You just knew ...

He did , and he was happy to stay and see out his contract . The board called his bluff , he walked and both SFC & RK have suffered as a result ( though for RK Financially I am sure he is laughing )

 

We may have acted terribly by not giving Puel more time but Leicester are the champions of acting terribly by sacking Ranieri after he won the title!

 

So in a roundabout way, that ignorant git did your daughter a favour. Think of all the suffering she's been spared by doing something else with her Saturday afternoons.

 

That's true mate.....I suppose.........Would have been nice for her to come in with the rest of us especially when the boys were home from college.........

 

She probably sees you all coming in with long faces, frozen to the marrow, and thinks she's dodged a bullet.

I know my son thinks I'm mad. On Saturday he said "don't check the football results dad, you'll only spoil your whole weekend". And he was right - I had a great day out at the races despite losing money, then drove across the Cotswolds in the dark listening to Saints vs Chelsea on the radio. What a fun journey home that was, made all the better by a flat tyre just on the outskirts of London.

 

When I lived briefly in the Midlands in the 60's there was a lovely West Brom joke, told by their own supporters. How do you know when the Albion have lost? It's quarter to five on a Saturday. Of course with kick offs being all over the shop it's lost some of it's punch, but the spirit lives on and should be adopted by Saints fans. I was decorating and listening to Final Score when the goal went in. It was the way that they said "Over to Stamford Bridge where there's a free kick to Chelsea" and you knew that would be the goal, and we'd not recover. At least towards the end of last season we had "Penalty to Southampton and Long/Tadic/Gabbiadini has missed it". Those days feel like glory days at the moment.

But you know what they say, smile, it could be worse. So I am smiling all the way to the Huddersfield game, confident that it will get worse!

 

Oh man................. that as they say is sods law.......

 

I do wonder if the players feel that inevitability too. You can tell whenever we go ahead at the moment the players get really scared of conceding and start dropping back way too far.

 

Arsenal were ripe for a slaughter. After we'd failed to add to the score in the first 15 minutes, it did begin to sound (I was away so listening to the wonders of whispering Dave) that we were trying to shut up shop. Supports your point.