Great win with some encouraging individual performances.
Tadic looked a lot more interested today than he has of late. I’m glad he finally took the Rickie Lambert approach to penalty taking and didn’t shank it waist height off centre like he often has.
Cedric was a constant threat and his final ball was very good. Often this lets him down.
JWP was great with his overall contribution. I’m not his biggest fan to be honest as I often find that games pass him by and he doesn’t contribute a great deal. A few more performances like that, more regular assists and goals from him and I’ll happily reevaluate my long held indifference (which has nothing to do with his Pompey connections I hasten to add). I think he has 6 goals in over 150 games and at least 3 were penalties. One swallow doesn’t make a summer though so it’s up to the lad to kick on and command a regular place on the team sheet.
Jay looked sharp and took his goal well.
Shame PEH put his boots on the wrong feet today because he had a great chance to break his duck and get some confidence.
Redmond was absolutely Redmond today though.
All we need now is a morale boosting midweek signing and to get VVD’s foot some horse placenta and then we’ll be ready for those Scouse cunts on Wednesday.
The nippers in front of me started singing “he’s one of our own” in relation to JWP.
I sang, close to speaking volume, just afterward “except he’s a skate” Many lols were had in certain sections of Block 1, Rows Y and Z.
The other Block 1 news of note was our stunning victory in the corporate sponsored Dominos Pizza roulette, doomed from the start. There was never enough pizza to begin with, and after witnessing the undignified Black Friday rush (for shame, Itchen North), gavstar (Sfcsim’s perpetual replacement*) simply said “It’s beneath me”. He was right, figuratively and literally. The pizza wielders never got past row A.
* Such is Sfcsim’s continued absence at games that I have begun to speculate. During half-time, I suggested to gavstar that Sfcsim may be doing murders and using Saints home games as an alibi. “I couldn’t have slain those nuns, officer. I was watching Saints tonk Leicester 3-0”.
I have just noticed that the proper order of things has been rectified and we are back above Bournemouth and are the South Coast’s top club. (by league standing) we were anyway.
I read on the Beeb MOTD2 analysis today that Leicester lost because of Ranieri tinkering & expecting Leicester to be able to play the Diamond formation after a week of training.
Danny Murphys only comment about us was to imply it was unwise against a good side. So it wasn’t us playing well - again
It depends on your sample. If you are including all players in the world who play football for a living, then no avergae players play in the Premier League: they are all above average. If you include only plkayers playing in the Premier League, then of course you will have average players.
This was a game in which Leicester City were unrecognisable from the side who won the Premier League title. Admittedly, Southampton and James Ward-Prowse in particular contributed to their demise, but I must say the Foxes are playing with fire. Better teams than them have gone down and Claudio Ranieri had better pull his finger out.
In the meantime, Southampton have worked their way through a very difficult period and as a result unearthed a new Morgan Schneiderlin. Every time I see Ward-Prowse play, he gets better and better and he was the architect of Leicester’s downfall. That said, if Leicester are serious about staying in the Premier League, they should seriously consider how they manage their Champions League fixtures because they can’t succeed in both.
Hey Bearsy, Kate here, from the Chapel, I’m borrowing Big Bad Bob’s account (and he is big in the right places, believe me) as he sits near me in the Chapel, when he can be arsed to go.
Could you please refrain from using the C word, it really puts us sensitive types off of papsweb.
…but Garth intimating that Leicester could win the Champions League didn’t warrant your attention…
That said, if Leicester are serious about staying in the Premier League, they should seriously consider how they manage their Champions League fixtures because they can’t succeed in both.
I get the feeling that they can’t succeed in either.
I took one look at the freaks parading along the touchline with piles of pizza and thought the fucking circus was in town.
So I said to myself, do I want to go through the indignity of pushing past old ladies for 50p of pizza that left an oven an hour ago after being cooked by that odd looking bunch, or shall I leave desperate begging to people in Ethiopia circa 1985, when the monthly grain truck pulls into the village?
I decided the freak circus could keep their tepid margheritas.
