Sour Mash

OK, first of all, we could be debating about nothing, this is still all wild speculation and rumour. Secondly, Hughes did well at Wales and VERY WELL at Blackburn. Hard to judge him on the short time he had at Man City, I'm not sure how much he was "managing" at the end and how much he was having "star" players such as Robinho forced on him. Still he didn't do too badly and Mancini hasn't done so much better. Thirdly, if it wasn't for Cortese we wouldn't have Liebherr, Pardew, Lambert etc, etc. It's largely due to him, that we're in a position where we can be massively ambitious. I want us to keep Pardew, but if someone in a far better position than any of us decides that for whatever reason it's time for a change, then as unfortunate it may be for AP, I'll certainly back it.

Pretty much everyone I know sings "he stands just over 6 foot 3...."

Are you honestly saying you would be unhappy with Mark Hughes being Saints manager? Plenty of people I would class as tw**s have made great managers.

Yet another lunatic on the forum. :smt038

Part of the point of this thread is that Saints fans can't sing the decent songs we already have properly, they get ruined by morons.

That Barnard one is truly shocking, as is the majority of what Saints fans come out with.

Agreed. Southampton FC is now in a great position because of Cortese and Liebherr, not because of Pardew.

Don't you get bored of posting it on EVERY SINGLE F*****G THREAD though?

Just yet another big corporate brand trying to appeal to fans and pretending they feel about the game the same way we do, boring, s***te marketing spin.

You shouldn't be allowed to vote.

Maybe so, but they're the only party that is making a serious effort to address an issue that is important to a lot of working class British people - too much immigration into the UK and the swamping of particular areas.

Agreed.

Firstly, that is clearly not what he said. Secondly, it would certainly not warrant spitting in someone faces.

Yep, those lads will get hammered 2 to 4 years and reading the report I think none of them did anything more than shout "Come on" with their arms out stretched!

What the f**k are you on about? We have more rivalry with Plymouth than Bournemouth?

What was the legal argument that defeated the HMRC when they went to court and appealed? Simply that football debts are classed as "associated creditors"? That seems to be a stupidly easy loophole.

No. But this bloke has posted endless misinformed rubbish AND didn't go to the game. Just sums up a lot of the geeks on this board.

I think every single one of your numerous posts on this thread has been wrong. You weren't even at the Skates game.

Would a player know what budget pardew has or has not been given? Can't see that is something openly divulged to players?

No it doesn't. There is no sport in the world that you would get, lets say 3k fans travelling a round trip of 500 miles midweek for a game in the 5th tier.

No. not quite correct. This is the key phrase "the conduct of them taken together is such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness to fear for their personal safety" and doesn't just refer to those persons that the "threat" is aimed towards, but any person of "reasonable firmness" that may or may not be in the vicinity (even if there was no-one else there, it's judged on the basis that someone was there, if that makes any sense).

Because it's a far more exciting support, that means a lot more to people, than boring old rugby? It's the same reason that you get 70k+ for a wembley final between two teams from the third tier, its the same reason that even as far down as the Conference there will be many thousands travelling all the country to follow their team. No other sport has that same level of intense support that football has.

You're missing the point completely. "Threatening behaviour" is often the charge used for this sort of offence, partly because it's much easier to prove, its more likely that the individual charged will plead guilty to it (rather than Violent Disorder or Affray) and generally is a lot easier for the police and takes up less of their resources.

But that's kind of the point. The top two offences could be classed as anything from violent disorder (which is has been), to affray, down to something like threatening behaviour/Section 5 etc. All dependent on how much and in what way the police want to persue it - i.e because it was after a football match and not outside a pub on a Friday night for example.

Goes without saying they'll regret being hot-headed and stupid in-front of the cameras, that's fairly obvious.