John Boy Saint

Don't ask a Geordie when they last won something (Championship aside which some will be embarrassed about in the fact that they had been relegated in the first place). They'll be jumping from the Tyne Bridge.......................... or maybe they just did the deal, like the one on offer in the OP, with the Devil already!

Promotion from the Championship first time for back to back promotions. The Championship is a tough competitive league where as a fan you have no certain idea which way the dice will roll when you pass through the turnstiles. to emphasise how tough a league it is. even today, with I think 3 games left?, from 9th down is mathematically in a relegation battle!!

Wasn't it the ref who was the cheat and his past caught up with him a couple of years back.......................... but then as I type and blow the cobwebs off recall weren't Anderlecht implicated as being in it together??

This is like going back in time thousands of years and being told not touch anything as it would change the future, inadvertantly you tread on a beetle unknown to you, and when you return to the present everything has changed...................... 1976 Cup win was the turning of a corner for Saints, having been relegated 2 years before, this was the furnace being stoked up under the desire to get back into the top league, which we achieved and went onto to be runners up to the League Championships (which these days would have gotten us into the CL) we qualified for Europe by rights more than once. Leave the cup in our history, it is still a sweet little grenade to drop in the pocket of a gobby Manure supporter. Let evolution take its course and let, eventually, the being Champions of Europe taste even sweeter by having enjoyed the full journey in getting there, not missing out on the trials and tribulations by nipping through the hole shown to you in the hedge of the maze to its end by swapping a Glorious day in our Footballing history for a handful of not so Magic beans.

Colin Murray can have one too for his alternative league table on MOTD2!

My sides are beginning to really hurt now, I fear my sides will split in a minute!!

If you haven't already it might be worth writing to the club, explain what you are wanting to do and see if you can get into the press box to learn a few bits. Might even be worth badgering some sports editors to try and get go along with a reporter for some on the job experience at St Mary's. Good Luck.

Just trying to fit in with the Saints own Gok Wan - Turkish and his blue print for football attire....................... Bit of a worry though that even from San Francisco you can smell my aftershave (better sort that out!)........................... But most worrying that it has taken until I am 48 before someone has called me a Chav: Ooooooo-errrrrrrrr!

We had just been to Ikea at Wembley, which at the time was new in the UK, with friends we had gone in to find stuff for our 1st new house that we were moving into in the next week. I had just nipped into a favourate Indian sweet shop to buy some tempting fancys to force onto the Guinea pigs in the car, when I got back into the car faces were serious as the radio was on the football, we drove from Wembley to Basingstoke just listening to the disaster unfolding in silence.

I have been in touch with a bloke who has 250 tar torches and 300 pitchforks, he says that if I take the lot off him he will throw in a Ducking Stool for only £20!! Yes Jos has had a bit of misfortune but in all honesty there have been others in the team to have made ricketts, you can't legislate for a fellow defender smashing one straight in your guts from point blank range, using a perfectly good tackle v Reading as a negative FFs! (The bloke with the pitchforks etc also does a nice line in stakes and firewood). Looking forward to the thread "£12m player fails to put in a decent freekick from the same position on 3 consecutive occaisions, in the same game, in the same half!!". Might get into importing my own Witch Hunting Supplies myself. Strange how Jos gets into the team on a regular basis and Jose is having to wait his turn....................... I might just get that Ducking Stool afterall so we can find out if Jos floats!

They do............ There is a chuffin great big digital one top right hand corner of our nice new LCD screens at both ends of the ground!!

As others have said it should be a good game with 2 teams capable of playing fast flowing football, and hopefully the virus will have moved well away from the club so a good weeks training can be had. Added bonus is for our Daughter who is at Uni in Carmarthen just down the road, so she gets to see Saints at least once this season when she thought for the first time since she was 7 that she would not see Saints play at least once in a season.

Thats him with the hat likely to be as free as a bird for the rest of his life, the Old Bill will ask if anyone knows him in about 6 months when they didn't nab him at the time: Just like the clown with the flare who did nothing to hide after throwing it on the pitch at SMS a few years back, yet despite no end of live TV footage the OB never knicked him.

I had my new coat on yesterday, worked very nicely thank you in that horrible wet rain!

If they are local little s H 1ts, Southampton is small enough for someone to have a few shandies and get a bit gobby sooner or later: curse them with Rickets, a bolt of lightening is a waste of Electricity!!

I wonder if we will get an Eterna watch when we extend our contracts to watch Saints by renewing our Season Tickets?

What about the silly little Cartons of Unigate milk the totty would throw to the crowd at half time? I always remember v Wolves one evening a couple of Coppers walking in front of the Milton became the moving target for these now opened full cartons!

Wow a whole page without Bazza!! What's happened? have you buggers rinsed him?, is it a Socialist Worker weekend retreat?, or did his Mum call him for tea? I can't believe he let 34 posts slide without pulling someone, or everyone's tails!!

Sorry Tokes I need a Mandarin-Saint, mad Michelle at work from Shanghai is trying to teach me but my head is like one of the products I sell: a sieve! so it just falls through the holes in my head. Give me 2-3 days in France, Spain, Germany even Portugal and I am tuned in and away, get beyond Munich and it's all double Dutch. Very rude Cantonese and Italian seems to have corrupted the hard drive, which is weird. Japanese will just pollute the soup of every other language in the old noggin!

What beggars belief is when a numpty ITV commentator notices that Gerrard has just told Welbeck that in future he should be on the other side of the defender to recieve the pass, this is supposed to be the cream playing for England not the bloody YTS. Woy in his gripe about teams putting player before country just stepped on a landmine in the eyes of supporters of 86 teams. Take the bloody blinkers off and grow a pair Roy when selecting the team then you might have a leg to stand on when you moan. Rio mugged you and the FA right off but you still kiss his backside, what was a possible solution? Maybe we can play Carrick at centre back? In 92 teams in the professional game there is not one single centre back of English birth who could fill just one hole. Sorry it's early Saturday morning and the home measures have kicked in.

Like I said if you had experienced the dark days of football hooliganism, when at 13/14 you were chased through the streets by grown men, without a copper in sight, and they only have one thing on their minds: to kick your F'ing head in! To be in your 40's with Mrs JBS and the Tin lids without even a thought of having to run for your lives, to see a full stadium of home and away fans that is elated without an ounce of nastiness to be seen is a pleasure. There was nothing "gay" in that 2 sets of fans were very happy with the outcome of the afternoons football, for you to still think as much nearly 3 years down the road is a shame. C'est la Vie.

Doh! Sign a contract get a watch, Eterna are supplying at cost which in reality is bobbins v retail so a "freebie" is mere dust in the grand scheme of things. Anyway a grand a go is small potatoes when it comes to Premiership footballers. I have a TAG Heuer that even the TAG sales folks in a few stores including Harrods have got moist at which was only £900 (thanks to an insurance claim) and they have £4k and £5k + watches behind the glass. I saw a stunning Brietling in Harrods at £14k so a grand Eterna is a bit Ticky tocky Timex by comparison.

Southend & Walsall obviously, I did enjoy the moment when despite us beating Walsall the PA announcer gave out the all important to them Dagenham score 10 minutes from the end. We sang "You are staying up". At the final whistle all the Wasall team and bench had a bundle on the pitch only to be enveloped by a sea of joyous Saints fans. When you have experienced the dark days of Football hooliganism that was such a warm moment, there was no malice just a very happy stadium. (well apart from the k nobers behind me in the Chapel who normally sat in the Northam and all they could do was make stereotypical quips about can they do this and that as the were sat in The Chapel.................... Until I told them to shut the **** up for being so bloody annoying). Uddersfield fans come in 3rd, as all of them we met while drinking our way round town enroute to SMS and back to the station, were all very pleasant.

If it was so amateurish as some folks have commented, do you not think that the club would have recognised that in the 40 years it has survived for, and gone down the Leeds route in particular and changed it like the weather, or in our case like our Managers. Back in 1974 the new badge was probably introduced with little outrage because a majority of folks felt included in its inception having come from a Competition. I think if it was changed drastically now without consultation with the fans there would be considerable outrage from the vast majority of fans who don't frequent this forum. Arsenal changed theirs in 2002 from one that had existed for 64 years with the odd bit of tinkering here and there to great uproar from the fans, despite the main Cannon component from the 1920s remaining. The main reasons for the change was that over the years in which it had been tweaked it had acquired components from here and there which no one knew the origins of, resulting in Arsenal not being able to get a copyright on it, hence the change. In our case we knew the source and when image rights etc loomed on the horizon tweaked the ball to protect it. Blooming expensive exercise changing the company branding. Hood down Anorak off: I have a Arsenal ST holding mate and club badges came up one evening after about 2 or more bottles of wine and most of the last bit seems to have been embedded in the useless information file between my ears

Is this happening today? ......... It's just my Mum wants me home early for once this week for my tea as its my Favourite: Bangers, Mash, and Baked Beans with Angel Delight for Puddy! Thanks in advance.