John Boy Saint

one thing with that kit, it’ll make us fat lads look thinner

Their super fans covered themselves in glory - some plonker got a bit naughty with a Sunderland player when he went over the hoarding down the side. Instead of rattling Sunderland it rattled the p*mpey players more, probably out of sheer embarrassment.

I know this has dropped out of sync I asked this question when there last year - the lady who I spoke to is self employed (no not one of those) - when we asked what the personal tax was here in China - she said I don’t pay tax because I don’t tell them what I earn - she has apartments she rents, drives a 5 series L - her husband works in the state prison service and pays 10% “because he works for the state”.

All seems a wizzard wheeze, just hope we finesse this shenanigans with the same aplomb Etihad FC:.........sorry Man City have. The FA will have a field day with us if it’s all a bit shonky, as City slipped through their fingers so with questions about our ownership already on the table, if this turns out to be a bit of money chicanery the magnafiying glasses will be out. Remember when we went into admin, Lowe thought he could use the loophole Derby used in points deduction avoidance, turned out the FL had pulled that one shut and Malwhinney burgeoned us with a baseball bat with a smile on his face. Football has become show business, the money swilling around in it is obscene alone, the only real link to the good old days are the 22 blokes out on the pitch kicking a bag of air about, and us numpties cheering on from the stands. We can all have a bang of the drum on here, but quite honestly the drum has no tension in the skin and it’s stuffed full of pillows. Looking at some of the stuff swilling around these new guys, it does all look very Chinese. I buy from China we go to the trade shows out there, you see something from a new company, you take a closer look, the heavily photoshopped images of Factories are impressive, the infrastructure to manufacture and back story likewise, more often than not reality is distant relative of the imagery. That’s not say what is being produced isn’t top notch and sound as more often it is. Everything is above board, just to Western eyes reality makes some people go Hmmm. Ain’t nothing any of us can do about any of it - if we win on the pitch and steam up the league - the majority won’t give a tinkers cuss about what goes on behind closed doors at SMS and beyond.

Well done lads

That was a bit naughty on Ramsey

Good break away goal that. nice to see Ralph having a look too

I thought that was all part of the cunning plan to stop us being picked off each summer. Back to the thread subject, why would we want Lallana back here? He doesn’t offer anything special, would probably pollute the dressing room too, and he seems to be broken most of the time.

Anyone know how to get rid of the smell of Ambre Solaire. Our season summed up in 90 mins - moments of brilliance overly peppered with brain farts! With our points lost from being in a winning positions not a million miles off our points total for the season. The bright spark of hope being that whereas we use to collapse after conceding looking like rabbits in the headlights, feeling sorry for ourselves, that defeatist attitude seems to be a fraction of what it was. That said after a gift of goal we were almost so casual that Huddersfield could sniff the possibility of nicking a last hurrah to the Premier League. Still having squandered the game so cheaply Ralph has something going into the summer to kick backsides with for pre season. The pitch invader summed up the afternoon too - sauntered out to the middle, then ambled into the Chapel goal without one steward breaking a sweat to apprehend him. Huddersfield fans showed the quick wit of footie fans with the “he’s one of your own” song for him.........probably highlight of the afternoon.

Quick get round The 9’s house the drinks are on him - Newport County have reached the play off final. Fair play to them as in the cup they have given the super rich teams a bit of a run around these last two seasons.

I expect at least 4 players capable of throwing in the ball capably at least as far as the centre spot from the sideline next season.

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!