John Boy Saint

What the do-da have they done to the Wembley pitch (unless it’s my telly box) looks like they have hollow tined it and someone ordered the wrong colour sand to brush into it!

One thing I could applaud the referee for last night was booking Ryan Bertrand for fannying about with the throw-ins. For blooming ages our play from throw-ins has been pretty pants. Hopefully now that Bertie has received a booking we might spend an extra 5 minutes at least at the end training to get them sorted..................well 5 minutes is far more than we spend on them at the moment.

Hey we gave it a go, dodgy equaliser, get use to the second anyone who has watched Leipzig under Ralf will know a draw is the fall back objective. Both Bertie and Yan knew that if they touched Salah he would hit the deck in style and Tierney would be reaching for his top pocket without a second thought. Bit weird being Saturday morning and our Football is done for the weekend. Quite surprised my Motm has gone under the radar, Jan Bednarek despite shipping 3 as part of a defence I thought was yet again very tidy and unfazed by what was coming at him. Playing alongside Maya has probabaly helped as Yoshida has always had good anticipation (often got him into trouble) Yan seems to have learned and honed that anticipation in his favour. Little mention for Valery, first half what a boy, Liverpool breaking into our half Mane looking to spin round the back down the side, Valery just stood his ground and helped him further out wide than he wanted and their moment was lost.

This is all getting a bit silly, seems that context has been lost thanks to the wildfire spread by the one dimensional internet. The fact that an FA has been fined a bobbins amount has been lost, because an odious toad of a player has slapped his wallet on the table in the style of Ashley Cole when he questioned how can you live on £55k a week, and made a naive out of touch comparison............wish I owned all the places he frequents on a night out in London. In amongst all this players walking off the pitch stuff rumbling around at the moment if something racist is said, where is the line actually going to be drawn on that? In the Liverpool thread there are comment about getting in the defectors ears and especially Lovren - so if the Northam strikes up the song for him that includes the See You Next Tuesday word will that be deemed worthy in some quarters to have caused offence and the team to walk off?

Split personality helps, sorry personalities, ......................ever watched Psycho?

From out of nowhere the other day I heard it’s not an isolated case, if I’m on your track.

Pretty obscene, especially as rumour has it that Bury are about to go bust. I am guessing the Liverpool one has van Dijks dealings in it, that must have been a tidy wedge. "You get him to us by the end of Jan we will give you X" "At the end of the season Y" "Get him playing for us in January its X and a half".

Dunno cant be many managers who can lay claim to their team sticking 6 past Man U under SAF!

Yup ever since the Silicon at the heart of the brain of fabled Black Box was still a mere grain of sand dreaming of going on to greater things in a leafy corner of Hampshire - "Ralph has been on our radar".

I thought that's what Sky Sports channels morphed into automatically already when there is no live sport to be shown, with a brief sprinkling of Man U as an intermission.

Paul Tierney on the whistle for this one bit of a mixed bag, but the only win he has officiated over involving Saints was the 4-0 win for us away at Sunderland. More recently he was the ref to allow Kompany to robustly deliver a studs up 2 footed tackle on a Saints player and only get a Yellow, and in the same game couldn't wait to get the Red card out for PEH's similar challenge. Also we will have the pleasure of the blind Lino Mr Burt running one of the lines, he who wrongly flagged Gabbi's opener off in the EFL final, in thinking Bertie scored. Think he was also the ref that gave Citeh and extra half an hour to score their winner in our spirited game away last season................... oh boy we are in trouble, Mr Graham Scott is the 4th Official, he who in the Everton game looked to book the whole of the Itchen Chapel corner for questioning his decision against us then played 9 minutes of made up added time in the same game.

I fairness to Ferry he picked up a cramp in the latter few minutes of the game, he was still trying to stretch it out while waiting to take his penalty on the half way line, his pen was so feeble, having been out for quite a while with injury he might well have been playing on his mind that if he rifles the ball past the keeper he could be making things worse. fair play to Basingstoke 2nd half it didn’t look like they were down to 10 men.

Madness 4-4!! Town fans pouring onto the pitch in celebration ok 8 of them

Brain fart from Klarer, should have stopped running. Johnson just made it 4-3 Town are pretty spiritedbeing a man light

Where you standing?

If you ever saw their boss Mike Riley officiate - Then you you will understand the air of smug untouchability the refs have, it’s in his image.

In a fantasy world of time travel and nonesense, If for one game only that was our allowed team for Friday night, the game would be abandoned by half time as we would be down to 8 men through red cards. That said we would have put a kink in Liverpool’s title bid as most of their team would be in tattered bits all over the pitch. in the real world: come on Saints just get our weekend off to a cracking start.

Sissoko and Rose pair of numpties - Taters will probably nip into Mystic Van Dijks tent on Stanley Park to have their minds read by him before heading home. Hope we have a cunning plan for them - beyond the prematch disco and balls of fire.

I think it’s the absolutely woeful officiating that’s the niggle - and the fact that the PGMOL or whatever they are called just let it carry on without giving a toss, seemingly untouchable.

What a strange feeling - whilst happy days for Saints - I can’t help feeling for Cardiff being on the end of some absolutely shocking decisions. These clowns officiating are making multi million pound wrong decisions, yet not getting pulled up for some atrocious officiating.

I couldn’t get a thread to work so was relying on here and Sky Soccer Saturday, just made me smile as Matty was on the Man U v Watford game, so he was commentating Watford’s last minute free kick. The free kick came to nowt ref in that game blew, no sooner had he said “that’s it game over” in the last bit of breath he cheers the final whistle in our game rather enthusiastically before Stelling could say anything.

Berth one for relegation is getting allocated Udders 2-0 down - they are now praying we slip up

Trap door swinging open for Uddersfield - just conceded a penalty.

We can afford to run him into the ground as he ain’t got another game for 2 weeks, that’s unless he is pants then change him up.

Just about to say the same...........but endeavouring to find an iPad friendly stream.