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And age. Hojbjerg had some promising games earlier on. Let's hope his confidence grows once the results reflect the efforts more.

The only thing I understand from the commentary is 'Mamma mia' but that says it all. [video=youtube;eX2mKAx0-5I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX2mKAx0-5I

Any truth to this (from the Watford build up thread)?

In this case it doesn't help that he's very boring to listen to, not helped by his (improving) English. But I'm quite sure that had he won more games, he would suddenly become a lot more 'likeable' to many.

You win: we'll like you. You don't win: we don't like you. Football logic is very simple, actually. Balance, that's another story.

I liked the shirts.

Nice bit of victim blaming. Are you the kind of bloke who says things like "She shouldn't have dressed like that if she didn't want to be harrassed"?

Number 12 (Watford) against number 13 (Saints). On the opening day of the season we came back from 0-1 (9th minute goal by Capoue) when Redmond scored his debut goal for Saints in the 58th minute, for a 1-1 end result against 10 of them (Ben Watson was sent of for a challenge against Shane Long). Results from the past 10 years: 16 Sep 2007 Watford v Southampton W 3-2 League Championship 07 Apr 2009 Watford v Southampton D 2-2 League Championship 25 Feb 2012 Watford v Southampton L 0-3 League Championship 23 Aug 2015 Watford v Southampton D 0-0 Premier League If we play as well as we did in the EFL Cup final, we should have a good chance of winning this.

A video technology decision decided the top game between PSV and Feyenoord in the Eredivisie today. I know it's not the PL, but it's a start, and I think it's headed in that direction everywhere, eventually.

I hope we can take this spirit and quality into the remainder of the season. It's all coming together nicely by the looks of it.

It's another case of reading one thing and making it another. This is what Koeman is quoted to have said: Key words here: "In that way we hope United will win..." Nowhere Koeman is saying anything along the lines of "I hate Southampton, I'd prefer it if Man Utd win." The only thing he's saying is "I'd like to get my team into Europe." Big f*cking deal. Any manager would be blasted for saying anything other than that.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2017/feb/24/manolo-gabbiadini-southampton-efl-cup-final-2017

Nicely done! It's also good to see/hear the names of Martina, Clasie, Ward-Prowse and Redmond for key moments/goals, as a reminder for those who like to dismiss those players as worthless. Without them, no final.

How much would it really help to keep VVD's recovery a secret? I can't believe that's the reason for the lack of news.

We haven't done a video yet, have we? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvSFKZ5qdnA

Forgive me for being mildly excited about a new big name player joining the squad. I'm very curious to find out how he'll do, and I want to trust that we wouldn't sign someone if we think he doesn't have the potential to contribute.

I'm very pleased with this. Even if he never plays a minute, I'm happy with the intention shown by Saints here after the disappointing window.

I wouldn't want to see most cyclists in clothes that can't be seen. It might be funny for a minute, but too distracting probably.

So you're basically saying "Because we improved and had a good second half of the season, it made the season look good."

Barcelona should be interested after tonight. (I still believe he may be here another season.)

Sunderland, Hull, Middlesbrough

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