Surrey Saint

Went to St Marys College. Mate had a trial for Southampton Boys with Ted Bates. Grandad took me to my first game in 1962 He'd supported them for over 50 years. So have I now.

'Oh dear. It's all going to go horribly wrong.' My pre-season feeling every August since 1962.

OK I'll bite. - Bill Shankly of Larry Lloyd. . . . . Or maybe of Ron Yeats.

D'accord

Went to Championship play off this afternoon with my CP supporting son (yes he 'ought' to be a Saint but born and brought up in South London, - what can I say?). CP support outstanding, 35000 singing throughout. Be good to see a Saints/CP game at Wembley some time,; noise would be terrific. CP team will need a lot of work to stay up; son reckons only three of current squad Premier quality. What did we have this time last year? Five? SRL, Lallana, Cork, Schniederlin, Puncheon (maybe)? Fonte maybe? Have to agree with others that, as things stand, Palace are a good bet to go straight back down.

Brilliant! However, as I recall (but years since I read the play), aren't there a lot of dead bodies on stage at the end of Coriolanus?

Madness.Other words fail.

Vegard Fl. Vaagbo ‏@RBFlemma Am told Southampton is a more likely destination for Vegard Forren, but this story will most likely take yet another turn

Terrific news.

Yep, still can't get in.

Simon Peach ‏@SimonPeach Bale, Adebayor, Friedel & Dembele all have not travelled with #Spurs to Slovenia for various reasons. All will be back to face #SaintsFC.

First game for me this season. Thought we were nervoous and lacking in confidence first half, too many mis hit passes into empty space, too many ill weighted balls. DF looked out of his depth, unsure what to do when he had the ball. Second half much, much better. Clyne a constant dangedr on the left, Yoshida strong and used the ball well and our midfield came in to their own. Would it have been quite so easy had Ireland not gone off? Maybe not but I have no doubt we'd still have won. Impressive to see the team knocking the ball around for fun in the last seven or eight minutes. Clear confidence had returned.

'Saint Harry' Ha ha! You couldn't make it up! Oh . . . wait a minute . . .

Bit sad really. What am I going to do all day now? No more tapping the F5 button. Work I s'pose.

Meanwhile . . . . nothing new on the Ramirez situation? I'm going to miss this thread when the window closes. In fact I'm beginning to get nostalgic for the excitement of late last week already.