SOUTHAMPTON ARE STILL A BIG CLUB! The Premier League, 2014/15

how can this not be on MOTD?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2726693/Tottenham-West-Ham-s-match-interrupted-pitch-invading-fan-runs-free-kick.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2726774/DAVID-MOYES-EXCLUSIVE-Manchester-United-never-gave-time-succeed-fail.html

painful

By the time he went to bed on that Easter Monday, he knew he had been. For a start people had not been answering their phones, and when he finally did make contact with Ed Woodward, the club’s executive vice-chairman would only say that he would meet him at Carrington at 8am.

Moyes had no intention of driving in at that time — not when the cameras would be waiting. So he got there four hours early, went for a run, took a shower and then, alone in an empty, eerie building, began to clear his desk. ‘I hadn’t slept a wink,’ he says. ‘But the run gave me a chance to clear my head. A bit of time to think before I started to pack up my stuff.’

Moyes admits he wanted to sign Cesc Fabregas, Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo

shd've checked to see if Roy Race was available

poor messi never got a look in

assist of the season from Tadic (Henderson's was good too)

wiziwig sopcasts are all offline already, the officials are clamping down for the first few weeks of the new season

Southampton can win this but they need to bring Long on. Pelle has done nothing

The straight Flash streams have been okay from what I've seen.

12.5m

Chuffed that Jovetic is starting, not least 'cause he's in my Fantasy team.

Henderson looked amazing today, looked like Gerrard of old, Gerrard by contrast seemed a bit more Henderson of old. Joe Allen sucked bad.

reckon we should seduce nakh back with a "life and times of paul dummett" thread

Lallana and Markovic to play yet but yeah that was a poor performance today and lacked that spark that Suarez brings. They were lucky to win really.

Sterling looked very sharp though, although whoever allowed him to win a header against them should probably be put out to pasture immediately.

Southampton didn't look like a team in crisis, Ward-Prowse in particular plus a couple of others look capable of stepping up now.

Ward-Prowse loses the ball a bit too easily but looks very capable otherwise. Saints crisis greatly overstated, they'll be fine.

COLBACK DID THE POST-MATCH INTERVIEW WHAT HAS HE BECOME

That Henderson pass, tho. Yum yum yum. If it wasn't against us, obv.

Ward-Prowse very blighter-ish. We've got our whirlwind going again. Kind of want to see us against someone terrible. I think it will be fun.

soton didnt deserve to lose that game at all really. btw that dzeko backheel for silvas goal was shweeet.

10m Southampton bid for Andros rejected

another 3 or 4 might do it but then the going rate for nothing Englishmen is prob twice that?

ONE NIL BURNLEY

not for long

lovely goal

Fabregas is going to be so good for Chelsea

nbd wilshere will come good amirite

ridiculous assist

https://vine.co/v/M3DVBK6Fugi

i like that evil cesc has to have an upsetting hair change just like evil nando

Mourinho hates sideburns

http://yougabsports.com/gfile/75r4!-!FFMLML!-!zrzor45!-!JQINOHHF-LMIP-HDHF-LHHM-JDOPILLRKRNQ!-!72y1nq/mattingly.png

that's what I was going for

I thought it could be but nevertheless I saw the opportunity and pounced on it like Torres.

Adebayor shaved off his hair for Mou too.

cesc :(

Malky Mackay at Palace, tba officially tomorrow. Sighs of release all round it wasn't Sherwood.

I'm off to Dulwich Hamlet v Peacehaven to celebrate.

Release = relief obv.

so...

Cardiff City owner Vincent Tan has taken the ultimate revenge on Malky Mackay.

Crystal Palace yesterday did a dramatic U-turn and withdrew their job offer to former Cardiff boss Mackay.

It came after Cardiff submitted a dossier to the Football Association questioning Mackay’s conduct during his reign at the Welsh club.

Mirror Sport understands the dossier also names Palace director of football Iain Moody who worked with Mackay at Cardiff.

Several top agents and lawyers are also named in the document while it is understood that Tan has refused to pay commission to agents on almost all of the deals done under Mackay’s reign.

Cardiff have questioned the level of fees, commission and role of agents in several deals during Mackay’s two years at the club, which the team won promotion to the top flight for the first time since 1962.

Cardiff are also set to pursue legal action against Palace and Moody in the “Spygate” case.

Palace were fined £10,000 by the Premier League last week after it was alleged that Moody got the Cardiff line-up before they played his former club last season in a vital relegation match.

The dossier and allegations appear to have persuaded Palace co-chairman Steve Parish to put on hold the appointment of a new boss.

moody to resign too it seems

Malky Mackay and Iain Moody investigated by FA over 'sexist, racist and homophobic' text messages during time at Cardiff

yikes

In July 2012, Cardiff signed South Korean international Kim Bo-kyung, but when Moody informed Mackay on July 12 that ‘five of the b******s including the player’ were arriving for talks, the reply from Mackay’s phone was: ‘Fkn chinkys.’ A further message says: ‘Fk it. There’s enough dogs in Cardiff for us all to go around.’

In reference to the prominent football agent, Phil Smith, a text states: ‘Go on, fat Phil. Nothing like a Jew that sees money slipping through his fingers’. The Israeli club, Maccabi Tel Aviv, are also referred to simply as ‘the Jews’.

A football official at another club is referred to as ‘a gay snake’ and ‘the homo’ and someone who is ‘not to be trusted’, while a French player is someone ‘who struck me as an independently minded young homo’.

An exchange with a young player who has a female agent makes reference to a sex act and states: ‘I hope she’s looking after your needs,’ the player is then told. ‘I bet you’d love a bounce on her falsies.’

On August 16, 2012, a list of players proposed by a French agent is forwarded, stating to Mackay that ‘he needs to rename his agency the All Blacks’. A separate text in reference to a list of French players states: ‘Not many white faces amongst that lot but worth considering.’

In a separate exchange a picture entitled ‘Black Monopoly’ is sent, with every square a ‘Go To Jail’ square. Of one African player, it is stated: ‘Doesn’t look like a good cv. And he’s Nigerian.’

that's not good.

Waiting until he had been offered a job to do it is magnificent, ice-cold revenge work, particularly given all the stick Tan took when he fired him.

yeah this is amazing, i hope the fucker never works again

wowsers fucking hell

i don't suppose it's any mitigation that i'd download a mixtape entitled "independently minded young homo" on sight

p sure it was style mags centrepiece shoot last week

iirc didnt the fa do precisely fuck all in response to scudamore's sexist email bantz the other month

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BvgfmznIgAA5sZW.jpg

see it's a great outfit when u live up to it

best thing about this is that parish is gonna be like "phew close call" *appoints tim sherwood*

https://twitter.com/Ibby_Farah

fuck yeah barry davies is doing palace west ham for motd this weekend

please may he go out in a blaze of haughty glory damning a grim 0-0 draw to hell

i don't suppose it's any mitigation that i'd download a mixtape entitled "independently minded young homo" on sight

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made nearly this exact quasi-joke on facebook w/o having read this thread. huh

gay ouroboros

Hmmmmmm, Young Homo