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Didn't the some of the money Mr Gao pulled out of his hat to buy the 80% come from a loan in Macau chicaned via Hong Kong?
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Saints 27th on the 131 year League Table
John Boy Saint replied to John Boy Saint's topic in The Saints
I read it as only for games in the top league whatever it was called at the time over the 131 year period, I thinks thats covered in the text, pub quiz question is which teams have never been relegated from the top flight. The answer use to be Everton, Arsenal & Coventry but they buggered that up under WGS. -
Just read this thread from the beginning'ish and just stepping aside from the Semenya discussion. For years when we have been down the Village Carnival and the coconut shy is there I will pay the £1 or whatever pass Mrs JBS the wooden balls 30 seconds later we have one or 2 coconuts, Alton Towers plate smash for a big cuddly toy, my kids are begging for one, not asking me, but asking their Mum to win one for them, couple of minutes later 2 girls grinning their faces off struggling to carry a big fluffy something each!! Worst still playing Golf in Spain couple of years back (Mrs JBS likes looking at the fancy Villas) my driving had gone to pot for whatever reason, she wasn't taking the mick or anything, no one was around and I said "do you want to have a bash". Now anyone who plays golf knows most people who have never played very very rarely picks up a driver for the first time and hits the ball, yup you guessed, air and distance off down the fairway in a straight line, no fluke did the same on the next hole too! Glad she doesn't play otherwise we would be up to a fiver a hole and a tenner for nearest the pin on the par 3's..........double or washing up for a month! Often said if she was born a few years later I would probably be a kept man living in the States while she played football...............that said the amount of times she has switched on to watch Womens league football - and in no time turned it over to something else because of the quality. Its quite funny reading these debates on here about Women in sport, but purely down to my missus I have a very open mind. Bloody ten pin bowling had nights out with strangers to her, she has just been quiet and played, before the evening is out she has drilled her way into their psyche, and they are asking if she comes again she has to play left handed.
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Stumbled upon this little nugget of Footie trivia: Someone with time on their hands has put together a League table covering 131 years of the First Division and Premier League (I know its hard to believe the football was around before football was invented in 1992). Saints sit at 27th, in the top half of a 65 team league. An interesting little read to while away the tea break, poor old bottom club Glossop North End 'The Hill Men' propping up the league. With the hood right up on the anorak the dynasty behind Arsenal for many years came from the money made in the cotton mills of Glossop probably 131 years ago. http://www.sportbible.com/football/reactions-news-take-a-bow-the-all-time-premier-league-and-first-division-table-is-fascinating-20190430
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Just seen the video on FB of him in bed being told he ain't being allowed out to play today, "shall I get in the Pool" is where it ends this is going to Piddle him right off! edit .......................His tracker has him down at the pool, no doubt in support but probably chomping on the bit to get going again.
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No thats going in the bin if Virgin stick around
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4 completed!!!!!!
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5 minutes ago post on FB saying 5 Miles left
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Goalie played well
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Absolute screamer right on half time to put Eastleigh in front
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BT sport if you’re curious
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Wrexham v Eastleigh play off match to meet Salford gone to extra time
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I can’t see Ralph taking the foot off the gas, he said last weekend that the work for next season starts tomorrow, he’ll no doubt want a bit of momentum to carry into the summer, and likewise he will no doubt be making sure that everyone knows every starting position is currently vacant for next season.
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Without bothering to look it up, wasn't that the first time they nailed winning it?
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Blimey that was close, just caught the end of the FB live stream of him leaving the Swim on his bike - the whole thing was nearly scuppered by the car park barrier arm coming down and wiping him out!!!
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Always makes me think of my Granny & Grandad - I was only 11 from a house of little interest in football, I liked football, moved away from Southampton but had not long found the team from the city where I was from, having gotten fed up with school chums changing the team to follow like the weather, Leeds - Derby - QPR. Anyway I was the weird kid supporting a second division team, Granny saved all the Saints stuff in the Echo for me, crikey we’re getting further and further in the FA Cup - my parents didn’t have a flippin clue Saints were in the final until we did big shop at Carrefour and the place was festooned with Saints for the Cup. Easter was late that year and my Sister and I had our usual week away staying our Grandparents, the City just turned more Yellow and Blue as the week went on. Granny knew it was coming as John Curry had won gold at the Winter Olympics (Manchester was a foreign city). Match day the 4 of us sat down watching the TV, second half we must have worn Granny out as she nodded off. Then it happened - Stokes had the ball in the back of the Man United net, Grandad, my Sister and me erupted dancing round like loons, along with most of Dale Valley Road going on the noise from outside. Granny wakes up cool as you like “have we won?” Probably a throw back to the days of coming out of the shelter after yet another air raid “oh good house is still here”. And so began the longest seven minutes ever in the lives of Saints fans around back then. Shame we never repeated the feat in 2003 just to give a new generation of Saints fans a glorious memory. .........and just remember The Queen is a Saints Fan too, she hasn’t bothered to go to the final and present the cup since that day: I guess having seen her team win it at long last there was no point turning up any more.
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Ha ha they have been rope-a-doped Good and proper
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Great Video posted in the last hour of Matty running with his old mucker Franny - looks like its put some special petrol in his tank. If you ain't coughed up - forget " I'll have one more pint" and get texting FRAN5 to 70200 ..............pretty much the price of a pint
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Saw the Dutch league table on SSN late on last night - Ajax have a goal difference of +81!!!!!! PSV have +71. But then I guess City and Liverpool have +68 and +64 then like the Eredivisie it drops back to "normality" of +20/30.
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Only more recently mind, if you have perused any of the Hagiology books you will find that Plymouth were our original arch enemies - hood down, anorak off! In other news Bury are promoted from League 2 - and with their off field money woes likely to be starting League 1 minus 12 (sound familiar?).
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These days money talks in football - that said Spurs are not the most prolific of payers - so if they are the only ones on the sniff round him, get rid of a few dead weights off the wage bill and if Ralph wants him Saints can match Spurs wage offer. I think Ralph likes him as he has responded to his guidance, we can all see that for ourselves on the pitch, a few times when a substitution has been made he has looked over to the sidelines and made a couple of steps over towards the touch line then realised that it’s not him coming off. Some people as we see on here don’t rate him, maybe because he isn’t glamorous enough, some simply because he grew up in a family of portsmouth fans, others mock the dead ball specialist tag, but if you have actually watched him over the course of the season and not solely on a dodgy stream you can see he has improved, he is more confident on the pitch, he has much more bite in challenges. He has allowed Valery to thrive because Valery doesn’t have to think about leaving himself exposed when he ventures up the pitch. Said it many times, Lawrie Mac always said a team is made up of Violinists and roadsweepers, JWP is possibly now between the two, works hard for the team, does deliver an evil dead ball and scores goals...........he has 2 games to possibly be the teams top scorer for the season, currently only one behind Ings, and whilst Redmond is launching them high and wide into the crowd with his very favoured right foot, JWP has enough confidence to smash one home from outside the box with his less favoured left foot without seemingly thinking much about it. Based on this season, especially since Ralph’s arrival it would be disappointing to see him lured away. Pochettino apparently rates him, the England manager has always rated him, now he’s delivering what Saints obviously saw in him when they took him in at the age of 8.
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Ha-ha just watching the nutter sat in an Ice Bath eating Ice Cream..........most would sponsor him for doing that alone!
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Sure I read its the Southampton Marathon route
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I raise my hat to you Warsash. I have to say that I thought Franny looked better than I feared he might in the video on FB when he finished............his biggest concern seems to be the issues he was having with the food for energy he had been experiencing, which isn't the best.
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That’s nice - Do we have a payment built into his departure contract for that to?!