LiamSFC

The photo caption: "Very sensitive to vibrations: Soton cat Kelvin Davis does not want to hear a lot of negative stuff about how everyone loved Nigel Adkins, and don't like the new bloke" ... are they for real?

No. I'm saying if he has family down here it's likely that he already knows the area and would be interested in moving here. Like I said, he's proving to be a very capable manager at Swindon and that's obviously the most important thing.

As much as I love Nigel, and as much as I appreciate what he's done for us, he's been incompetent this season and seems out of his depth, so I'm starting to think it might be time for him to go. Benitez would be great but we are nowhere near big enough for him and even if he was interested, he'd want massive, massive wages. Realistically, I'd love Paolo Di Canio. He's Italian and his daughter goes to Southampton Uni, so it seems like a perfect fit. He's passionate, a great manager and a complete and utter lunatic. He'd be an instant hero.

They seem about right considering we're a newly promoted team and largely untested at the top level. I'm sure the likes of Lallana, Ramirez, Lambert etc will break into the 80s after a few months. Saying that though, quite how they can rate Schneiderlin a 72 (seriously, wtf?) and Yoshida, who *captains his country*, a 69 is beyond me.

It's loathsome.

Na na, na na, na na, na na, na na na, Morgan Schneiderlin, Schneiderlin, Morgan Schneiderlin! Not very original, but easy to sing and remember.

Why is this forum so infested with ****s?

What's wrong with 'well duh'? Just means 'that was obvious'. Anyway, you have completely missed my point. As I said, clubs have always changed badges, kits etc, and they always will. That's fine. Chelsea used to be nicknamed 'the Pensioners'. Man United used to be called Newton Heath, and wore green and yellow. Many Premier League clubs have changed their badges in the last few years. Sometimes clubs need to freshen up their image and I accept that. My point was that it's not so much the changes at Cardiff City which have upset people, although that's obviously a big part of it, as such sweeping, wholesale changes, despite your constant assertions, are very rare in football. Rather, it's the reasoning behind it. "We Asians like dragons and think red is lucky, so we're going to waltz into your club and change nearly one hundred years of tradition to suit us. This will please the new foreign owner, and will somehow allow us to flog more shirts to fake fans with no connection to the club who live thousands of miles away, although we're not going to explain how. If you don't agree to this, we're going to let your club die." Bit different from Don Revie simply changing Leeds' kit because he wanted to emulate Real Madrid, isn't it?

Well duh. Congrats on stating the blindingly obvious. I doubt there's a club in the world that hasn't changed its badge/colours at some point in its history. Nothing wrong with that. It's the fact that the Cardiff City board are changing everything about the club - colours, badge, nickname, the lot - against the wishes of the local supporters, for the explicit purpose of selling more shirts to Asian 'fans'. It represents everything wrong with the modern game.

Apparently he now plays for 'Orlando City' in the American third division...

You can't think of anything intelligent to respond with so you're just going to keep calling me simple without doing anything to demonstrate it. You're a real intellectual. Have you thought of debating Dawkins? You could just respond to all of his well thought-out, structured arguments with "you're an idiot".

Why thank god for Saints' improvement in fortunes if you don't believe he's favouring us? You're a bit of a nutter.

This coming from a man who thinks an all powerful being sits in the sky supporting football teams...

He has Sky+, so he can watch one and record the other. And we didn't have a billionaire owner when we got relegated. God only starts supporting a team when they get rich owners, hence why us and City are suddenly doing well. He's a bit of a glory hunter in that respect.

I would say our incredible rise is all down to God. It's so lucky that he supports a medium-sized English south coast football club. Sure, most of the planet is in dire poverty and global economic collapse is just around the corner, but clearly God is too preoccupied with our promotion charge to sort all that out, and we must thank him for that. I bet he's responsible for all of Pompey's current problems, too, as opposed to terrible financial mismanagement. What a great bloke. Thanks God!

Cool, I'll look into it, although as a twenty year old I'm not really looking for peaceful and relaxed, haha. I'd like somewhere busy and vibrant with lots going on. Wow, lot's of Sweden based Saints fans on here.

Cheers for the info. I can't say I'm sold on it, haha. I'm 20 and have minimum work experience, so it doesn't sound like it's for me. I was thinking of moving abroad, initially for six months or so, and doing bar work to keep me going whilst trying to get a proper job in the media. I know Stockholm's a beautiful city, and quite Anglocentric (or so I thought), so that's what attracted me to it, but it doesn't sound ideal for my low-budget plan. I didn't realise it was so upmarket. Probably better off looking at a cheaper city.

Sorry for the completely random, off topic question, but I noticed you live in Stockholm. What's the city like? I'm thinking of moving there. Is there much work about? Would you recommend it?

20. From Weston, live in Sholing but currently studying in Derby. First home game - Sheffield Wednesday at the Dell, think it was 96 or 97. I hated football but was dragged there by my dad. Still hated it afterwards and didn't attend another match until 2005, think it was Chelsea at home, when I finally saw the light at the ripe old age of 14. First away game - embarrassingly recent. Think it was Charlton season before last.

Our society has got nothing on wherever these kids are from. *WARNING: THIS VIDEO IS EXTREMELY GRAPHIC AND UPSETTING. WATCH AT YOUR OWN RISK*: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebUj5oQvpY0&feature=player_embedded Read an article about it ages ago. Apparently, groups of kids, I think in Morocco or Egypt, set fire to dogs "out of boredom". In some towns and villages, it's becoming an epidemic (or was at the time). I'm against capital punishment, but the people involved in that video should die in the most painful way possible.

[video=youtube;-CGIii_eTOk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CGIii_eTOk "Don't feel bad for me I want you to know Deep in the cell of my heart I will feel so glad to go"

You can't expect someone to not play a league game for a year or two then suddenly come back and be in top form and play with confidence. We've seen in the past he's got ability. He was first choice when we were in the Premiership before he got injured. How can he suddenly go from that to terrible goalkeeper? You lot are so over-reactive it's unreal. He made some mistakes. Sh!t happens.

I can judge what ever culture I want. Some people don't like French culture. Some don't like English culture. I happen to not like American culture. That's just my opinion. And it's got nothing to do with it being different. I like many foreign cultures, most in fact. Just not America's.

Being Americanised is a bad thing because a) it's not our culture and b) American culture is cheesy, false, childish, immature and artificial with no history or tradition. Yeah, EDL members are really famous for their hatred of America, aren't they? Anti-Americanism is closely associated with the pro-European far left, so it's completely at odds with the EDL. Idiot.