Agree with you, LTL. If I felt even remotely that the emotion I felt towards TB was making me feel embittered and smaller as a person I'd give it up in a heartbeat. Instead, I'm having a little bit of fun allowing myself to be irresponsible. I could give it up, but I've chosen not to. Instead, I'm exploring what it feels like to be a minor ****bag. And if that's the sum total of my irresponsibility towards football players then I think I can live with myself. There's far worse things that people do to each other every day.
There's not been anything too bad has there? Have I missed some? My greatest wish is to see him crying at the bottom of the Wembley steps as Jose lifts one of the cups aloft
The thing I'm still unhappy about is how they ruined the World Cup for me...okay, I know England were poor anyway, but I was so looking forward to seeing our players there. All the joy was sucked out of it. I'll still be curling my lip at Lallana tonight, but I'm hoping to enjoy watching Clyne. I bear no resentment to Rickie, Theo, Oxo and Bale (having a little sense of reflected glory), but I can't see me ever being proud of Adam.
Oxo? I don't get why he's held in such high regard ... can no-one remember the interview he did in the national paper, trying to engineer a move away? 'cos that went down really well at the time?
As for Oxo, I think he's forgiven because he was young and Nicola convinced us that it was the right thing for us. That was a sizeable amount of money that we could use wisely. Cortese managed to turn it into a victory with his tale of how he got one over on Arsenal. We were still trying to get promoted and had no idea that we would be back in the PL soon. Lallana leaving us while we were in the PL and doing well was more of a kick in the privates.
Yes, this played a big part in it. We did feel like we had won. League One 17 year old for 15m. The next time Adam does an interview, I would really like someone to read the interview he did in December 2013, just to make him squirm. He made his choice and left; he is free to do that. Don't keep talking about it in the press and trying to make out you're an angel. I'd have had more respect for him if he came out at that time and just said that he felt he was better than our club and could treble his salary by moving. It would have been honest. If I could choose two things to happen, it would be for Saints to finish above Liverpool in the league and to beat them at Wembley in a cup final.
Tbf to Adam (and I hate being so) is that Saints fans would take everything he said the wrong way. Every player who has come here has praised the club (which must kick their previous team in the mouth). Obviously he wants Liverpool to do better than us, but I do accept that after all these years he wishes us well. What he is up against is that he set himself up as Mr Southampton and we all invested so much affection in him...he isn't an ex-player, he's more an ex-lover.
What did he actually do? He left our club for a shed load more money and the chance to play champions league. You could argue that he'd have been stupid not to leave. Of course he should just shut up and realise that he has burned his bridges as far as Saints are concerned. He didn't exactly manage the situation very sensibly. You either want to be liked/loved or you go for the dollar. Its rare that you can do both. This happens all the time in football, I don't like it but you are only making a fuss about it because it is SAINTS he left and how come he doesn't love us as much as we do and above everything else!? Its his job don't forget, not a hobby. I'll still boo him though
Judging by the response on here, it seems you're right. Ex lovers are best remembered fondly though. We'll always have Wembley/Walsall/Coventry.
Well that depends entirely on who you are talking too .... imagine "Oh Mrs Archers Road, remember that girl I dated before we met? She was so sweet, great in bed and I remember her, oh so fondly ....... *crash* *bang* *nee noor, nee noor, nee noor* " some ex-lovers are best slagged off.
You don't remember fondly the ex-lovers that were knobbing someone else behind your back at the same time as they were talking about a life together to you whilst constantly kissing your ****
I think I'm getting over this now, it REALLY hurt in the summer and I was REALLY pissed at Liverpool for cherry-picking our best and seemingly most irreplaceable players. in hindsight, they paid good money and we don't actually seem to be any weaker for it. It would still be great if we finished above them though...
It makes me cringe so hard when I imagine Steven Gerrard's recruitment drives round the England camp. An arm around the shoulder, the nasally, inarticulate tales of the Kop. It's probably nothing like how I'm describing but still.
I have always felt that Adam became embarrassed by being at Saints once he mixed with the bigger, rich boys in the England team.
