Fitzhugh Fella

I would say 17 Sep 1969 away to Rosenborg in the Inter City Fairs Cup!

unlike you to look on the dark side?

Enjoyed those pics of Storrie turning up at court. I know I shouldn't but I can't help it.

I missed that game - our horse and cart broke down and then we were mugged for our tickets by **** Turpin. However I was there for the first ever game on the Common in Nov 1885!

Welcome aboard Jack and as you say the winner of the earliest League game. I see John Christie most weeks down at Waitrose in Chandlers Ford - he's still pretty nimble pushing his trolly.

Have a good drive and say hello!

bpsaint has made an interesting post on the post match thread - I hope he doesn't mind me reposting it below. Christ knows what game the Echo were watching yesterday,their player ratings are... Davis 7 - Unlucky with Brightons second goal James 6 - Always a threat going forward Trotamn 4 - Hauled off after a disastrous first halk Jaidi 5 - Not his best afternoon Harding 5 - Booed throughout by Brighton fans Antonio 6 - Flashes of his recent form Hammond 6 - Not as his best against former club Schneiderlin 7 - Showed glimpses of real quality Lallanna 6 - Had chances to score Connolly - His 2 years without a game maybe catching up with him Lambert - At least he got on the scoresheet. Brighton... Kuipers 6 Whing 6 Elphick 5 Tunicliffe 5 E-Abd 5 Bennett 6 Dicker 6 Crofts 6 Cox 7 Forster 6 Murray 5 Now I know you expect a local paper to be a bit biased but thats taking the ****! Would love to know where Morgans 'glimpses of real quality' were,as I thought he was complete gash, and how did they decide that a poor performance by Lambert and an Ormerod-esque performance from Connolly was worthy of a 6,yet 2 goal Glenn Murray who looked a threat throughout was only worth a 5!? Also in the bookings section they have the only yellow card going to Dailly for Brighton. Have they just cut and pasted the details from the Charlton match?

Have started a thread on this because the Echo reporter needs a wake up call. People who can't get to watch the game need an accurate report back and Simon Walter's marking is rubbish. Was he there?

Agree 100%. James was very poor defensively and one dimensional going forward. Wouldn't just single him out though - no one played well.

All good points - James was given so much room and time in that 2nd half but nothing came of it at all.

Well, even Pardew admitted they deserved it. Totalling up the points he (Walter) gave to Saints players = 64 points and Brighton = 63 points. The reporting in the Echo is shambolic these days and don't get me started on the historical errors in the FE where the other day they mixed up a star player from the 1920s (Bill Rawlings) with Saints chairman from the early 60s (Mr Barber) plus loads of other mistakes.

Don't often agree with you CB but I do over this. Burley was our worse ever manager considering the experience he had before arriving and the way he just lost interest when the money dried up was shocking. He left us in a worse league position than when he arrived and the club was falling apart at the seems thanks to him having given up the ghost.

Don't know if he was at the same game as me but he had Schneiderlin as Saints mom with 7 out of 10 and Lloyd James at 6 out of 10 with the comment "always a threat going forward". Personally I would have said the exact opposite. Considering he gave Glenn Murray, the scorer of Brighton's first two goals 5 out of 10, I would say he is a little out of touch with what really happened at SMS yesterday.

all in good time grass hopper, if its true, all will be revealed but probably not on here!!

Left my first wife that day after an argument about me watching the game on tv. We ended up getting divorced. She hated Saints - funny thing is many years later she re married and her new husband is a season ticket holder at SMS. Considering she lives in London she has been pretty unlucky to meet and marry 2 Saints fans. She actually goes to the odd match now and again - ah well if you can't beat them and all that.

Fahim must never be allowed to leave Pompey. Heard an "interesting" little rumour on Paul Hart from a pretty good source yesterday but libel laws prevent me from adding anything further.

18 Feb 1967 - 4th Round and you were right Huxford scored the own goal. We had beaten Barrow in the 3rd round!

Sheesh - it can only get better!

They can't get any better than that. I was living in Malaya at the time and we sometimes found the quickest way of getting the scores from England was in Sunday's Chinese papers (Monday was the day the English paper carried them). The only things that were printed in English apart from the names was 6 and 2. Me and my Dad were convinced for 24 hours the Chinese press had got the scores mixed up and we had really been beaten 6-2. What a shock on the Monday morning.

I think the great thing about that Sunday, was the fact the WHOLE of So'ton took to the streets to welcome back the team. My Mum and sisters hate football but they were all there cheering and it proved to me that winning the Cup truly unites a City. A never to be forgotten weekend. At the time, being 20 it was almost too enormous an occurrance to fully take on board. It was like a dream. Southampton was an absolute madhouse that saturday night. The whole town was clogged up with emotion, cars, people, singing, joy, delerium. No one wanted to go to bed although we were knackered - how I slept I will never know. Jesus, I still get a shiver now.

One of our best ever away performances - remember it well.

On here? Just don't think fans went away in those days - the travel was too problematical. Happy to hear from anyone to prove me wrong though!

I was there - the most one sided game I ever saw! How did Eric never get picked for Scotland after that match and Brown the Scottish manager was there too!

Love to know who went to the earliest away match on this forum. My first away game was Stamford Bridge, Boxing Day 1969 - we lost 3-0! Anyone used to go away in the 50s or even 40s. My dad went to quite a few in the mid to late 50s. Their can't be anyone still alive who went to away games pre-war can there?