John Boy Saint

"Yes I am sure there is a £50 note on the floor, but if you think I am going bend down and pick it up just so that you can kick my backside!".

He is a bit of a MkII Richard Chaplow, very busy on the pitch without a twist of headless chicken, willing to have a shot on goal, has a more mature intelligent head for the game. Absolute bargain at £750k very nice gesture payment to Rangers as they were gurgling down the drain.

Don't the visiting team have to be consulted on pricing for these cup games by the host club Saints could have said £12 tickets and kids a Quid to fill the ground, but Bristol City might have said no way. Wasn't it Shrewsbury a couple of seasons ago who had ideas of Grandeur and greed wanting us to charge normal prices but came to an agreement on Lower sensible pricing.

Rickie looks well impressed

Sublime, Llafranc always attracts the rich Barcelonans year round so is very civilised, the last 2 years we have been there at the beginning of July and even that is is very civilised we have been on the small beach there with plenty of space to spread out. We know folks who have been going for over 30 years, it is definitely not "kiss me quick" as you know, just very relaxed. Blimey just realised my first trip there was in 1988 so despite a few years away I am not far off that clubs membership!! Without doubt it is a Marmite destination if you want fast living head south if you just want to unwind from a year of hard graft head here.

Hmmmmm if you like Russians and the price hikes they bring to the restaurants etc, and the largest offering of Puta's I have seen on the Costa Brava. Plus you really need the money pit that is a boat up there. I could happily live on the hill in Llafranc, but with prices €1m + for the nicer small places my 2 wheeled Villa will suffice. if you have done Mas "Paxo" you must have been down to the Dutch magnet that is Chicken & Chips (or Can Padres) on the roundabout to Pals beach? I had to go to La Bisbal this year with work, pretty weird driving down through a town when you are suited and booted then a month later going thru the same town 680 crow miles from home on your holibobs!!

Kim's in Llafranc. Don't you go towards Pals?

Bricks and Mortar abroad always have an appeal until the operating costs that everyone I know, who has taken the plunge, talks about!!. Being brought up on camping holidays as a nipper I seemed to have continued the family trait, to the point where our Spanish Villa has 2 wheels and is kept in storage on the Med coast near where Saints played pre season this summer in Palafrugell We bought a little Caravan here for £750 did a fair amount of work on it ourselves then drove it south. It costs us €200 a year for storage, that includes a wash, towing to the campsite of our choice, and collection at the end of the holiday and returned into storage, the climate is such down there that we should get many years out of it and right now, due to the use we have had, it really doesnt owe us anything. This year our Campsite fee for 3 weeks in July came to just over £600, we can fly from Bournemouth to Girona an hour away, but prefer to drive which is 3 tanks of diesel total. We know that we can go and stay from March until October if we wish, but when we leave after our holidays we know that we can go anywhere we want in the world without feeling obliged to return to our "Villa". If you have no desire to go Camping what we do would probably leave you cold, all I can say is we have a great time and most evenings normally involves spontaneous evenings drinking and chatting with the neighbours from all over Europe.

Had he lost the rest of the present??!!

Blimey when did a match Fred last stumble along to just over a page and a half after 90 minutes??!!

The first too by all accounts!!!

I am surprised more wasn't made of that save as it was almost an exact copy of Banks save, the ball was 99.9999% going in and somehow Boruc got a hand to it. Blayneys was very good, I thought it was Smith with the double save against Arsenal, and my Favourite from Niemi was on his debut when Charlton had a free kick and Jensen (I think) was on hot form for them from a dead ball, he let rip and the ball was going for the very top left corner like a missile and Niemi switched on his jet boots and flew like Superman to tip it round.

I know they were below us when we were both relegated in 1974 (?) and we only went down because it was the first year of 3 down 3 up................. Bloomin conspiracy!!

If its lights and darks in together that caused the problem just wash the jacket on its own a couple of times with a scoop of vanish and a colour catcher sheet. my daughter put a bright yellow promotional T shirt in with my white work shirts from the week, oh dear well over £100 of shirts all a shade of mustard!!! did the above and the colour vanished.

Stupid iPad changing Get to TO (!!??!!) without me spotting it Has added t'confusion.

Well that was a shock!!

Hansen and Fowler the pundits so it will be a bad day at the office v a plucky little Southampton raising their game for th big occasion.

That's 50p off Stevie G at half time cos I bet him that Lovren was wearing black pants under white shorts.

£500m to Salvage a £370m ship, they wont be recouping much of that down the scrappy!!

Sheridan Smith always has something about her. Alex Jones on the One Show some days you could, other days maybe not. Jo Wood would give you a fright in the morning with the beer goggles discarded Arlene Phillips just has good skin I can't see her bothering with the hassle of going under the knife that said she has admitted needle has paid a visit for her face: her neck is the give away to her age. Sorry Turkish I have to go with the experts in the field of Nip Tuck, despite all of her denials Joan Collins has had a bit of tinkering with. not as much as old acid tongue Joan Rivers mind, but then she readily admits that she has a hairy chest. There was a bit in the paper the other day about Cheryl Cole filming the latest L'Oreal ad apparently she really need convincing to do it as she felt exposed with so little make up on.

The odd couple is very good.

Nice buns in them jeans!! No wonder you took so long to reply!! When the penny dropped I did think goodness me where is the poor Girls white stick and Labrador!! Good try Aramis!!

Thats the trouble when the champion gets a bit too confident, he drops his guard and an aged journeyman finds himself, by some quirk of fate standing looking up with a crick in his neck toe to toe with the arch nemesis of the "mongboard", and due to such blind arrogance the champion fails to see just how much he is tarnishing his own lustre in attempting to belittle an unknown protagonist with a different set of keyboard combat skills. Others have judged this as the last Billy Goat Gruff giving the Troll under the bridge what he has had coming to him for years. But being the pleasant chap that I am, I would suggest you view it as a Yoda moment young Skywalker. I was going to start a thread saying that for the first time since February 1978 I have not bought a Matchday programme from a Saints match I have attended because it is too bloody big and impractical to stuff in your pocket the decision was made even easier as it was piddling down with rain and it would have gotten soggy. But with far too much work in the real world to do I really didn't fancy another 5 pages and 206 posts trying to explain my thoughts.

Strangely Javi had very little to say about Pochettino when I last spoke to him.

+1 Of all the various retired pro's who have moved into punditory without doubt he has very quickly stood head and shoulders above the rest, you can easily see why Roy drafted him into the England set up.