John Boy Saint

We must be a similar age. I grew up in a non football household, when I was 4 we moved out of Bitterne to a little village in the north of Hampshire as it was close to the M4 that was creeping out of London towards Reading making my Dads regular selling trips to London much easier (M3 was ages away at that time). All the kids at the village primary school were like sheep with that seasons best football teams. Leeds were in their pomp, so joining the herd they became my team too, and one Christmas I get an all white football kit with the Leeds United smiley face badge AND number 4 printed on the back - Billy Bremner. (I even got the funny numbered sock flag). Like I said having no parental guidance on football and school chums following the next best team of the time Derby, QPR, all had a turn (never Liverpool weirdly) most confusing. Thankfully a trip to Granny and Grandads in Shirley and the back pages of the Echo saw a parting of the clouds and a revelatory shaft of light guiding me to where I should go. Alas I've only done 50 years - so a mere stripling compared to some on here.

Phew

Downes off - settling for 0-0 with Armstrong coming on

Downes getting closer to a day off 🙄

Where was everyone!

He did have to negotiate the ref, who has been in the way quite a few times

Gosh you can tell it’s the Sabbath - no mention of Nuns 😳

That missed catch was probably the difference- as you say - oh well.

Turned over just in time for 3-0 - cheers

This one was a guessing game as to what would come after “Give us an O” as quite often it would become “O-h when the Saints ………” As someone once said with OWTSGMI a good few years back- “why does it get sung like an express train thundering through St Denys station before anyone else in the ground can join in?”

……..scribbled on the back of a pack of Benny Hedgehogs perchance?

Radio 5 were having a chit chat about Martin, Amorim, & Potter this morning. One of the press contributors who knows Rangers said Martin had 7 interviews before he was appointed. Obviously I know nothing of these things but aside from thinking that was a rather large number - somebody somewhere in the process must have had some inkling of what they might have been getting. hey ho not our problem.

Jeez - super easy v Liverpool

You daft bugger! 🤪

Nah - some daft bugger from here will still be holding a candle for him! 🙄