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Thank goodness The Cricketers has outside tables and a pedestrianised road outside.. buzzing..

Every motorway bridge from junction 8 on has police spotters on them plus a helicopter annoying Southampton Airport ATC!

I notice West Ham banned half and half scarves today for their match with Spurs. Will they be available for tomorrow's game, I wonder? 😉 I was just reading the MBM in the newspaper for the game and although he started haven't seen any mention of Mateus Fernandes. How have the 3 ex-Saints performed?

Presumably written by Factless Allen as he is known by many of us, following his interesting coverage of Portsmouth's affairs and various bankruptcies? He also has a most excrucuatingly juvenile style which, if I were being generous, might be due to the audience he is writing for, although I can't believe they _all_ have a reading age of 12. So I'll rely on your accounts here, cheers!

I thought, from memory, that the record crowd was 31,044!:-) At my age and height I didn't see much but at least we got in, just. The previous year my dad didn't believe my urging to be early and walk faster and I was most upset!

Interesting article in the paper today: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/sep/11/girls-who-play-after-school-sport-in-uk-50-more-likely-to-later-get-top-jobs-study-finds This particular line jumped out at me:

Cost? Want to use their bus pass? Mind you, it would make sense if there is a group of you. Personally I'm not going to get the train service to Fratton and a dodgy replacement bus service, so I'll drive. But please can we win so I can go back to my local pub and gently wind them all up as I celebrate..

Badoom tish!

I don't know why but whenever I see the emoticons of Turkish and tdmickey laughing together at a post it makes me think of Beavis and Butthead.. I find it quite surprising that the posters who are so negative about women's football are so frequently on this thread, and one of them even started it! I avoid spending too much time here as it would be a bit of a waste of my time. I'll be there on Sunday and then rush off to see my women's grassroots team of which there are so many more than even 20 years ago..

Is that wig any relation of Michael Fabricant's?

My irony meter has just exploded. Ducky complaining about sexism!

Not through my eyes he doesn't. I think he needs to be played further forward though as Stoke's robust play impacted him and more than it might have done Dibling, I reckon.

Looks like MLG has a new apprentice. Thanks for the effort! It seems Tom Fellows has heard us at our full-throated best, but the game isn't a bad introduction to the others so we can show them that we may be quiet at times but give us something to cheer about and it's a great atmosphere.

So, what's new on this forum? I might have been casting aspersions on his maritime abilities, I might have just been bored, which the reference to the next match indicated or it might have indicated my need for a cuppa. Don't worry about it, I've seen far worse drivel on here.

That reminds me of a song: Columbus he set sail to find out if the world was round, He kept on sailing to the west until he ran aground, He thought he'd found the Indies but he'd found the USA, I know some navigators who can still do that today.. The other issue we haven't really addressed is how wide the coastal strip is: do we count the area covered by coastal breezes? Ah sod it, I was always better at glaciation; bergschrunds, pingoes, kames, eskers, roche moutonnée, erratics.. How long have we got to wait for the next match??!

Checked their eartags?

That's amazing! My electricity tripped and when my PC rebooted for some reason I went to the OS and saw that Scienza had signed. First time I haven't seen the news here first!

Cuddles, FFS! That's a door not a window..

This is what confuses me: when I slam my windows shut I can't get in OR out, my neighbour's windows are an irrelevancy!

They couldn't work out which Pompey: there have been so many bankruptcies and reincarnations..

We have our spies everywhere!

And fitness too? I think he needs a move for his own good, to a team with an RSM type fitness coach and access to a decent sports pyschologist. I'm sure he's aware of his own shortcomings and against Norwich as sub he looked abject and desperate.

Yep, a very nice glass of Nero d'Avola from Cusumano and even better bought on hols at Italian prices.

I suspect so, as there are works on the Itchen bridge at the moment. If Saints win well I might go back to my normal football watching pub on a wind up mission. They give me enough good natured grief as it is, so they couldn't object to a big cheery grin from me. Here's hoping, anyway..

Certainly by 10ish. What time is the ground opening? Will the bars be open?! They'd better bring a good book to read.