Unbelievable Jeff

Apparently after being shown around the training ground she has already asked for changes to the design. A mural of her face in going to installed on the face of every wall, and from the end of the season Aap3 are going to be replaced on the shirts by her face. Players are being told they must take part in private meetings on a daily basis with her in her new office (complete with installed jacuzzi and heart shaped bed), especially 'ze one that has the look of ze Johnny Depp'. If players refuse, they will be sold. Pochettino has been told money is available to buy players if needed, but only if certain 'conditions' are added to their contracts. Life is going to be tough under Kl...

Yep, agree with that.

Jelavić's miss on the weekend was pretty darn impressive!

Or Mark Dennis...

3 goals in 25 appearances between them this season. Much worse record than Osvaldo, so no idea why you'd think that's good business? £12.5m plus 1.5 times the wages of Osvaldo! Good call chump!

They did pretty well in his time there though. Hughes and Sounness both went onto bigger and better things.

You would get sent off for a 2 footed challenge that touched the ball first.

What a spurious comment? Boruc has been at fault for a quite a few goals this season, do you not agree?

Errr, am I reading the same as everyone else? What he said is true?

Similar to yours, but I put the ShoutSport ban on years ago. Radio made by idiots, for idiots.

Again yesterday at fault for one of the goals, and should have saved the other. Seems to be a theme that ever few games he costs us goals. I wonder whether we need to invest in a new keeper, at least to keep the pressure on Artur.

At least it means the RDM rumours can go.

http://www.football365.com/mediawatch/9118412/Mediawatch So I Don't Have To Dream Alone... 'MELTDOWN!' 'DREAM WRECKER' That's the Daily Mail's utterly bizarre reaction to the departure of the chairman of the club currently in ninth place in the Premier League. Not the owner, not the manager, not any of the players, but the chairman. The former Southampton chairman Nicola Cortese to be exact. The 'DREAM WRECKER' in question is of course Katharina Liebherr, who took over ownership of Southampton in August 2010 after her father's death, which came four days after the Saints lost their opening game of the League One season against Plymouth. It was presumably then that Katharina 'wrecked' the 'dream' of Southampton by being in charge for back-to-back promotions to the Premier League. She has since 'wrecked' the 'dream' by spending £70m on transfers since they secured promotion to the top flight, breaking the club's transfer record three times. The *****. But perhaps it's not Southampton's dream that she is wrecking but Neil Ashton of the Daily Mail's dream to go on another trip to Southampton's training camp next summer. In July, in a puff piece about Cortese being just plain wonderful, Ashton wrote: 'Unquestionably he has a low tolerance threshold, showing occasional signs of agitation when things don't run smoothly during the team's stay at the magnificent £400-a-night Falkensteiner Schloss Hotel on the side of Lake Worthersee.' Because of course the nightly tariff and the magnificence of the hotel are integral to the story. In Ashton's 'DREAM WRECKER' piece, he revisits memories of his stay, writing: 'This week's events have been bubbling since last summer, when Katharina arrived unexpectedly at the club's pre-season training camp in the stunning Alpine setting of Velden, Austria. It was on the banks of Lake Worthersee, on the decking of the Seespitz Restaurant on the evening of Wednesday, July 24...' Again, the name of the restaurant is integral to the story about the woman who has had the temerity to take over the running of a company she owns. For it is a woman. We know because Ashton makes a point of writing that 'there are no signs of the £3bn fotune in the way she dresses'. Unfortunately Ashton does not report how she was dressed on the evening she turned up at the sumptuous Falkensteiner Schloss Hotel - with simply wonderful dressing gowns for the guests - on the side of Lake Worthersee... Suspicious Minds 'Her long-term plans are unclear but there is a suspicion she may wish to cash in on the club's Premier League status and make a huge profit on the £14million her father spent to buy it in 2009,' writes Ashton. She plans to sell her own company? To make a profit? The *****. A Woman?! To be fair, the Daily Mail are not the only newspaper to dedicate their back page and a massive pile of ire to Liebherr, with The Sun splashing a particularly unflattering picture of the heiress with the words 'EXCLUSIVE', 'REVEALED' and 'Woman at centre of Southampton nightmare'. A woman?? A woman?! In charge of a football club? They'll be asking for the vote next. Dancing With Myself Congratulations must go to The Sun for their 'Q&A exclusive' in which their journalist (Geoff Sweet) exclusively answers all his own questions about Southampton. Apparently they're the 'questions all football fans are asking'. And 'all football fans' should thank Mr Sweet for exclusively taking it upon himself to answer those questions. Posed my himself. Disaster 'Is there any way back from the abyss?' is one question Geoff Sweet exclusively asks and then exclusively answers. There is absolutely no hint of melodrama as he writes: 'They probably have enough points in the bag already to guarantee Premier League survival this season, so the threat of relegation is not realistically looming.' Probably? Probably? The chairman (sorry, 'club supremo') has left. The sodding chairman. Is a side 'brimming with young international talent' going to stop playing because their chairman's gone? If they do, then f*** 'em, we say. Words Fail The headline in the Daily Express: 'Herr indoors is in charge now.' K.I.S.S.I.N.G A tearful Ben Smith of the BBC wrote on Wednesday night: 'Southampton chairman Nicola Cortese has left his post at St Mary's, with club owner Katharina Liebherr installing herself as his replacement. Cortese, 45, tendered his resignation in the autumn and has now departed.' Autumn, you say? That's odd because Smith wrote a piece just last month headlined 'Southampton: Nicola Cortese at heart of Saints success story' in which he wrote this sickeningly sycophantic paragraph about a man who had apparently already offered his resignation: 'Spend a few hours at Southampton's Marchwood training centre and you will form a different view of Cortese, The kit men and the groundsmen know him as Nicola, not Mr Chairman. He knows the names of their wives and family. He sends birthday cards. He actually seems to care.' Smith writes a paean to Cortese again today which ends with these words: 'Love him or loathe him - he will be missed.' We're sure he'll call, Ben.

It is unreal how the knobheads above are enjoying this. Especially that Glasgow pussy. Wouldn't meet up for a drink in a neutral location to discuss his problem with me. Laugh it up son.

I'm listening to a lot of Radiohead, so if I'm here in the morning I will let you know...

Bltch - Meredith Brooks

To say I am unhappy is an understatement. Not going to help me not smoke.

Gotta be a Barry and Glasgow twosome then.

Fine, if I must. I'll start putting a bid together. I'll need the club to pay rent on a house near Southampton though.

Again, not a surprise. Look at what he has done for the club.

Skybet...just put money on on my phone, but cannot access on t'internet.

12/1...

NC has handed in his resignation.

There is a Sunseeker in Ocean Village RIGHT NOW.

God I hope so, really don't want to lose Cortese...could call it "A wish called Wanda". I'll get me coat.