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By far the best individual performance in that match yesterday, nice to see he's regained the confidence to go past players and do it in the Premier League, even if he does look like a fridge nowadays with those shoulders.

I'm Dan Kerins. AND I can spell his, er, my name.

Bizarrely I can rationalise that, not sure "all Southampton" is either what the song is about or an accurate measure of those singing it though. And the "old Southampton" people just need to bring themselves up to date. And come to think of it, what are we even saying about, er, Jose Fonte's baby ? Wouldn't "Jose Fonte's missus" be better, at least the "ohhhhhhh" would be in context then ? @Mike, yeah (though mostly stand, just behind the yo-yo seats, sat down twice on Saturday for about 30 seconds), I'm towards the front, the Mongtards are mostly at the back of 41 and 42, as we all know. Though there's a bloke just behind me who knows absolutely nothing about anything all game long every game.

Well phrased. I was sat there at half 1 this morning trying to work out where the pauses and words running on were, then decided that as I can't read music and can't post it on here anyway I probably wouldn't be able to clarify. I didn't concede to the Mong version, I just stopped joining in after the first line and did the "ohhhhhhhhh" at the end, just like I don't sing "we hate Pompey" during "Alan Pardew's Renwhidarmy" or the extra repetition of whatever bloody words the idiots add in to whatever other song they can't sing. (As you may notice, annoyed enough to notice, not annoyed enough to remember which song it is). . Oh yeah, and he's NEARLY 6ft 3.

Good luck trying to get the goal difference to make up that extra point.

Not sure why even midtable has to be the be-all and end-all, we'd be at most 10 points off the playoffs. Accepted that our expectations next season are going to be above "try to sneak into the playoffs", because we already have a squad that's top 4 ready, and even if we've added new players the underpinning ability should be enough to get us results. But at the same time, we might have had a massive run of injuries, or played all the title contenders in the first two months away from home, and any of those kind of things can impact a season or a snapshot position and not be the manager's fault.

There you go. (Though even then defender doesn't really fit).

Yes, which has lots more words than your offering.

I'd quite like the first line to fit the tune first. Unless you're suggesting we stick a pause in the middle of the line and drag Sel-huuuuu-uuuurst Paaaaa-ark out for that long ? It's 3 syllables, not 5 !

Rubbish "going" from a bunch of people who don't know the cadence of the original song, and after doing it right a couple of weeks ago got it completely wrong over and over again on Saturday. Pretty difficult to explain here, but the gist of it is that there's a different beat to the first "Jose Fonte" to the second one, and the Northam Mongs were singing both lines the same, thereby starting the second line too early. It absolutely annoyed the shiiit out of me, I have to say. Like having some spud who can't clap in time putting everyone around them off joining in with songs with there lack of rhythm, but 100 times worse. Oh, and I've sung Woolston Ferry with others at at least 6 different away matches this season, but it's just too hard for people to hold it together in any bigger group at home games. Also, I suspect if the Northam lot got hold of it the Ferry would be going bloody fast.

He headed it towards the middle of the Itchen Stand and whoever ended up with it chucked it to the ball boy anyway. I didn't hear the "multiball" announcement pre-match so that might have been it - it wasn't the recorded announcement when it was broadcast during the match either, maybe the recording was lost or something ? I'm surprised we haven't sussed the "if we're winning keep chucking the ball straight onto the pitch until the ref gets rid of multiball" thing yet.

He was abysmal in the last 10 minutes, barely moved after his bottling the 50/50 and everything went on around him - Fonte did almost all of his work down the right - could have been knackered but if so, GET OFF.

Erm, how exactly are we going to appeal the points deduction (never mind successfully) in time for the play-offs ? When are they holding them ? At the end of 2012 ?

Anyone seen my Espanyol ticket ?

In 1992 I qualified for a voucher to buy a semi-final ticket for their match against Liverpool (when they'd only spent one season in the top flight in over 30 years) by virtue of pitching up on spec at Fratton to watch them play Millwall as I was bored. First time I'd ever been, made the mistake of going in the stand with that bell-end in it. Some things never change.

Eastville ? Hence the gas ?

You might want to change your location then... glad to see the matches are 2pm kick offs anyway, awesome.

He has an Armani tattoo. I would like this information to leave my brain now, please.

Nope, he was rumoured heavily to have been Branfoot's successor having been player manager at Man City before he joined Saints, but he actually left the club when Branfoot went rather than be put in the position of succeeding the man who'd signed him a few months earlier. (IIRC) For some reason I can't get him and Paul Allen wearing the Pony tick kit with #27 and 28 out of my head.

1939 League records were not expunged. The season was abandoned but the results stood, even if a championship wasn't awarded (after 3 games it's not surprising). I'd say Dodgin's on the list.

But we're already ahead of MK Dons and have been consistently on better form than them for months. We have Bristol Rovers to play, which if we win could put as above them, and all of a sudden Colchester (and Leeds) have started losing regularly. We're 11 points behind 6th with 7 games left, a game in hand on most. 6 games ago we were 8 points behind MK Dons with a game in hand. FWIW I think we'll win 4 draw 2 and lose 1, and 71 points is only 3 ahead of what Colchester and Huddersfield already have. I have a horrible feeling about Gillingham away.

Conceded two goals against us at St Mary's (admittedly scored 3), didn't work as hard as Swindon, have already lost to us in the FA Cup since at their place too.

He's wound a load of people up about Michail Antonio, for a start. Just to make Stevo look bad, I had a knee op and still got to the MK Dons home league match on crutches the next day. And I'm running around scoring left-foot 5-a-side goals while he's still got Beadle leg. Though 28_F I'd been running around on it for 9 years by then and didn't have reconstruction like he did.

I have no problem with accepting that we won the tie and progressed to the next round, but the result of the match was a draw, then we won the penalties. Ignoring the same old argument we've been having about this all season (and FWIW I'm a qualified statistical analyst ), if you're using the Torquay result (2-2) to support stats about us winning after going behind, it just weakens that argument by artificially inflating the numbers and not standing on its own merits (which I happen to think the come-from-behind wins in the 4 other matches achieve reasonably well).

Nope, only embroidered onto the players' shirts (as can be clearly seen by the amount of "pulling" around the embroidery on Lambert's shirt as he steps up to take the penalty). Fans got a rubbishy gold plastic lettering effort. Only £3 if you want it done now, apparently...