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    Seedhouse the Unrepentant wrote:
    I'm very happy with where we're at. It was nearly over three years ago yet in the first post apocalypse season we won the jpt in the second we got promoted from league 1 and this season we will get promoted to the Prem. It's truly spectacular.

    We haven't spent big, no players over 2m and only Lambert, Fonte, Fox and Hooivelt over 1m. Many superb bargains like Chaplow and Cork and freebies like Tad Lee. We are not paying the transfer fees or wages of some of our competition like Leicester and West Ham.

    Many teams have been competing at various stages of the season for auto yet only one team has held onto top two all season long. No one saw the Reading run coming and fair play to them, outstanding run.

    Step back, take a breath and rejoice at where we are now and look to the future with joy and excitement.

    Then look to the East and laugh and laugh and laugh until the tears run down your cheeks. That's what happens if you try and rush things, if you try and buy success - if you cheat. Football needs the skunts to be liquidized after constantly cheating by buying players they couldn't afford and paying wages they couldn't afford to give them an advantage over proper honest football clubs. Before you say it's not the fans fault yes it is, they demanded it, they called for more success for better players who cost more in terms of transfer fees and wages, fees and wages they simply couldn't afford. Don't fall into the same trap.
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Lallana: It was "crazy" not to send off Hines

8:14pm Saturday 21st April 2012 in Saints News Photograph of the Author By Gordon Simpson , Senior Sports Reporter

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ADAM Lallana branded referee Tony Bates’ decision not to send off Middlesbrough defender Seb Hines as “crazy”.

With the scores level at 1-1 early in the second half, the midfielder was racing through on goal when he was tripped from behind by the Boro centre half just outside the area.

Bates gave the free-kick, but to Saints’ shock did not produce a card of any kind.

Although a covering defender was arguably coming across to prevent a red, the foul looked to warrant a yellow at the very least.

That would have meant a dismissal for Hines, who had been booked minutes earlier, and would likely have changed the entire complexion of the game, which Boro went on to win 2-1.

After the match, Lallana was at a loss to explain the decision not to dismiss Hines.

“I just remember taking a touch and looking up,” he said. “I was going to shoot, but I thought I was quite far out, so I took another touch further away from the defender, and just getting brought down.

“I remember straight away thinking ‘is it a pen, is it a free-kick?’ because I didn’t know where he was.

“Straight away in my head I’m thinking ‘He’s off’ because I remember a second before looking up and the keeper was just there.

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“So getting up and thinking ‘He’s going to pull a red out here’ to not give a card at all is crazy really. I don’t know what much else to say.

“I didn’t even know who brought me down. But if it was Hines he’d already been booked.

“I haven’t even seen it again, but I’m straight away thinking ‘that’s a straight red, I’m through on goal.’”

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