John Boy Saint

That last paragraph nearly had me searching for a hanky! Fair play to him for seizing his chance to make the changes required, and cement his name firmly into the rich history of our beloved Saints.

Shares the "blame" a little and empowers the players a little, while making them more responsible for what goes on once they take to the pitch. Alledgedly the season we finished as runners up in old money Division 1 to Liverpool most of the team talks etc were run by the players Lawrie Mac just steered them in the right direction.

The Groundsmen are good at SMS and the drainage is good, I recall a game against Leicester where the heavens opened to the point that Noah was on standby and the pitch was puddled the game kicked off 15 minutes late as the ref let them squeegy the pitch. Spurs New Years Day 2003 the game looked in doubt at lunchtime but they weaved their magic and got the game on. Only the Palace game years ago has been lost to rain and that only because it had rained all day and all the city drains were overwhelmed due to a high spring tide stopping the run off into the sea. So keep your powder dry, anyway the game won't be off until the Sunderland coaches are in town and then they can go shopping in West Quay instead!!

Nope you are just filling in the gaps between the 21 off here with a ticket so far.

Ooooooo aint it quiet..............

That would be me............................. So the head count of SWF'ers attending looks like about 14 so far.

The School Bell will be going off soon for the end of term, then by Thursday lunchtime when it will be piddling down with rain the boredom would have set in and the proper professional teenage trolls will be out pulling the tales of the regular school truants partaking in the current thread firefight.

Has the game sold out? Just wondering as the usual SWF game of Chinese Whispers has taken over page 3 of the thread. but rather than move totally away from the theme of this page, did everyone in the cyber bickering above all get their Chelsea cup tickets ok in the seats they wanted them for? And is the price as low as it is because it wont be a first choice squad playing?

Just don't run 10 yards and then as you are behind the other grown up decide to launch a Hollywood shot and fall on your backside in the process. By the way I hope you have another activity to do on Saturdays as being a nipper you can get away with flicking the V's but showing a NU shirt to the Sunderland fans will probably be seen as incitement and you will be carted off by plod and the stewards and as a nice easy soft example be served a very public banning order. Good luck anyway.

Just want to check with the Fashion Police: which of the following suits can I wear under my Burberry Trench Coat, Boss, Armani, Prada or Gucci. Ooops nearly forgot I have each in Navy, Grey, and Sable although would be reluctant to wear the latter if it's raining as the bottoms get grubby too easily......... And the gutters in the gents are not the best for splashback Thanks in advance.

Do you really think they would become a bit more Customer orientated? Once a shyster always a shyster, and Insurance companies are the aces in the pack when it comes to Weaseling out of stuff: Leopards and Spots spring to mind. Premiums would still be Mickey Mouse as they would say "oh we have incurred extra costs due to administering the the road tax 3rd party insurance scheme". Mind you mine is up for renewal and a broker phoned up to see if he could get me back, my car is used for my work travelling around the land, I have a renewal quote that I was surprised to see how low it was considering the acquisition of points and the slight argument with a tree back in Feb. This chap seemed transfixed by the use of my car for visiting customers as insurance companies like to know what's in the boot (Ah yes of course I am a hit Man normally in my boot you will find 2 high velocity snipers rifles, a roll of carpet and 1 sometimes 2 recent targets) I said some samples nothing much "so you have goods to sell from the boot of your car" No I have a few samples that I show to customers who might order, then someone else will deliver them in a big van. So you sell goods from the boot of your car, no I have samples that I show customers they have little or no value to me or the company after they have been sat in my car for 10k miles. But it still transporting goods in the boot of your car. Wow what a fixation that was bigger than the 6 points on my licence! Ok give me a minute (crappy Muzak). Rrriiiighhhht I have a few quotes and the best is with your current insurance company and that is £300 more!!!! than you have been quoted for. They all seem to have this thing about the transporting of goods in the back of your car. It would be so nice to talk to an insurance company of any ilk without having to put your hands in your pockets to stop the scumbags yanking your trousers down to your ankles at the merest of opportunities.

Thorpes Emporium was the place, Market Street. They had a place in Acension too if I recall. Monica was my contact. Shame the boat only does the short trip now, the prices will shoot up in the shop if they start airfreighting more stuff in that way........ Noticed the price on Skype has rocketed up to £1.13 per minute.

I had a nice customer on St Helena, as I type their name escapes me, but it's the big general store on the Island. I use to get 2 good orders a year our of them, then the boat that ran from Weymouth with supplies went into dry dock then never returned to the route. I always recall the lady I spoke to saying she had Grandchildren then revealed that she was 38!! First thought was TV must be really pants of an evening!

Woohoo! Job done!!

No good having a player who is, by all accounts, dynamite on the training pitch but anonymous in a full stadium on a Matchday. We don't have room for passengers.

I am confused, I have a season ticket, to some I earn f**k off money, where do I fit into this equation?

My mate got our 4 easy peazy lemon squeezy, linked accounts et al

Great news, congratulations.

I thought the answer was going to be watching Sports Personality of the Year: but realised it was a sensible question. I won't let the door bang on my ar$e on the way out!

................ and the shin pads!!!

Blimey getting him in would be the kingpin to getting his old mucker John Terry to follow then all of our defensive worries would be solved in an instant.

They were not stewards!

So many people said the Olympics would be $h1t, especially after Bejing. Patriotic bias aside, they were stunning! Add into this the Gamesmakers and the Jubilee celebrations and I think a little bit more Great was put back into Britain. Personally: Built a kitchen. Daughter #1 got into Uni, which meant moving away, and suddenly she grew up. Finally went to America Won my first Golf Trophy Can't think of owt else, I don't know get on an Internet forum and you just freeze!! Oooops back to back Pronotions featuring the Siege of Elland road where one man single handedly repelled the marauding White army of the North.

That is a real giggle cos it keeps the buggers on their toes. I have a few customers who speak Punjabi, Gujarati, Urdu as their first language and having a Grandmother and Father who can speak Hindi through being brought up in India until 1947 when the British Raj came to an end, and many years of calling on these folks I have picked up certain words, when I comment on something they have said in their own tongue to keep me out of the loop it certainly stops them giving me the run around.

I had French from School, which made learning Spanish for holidays quite easy. Not fluent but after a few days in both countries I seem to get better and better. Had a holiday a few years ago in in France and there was a chap opposite who spoke almost zero English, but we struck up a conversation which had the aid of my old French- English dictionary but after a few evenings that was cast aside and we would just chat for ages in French to the point of one day in a shop negotiating a huge discount on something, then commenting to my wife about the little shopping coup I had just pulled off found myself speaking English a la Joey Barton. But weird. I have a smattering of German from working for a German company, there I have mastered, which is the key to learning all language, hearing the gap between words. Sadly I don't have the vocabulary. Mandarin is the one I would like to crack as it would help with work, one of my work colleagues is Chinese and she has been trying to teach me but normally being good at picking up bits of language it just seems to go in one ear and out the other. Maybe at 48 I have used up my allocation for language absorbtion. I would say learn French or Spanish as it opens up your ear to most of southern Europe. But if you want a challenge go for Mandarin but try and make friends with someone who speaks the Launguage as that will make it so much easier.