people. The silence when he left with no word of thanks for this time at Saints from a 12 year old said it all, he had clearly burned his bridges in the worst possible way. That patronising Echo ad' almost sent me over the edge actually! Would happily contribute to a banner saying "£A££ANA - MONEY CAN'T BUY YOU LOVE".

Nah, £a££ana the worst of the lot by a mile. Supposed to be our Captain and leader but let us down when we needed him most, a matter of months aftergoing on record saying he'd happily end his career at Saints. Then using the threat of going on strike to push through the move? Not having him. We aren't a nasty club, the people that run SFC are a decent bunch. The lack of thanks/ a statement when £a££ana left said it all IMO. Wrongun. No problem with Chambers TBH, Shaw either (although I'd have love the club to really fight to keep them as proof of a future full of Academy players). Lambert good luck to him. Lovren just summed up what we should all expect from foreign mercenary players and I'm loving the fact he is being found out without Morgan and Wanyama in front to protect him.

TBF Walcott in particular made an effort after the 2-0 New Years Day game we won. For me anyway, Theo leaving helped the club, people forget he was touted as the best 14/15 then 16 year old in Europe, was being scouted by every big club on the continent and could have left at 16. He didn't, he signed the contract in his 17th birthday allowing us to get some decent money when Arsenal came in for him. A move most people at the time thought would be good for his development. Unfortunately his injuries have stifled his development, when fit he's a true big game match winner that has turned it on for England and in the Champions League. I think the Ox was tainted by his old man obviously pushing for a big move, saw the reception Theo always gets here and does the same as him, applauding the fans etc. However the £12m we got for Ox allowed us to invest the money to get us back to the Premier League, good for him, good for us. Chambers left when we were an established top 10 side, offering first team football and International recognition. Completely different circumstances to TW and AOC in my opinion.