John Boy Saint

I Have to say getting a text off from a friend, as one was strolling down the Champs Elysėes, to reveal the result was most pleasant. Even Mrs JBS commented what could be better - a surprise trip to Paris for her and Saints winning away.

When your boss is Mike "old Mother" Riley, a very arrogant whatsit it is no surprise.

You are right........... we are of course the invisible team.

Pretty sure the tater said him missing Stoke and Tottingham one of them being a cup game

Just Watching the Palace game and spotted John Salako is part of the back room team....... Does that man never age??!! Just looked him up on Wikipedia and was shocked to see he is 47 yet still looks like he is in his 20's

You're a triffic bloke Ronald, but I'm telling you, that you wouldn't be where you are today if it wasn't for me.

A perfect game for him, one superstar shining brightly on a pitch with no-one of any significance to cloud the view, and the added bonus of it being on TV.

The Officials have communications, he should have kept his finger on his flag button and told him "no the other way" as he signalled the wrong advantage. What is the point of having technology assistance, if you ain't going to use it as it should be used.

That was the punch in the guts. in the build up to the match when I posted Atkinsons appointment I felt that he was one of the better ones, someone pulled me up quoting Wikipedia saying he was prone to game changing mistakes: well that one played out with his overriding of the Lino. A draw would have been acceptable as we weren't on top form and Chelsea despite all the possession weren't that dangerous. i do feel that bringing on Pelle was a wasted substitution, Chelsea must have thought it was Christmas when Long went off to be replaced with a less mobile player, whereas Mane coming on for long would have replaced speed with speed. Lets hope today is a kick in the pants and we are back at the races on Tuesday.

I always felt he pulled in too many of his old players/mates from his UK managerial tour. They played like the manager was their mate which gave them the air of putting in a 50% performance without the fear of castigation.

See we have Martin Atkinson on the whistle for this one. Seems a bit better than the rest, been doing well in the CL games I have seen him officiate, doesn't appear to get conned by the rolling about just been shot by a sniper in the floodlights that goes on in the Eurpoean games.

hmmmmm technical malfunction or fat fingers - wrong fred

Wouldn't worry too much......... I can't remember which under crackers are the un lucky ones this season!!

Kept that quiet. Bet the media team are upset to have missed that Gig, hope they don't find it too chilly then on Saturday with a forecast chill blowing in this week.

Bit of a funny one this, having been off for 2 weeks you would think that we might be a bit rusty, but then this time last year we went on the jolly to Switzerland, this year we seem to have kept the players ticking over in training, which will hopefully make them hungry to get into action come 3pm on Saturday. Having watched Chelsea on TV during the last 3 games I don't think there is much to fear, as Newcastle looked pretty poor through their own doing rather than Chelsea putting them under the cosh, the goal fest only occurred due to the Toon players giving up. Man City yesterday was a bit of joke with only 2 recognisable players in the line up and the rest made up of players wearing shirts numbered 56 61 etc, there was no understanding between the Citeh players who were trying rehearsed on PlayStation passes to fresh air, more often than not. PSG were different though, organised and comfortable with each other, it showed in the result. Chelsea looked like an opposition team who would have turned up at Stamford Bridge last season in the hope of the wind being in the right direction to nick a result. Having missed West Ham due to work, at nearly a month without live football before my eyes I am certainly looking forward to Saturday afternoon.

This falls down the forum menu page far too quickly! Being a busy boy last week I missed the latest edition, still reading it this morning feels like we never exited the cup an earlier round.

I very much stand to be corrected, but on initial viewing of the situation we are one of the richest nations on earth, if we vote to leave the EU that will cause a seismic ripple in the EU as the folks of Germany and France especially will start asking questions. But all the Mickey Mouse directives and weird rulings we adhere to already aside, we piddle something like £20m+ a day into the EU as our membership subs which gets frittered away on all sorts. I worked for a company who bought 90% of a Portugeuse manufacturing company, that part of the business had to build a separate building for staff rest breaks under EU directives, and because they were a manufacturing facility had to also include showers (that were never used) into the build. Our MD asked whether we had applied for EU funding for the build, just like other local companies had and succeeded in getting, our man in the factory said we had been turned down flat because we were majority UK owned. Going back to this £20m a day, if we weren't giving this away we wouldn't have half the cuts we are making in the name of austerity. We would probably wobble for a few months as currencies in particular would get skittish, the City would probably feel like it's engine had been given a de-coke. As I said at the beginning, if we vote to leave, there will be a Tsunami that we won't be wiped out by, might be a bit windy for a while, at the end of the day we ran 2/3's of the World without anyone else sticking their beak in, who says we can't stand on our own 2 feet: there are many countries in the world that do already............... Don't forget we still have strong ties to the commonwealth.

I feel like I have stepped into a bizarre game of Mornington Cresent!!

Adreas Jacobson looked like a bloody scarecrow, and looked a right tit at Man U as he decided to wear Gold boots!

Blimey Jonathan Moss has to eclipse anything Battenburg does surely, just watching our game v Swansea highlights the ineptitude of the guy. Versus Arsenal on Boxing Day 1st half he was doing awfully well as their 12th man, but at full time both sides had plenty to mither about.

Think young Matthew has been a key component to the new team set up, he has taken to his new role very comfortably, so fair play to the lad for picking up the award.

Watching the game on a stream, when Romeu was subbed I thought it was shocking that a manager was forced to change his line up due to the inconsistent actions of the referee. Ronald's post match comments very subtly put his point across where the refs performance was concerned.

Like someone said earlier it was a JFK moment for Saints fans, I remember getting home from School walking in the house and the phone starts ringing, pick it up and it's my Liverpool supporting school mate Willy garbling on about Saints signing KK I Thought he was pulling my leg, he just said "if you don't believe me watch Newsround!!".

Anyone remember Mash of the Day in the industrial estate on the road that brings you up by the Chapel Kingsland corner, they did a couple of nice Lincolnshire Sausages, a funny mash with either Baked Beean or Onion Gravy all for £2.50. Sadly being a catering company they got good at what they did and had to move to bigger premises. Just before they left the queues were impressive.

That just made me think of a "bizarre" incident earlier this season when the Oppos had conceded a free kick to us just outside the box the ref had put his his squirty cream down at the ball, then paced out his 10 yards and drawn the line in the box, while he was faffing about doing all this the goalie had set his small wall and the players in it were standing ready and settled about 3 yards behind the line. The ref then told the wall to move up to the line placing his hand on one of the players to make him do it. I thought that was a tad strange.