John Boy Saint

This will keep Bearsy going when he has finished viewing the first one.

Bloody hell how thick are they...... All of them must be knocking on the door of 30 if not over by now!!

To start with Palace are not the Palace we rolled over on Boxing Day far from it since Pardew stepped in, this was not going to be a walk over even more so since Palace had their tales up from the weekend win. I thought for the first 30 minutes we looked tidy with a lot less of the fannying around as their 18yrd box loomed into view, then it seemed like frustration crept into the team as despite a good long spell of Football they still were not getting anywhere closer to scoring and Saints heads seemed to drop a little. Palace went for the smash and grab after the break but we repelled that. The desperation for that goal was showing with the crowd and the players as they pressed harder for it than we have seen of late, when the goal came you could feel the relief from all round the stadium. Then the players teased us with their Mickey Mouse the ball is a bomb with the fuse lit defending, the refs whistle was a relief. Djuricic looks to be settling down now and looks a bit handy with it, Yoshida is proving that he is a player who with a run of games under his belt keeps on improving, Mané just seems to be a man on a mission and listening to his interview on Solent a happy soul with it, Long when he came on despite being a little rusty added a different twist to our front line as he is so lively. Big Vic was his usual imperious mountain in the middle eager to get stuck in with some deft touches, my MOTM, what made me smile was any other Saint player with the ball being closed down was getting the "man on" shout from the crowd, Big Vic being closed down not a peep as if folks are assured that whoever try's it on will invariably just bounce off him!! Phew a win and a goal at home.

Don't know a bit of sunshine might be a little too relaxing, it's still not Summer here so a not too dissimilar temperature to here but different scenery............ Anyway Liverpool could only afford to send Sterling to the Caribbean due to UEFA breathing down their necks over FFP!!

Premier League Tinlids!............ It will be Lambs to the slaughter as proper league one and two players rumble over them and put a few up in the air!!

My girls were 9 and 10 around that time and liked getting the players autographs on their shirts, after much pleading we hung around after a couple games waiting for the players, on a couple of occasions Prutton would be in the first wave of players out signing for fans as he went. When my girls had seen everyone who was coming out we would wander back to the car only to pass David Prutton 30-40 minutes after walking past us still in the car park talking and signing for fans.

It's all a cunning plan make it look like we are wobbling and then bang off on a run. That said this afternoon listening to the game it reminded me of what my late Grandad always said about Saints once February stumbled along " they always start the season well then drop off towards the end".

Sadly Ohio that's old school thinking, these days if you know you are off somewhere else folks don't give a flying Fk, footballers will still be paid dopey money regardless of how they play they are untouchable.

As I remember This wasn't a sudden rush of blood this was the lid coming off the pressure cooker. Prutton or someone broke into the box and Senderos was facing the wrong way hung out a leg deliberately behind him in the box tripping the Saints player for a clear penalty in clear view of the Lino nothing given. Not long after Prutton was cleaned out spectacularly by Cashley Cole the Lino waved his flag like a dervish indicating a free kick to us, Alan Wiley just waved him away for no foul as if the man was a buffoon!!! The crowd was obviously whipped up by this, the ball from the tackle broke across the box and the red mist had descended on a normally nice mannered Prutton and he skittled the Arsenal player with the ball with as much gusto as Cole had used to wipe him out, Wiley blows his whistle for the foul and Prutton exploded marching over to the Lino and probably telling him to grow a pair and stand up to the referee then it all went wrong, pushing shoving....... Red Card! Alan Wiley was the catalyst for this, at a meet the ref night with Saints fans in attendance someone asked him what went on with the to which he said "I have no idea he just lost it"........ I had great pleasure in telling him very politely that it was predominantly his fault.

All the courses now booked for the summer, deadline normally 10 days before.

I see we have "not so fat" Phil blowing the whistle today, so with the conspiracy theory that we will be reffed out of the top 4 warming up it will be interesting to see how he gets on.

I thought this was going to be about Ice Hockey up the Top Rank rink :-(

Called it as he walked up......... Me and Mrs JBS nearly punched each other out with our arms wide celebration.

Don't be silly Gordon Taylor will be all over us like a rash............ He does have to justify his title of highest paid union leader occasionally.

Ever since seeing the opening scenes of Live and Let Die I have always fancied a New Orleans Jazz band playing very somberly then suddenly ramping it up and banging out OWTS at a jolly pace to cheer the place up.

I had a customer who was very precise with his time, an hour for buying and hour on the shop floor all through the day, I had heard rumours of how harsh he was with his time regime, one day I had to drop off some samples and we were chatting away, this salesman briskly appears round the corner when he got within earshot the Buyer just said at him "5-4-3-2-1....... Goodbye". Turned around and walked away........ as the guy said you all have mobile phones and he understands about traffic, a quick call and he can adapt accordingly.

It wasn't a TV curse on Sunday it was my bloody mate walking under the little sign outside the bike shop on Britannia Road after I told him not to. There is only so much power your lucky under crackers can bring to the game without outside forces diminishing their power !!

No there was a another hooded soul out there earlier than Morgan his hood on his coat slipped a little which made me go "hang on that's young Sam ........!".

Just as an aside to all this Brenda said x cobblers. Did anyone else notice who I could have sworn was Sam Gallagher out on the pitch at half time having a one to one session.......... Just wondered with Mané going AWOL for 20 minutes whether he was put on standby?

Over 24 hours have elapsed and the biggest frustration is that we went in to slow motion round their box but worst of all with a greasy pitch and a questionable keeper of late in between the sticks for them we weren't prepared to fizz some balls at him to fumble. C'est la vie as a Saints fan

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It was quite a while ago in the days before football existed, we were playing the League Cup Final on the Saturday but our games had gotten a bit backed up, and we had a 5th round FA replay marked down for the Tuesday, which was both ours and theirs designated (by choice) night for all mid week games, we asked nicely if we could play the replay on the Wednesday after all the excitement of a Wembley cup final and Arsenal flatly refused........ Sadly we lost the game.

Let's hope he can hack the Prem and has brought his shooting boots with him, after Saganowski I have a cynical view on these on loan foreign Johnnies, play like they are possessed then get a contract and swiftly light a pipe and pull on their slippers!! Anyone recall the Norwich game some years back Skacel and Rasiak (who both often flattered to deceive) played out of their skins, with many comments about them both being prime candidates for a random drugs test after the game: next day both had buggered off on loan.

Better make sure I put on the lucky under crackers on Sunday morning!!!

Cobblers do what Arsenal did to us years ago refuse to move and make the buggers play on Saturday lunchtime cos it ain't our fault that they are in Europe.