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Hennessy's greatest career moment: "Hennessey argued that he did not know what a Nazi salute was and the FA panel noted that "when cross-examined about this Mr Hennessey displayed a very considerable - one might even say lamentable - degree of ignorance about anything to do with Hitler, Fascism and the Nazi regime".

Good servant for the club, there isn't another player who plays at this level with his work rate and still to this day. Sadly, the ability is mostly gone now, but lets not forget the good he's done here and the goal against Everton tops off what has been a good spell here. The fastest goal in Premier League history against Watford, the goal against Liverpool to send us to Wembley, the goal against Aston Villa which was only overshadowed because Mane decided to score a hattrick in less than three minutes and the 10 goals in 2015-16, when we finished three points off the Champions League, one league goal behind our top scorers in Mane and Pelle and, finally, the Ings partnership in 2019-20. All that for £12m. We've spent a lot more on a lot worse in recent years and he should be a role model for many in that putting in the work can often make you better than those with more talent, but don't put in the effort (Charlie Austin). A cult figure for match goers and if this is the end of his Saints career, then I wish him well at Reading, who are in their own struggles at the moment.

Not another game, but Aston Villa lost their assistant manager, who became manager of QPR this week, so they replaced him with Blackpool's manager. They're moving very fast this summer and on paper it all looks impressive.

Yeah, Watford and Man City have had a host of players, who they've signed, loaned out and never made a first team appearance for the club to benefit their partner clubs. Jack Harrison, Aaron Mooy and Adalberto Penaranda are three off the top of my head who I can think of. Last season Watford loaned out 29 players. That's Chelsea levels.

48 teams qualify for the 2026 World Cup, so Scotland may actually have a chance then.

It’s time we brought back the Polish contingency. Bednarek, this goalkeeper and a few others and we can replicate the Bialkowski, Hajto, Kosowski, Rasiak and Saganowski days. Boruc as coach.

Yep, I discovered the sausage rolls a couple of months ago and now I get one pre-match as a ritual. Renewed today with the deadline fast approaching. Hopefully with the new leadership things start to change, and we bring back the half-time relay. The deal or no deal imitation to win a bitcoin was horrendous.

The one against Burnley in 2009 wasn’t as jovial, but there were enough stewards/police to keep the fans separated and no players were attacked, of course. The Championship promotion celebrations are some of my best memories standing on the pitch and watching Tommy Forecast take the glory. The players and the supporters were able to celebrate as one. We had all been on the same journey for that year and the prior two in League One and some before that in the Championship. We don’t get to celebrate a lot as Southampton fans and I hope that when we can next, heavy restrictions aren’t put in place due to others.

Yeah, Smallbone and Garner are completely different midfielders. Smallbone's more attacking, not very physical and plays a more technical game, while Garner is like a mosquito, makes great recovery tackles, excellent energy and wins the ball back well.

Saint Etienne out of Ligue 1 for the first time since 2004 following the sacking of Claude Puel earlier in the season. Quite a fall, as they finished fourth three years ago.

Forest lost 6 of their first 7 matches of the season under Hughton and were 24th when Cooper was appointed. Some turnaround with just 6 losses across the rest of the season. See how they get on in the Premier League.

All that talk about the quadruple... I guess Salah was concussed tonight, or something like that.

As I posted when we were looking for our own takeover, there's a pattern of unsuccessful American owners over here, Burnley the most recent established Premier League side to drop out after an American takeover, joining Swansea, Aston Villa and Sunderland in previous years. Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal fans go against theirs depending on the match result of that particular weekend also. It'll be interesting to see how this now goes for Norwich, as they weren't ever going to be competitive up here with Delia Smith.

Salisu is still very raw, had an excellent game against a world class opposition in Man City, but then has also had some shockers, like against Tottenham where he was trying too much and ended up getting a red for a couple of mistimed tackles. He's just inconsistent at the moment, which you can forgive for his age, but Van Dijk and Lovren were 23 when they joined us and were of a higher level. I don't think he's too great on the ball either, which given the way modern football is heading could hamper him. His throw-ins... yeah, pretty shit. Bednarek, there isn't a lot between him and Stephens and weirdly their best form in a Southampton shirt came when they were paired up during lockdown football, although was quickly ripped up following a couple of heavy defeats. Following the City cup game, I'm not sure Bednarek's a player I'd want if we do get pulled into a relegation fight. Did not realise he was 26 until now, either.

Made the Championship team of the year too, three consecutive team of the years for us. As we know, we didn't win the league in any of them and in 09-10 we finished seventh in League One, although that was down to the -10. So, it wasn't the token gesture of simply picking the goalkeeper who won the league. Our player of the season in 08-09 as well. I don't know how people can discredit him. He was the best goalkeeper in those divisions at the time and exactly what we needed at the time, while Liebherr also saved money on not having to sign a new goalkeeper until we got to where we wanted to. There is and was a lot of average goalkeepers in the lower leagues and as we've experienced for a number of years that it's a very hard position to fill. Fortunately, we only had to experience Bialkowski for one match in that team, or we'd be having very different conversations today.

Yep, Diego Carlos will be a very good signing if he settles over here. A massive upgrade on Mings and with inflation, £26m isn’t too much these days. Although, probably above our budgets, sadly. As for Delap, I don’t know how good he is, but he’d be stupid not to be considering his options this summer. He didn’t get a look in at City when they barely had a striker (Jesus). Now, they have Haaland (although, he’s a bit injury prone) and the South American youngster.

Obviously, I don't know the inner workings of Beattie's coaching career and if it's just a coincidence, but Adams and Chris Wood's goalscoring records shot up and haven't been repeated by either (although now playing at a higher leverl) after working with Beattie. Adams went from a 5 goals in 30 striker to 22 in 46 the following season, while Wood went from 13 in 36 to 27 in 44. Now, at Wigan, their two top scorers in Will Keane and Callum Lang have had their best scoring seasons. Will Keane, especially, 29 years old, only scored more than three goals in a single league campaign on one occasion before the most recent season, which was 10. He's just bagged 26 goals in 44 appearances. My only question would be why he isn't at a bigger club than Wigan, as the results from an outsiders perspective look very impressive.

This is hopefully the first of many steps in the right direction this summer. Something needed to change with the coaching, be it the manager, or the people behind him, who've been at the club for years now, breeding averageness and despite question marks, I'm sure we can all agree that Hasenhuttl is a better manager than Fleming, Davis and Watson are coaches. I said it before, Adkins had his own team here with Crosby perceived to be the bad cop to his good cop. Poch had his own team, that he took to Spurs and still works with at PSG. Koeman had his brother, Jan Kluitenberg (sp), Sammy Lee, Watson as a GK coach, even Puel, Pellegrino and Hughes had their own guys. Why we decided we needed everlasting coaches, I don't know. Possibly one of Les Reeds' job for the boys beliefs. As said, we had success here with Watson as a GK coach, but that doesn't make him a good overall coach. Fleming and Davis were promoted well above their stations after being in the youth setup, and, essentially being in the right place at the right time. We all love Davis and I'd welcome the recently vacant ambassadorial role for him, but, sadly we need better as a Premier League coach, in the same way that we needed better in goal once we became a Premier League club.

David McGoldrick's a free agent also. After the re-signing of Ollie Lancashire, everybody's welcome.

That's only 20 clubs too, sure Leeds and Fulham would push us down a couple of places.

I believe that rumoured Ings comment came from moving from Klopp's coaching, to Mark Hughes' and describing it as a holiday camp in comparison. As for Ox, he was very good at Liverpool before his injury put him out for a year, would be one of those where his quality would be obvious from his first touch if he returned here. He's not the right winger that we sold anymore, much like Walcott wasn't the striker that we sold, but neither is Bale the left-back. We'd just need to hope he remains largely injury free, as Ings did for the most part here, he certainly wasn't as injury plagued as he was.

Gerrard slipped up again. (Please don’t come back to bite me, that was Suarez’ thing)

It shouldn’t have been Leicester’s decision to give the ball back or not. Moss stopped the play with us in possession, we didn’t, so it should’ve been an uncontested drop ball for us. Just another minor error with a big impact that won’t be given any attention.

So, we didn’t get the ball back after Vardy dived after a minor collision with Romeu? Our back four were in possession of the ball (not that that’s always a good thing). Moss is just a useless fat cunt really, always has been. Happy retirement.

Think it’s safe to say Sunderland will win promotion to the Championship now. One less big club for Portsmouth to compete with next season.