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Sensible fella.
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I love the fact that Saints can take the piss out of themselves
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Good lad
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What a season it has been so far for Southampton and Danny Ings.
The Saints have marched into the Premier Leagueâs top four, helped by the five goals of in-form striker Ings, who has been rated by you as the player of the season so far.
Taking the averages of scores from BBC Sportâs Player Rater, four members of Ralph Hasenhuttlâs side feature in the overall top 10, with Southampton players appearing in each positional category too.
Of course this just means our players will be touted around to the âbiggerâ clubs during the next transfer window and beyondâŠ
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Terrific news. With no Saints players in the squad I will no longer feel compelled to watch these dreadfully dull games where Southgate refuses to play a left footed player and insists on rivalling the genius ideology of Tony Pulis by fielding 9 central defenders against mediocre opposition.
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Our central midfield salon of coiffeurists take top three spots for the middle of the park and Southamptonâs âworst centre backs in the leagueâ come in at number 1 and number 6 for central defenders.
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JWP wouldnât have got game time as seen by his replacement
Jude Bellingham: England call up Borussia Dortmund teenager to senior squad for first time - https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/54885682
Twitter threads/posts that aged well
Idiots
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A piece from Rod Liddle in the Sunday Times
No squad knows value of teamwork better than Southampton
Back in August you could get 750-1 on Southampton to win the Premier League title. Those odds have shortened to 100-1 now. On Friday, they became the 29th club to have led the league. It may have been a brief sojourn in such rarefied surroundings, but it also felt like a statement of intent. Southampton were magnificent in demolishing Newcastle United and they could and should have won by a larger margin.
Steve Bruceâs side give the impression of scraping by at the moment, bereft of goals and liable to come unstuck when they meet a well organised team â and if nothing else, Southampton are very well organised indeed. If that makes them sound boring, then so be it. Their football does not always set the heart racing but Ralph HasenhĂŒttl â yep, thatâs Ralph Rabbithutch â has fashioned a squad who understand teamwork probably better than any in the league.
For a long while the jury was out on Ralph. He has been at St Maryâs for coming up to two years, and there have been plenty of doubters in the stands. They were doubting once more in September when the Saints were hammered 5-2 at home by Spurs, an ignominy that was followed by being booted out of the EFL Cup by Brentford and another defeat at Crystal Palace. But they have recovered well from that limping start, even if the fixture list has so far looked quite kindly upon them.
They beat Newcastle without two of their most highly valued players, Danny Ings and Ryan Bertrand. Despite the punditsâ predictions their absence scarcely mattered. Southampton dominated from start to finish, having almost two thirds of the possession and limiting Newcastle to two shots on target (Southampton managed 15). Their pass completion rate of 82 per cent was exemplary.
But look at the side: cruelly put, largely longish in the tooth, their best days behind them and those best days were several yards short of the full galactico . Their outstanding performer has been Jannik Vestergaard, a fringe player for Denmark with 18 caps in seven years. So it is, pretty much, with the rest. The missing Bertrand has 19 England caps but the last one came in 2017.
Nathan Redmond, a substitute, has one England cap and that came three years ago, too. James Ward-Prowse, meanwhile, is playing the best football of his career and we may soon hear the chant âPosher than Bamford, heâs even posher than Bamfordâ. The last of his four England caps came three years ago â though a recall may be in the pipeline. It should be.
And then thereâs Theo Walcott. He was the probably the best player on the pitch on Friday and it was a delight to watch him â back playing on the wing where he was born to play, those misbegotten dreams of turning him into a second Thierry Henry forgotten. It is a frightening 12 years since his magnificent hat-trick for England against Croatia and he has been nowhere near the national side since David Cameron was prime minister. Iâve always been an admirer of the lad (well, heâs 31 now) and it is good to see him thriving where his career began.
Perhaps Southampton are merely continuing this seasonâs template, wherein sides of comparatively modest ambition suddenly find themselves at the top, staring down at Liverpool and Manchester City. It happened with Aston Villa, who are now looking a little bit shaky, and with Everton, who also seem intent on heading south at a rate of knots (hell, I think you and me could probably nick a point off Manchester United these days).
So, we shouldnât be too surprised if Southampton get stuffed 5-0 by Wolves after the forthcoming international break. But still, what the Styrian Herr Rabbithutch has done in two years is wholly commendable. On fairly meagre resources he has elevated Southampton from perennial relegation contenders to a kind of agreeable mid-table comfort and obscurity. Perhaps now they are ready to move on and the table will look how it used to look in days gone by, with a top group of five or six and then Southampton, valiant also-rans on the cusp of Europe. I do not mean this to sound like damning with faint praise, it is not.
Preserving Premier League status is pretty much the only goal of a good ten, maybe 12, top-tier sides. Establishing their clubs as potential top-six contenders is a step much further â and one which has been beyond the reach of Newcastle for a very long time. The Saints seem as if they are on their way to achieving at least that. Not marching in, perhaps, but loitering just outside with a kind of expectant look on their faces.
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JWP Last cap 3 years ago 
Long in the tooth
Itâs Rod Liddle. I cant even be arsed to point out the many errors in that piece.
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What an appalling article.
What do you expect - heâs a pompous, wife beating twat
He canât even spell Lidl correctly.
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This thread is great in general and the Ralph one is spot on
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