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Well, you can't. However, we have scored plenty of goals at home this season.

I'd say having his top hand in line with the crossbar is "getting off the ground", he did unfortunately get there a fraction of a second after the ball.

Second deflected off Fonte's knee whilst going through his legs, in the wet. Though Forster got a hand to it which some keepers might say meant he should keep it out... No-one other than a defensive midfielder was stopping the first one.

Yet. Are Man City still the widely-loved upstarts breaking the monotony of the Man U-Arsenal-Chelsea lockdown of the title? I'd say no...

"Bolted on" (used instead of "nailed on") is a weird one in terms of penalty certainty as well.

They are MILES off the playoffs. Newport have just won once in matches since beating them and are still a good 10 points clear of them, and they're one place below the playoffs after today.

I've just thought of a few more... "Henry signs for Chelsea" accompanied by the picture of Peter Kenyon with the vacuum cleaner, which started off as a vaguely funny joke but eventually came to mean "that transfer rumour has been posted loads of times before". "Has Skacel signed yet?", generally used on long, drawn out transfer deals to indicate either impatience, mocking others' impatience, or just a criminal lack of originality. "Sauce" or "HP" or "ketchup" or any other derivative of it to mean "who told you that rumour?", i.e. "source". Turkish in particular is fond of "and they said man would never walk on the moon", to signify when it looks like someone is being over enthusiastic with their predictions of the club's development (usually related to stadium size). "Monkey chicken petting zoo" is a phrase with origin in the failed takeover of Bournemouth when they were in administration and the brilliantlly funny drawing of the supposed plans for the area surrounding the ground (including said zoo). Became Saints-related due to the same lot being involved in some tyre-kicking around Saints at one point. "Meltdown" is now mockingly used to represent any overreaction to anything, as well as ironically whenever Saints do something well, based on the 2014 Summer when Saints sold half the team. There are also pictorial ones, the pic of Bill Murray in Groundhog Day is fairly self-explanatory. And the nutjob thread likes to trot out the picture of the woman on the mobility scooter in front of Fratton and the Skates on the bubble bus in front of the "Britain's greatest comedy" ad.

The timeline suggests to me that Cortese's legacy left them with no choice in the matter. Guessing your contact is Puma-side.

Not a new style, but a look at the long sleeved versions of DC United's away kit (and the purple Orlando shirt from a while back with the weird overlapping sleeve with other sleeve under it...).

As well as Chelsea, Northern Ireland have mildly irritated me by using this collar for their away kit (not catalogued above):

I decided to sign up for SaintsForever initially based on that week I spent in Bucharest not knowing anyone at a time when I'd got bored of my home town, aged 30. I started coming down on weekends when Saints were home, stayed to play SaintsForever Sunday footy and in the Saints Forever v Pompey Online matches (played myself into contention by doing a 4 hour return journey one Sunday, was demanding my shirt number by week 2, lol), then there was that Saints Forever meet up in the Eagle, occasional waking up on random sofas, deciding to move down permanently, that thing with the ex-forum member where we got together, then split up every fortnight for about a year then bought a house together as the economy collapsed before going separate ways, and now I'm married to a ST holder and I don't have to talk to you lot any more.

Except Granty, obvs.

I'm so glad I've only just spotted this thread. So much I cannot say.

I like that they can entice kids to their club with the promise of potentially being able to get thrown straight into a L2 side without needing much training. I only wish that Saints were able to offer such riches as a direct route to the first team for Academy products - we could even try coaching them to reach their maximum potential too.

Hell of a deal given that they're currently asking $243 a night for May.

Agree with your take on timings for Top of the Rock and ESB. We were staying a block from the ESB and pitched up there about half an hour before sunset (I think it was about 6pm in April) - queues were short because everyone's already been up for the day by then and the night people haven't arrived yet, and we got to see the view in daylight AND darkness. The best thing about Top of the Rock is that it's a lot less busy than ESB AND you get better views (because you can see the ESB too). Four days is plenty of time to do everything, provided you're organised and don't waste time walking from Midtown to Battery Park like I did one time for no particular reason. Though we did have a nice meal in Chinatown en route, if a bit random.

Pretty much what we did at QPR. But not against West Ham.

Occam's razor applies.

That would depend on how the person in that situation responds, surely? I've seen hysterical reaction to us going a goal down with an hour to play.

Given the massive change in the club's profile since the original deal was agreed (and the potential legal fee savings from going back to the original deal) I think it makes every bit of sense just to have the one year. It also gives the club a bit more negotiating leverage than if they were in a multi-year deal.

There were a few, only that one has stayed with me. That looks like "for sure" to me if it was used though.

Hotel Stanford is slap bang in the middle of the tourist bit of Manhattan, very near Macy's on Herald Square, you can see MSG as you step out of the door and one block from Empire State Building. Right next to the subway and should be within your budget. Right next door to the Radisson but a whole lot cheaper. On the edge of Koreatown on West 32nd St. Decent sized rooms if a tiny bit dated (and a tendency for the door handle to give you an electric shock from the carpet static), decent breakfast, free wifi, bar on site (though we only used it once in a week) and you can get anywhere on Manhattan within minutes. I went in April 2013. Have just checked prices for May and they're averaging nearer $250 a night, (below $200 for April) but you might find it varies for the dates you go - and it's definitely worth calling them to see what they can do. One thing I didn't like, they insisted on cash on arrival, which of course meant either bank charges on the card or paying them cash up front when we got there. Whilst moniroring the exchange rate for 6 months to see how much extra it was costing us. :/ If you're really up for a more budget option, I stayed in the Vanderbilt YMCA in 1994 and again in 2000 (admittedly a long time ago) which is east side near the UN building, you get your own room (or share with one other, if you want), same sex floors, showers and toilets down the hall, small tv, decent value, secure, air con, food on site, they had a gym and indoor running track. Absolutely no idea whether it's still there or if it's now extortionate, but if you don't have a particular other half steering you into the comfort zone, it might be worth a look. No age restrictions or anything though. http://www.hotelstanford.com/ http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Hotel+Stanford+New+York&ll=40.748216,-73.988028&spn=0.000033,0.022488&safe=strict&gl=uk&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=40.748157,-73.98789&panoid=rzIl7Q7RA2zMzOySiBC-XA&cbp=12,97.2,,0,0

I make it Johnno Quick, HCDAJFU and budgie...

And "budgie", as mentioned earlier, which came from the swear filter on Saints Forever replacing the "c" word with the word budgie, leading to people adopting budgie as a proper swear. It's rare to see it these days, but I saw it the other week on here. It's a good ten years old now. Just thought of another one from SaintsForever: 28_F - meant "to be fair", though I'm not sure anyone's actually put that on a Saints Forum before, it used to be an in-joke on the forerunner of the Muppet Show where Cabbage Face, Crab Lungs, Squibby, ColinT and Ormergod used to basically communicate in idiocy with each other, whilst occasionally rampaging en masse through other web forums (notably Bushcraft). Old school forum name abbreviations: TSW - (The) SaintsWeb SWF - SaintsWeb Forum S4E - Saints Forever Some of it is slang, some isn't.

I spent my entire childhood in south wales and "cack" meaning "poo" was in widespread use from the late 80s. "Cackers" (basically meaning pikey/wurzel/bumpkins) was first heard by me from a Wiltshire-raised Southampton Uni friend in 1991 in halls at Wessex Lane.