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If its Titchmarsh you want it's Titchmarsh you're gonna get

Apparently not. Always dubious to make a referential comment without the link, but to start a thread without one should be deprecated in the guidelines, at the very least. Thanks for pointing it out )

Apparently not. Always dubious to make a referential comment without the link, but to start a thread without one should be deprecated in the guidelines, at the very least. Thanks for pointing it out )

No contradiction. The idiots at other clubs will think it's ace, just like the idiots swallowing it here (demographic A, to whom it will appeal) and anyone with an IQ over 11 (demographic B, those who will mock it) will think it is hilarious. It is worth pointing out the stellar costs of motivational consultants. Some people (those who think it's ace, again) probably need a heads-up on the kind of money the club will have spent on this garbage.

His name is Krüger, with an umlaut. When umlauts are not available on your keyboard you have the choice of replacing the ü with "ue" or "u" — both are acceptable, and generally depend on the in-house style sheet of a publisher. The Frankfürter Algemeine Zeitung style sheet recommends "ue." The Chicago Manual of Style (which I use for work) recommends "u," because in English we don't distinguish between the "ü" and "u" sounds made in German. The ü is made by pursing your lips as if to whistle, and saying the "ee" sound behind your lips (try it!), the "u" is more like the sound we make when we say "You." I have a French keyboard, so I can make a "ü" by tapping the umlaut before the u, but I obeyed acceptable rules for speed because I was writing in a gigantic strop. Anyway you look at it, I didn't get his name wrong. Nothing pseudo about me pal, and even if spelling were the issue here (it's not, this dreadful video is) don't go there again, cos I'll tear you a new one.

You have GOT to be KIDDING. This is the kind of unmitigated sh|t put out by 'motivational' 'consultants' (who probably got paid in the thousands per hour - check it out) to appeal to lowest common denominator plebian sentiments, swallowed whole by uneducated ***ts easily impressed by vacuous meaning-free words (and who will therefore probably vote Labour in 2015 even though they'll screw themselves along with the country by doing it), and all to a toe-curling, clattering, tinkling, bass-free 'music' track played on an eighties synthesizer by an eight-year old who's learned three chords in a pentatonic scale, which to anyone who knows feck all about music but just "feels" that E, C and D arpeggios played in a loop with a bit of reverb sounds 'inspirational'. The most embarrassing thing I have seen all year, including England's world cup performance. Please god it disappears without trace and no other clubs' fans get to see it. We'll be the laughing stock. Got Kruger written all over it.

Neither Le Tiss nor Mick Channon are "signings," though without doubt the club's all time two greatest heroes. That bloke who can't grow a proper beard, whose name escapes me, could have been the third member of a trinity untouchable in South coast lore, but appeared not to understand that. More fool him. As for signings proper, Lambert is up there, but nothing NOTH-ING can compare with that day in 1980 when I came home from school and saw John Craven's Newsround announcing that Hamburg SV star Kevin Keegan had "signed for first division... Southampton." It was the coup of the (20th) century, never equalled before or since. There was a similar frisson in 94 when Spurs got Klinsmann, but in hindsight that looks so Meh... Keegan to Saints was an earthquake. And what a team LM built around him! Happy days. Who knows... mebbes Van Persie before the transfer window closes?

No, this is different — it's called the "Wonga"

Neither ex-saint will start. Lambert in particular will almost certainly never start a prem game again. May never play in the prem again for that matter.

OO or OOH - but that sounds a bit "ooh la la" anyway

Busy morning

This.

God's sake man we don't have Morgan or Lovren. This is the heart of the problem - if we had those two things would be looking fien, but we don't - so things are looking very flakey indeed.

The measure of how bad All-anal Adam's behaviour has been is given by the counter-example of Lambert and Shaw's exemplary conduct.