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I would also dispute the "He rode roughshod over the club's history, inflicting a series of disgusting home shirts of his own design onto the place" remark. NC was in charge while the design was chosen for 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13, and 2013-14. The first was a commemorative design that could hardly be called disgusting. The second was the regular stripes that every likes so much. Maybe they were bad stripes, but hardly disgusting. The third were the pinstripes. I liked them but for the sake of argument, assume they were both designed by NC and disgusting. The last one was a cookie cutter design by the kit manufacturer. Possibly that was disgusting, but it was not designed by NC. In other words, the part of the quote about the shirts was was nonsense. The roughshod over history is probably accurate.

This may be the key point. Thank you for putting it that way. It helps my thinking for the blog post I am working on.

The problem with putting this all down to luck is not that you are wrong--you aren't--but that pretty much all of life and certainly all of sports comes down to luck. Man City and Chelsea were lucky rich guys bought them. Man U was lucky to have hired Alex Ferguson. Each and every goal a teams scores is lucky. Each and every shot the team's opponents miss is lucky. Signing players who work out is lucky. There has to be some credit given to talent and competence. We, as fans, may be lucky that the Liebherrs came along and that, right now anyway, Katharina doesn't want to sell the club, but her choice of who should run her club and their choice of who should manage the team and what players to sign should be viewed as a manifestation of their skills, for better or worse, and not just luck, either good or bad.

Wouldn't it make more sense to simply enjoy the good times and worry about the bad times when it becomes necessary. I am talking Southampton FC here not your personal life. By all means take precautions against bad things happening in your life.

I have posted a blog article entitled “Southampton FC, Martin Samuel, and Financial Fair Play (Part 1)”. It got overly long so Financial Fair Play will be addressed in part two. http://redsloscf.blogspot.co.uk/ http://redsloscf.blogspot.com/

I have posted a blog article about all this entitled “Southampton FC, Martin Samuel, and Financial Fair Play (Part 1)” in which I quoted your post. It got overly long so Financial Fair Play will be addressed in part two. http://redsloscf.blogspot.com/ http://redsloscf.blogspot.co.uk/

Ok. Have to keep my target audience happy. http://redsloscf.blogspot.com/ http://redsloscf.blogspot.co.uk/

I think he will get enough yellow cards to take some breaks during the season.

Ignorance is bliss.

I have posted a new blog entitled “QPR’s Transfer Window and Match Preview.” The subject of the post should be clear. I did not transcribe any portion of Harry Redknapp’s press conference.

The question is complicated. I will address it on my blog soon. Some of my earlier blog posts from this summer partially address it. http://www.redsloscf.blogspot.co.uk

I think there is a surprisingly small amount of drivel there by internet standards. I think the problem with Samuels initial article was that he made a point of stating the obvious--you can sell five of your best players every year and survive indefinitely in the BPL. Of course, no one seriously thinks that that is the Southampton Board's plan. As a result, Samuels article sounded like an attack on Southampton when it wasn't intended that way. But when you tell someone who just went through an unpleasant experience that turned out better than expected that the should not count on things always working out that well, it sounds condescending.

I would sign for half that.

I understand being unhappy when you think things are going poorly--even if you are wrong, but what is the point of being unhappy when things are going well. Sure, our expectations should be tempered with a dose of realism but, at this point, 4 of the top 7 teams look vulnerable. That can only be good news. We are in second place after five games having played a schedule of average difficulty. That can only be good news. Our next game is winnable. ditto

This thread is beginning to sound like an English version of the Saturday Night Life sketch "The Californians".

In the United States, yesterday's Keith Olbermann show on ESPN ended with him showing the goal multiple times. This is very unusual.

Cup games are never taken into account in determining PL manager of the month in Football Manager. I assume they get that from the real world.

I had no idea who she was either. But I cleverly used Google and now I do. http://www.clarebalding.co.uk/

I was going to respond with a clever remark. But I realized it wasn't.

The villa fan also pointed out that the fact that two of their strikers were injured could explain the offensive weakness. Of course, two of our strikers are injured too.

I am pretty sure she was joking.

Don't know if Pelle can get high enough over Rio and Caulker to push them all the way into the ground.

You are probably right, but right now we can't be sure. On the other hand, I am confident we are some way off a top 3 club.

Plus, unlike the others, he clearly made the right decision in going. He has played more at arsenal than he would have played for us. We were not going to make him our number 2 or 3 or even 4 center back.

What's my percentage?