John Boy Saint

Seems to be a bit of a queue forming behind this one!!!

Funny I had just looked up his old team mate (and my hero as a nipper) Phil Boyer who is 64 and 2 months younger! like someone else said makes you feel a tad old.

Pochettino said he was looking forwards to crossing swords again with Mourinho at the beginning of the season, so I would imagine he will have the boys well up for ths game. Brother-in-law is a Chelsea season ticket holder and admitted hat Chelsea are a bit indifferent at the moment, and whilst watching the game on Saturday afternoon commented that Chelsea will have to work harder than they have of late to get any result from us.

Wouldn't be a massive surprise.

Most smart managers will have worked out the bare bones Morgan has revealed, working out the system is the easy bit it's knowing how to counteract it especially when the team are as well drilled as as they are in the execution. Arsenal only got the win through two mere brain farts, that aside they didn't create much more despite on paper having what many would assume to be superior firepower.

Got rinsed on MOTD2 last night too.

Buy that man Kim a drink!

Watched the game on TV before flying home from abroad last night, Brother-in-Law who follows Chelsea home and away, questioned how the hell he ended up at Celtic after he had cleaned out Whilshire for about the 5th time. Head and shoulders MOM yesterday.

Funny the pre match commentators here in South Africa said Boruc was our weak link in a house split 50-50 Saints Chelsea all us Saints fans said "what are you talking about!!". the. He gets in a pickle!!

I was led to believe in the first instance Stuyvesant who was a cantankerous old bugger has been put in place as Governor of this Dutch Sovereign land. he was in place for 15-16 years, had upset the Swedes up river, the Indians they traded a few trinkets with for the land in the first place probably had worked out they had gotten a raw deal, so when Captain Nicholls rocked up on behalf of CharlesII who couldnt give a monkeys about peace with the Dutch. Stuyvesant got wind of the British turning up and laying claim to the Land that Charles had decided should be his or at least his brothers the Duke of York. He got all the powder and shot he could and made everyone come and help to re inforce the Fort battlements ready to repel the British. There was a bit of correspondence between Stuyvesant and Nicholls which resulted in Nicholls sugeesting a chat at Manhattan if the Dutch came nicely and raised a white flag over the New Amsterdam Fort. This made Syuyvesant seethe and pumped him up ready for a fight, which put the fear of god into the inhabitants especially as they had no allies further up the Island, they had enough shot and powder to last barely a day and very little food, against 4 boats and 400 soldiers the inhabitants along with his son eventually made Stuyvesant see that to resist would be madness against such force so he surrendered and left the Fort with his meagre army and left on a boat for The Netherlands. 9 years later and we were at war with Holland and the Dutch took back Fort New York and renamed it Fort Orange, when that war was over the agreement with the Dutch was made that we have the American land back: this was probably where Surinam came into the equation. Either way the Dutch still surrended New Amsterdam without a shot being fired in the first instance in the face of superior British Firepower. Being so close to the Muppet show I figured the super abridged version would have done the trick in the first instance.

Although not a manager: Monsieur Joey B-artonne holding a press interview while on loan last season at Marsailles avec Le accent Francais! (Ahem that said I found myself doing the same after speaking improving French only every evening for 10 days!).

Probably because it's a term that has stuck from when we had a spot of bother round the Empire send in a Warship and normality returned, and all was well. We were once such a powerful fighting nation even when a Navy boat floated up the Hudson River in then New Amsterdam the Dutch more or less went "Errr right!, Um.......... Take it, it's yours".

Sturridge, Rooney, Rickie Adam Jay The top English goal scorers in the Premiership so far this season, with our 3 Boys scoring 10 goals as a unit then it makes sense to give them a go,

Having been to Sunderland last week, I hadn't gone to pick holes in players who are not in the starting line up every week as there was no way they would be a fluid unit like one we get to see on matchday. The one thing I did spot early on was that there were players who would easily slot into the first team when called on, as someone said above it's not as if the whole XI would need a mass rotation. i would be happy to be shown why Yoshida gets so much grief on here, being called carp etc. Last season he played the Lovren part to Jose in defence, he was the intelligence of the pairing, playing out of position to accommodate Jose too. This season due to Confederations cup and a niggle the Lovren Fonte partnership has gelled surprisingly superbly. MP ain't going to break what ain't broke especially as it's doing so well. Still there are plenty of players in reserve who would allow our squad to be as big as we like: ignore the goals watch the pressing

+1 same place.

You have just had your ear bent in the dressingroom the managers words still ringing in your ears as you meander out onto the pitch when out of the corner of you eye you see a wide eyed nipper running at you like a loon. Still nice of the Hull sub having seen the evil deed try and even things up. It is quite funny watching these relays from row EE how the subs on the pitch from both sides stop and watch. Probably like most of us waiting for combination of damp grass, trainers and Kids probably running faster than they ever have in their lives having to stop quickly and pass the ball on. Kiddy skittles!!

Can anyone remember back in the very late 70's at half time, pretty promotions girls would sometimes come out and throw freebies of something into the crowd? The first I can recall was bags of a Football somethings snack like Wotsits but round (obviously) . Then a Record shop in town was the sponsor and the girls had 7" singles to throw to the crowd, the only thing was no one had sellotaped the paper sleeve opening, so as the freebie flew through the air it became the freebie of "death!" as the sleeve went 5-6 rows back but the black vinyl disc of doom flew at speed deeper into the Milton!!! Quite bizarre really when in those days at some grounds you could could come home with a free set of darts given away by the opposing fans!! The last freebie into the crowd I saw was at the Milk (league) Cup game v Wolves and little cartons of Unigate milk were thrown into the Milton Road end, unfortunately about a minute after a Copper and his Boss walked the touch line in front of the Milton and these cartons some now opened rained down on them, the Copper smartly walked across the 6 yard box in front of the goal but his boss walked behind the goal and the rain of cartons got heavier as folks were looking for the rebound off the net!.............. The poor sods on the front row probably also got a coating!

Didn't he say on Sky when he had become one of the first midfielders, or THE fiirst player to reach 100 premiership goals, "Just imagine if I could run!!":D

Apart from when we played QPR on a foggy Autumn Saturday afternoon and the Archers penalty box was just about visible.

Enjoyed that, if you haven't read it yet and have iPlayer watch Ripper Street then read it, it's quite funny as I found I was reading it in the way they speak on there: bizarre and even more rip roaring. well done

Interestingly from the Hull point of view, considering that they gave Spurs the run around in both the league and the cup in consecutive games at The Lane. That they turned up at SMS with a formation fearful of the way we play. That losing the game in the tunnel factor if we can impose that on teams then that is a massive weapon in our armoury.

it did indeed http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2498246/Adam-Lallana-determined-make-World-Cup.html If you scroll down the page there is the heat map and the play sequence to his goal and it starts at number 12. There should be no Witch hunt where Wanyama is concerned. Saturday was a mistake anyone could have made, and if his back was giving him some grief then there is is a good chance that dulled his reaction slightly.

Surprised at no mention of the Pig Pen, the cheese shaped caged away section in the corner of the Archers and West Stand, it looked (from memory) like a spare enclosure from Southampton Zoo!! Someone is going to ask Southampton had a Zoo??!

Not a clue! At 13 the matchday diet consisted of sweets and crisps!! Plus if we had got down there a bit too early, catch the number 2 bus to Dale Valley Road nip into my Gran and Grandads and she would feed sometimes 4 of us with enough bacon butties to keep us going till getting home!

Back end of the Seventies my Paper money and sometimes helping Milko got me on the train from Basingstoke with my school mates into the ground a programme and pockets full of sweets from the Garage down the slope. When we got to the 1st Division I can remember being outside the Boys door at the Milton road end around 10am!! Just so we could be down the front and see the game. The programmes would arrive and we would take turns to go and get them signed by the Saints players as they arrived. When we got into the ground having established which TV station we were going to be on by the vans in the car park (Match of the Day wow the cables were immense) we would hang over the wall to see what letter in the advertising we were over so that we could see ourselves on TV later or next day. All my Paper round customers knew when Saints we at home as they all had their Saturday papers before they got up!!