Weird stuff down at St Mary's the last few days. First off Saturday's game, which Saints won with a disputed last minute penalty, during the awarding of this the referee Andy D'Urso managed to book a Blackburn player twice, but not send him off! So slender was D'Urso's tenuous grasp on reality that the FA have charged him with "less than proficiently applying the laws of the game".

Then this morning the Sturrock affair moved to a conclusion when he left "by mutual agreement". One wonders if this is based around the on-going James Beattie transfer speculation. Did Luggy state "either he goes or I do" or "if he goes so do I"? Strange, after all you'd need your head examined if you thought Beattie was worth more than a tenner, yet again he wandered aimlessly through the game, his only contributions being to fall over in the box and tuck away the resulting penalty.