John Boy Saint

Saw my customer up in Wolverhampton today, he went with his sons on Sunday. them and everyone who walked through the door is just shell shocked at being so so close, then picked holes in the managers substitutions . They have no idea which Wolves might turn up on Saturday, but as I left they all said 1-1 on Saturday.

That would be a return to the past, only stopped because the Knickers as they were once referrred to years ago, just got lighter after each wash, get the Amber shirt and Black shorts for the away (like Wolves) too and we will have stepped right back in time.

Bertrand knew even without that booking that if he had chopped down Salah, Tierney would have been reaching for his top pocket to present him with the first shot at the hot water in the showers card. So you are perfectly happy with our poor showing at 99.9% of our throw ins? (Which is the main subject)

I happily stand corrected - still the fact remains our play from throw ins is pretty woeful, he had been ticked off already by the ref earlier, and booked cheaply on the 3rd occaision. With Bertie booked it probably lead to Valery, who had been booked earlier in the season for the same offence just throwing it out of play for a Liverpool goal kick.

Stevie Wonder would be better value

Probably the last time he did it. As an aside -That John Stead who scored their second is still playing!!!

Pretty certain read somewhere that on Soccer Saturday the games they each cover are not their own team for impartiality reasons, and Matty has said that he wouldn't want to cover a Saints game because there is no way he could control his emotions.

Bloody tourist!!! :D

Gosh I hadn’t thought of that - why would we be time wasting at 2-1 down?

May as well toss into the mix, from a full goal kick the ball always goes left where it’s busy, you would have thought a bit of guile make to go left and suddenly launch it right for Valery to run onto and whip into the box?

Watford to lift the cup for me, said last week the winner to come from this semi.

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