John Boy Saint

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.

On reading the op the first goal that popped into my head was Chris Bairds absolute snorter from outside the box, v Cardiff I think, to silence the groans when it looked like we had pigged up a free kick. The goalie would have snapped his wrists had he gotten anything on it.

10 points for Man U at home and 35 for Brizzle City, that should see a few woeful performances in the next 2 games to ensure being dropped to the bench thus being in with a shout of a points boost from being in the cup game to get closer to owning a Gnome and a Pencil set before anyone else.

I don't think, in these days of Football mercenaries and Prima donnas, after being blessed with Matt Le Tissier that any of us would have thought we would ever see another talismanic down to earth player, who is adored by so many of us, pull on a Saints number 7 shirt again.

A company I know use to sell one of those funny shower head attachments your Granny always had that just pushed onto the taps then you turned on the hot and cold tap to get the right temperature mix and away you went, traditionally washing your hair over the sink. They had a claim made against them by a bloke who had attached this shower unit to the taps on his bath he then turned on the tap whilst pointing the shower head at his dangly bits and "scalded" them. He then made a claim against the company that it wasn't pointed out on the packaging that he had to mix hot and cold together, and the insurance company coughed up €40k without a fight. You would hope that in the process of being scalded through his own stupidity he would killed off the sperm producing properties of his 2 veg and thus been in the running for a Darwin Award. The insurance company probably weighed up how much it would cost to fight this case and prove this chaps stupidity, then how much to fight the appeal and just made him an offer less than that to go away, just shows how easy it is if you can be bothered............... Then you can imagine the first bloke moaning down the pub that his insurance premium had gone up would be the one with the crispy sausage and singed sprouts lurking in his Calvins. Just on this "Where there's blame, there's a claim" have those slightly older readers noticed how thick the Handbook for your car has become and then actually looked through it for information about something that you can still do yourself on a modern car? The first 200 pages are full of, for want of a better term, ar$e armour against litigation, gems like "don't attempt to exit the car before it has come to a complete halt" are more than likely lurking within those very pages!!

Conference prices!?! I pulled into the car park at Bashley FC about 3-4 years ago as I was on the phone, whilst chatting to the customer I spotted the entry prices on the turnstile wall aghast, they play in a league below the Conference South might have been one below that back then and the prices were about £8 less than the cheapest Adult seat to watch the Saints at St Mary's

Just about sums us back in those days, buying and trying to buy players for bobbins without realising that everyone else was moving on and spending their pennies even if it was piling up the debts by speculating. We just had a chairman out to prove that you could make money from football and thought that by doubling the capacity of the stadium then filling it weekly and running the team as it was at the Dell there would be a lot more cream to skim off. WGS made a lot of ordinary footballers into an effective band of brothers, but he saw maintaining that level or even stepping up was impossible when the Chairman wouldn't spend money on players from fellow Prem teams as he didn't want to boost the coffers of competitors. Agustin Delgado although great in South America was a risk to bring here, Drogba most people with half a football brain could see he was a bit handy when he was a youngster, cough up £2.5m and seeing we were a selling club back then, flog him for twice as much 18months later when he was an established Premiership player. Still all water under the bridge.

Body clock was shot, this was the tried and tested Jetlag cure, fly into Bangkok check into the Novotel next to the airport, shower change, then into the waiting Mercedes people carrier whisked downtown for a meeting with our man there (very amusing German who's lived there 20 years) Whistle stop tour of some sights, then dinner in C&C and a quick trip down the naughty boys street for a few beers beating off the women (tell them you are staying out by the Airport and they just evaporate!!). Bed. Next morning tee time 07:20 it was only when chipping into the 1st green and you hear a motor and look for the lawn mower only to see 4 blokes casually heading to work in one of those typical Thai boats with the long shafts out the back on the canal that crosses the fairway, just as the sun comes out from behind the clouds and the Mercury and humidity rockets, and land crabs stand looking menacingly at you claws open: that you go "hang on this is mental it's 01:30 at home!! Into China in time for dinner including Scorpions and Bee Larvae omelette, Hotel,drink, bed, then down to breakfast for 07:30 never even noticed I had fastforwarded 7hrs the whole week. Regarding Mrs DP's bite we will all be safe as we all got evicted to one block over 2 rows up this season.

I could never imagine Ingerland doing that in a million years!!

Oh dear!! What a shame! But if you have not or will not go to Bangkok then you will have a bit of a giggle at all the condom stuff. (Phil the golf was killing time before an early afternoon flight to Guangzhou China).

I will second that, you must sit outside in the courtyard. They do a Fish poached in a Garlic consommé absolutely divine. No doubt Phil has played Muang-Kaew Golf Course Which is a very nice spot despite a motorway splitting it in half.

What a shame Souness had lost his when he got to us............ You could have had a Hatrick!

We had a raft of players in our more recent past who most of us had never heard of, yet the spin when they signed and were introduced to us by the club was that Saints had been in a tussle with a few clubs both here and abroad, that we had heard of, to nail them down. From memory that chap nicknamed the Torpedo was massively bigged up yet sank without a trace. Tommy was bigged up in the same way, probably in an effort to divert the fact that we had cashed in any onwards rights we had to the future of Bale. He was talked up by the media department as a blinding spot of business, probably also to deflect attention away from the very dark clouds looming on the near horizon, and to qualify this "great" bit of trade handed him a 5 year contract: you certainly don't get them unless the player is considered as pure dynamite. We will never know what went on behind closed doors, unfortunately Tommy became the negative focus and reminder of a dark period in our history. Any frothing at the mouth is more directed at the deal makers for Saints who took on a player who not only failed in the lower divisions, but also at non league too when sent out on loan, someone must have had doubts: but as has been mentioned already - Ali Dia!