John Boy Saint

***STOP PRESS*** Dont panic we are saved!! Hallelujah!! Back of the Mail today - John Terry makes a U turn: he wants to play in the World Cup!! So that's Terry & Ferdinand at centre back sorted even of they do hate each other. Woy must be so relieved!! As should all of we!!

This is the one thing Dave Whelan is right about, Super League get the money spread equally throughout the league, which prevents the haves and have nots that exists in the Premier league.

Was that Eric Martin in a clip on a thread about a year ago featuring Arsenal v Saints from Highbury on Boxing Day back in the Black & White days, it was snowing the pitch was White, the Terraces were white, and he was in goal with no gloves on keeping a clean sheet!! Boruc definitely fits into the unhinged goalie category. The slapping of his head is strange, but has anyone spotted the "I wish I was in Kansas" tapping his heels together with a little jump.

Watching Man U the other night winning the league for the umpteenth time, not one person was on the pitch from the crowd. Then I thought what would happen if we won the Premiership would we stand any chance of seeing an on pitch presentation, if the last player parade was anything to go by fans at the Northam (before you all check your shoulders for chips that includes the Itchin and Kingsland) half of the pitch could not behave long enough for the players to make it all the way round. I could see a big celebration being a total fiasco. Stoke game loads will be on the pitch as it seems to have become the norm. Dozen Police dogs might put a different slant on it though.

I think most of us at the time thought that Prutton was going to cop it, having had a right go at the linesman and pushing the ref. And it so needed not to happen, if the linesman had shown a pair and not allowed Referee Wiley to wave away his flagging for a blatant foul on Prutton by Cole, I think, the red mist would not had descended. A couple years later I was at an Evening where Alan Wiley was there and someone asked why he thought that Prutton had lost it, he said he had no idea, so I took great pleasure in telling him.

The joke is Manchester United play to a system that SAF drills into the players, that's how players no one as ever heard of just seem to slot into the system and sparkle because they are bought to fit it. Their academy players, like ours now, are brought up to play to that system. Hansen famously said "you will win nothing with kids" about United and was proved wrong as the crop that came through from their academy were the cream who could execute the system with aplomb. So when winkle Roy goes to watch them at OT every week the likes of Cleverly, Welbeck, and Jones look bloody dynamite in the system, but as soon as you he takes them out of that system to play his England way they look to be wanting. For goodness sake take the blinkers off Roy.

Very easy, most Germans speak very good English especially the younger ones. I recently did a Trade Show in Frankfurt it was easier getting information over the phone and at the show its self with very little trouble (probably a damn sight easier than at the NEC Brum) with the very little German I have, in fact most folks defaulted to English instantly! Give it a go Beer is good, Grub is good especially if you like meat and Pork in-particular.

Sorry mate, Seems my innocent comment complete with smiley face to emphasise the jest intended has resulted in you having to justify yourself.

Here we go, we must be Premier league as the Far Eastern ticket re-sellers have rocked up!!

At the current rate it should start in August next year.

You've splashed the cash with the idea of going to the game on flights, you believe that you are now going to have to bite the bullet and cough up on the black market, I would have a look at the hospitality tickets as that way you are going into it with your eyes wide open.

Gold star to you mate, glad someone had kept tabs on that number most useful thank you.

I would expect a nice soft seat like what you get at LEAGUE 1 Franchise FC for that money.

TV deal means they could stay exactly the same price and none of the clubs would even notice.

Lows: No hot water from the taps in the gents under the Chapel especially on a bitterly cold day, it's like being an away fan! Coffee (when you have been seriously on the sauce the night before, a pint at the game and then driving home not the best idea) being served in increasingly smaller cups on the concourse. Seeing the Programme shop under the Chapel empty and not being used for anything.......... What was the point in closing it during the season?!

Would it not be the no nonsense pose off the front of the Leeds programme from last season, just days before he screwed Arsenal to the floor with the Oxo deal!! Oh! I have just acquired 300 acres of land around Basingstoke for Park and Ride matchday facilities to make use of the Direct rail line to Southampton, as traffic on matchdays sounds like it will be queuing from the A303 turning off the M3 from about 2am. Anyone looking for a slice of the action is more than welcome.

Bingo! Kept my powder dry watching the scurrying around from my ST seat this morning. Phoned just now 40 second wait and nailed down a seat directly behind me and Mrs JBS for our daughter who with the game not being on a Saturday can come along, that will put a massive smile on her face. Always remember the disappointment at not seeing Saints regularly at her age through having to work at the weekends.

Hope they get on with it before we win the Premiership next season! If the Stoke ticket thread is anything to go by Just imagine the Bedouin like encampment queue that will pop up across the districts of St Mary's and Northam 2 weeks before the tickets go on sale!!

Okay boys no rush, just let the 51 year old catch his breath.

On Mattys testimonial night the following week Tahar and Shearer had a bit of a good natured tame tussle for the ball in the Northam penalty box. Saturday's game still fresh in the mind the Northam started chanting "Shearers gonna get ya!". To which Shearer turned to the Northam with a broad grin.

I thought it was a sound hard fair tackle, still do. Bloody Sixty Clicks made a big meal of making sure Tahar got to feel the full heat of the pitch police as he rolled over and over more times than that Aston Martin in Casino Royale (in fact I wouldn't be surprised if that was the inspiration for that stunt). He pigged up his knees for a few days with his rolling about, one week he crippled for life, couple of weeks later bouncing around like a spring Lamb. Tahar was really upset at the thought of possibly having ended a fellow professionals career, tried talking to Dyer who totally rejected his attempts to apologise. It was Last game of the season, and Matty was due to make his very last League appearance for the last 5-10 minutes, but Tahars sending off scuppered that idea, but fair play to Telfer he treated us with a goal out of Matty's book of great goals. i always remember that game because of the sending off, the goal, and the teenage lad I was stood next to when Telfer scored had tears running down his face blubbering that he had never seen Saints win a game he was at!

Will his Mum Judy Finnegan be in the Itchen soft seats with his Dad Richard. Hat Coat I won't let the door bang on my backside on the way out.

Blimey better make an appointment to get my ears syringed!!!!

And is finally discovered to be the cause of the collapse of the Internet across the globe 5 years before, by someone with a Sinclair ZX that was discovered to be the only computer able to utilise the merest thread of remaining background internet.

I asked this somewhere else but had no reply, but as quite a few on here were there: did my ears deceive me or did I hear a chant of "it's a lovely day for watching the Swans" coming from their fans?