John Boy Saint

Bobby bloody Madley - what do you expect?

You know how to tell the difference between Girl Zebras and Boy Zebras? The stripes on Girls go Black White Black White - the stripes on Boy Zebras go White Black White Black.

Happy Birthday Jack - nice one

Blimey all those who forked out £12 aren't being mugged off with a rag-tag line up.

Tad harsh! He had a slight 'nose bleed' just like Josh Sims did v Everton after he made Ashley Williams look a complete chump. Stadium full of 30,000+ folks the majority of whom have just notched up the volume in anticipation, while you're stood in the Tottenham Hotspur box pretty much alone, the ball is hurtling towards you, having not long come on, at the time you're thinking I just need to touch this and at the same time you can see the typesetter reaching for the box of Capital O's: doh I needed to touch that much harder than that and with the other foot too. ...............I can forgive him that, but take heart from the fact that he got into the right place at the right time: it'll make him stronger.

Going on the media chit chat when Sanchez had to sign for Utd to get in their FA cup squad I think he has.................... but he will need at least 3 weeks acclimatisation. oooops forgot this:D

Not a lot of people know this but he cost 47.5 Kevin Keegans............ just hope the 0.50 isn't the perm but the boots to rattle them in with.

o Everytime that comes up on the screen pre match you can't stop thinking about that video.

If we were to get this chap in, how soon would he be up to match fitness? because since 2012 I believe the Russian league has a mid winter break from December until March. So there is a likelihood that he going to be a bit rusty and not be straight out of the box ready.

Blimey get him in and we will know for certain that the Black Box is as broken as he is.

If you are talking about this season at Dean Court then it has to be him sending off Raheem "the Penguin" Sterling for a second yellow after scoring in Man City overtime then piling into the City fans to celebrate having already gotten a yellow he got a second and the red, can't argue with that it's a bookable offence. I do recall him shrugging his shoulders when he surrounded by incredulous City players. Anyway no doubt he will be looking forward to this game as he is far more important than both Saints and Brighton, and he will be doing us both a massive favour in officiating the game for us. Said it before if you were to apply a tune to a ref both him and Clattenburg could both share Geri Halliwells Look at Me.

It was one and the same apparently it could blow warmer air for undersoil heating as well as sucking gallons or water, but it was never plugged in let alone plumbed in. Although now I believe they have undersoil heating as a requirement for Uefa and possibly FIFA international stadium accreditation.

The predominant paint colour the walls of the concourses are to be painted to enhance our matchday experience, has been decided??!!!

A few have compared him to Fabrice "Crop Circles"" Fernandes though

Gabbi reminds me of Marek Saganowski - scored a hatfull then went off the boil.

That would be funny to see the Old Bill eject and caution everyone caught chanting that at a game.

All this carping on about Jack Stephens getting bullied by Kane for their goal and he ain't a Premier League centre back, well firstly guess what he is a Premier League centre back, and like many other centre backs playing for other teams he had done to him what Kane has been doing to many supposedly better centre backs for a while now. So get off his back he did hell of a lot of good stuff yesterday away from that moment. In fact the whole team did well, yes Spurs were missing Eriksson but they have enough menace about them in the rest of the team to put in a performance, Kane, Alli, and Son are leathal as a trio playing together, then add in Dembele with his get out of jail free cards he played everytime he trashed a Saints player - when Romeu got booked you could see him standing off just a little afterwards, if he had been booked as he should have been in the first half the Sours midfield would have been playing with a slow puncture. But the front trio were kept pretty quiet overall due to some hard work, our midfield trio of Romeu, Lemina and PEH were instrumental in that, the three of them each have skills to compliment each other keep that trio together and they will become a formidable combination. Think the 3 goals in 2 games for JWP really put some petrol in his tank, thought he had an excellent game and was playing at a level we have seen glimpses of. Folks commented about us looking knackered at the end, we for starters we know Pochettinos training regime for fitness, but despite the bulging bank balances the players are still human, to find yourselves in the bottom 3 of the league, up against a side who can rip you to shreds in minutes, who had spanked you 5-2 only a month ago, the effort to keep Spurs at bay not only took physical exertion on a dirty afternoon but probably used up a fair bit of mental energy too. Still like many have said already this result counts for nowt if we don't get a better result v Brighton. Still nice to drive away from Southampton feeling a bit more positive than I was driving into the City a few hours earlier.

TV likes this fixture -its almost a token gesture "to please the fans by saving them from a long trip" ................ so expect 4:30pm on a Sunday or just for giggle and to give the taters a line 12:30 on a Saturday "these plucky Saints fans left Southampton at 2am this morning"

Brighton Certainly don't look crap Chelsea are certainly riding their luck.

Pitch like that there's more likelihood of a repeat Peter Shilton freak goal against us when a goal kick hit the only dry hard patch on the pitch bounced up over the keeper into the net.

I had one of those facebook reminders of what I posted 5 years ago, it was a photo of me and Nigel Adkins taken at the Ricoh Arena after the Championship game up there.......... I then realised that the next 5 year plan the club always banged on a bout was to get back into the Championship. I have always been a glass half full chap when it comes to Saints, right now though I can feel the tug of the reverse.

Hang on the other week he said 2-3-4-5-maybe 6 when asked at the pre match press conference

........not forgetting Lou as a cousin

Regardless of the relation to Saints, him Brendon Batson and Laurie Cunningham (who died 20 odd years ago) were household names where there was any affinity to football back in the 1970's & 80's. 59 is no age these days. RIP

Think dry January might be under threat come next Sunday evening. Watched tonight's game v Everton, second half it was like Pochetino said to them as they left the dressing room, "do well this half and its steak tonight boys" full time he just quickly opened the dressing room door threw the steak in and shut the door just as quickly.