John Boy Saint

no denying that! I went to THAT league cup game, I had been working in Dumfries and drove over to Sunderland, I was due in Milton Keynes the next morning, after walking away from that steaming pile of a performance, not having booked a hotel figuring I would find a room somewhere, thought it’s late, roads would be quiet, bit piddled off, sod it drive home “only an hour and a bit to MK from home” fired up the sat navy punched in home “289 miles!! Sod that! Why knock your pipe out?!”. Holiday Inn Sheffield was enough of a chore in itself.

There was something when Markus came in about him frowning on gambling, Katharina’s 20% might still be enough to veto a betting company on the shirt.

Sunderland scored a cracker for 1-0, bloody ref though was having a good game then questionably sent off a Sunderland player for a very dodgy last man and has been pants from then on, Lino on one side smells of fish too.

Whoosh :lol:

Always a shock when someone the same age as myself passes away before their time. RIP Jon

Someone has a sense of humour sending our fishy friends all the way to Sunderland for a 7:30 ko on a Saturday night.

If it was Air China then the question of ownership in the other thread from a couple of weeks back will be answered - the Chinese Belt and Road initiative will have a toe in the UK City with a Port. Be nice if we could become another Citeh financed by a Country and chicane money into the club via the back doors, SMS gets named the President Xi Arena for £0.5bn. Kingsland gets an extension bolted on with the Yak hide heated seats enclosed in the middle for a “few million per season”. Just Sending a Saints XI to Macau is a smokescreen to cover the nefarious shenanigans being cobbled together for a wallet busting assault on the Premier League before the CL becomes a closed shop. Anyway that shirt won’t happen PGMOL will object to the number font not being legible Blimey that’s a lot of horse poo - and I ain’t had a drink yet!!

Nah this is just foreplay - read this this and you will see European football could be setting the table ready to sit down an eat itself. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-7012865/UEFA-consider-narrowing-path-Champions-League-small-leagues.html

Or Marry someone who likes Football..........struck gold with Mrs JBS on that front! Her Birthday a few years back think it was a Monday and Saints were away on the box, would you like to go out to eat on your Birthday says I ? "Yeah ok, but book an early table just up the road, so we can home for the match!!".

No disrespect to Shaw, especially given the hard time he seemed to get under the Special One, but that does highlight the glittering array of very expensive dross that pulls on a United shirt. Shows what a cracking game that was between us up at theirs recently, both ours and their goal of the season came from that game............despite the result all the goals in that game were pretty damn fine. Both teams could have settled the Penalty Save and Penalty Miss of the season from that game too if such a category existed.

You missed Alpine

Mentioned before a game at the Dell - think having tiny tots saw me missing the game. Teletext had us at 0-1 down v Newcastle in the 90th minute - page refresh 1-1 - page refresh 2-1, page refresh full time 3-1 Saints. South Today played the Solent commentary over the footage absolutely superb.

He also owns a bit of rental property too, when him and Matty were a bit persona non grata at SMS in the time of Cortese, most of that animosity stemmed from Cortese being a tenant and allegedly pretty much trashing the place through redecorating and changing stuff and refusing to pay for reparations. Something like £15k was a number I seem to recall.

Think most of their fans think thats happened to them already.................................................................along with a few of us along the way!

Great news............................Karen will be pleased he won't be knocking his pipe out doing something equally as daft in the future.

Be interesting to see the ages of folks who said they enjoyed that. As I posted yesterday once upon a time you would have been hating them with a passion in the league on Saturday, then cheering them on mid week in Europe as they were a British team against the foreign foe. Especially when you use to see the stunts pulled by the oppos when playing away both as England and a UK team in Europe. Like in the days of photographers massed behind the goal line, before digital camera photography, there would be 2-3 actual newspaper photographers the rest had cameras with no film in but pockets bulging with flashbulbs, every time a British team attacked their goal they would be snapping away in an attempt to dazzle the attack. That’s just not very British. On the flip side - World cups of 74 and 78 no England, but Scotland were there, most England fans would have been rooting for the Scots, but like the odd comment coming up on here if England were the sole UK representation the Scots would have been cheering for whoever England would be playing. These last 2 nights if you like Football for the game it is - it was very hard not to get caught up in the bizarre events that unfolded, then the fact that whilst the teams are peppered with foriegn players, the teams are English that won through. Strangley in our house last night we cheered all the goals and groaned at all the misses with equal measure.

Gosh - not that long ago we had a reminisce on here about a game in the dim an distant past! Sorry to lose you Toomer. Thoughts are with your family and friends

Just need Arsenal and Chelsea to deliver tomorrow for a full house. If you just like football - 2 stunning nights of stuff you couldn’t write!!

And people question why we let Tadic go - he pretty much delivered what we saw for 2 - 3 seasons - lots of fannying about when shooting was easier!

Been pretty much the norm for Donkeys years - a performance like that tonight probably re ingnited the passion in folks. On European nights, we may have been cheering Kompanys snorter when it ripped into the net as it scuppers Liverpool in the league, then we resort to battling islanders, where Liverpool and Spurs sail under the Union Jack, seeing off (hopefully) these Foriegn Devils looking to beat us at the game we invented. You are right though it is a bit weird - They will have been dancing in the streets of Madrid tonight!

uBlimey when I was a nipper living in Bitterne and we use to go down to Weston Shore to see the QEII go out or come home it looked a lot tidier than it does in that photo - I guess paddling is much safer these days, less likely to catch all sorts than you were in the late 60’s & 70’s

Isn’t there also something about if Arsenal win the Europa League 3rd place also has to pre qualify for the CL Group stage. And 4th gets demoted to Europa league. Man U are worried their pitch won’t be ready for the 25th July either.

What a crock - this is like that steaming pile of WWF wrestling!

What an effin crock - nice one Lino you penis, you want a bag for that.

Bugger I was looking forward to Lovern scoring an OG with his bum!!