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Roo must have been joking

“FOOTBALL fans are stupid and believe whatever is fed to them.”

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Ruthless Russians set the benchmark

THE international break may not stretch as far as League One, but the Euro 2012 qualifiers still took centre stage last weekend.

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Football cashcow showing signs of running dry

1:50pm Monday 11th October 2010

IF EVER a week has highlighted the impact vast amounts of cash has on football, it was this one.

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Adkins must make players believe again

10:07am Monday 20th September 2010

IF PLAYING Fantasy Football has taught me anything over the last 15 years or so, it’s that simply buying players with the biggest price tags doesn’t mean success.

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Talking just about the football? That's boring

SOMETIMES I wonder how fans of other clubs get by, with nothing other than football to talk about.

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Drama just won't leave Saints alone

11:46am Tuesday 7th September 2010

ANOTHER week, another drama at St. Mary's.

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Is the filming of fans really necessary?

2:56pm Monday 30th August 2010

At last weekend’s match against Leyton Orient, the Northam End vented their frustrations at a lone cameramen stood at the front of the vast swathe of fans.

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How best to pay tribute to Markus?

5:51pm Saturday 14th August 2010

Dan Kerins gives his thoughts about how to pay tribute to Markus Liebherr, following his untimely death.

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Under the radar without the glamour

5:37pm Saturday 14th August 2010

With the Premier League restarting today, the Football League will once again fall to the back of many minds.

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Season ticket hopefully a sound investment

9:00am Monday 26th July 2010

TO SAY I’m surprised that Saints that shifted 13,000 season tickets is a bit of an understatement.

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Torres for Saints - the joys of the transfer window

7:30am Monday 10th May 2010

THE TRANSFER season is upon us – and so are the outlandish rumours we will be having to contend with.

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We must not be held to ransom

11:37am Monday 3rd May 2010

SOUTHAMPTON is a very strange beast in the world of lower league football.

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Hoping for the unlikely

4:13pm Monday 26th April 2010

FOOTBALL is a pain in the backside, at times.

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Parachutes, yo-yos and lots of cash

4:42pm Monday 19th April 2010

THE Premier League’s decision to extend parachute payments to relegated clubs to a total of £48m over four years is ‘good for the game’, according to David Gold.

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Saints transfer rumours are nothing to fear

9:39am Monday 12th April 2010

LOOSE lips sink ships. Or rather that is what we were told during the height of the battle for the Atlantic during World War Two.

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From Wembley to the Withdean

11:07am Monday 5th April 2010

WELL Wembley has been and gone, and what day it was – for those of us who can remember it.

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Paint Pot Final shows we have emerged from doldrums

3:50pm Wednesday 31st March 2010

LUTON won it last year, it used to have something to do with windscreens and was once sponsored by LDV Vans.

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Promotionsville via Wembley and a summer holiday

5:37pm Monday 22nd March 2010

THE fantastic run of winning games at St Mary’s has finally come to an end, underlining Alan Pardew’s point about a lack of consistency.

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Looking at the averages

4:30pm Monday 8th March 2010

I’VE BEEN having some quite lucid dreams in the last week or so.

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QPR example is one to avoid

10:02am Monday 1st March 2010

ALAN Pardew and his side have been under some pressure in recent weeks.

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Pompey's tale of misery

11:20am Monday 22nd February 2010

HAVING gone through the process of administration last Summer, Saints fans would be excused for thinking they had suffered more than most.

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Reasons to be cheerful

2:11pm Tuesday 16th February 2010

Regardless of the Pompey result, there is no reason to be downhearted as a Saints fan.

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Let’s seize this with both hands

11:55am Wednesday 10th February 2010

AFTER years of disappointment and underachievement, finally Saints fans have something tangible to shout about.

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Hoping for success in a big week for Saints

9:00am Monday 8th February 2010

THE ONLY seven days of more importance than the coming week involved Le Tiss creating the universe and having a kip, as sort of described in the book of Genesis.

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Saints v Pompey - why it matters so much

6:51pm Monday 1st February 2010

Southampton and Portsmouth. This time it's personal. Just like always.

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Vitriol, scorn and bootlicking morons

1:25pm Friday 29th January 2010

INSULTS are all the rage at the moment in football.

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Rivaldo to Saints... and other assorted tales

11:21am Monday 18th January 2010

AS MUCH as I hate the transfer window, I can’t help checking every possible rumour about who Saints want to sign.

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How snow made John Barnes a girl at The Dell

10:36am Monday 11th January 2010

WELL, lots of snow slush and ice has resulted in no match this weekend.

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Six years of hurt coming to an end?

5:02pm Wednesday 23rd December 2009

SIX years ago on Monday, Saints walloped Portsmouth 3- 0, climbing to the dizzy heights of fourth in the Premier League.

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Staplewood, boiled chicken and fantasies about Sue Barker

5:07pm Wednesday 23rd December 2009

BIG news at St. Mary’s this week. Momentous, in fact. It certainly has the potential to change my life.

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Rising slowly up the league

1:44pm Tuesday 8th December 2009

NOW we’ve made it out of the relegation zone for the first time this calendar year, we have to be confident about the future.

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Those rain drops keep falling on my head...

1:50pm Tuesday 8th December 2009

The misery continued at St. Mary’s this week. Endless torture, constantly chipping away at my soul.

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Blatter’s mocking jibe leaves a bitter taste

1:51pm Tuesday 8th December 2009

I DON’T like Sepp Blatter. Never have done, never will do.

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Pompey’s woe beyond a joke

1:47pm Tuesday 8th December 2009

HOW much longer can the Fratton Park debacle be allowed to continue?

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Southampton should be part of 2018 bid

6:44pm Wednesday 2nd December 2009

LOFTY ambitions are, by their very nature, difficult to achieve.

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The biggest shame of all

11:10am Monday 23rd November 2009

Saints' Season ticket holder and Daily Echo journalist DAN KERINS reflects on THAT handball, from his seat in the Stade de France.

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Backroom boys deserve respect

3:18pm Friday 20th November 2009

WHO is it that we, as football fans, really expect to carry the can for mistakes – and the glory for success?

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Herbie’s an inspiration to all fans

3:21pm Friday 20th November 2009

THIS WEEK, lifelong Saints fan Herbie Taylor was immortalised in a painting.

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A closed shop is bad for business

2:51pm Wednesday 11th November 2009

BOLTON chairman Phil Gartside has once again resurrected his bid to create a two-tier Premier League of 36 teams.

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Looking back to happiness

1:00pm Wednesday 11th November 2009

WATCH out. Here come all the usual clichés about the magic of the cup, it’s a lottery, watch out for giant-killings and all that jazz.

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Saints' good form too scary for Hallowe'en

5:01pm Friday 6th November 2009

HALLOWE’EN. A time of year when we all pull the curtains tight and hide behind the couch to convince the six-year-olds from down the road that we’re not in because we’ve run out of Mini- Rolls.

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The only way is up, baby

2:41pm Thursday 29th October 2009

SECOND from bottom in the third tier with just eight points on the board – yet this is probably the happiest many Saints fans have been in years.

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Comments make for net deficit

2:09pm Friday 23rd October 2009

THE Internet is a wonderful invention. It provides everyone and anyone with a forum to have their say, debate pertinent issues and comment and what others are saying.

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A low profile could pay off

12:56pm Monday 12th October 2009

THIS week, FourFourTwo magazine published its annual rich list of British football.

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It’s musical chairs time at St Mary’s

12:54pm Monday 12th October 2009

THE politics of seating arrangements will never fail to amaze me.

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On the road to recovery

12:52pm Monday 12th October 2009

THIS WEEK’S fans forum seems to have been an allround success.

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Monkeys have always been a problem for Saints

12:12pm Monday 21st September 2009

MONKEYS. I’ve always thought it would be great to have my own monkey to get beers from the fridge for me, or beat in a game of Pro Evo on my Playstation.

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Could it be coming home to St Mary's?

11:44am Tuesday 15th September 2009

I’M NOT a cricket lover by any stretch of the imagination but I was at the Rose Bowl this week for the one-dayer.

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