John Boy Saint

Do you have any remotely Lucky Undercrackers you can wear..................................and don't worry about what your mother said about "not wearing those in case you get run over by a bus!".

I know, I was just qualifying your statement with a personal from the horses mouth commentary. (goodness don’t let my colleague know I called her a horse:D).

Yeah I said that

Lady I work with lives with the border pretty much at the bottom of her street in South Armagh, she lives in NI but her husband crosses the border everyday to go to work. He is not alone many folks in the North do this, This is a big deal for them. Just as an aside, since the vote to leave was made and both the Euro and Dollar dropped like a stone, all through this shenanigans the pound has held steady against the Euro, even after today’s vote the pound hasn’t made like a lemming at the cliff edge.

The one thing that seems to have slipped under the radar is that it is a bit big brother, yes I know your phone gives the game away where you are, but this will be a system that is implemented by the government so they will be able to monitor exactly where you are.........isn’t that an invasion of civil liberties?

Tale of 2 players on the night Hojbjerg comes on, Denmark win a late draw. Elyounoussi goes off, Norway win a late draw.

Poor old Nick is going to wish he hadn’t indulged in that second can of Top Deck Shandy before posting his team line up

Blimey dropping a player who has scored 6 goals in the last 10 games for a player who has scored just ONE goal! Sims nowhere to be seen, he’s one who fits the Ralph blueprint.

On his FB Page he posted about being back at his old school, and thought they had been given a few days off. This explains it.

See Old Man Fonte is on the Portuguese bench tonight, as Micky posted elsewhere Tadic scores from the spot...........no sign of Cedric though

No wonder they are in a pickle...........smacks of good old Arrys magic touch on the company wallet too.

One thing is for certain they won't be letting anyone get on a tin pot plane in potentially tricky weather conditions unless they sign a disclaimer first. Pretty obvious that somewhere along the line this was going to get messy, a Club agrees to sell, a Club agrees to buy, (for want of a better term) the product is lost in transit between the 2 Clubs through, I guessing this is still true, making its own delivery arrangements.

Err he was recommended by WGS!........do keep up! They had known each other for years, he could have been alright were it not for the alleged horsepoo c o cking about by certain players.

As above Lewes is the better option, even more so if you are going by car. Park at the station, have a beer round the corner take the train to the ground, get “Sardine” train back to Lewes and you are out of dodge on the A27 easy peasy.

He must also be the only manager ever to be roundly booed by his own fans when his name was read out over the PA at a Wembley Cup Final.

When he was at Reading I worked for the Reading Evening Post - as a paper we use to do loads with the Royals; Reading FC sold Papers locally (I worked in circulation - sales) so met him loads of times always a pleasant bloke. The full on vitriol towards him I struggled with, but jeez his football was not nice on the eye, which was a surprise as Reading went on a storming 13 game un-beaten run at the start of one. We use to get free tickets so Elm Park just round the corner from the office it was a little footie fix, especially as you had to work past 1pm on a Saturday. But we all know, even back then, the top division is different gravy to the 4th & 3rd division

Probably still shaking his head at how the hell they got beaten pretty soundly in the Asia Cup by Super Heavy Weight footballing Minnows Qatar..........possibly why no Japanese Internationals they had em for a month'ish back in January

Being a cynical old Hector, somewhere in the detritus wafting around the place when he signed, pretty certain I saw that he mentioned the move to Saints would set him up for life..............the boy ain't going to be on his toes in a hurry during the course of his contract, unless its for a pay rise elsewhere. There is obviously a player in there somewhere lets hope the desire to play football is stronger than an easy wedge in his pocket!

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Flipping Spurs game played out exactly as it was - after receiving the delayed text I only got last night from a mate who bets seriously and never ever encourages me. Goodness knows what he pocketed, but if I had done exactly as he said Me & Mrs JBS would have been booking a week in the Maldives!!! That said, if I had we would have no doubt lost.................as my Dad always says if it was raining Bank balances he would probably catch his own or worse!!

already on the agenda - came out in the Meet The Ralph’s night at SMS

No surprise really with Mariner in charge. Hardly surprised to see Friend on the whistle at Watford, after last weeks failure to send off Sissoko.

Wow what a pretty goal from Celina for Swansea 2-0!!!!!!!!!!!

Yup ref was pushed as he went to seperate the Linesman and Prutton who was in full rant, don’t think he knew it was the ref he was seething so much, probably thought it was a team mate so gave him a good shove as he hadn’t finished his rant, Fair play to him he didn’t go down like the late Paul Alcock did when pushed by DiCanio.

Sorry Lighthouse I have to correct your correction Sir. The fuse was lit when Senderos tripped him clear as day in the box Lino did nothing (on MOTD later how he didn’t flag for it was amazing). The game trundled on, then Prutton got absolutely trashed by Cashley Cole, the linesman flagged as vigorously as the foul deserved, Alan Wiley the referee on the day waved away the Lino’s flag and let Arsenal carry on their attack. Unknown to everyone in the ground the red mist had descended on Prutton the ball went across the Arsenal back line with Prutton chasing it like a Jack Russell, ending up with the last Arsenal recipient getting clattered with the same ferocity as Cole had minutes before trashed him. Referee Wiley quick as you like ran over brandishing the yellow card at Prutton which sent him over the top, at which point he went to the Linesman to confront him as to why he didn’t ignore the ref and keep flagging the foul on him, then it all went very wrong. The Red was given when he started on the Lino and pushed Wiley away. Sad I know, but we were in trouble and just watching it unfold with the Refs involvement had me spitting chips. Best of all the following year I ended up at a Social Club event “Ask the Ref” hosted by Dernot Gallagher and Alan Wiley, Gallagher could say what he wanted, Wiley was gagged slightly as he was still refereeing. A Saints fan asked Wiley “what do you think happened to make David Prutton react like he did in the game you reffed at St Mary’s v Arsenal last season”. He replied “I have no idea, bit strange as he is a nice polite lad”. Alas I couldn’t just sit there............a moment of silence when I finished, and Dermot Gallagher took it away in a funny direction. ...........yes I remember drunk stuff from years ago too: trust me it’s not nice!