John Boy Saint

Hmmmmm I wonder if he would have been quite so brave in the 70's & 80's even with crowd fences? Fast reactions from matey on the mike to throw a bucket of water on the situation, his heart must have ceased and breathing stopped for what felt like half an hour as he saw what the nipper did!! i

No one can think of a replacement beyond crooked 'Arry and the fat Spanish waiter. Stick with him there are still worse teams than us in this league. I would take so much pleasure if we see out this storm and in 10 Yeats time Adkins is still in charge and we are a force in the premiership.

At half time it did cross my mind as it looks like I have been rallying in it. Sorry but the bloke is crap, I would far rather have a slightly green with little fear nipper in between the sticks with good distribution than someone who stands far too long on the line and very little communication with the defence. regarding the bottle incident he could have done better to prevent the goal, it was out of order throwing the bottle. But for the Über fans slagging us in the Chapel, Boruc collected the ball in th box and the majority in the chapel and the Chapel end of Kingsland sarcastically clapped and cheered to which he Clapped back. Those planks who say "give him a few games" wake up we ain't a charity there was nowt wrong with Gazza except a crap defence in front of him.

I had a double glazing salesman call me one night, saying my wife had said to call when I was home. When I had politely said no he got the ar$e and hung up. I did 1471 and the silly whatsits hadn't blocked their number. So being in sales myself I told him how un professional he was and if I was interested in windows in the future his. Company would be bottom of the list from now on. I also had Mrs Gupta on the phone the night Saints had survived the siege of Elland road last season, I was still buzzing and inebriated having demolished the best part of a bottle of wine while cooking a late dinner. Just as I was about to sit down to eat the phone rang, "Hello this is xxxxx" "bla bla bla, can you go to your computer as you have a virus". I just replied " I don't have a bloody virus, my computer is not bloody switched on, and who's idea was it for you to phone at 9:30 on a Saturday bloody night???!". "tell you what let me speak to your supervisor right now!!!". At which she hung up: diner and the second bottle of wine tasted mighty sweet after that.

Be good if I did forget because then I would have loads of time spare in the queue for the best Slavic car wash in Basingstoke before picking up my mate: car looks like its been in a Rally!!!

Just seen it too, enjoyed it so much I wanted to go round again...... Like you say good story, must have been good because the 2 plus hours run time whooshed by!!

Stunning isn't it absolutely chuff all gets uttered in public from within the walls of SMS, we even have multi page posts featuring the guessing game of what is actually happening with the smallest of stuff on here. Some hack with nowt going on, figures Saints are in trouble manager must be under threat, Hey Redknapp is floating about: Redknapp and Saints ooh now that will be a bit spicy, hmmmmm when will it happen 3 more losses time er-um ah 3 weeks. Instantly we have the "we are all going to die" scene in Airplane being reinacted before our eyes on here!! Amazingly there are 2 clubs who are yet to win a game in the prem. Arry has also been tipped as in Mark Hughes shoes by Christmas................. Poor old Ben from Eastenders must be really upset not touted for the sack as much as Adkins and Hughes and no mention of good old Arry replacing him by last Wednesday week. Cortese might be a bit cold, but I wouldn't have him down as being totally stupid.

There won't be anyone in the building to tell anyone that and earthquake is coming because they have all been convicted and lost their jobs.

Sad to see the object of your adolescent desires pass away. Health & Efficiency with its black and white images was saucy enough, the birth of Video tape to bring Sylvia Krystal into your front room while your Ma & Pa were out, that just blew your mind. RIP Sylvia................... And thank you!!

Trouble is Fox forgets he is playing football and thinks he is having an amble down the park looking at the trees and sky and not the Dog turd he is about to step in = the winger that's about to sweep past him.

Bottom line is that 4-3-3 or variations of exposes the back 4 as we are playing against players who will exploit the acres of space that we give them, putting the defence under pressure. Personally I would put the experiment on ice and play 4-5-1 and park the bus shut down the leakage get some draws to keep the tally clicking over and build a bit of confidence when the confidence has returned then dabble with the 4-3-3 or whatever. As things stand we are going start crossing the line at 3pm beaten already. I would gladly take a clutch of turgid 0-0's through us just shutting up shop, and re instilling confidence.

Gazza worked straight out of the box, now there is a big herd of sheep on here who the moment he walked through the door these nitwits declared that Boruc should be straight into the first team "cos Gazza is young what does he know". If Boruc was such a superstar keeper he would not have been a free agent! Kelvin seems to have the demons of Sunderland lurking. Of the 3 of them and looking at the results of the games he has been in (and this is a results based business) Gazza has only had 1, 3, & 2 goals put past him. Today reports said Boruc looked rusty!! Like I started Gazza worked straight out of the box, stick him back in.

I was only looking at the 1976 FA Cup programme all wrapped up at £75 on the wall in ther the other week. The policy at this club with small but traditional niches is like living in the countryside in China, the state sends in a bulldozer to put a road through your front room and there ain't nowt you can do about it. There was something on the radio today about how fans get the stinky end of the stick, a bloke on there said that the TV deal next year is so huge that clubs could reduce their match day ticket prices by £32 and still make the same as they will this year! If someone truly believes that turning the Programme shop into another food bar is going to improve the match day experience, they are severely misguided. Pie & Pint deal makes the matchday experience a little sweeter, taking that away too just makes me feel like my trousers are heading to my ankles a bit quicker than it felt under Mr Lowe.

Fairly disenchanted with this points business to the point of giving someone else the chance through me having a life away from Football and not really bothering to jump through hoops to go away: me and a few mates have had a few away days up and down the land over the past few years clocking up the miles, but that don't count for nowt (which is understanderble to a degree) but when someone we know who enjoys a mither probably makes one away day a year, if that, gets to go to Arsenal yet our "ticketmaster" is basically told you are not loyal enough to have an Arsenal ticket. Quite frankly the club can stick the points system up it's bum. If I get to go to Liverpool that would be nice, just got to remember to tear the £20 note in half for the parking "attendants".

I would take Nike over Adidas or Kappa, simply because if Golf shirts are anything to go by, and you are not the Male model super slim physique portrayed everywhere, when you buy a Nike XL golf shirt it fits very comfortably. Whereas Adidas xl shirts for example cut you in half especially under the arms and across the shoulders. The cut of Kappa shirts always makes me think that if you are carrying just an ounce of pork too much it looks like it would fit like a rubber Johnny. We shall see, just hope Mr Cortese gets over his alleged dislike of stripes and we get the more traditional look back to our kit.

I have a photo of my 2 Girls with Super Saint at the Millenium Stadium, we were in the second row just to the right behind the goal, the next photo is of a sheer wall towering above us of Yellow & Blue dancing it's face off to Carnival de Paris, that always gets a ripple of the goosebumps.

You just have to hope that they were just freak injuries and not caused by an underlaying problems, like those suffered by Danny Wallace who couldn't shake off silly niggles when he went to Man U , or Fabrice Muamba problem that no one saw coming either.

Just as an aside, Can someone tell me where the Metalwork is, as Everton have hit it 6 times this season Spurs 4 and us 2. Is it rattled the stadium structure that holds up the roof or the number of players doing Metalwork in evening classes in preparation for life after Football? Yes I know it's some pedantic whatsit talking about the goalposts which have been metal for years, when you look at our line up then read that little stat you just know that the person collating that knows chuff all about football.

As mentioned above I had one sat in my junk box Give these a go: http://www.saintsfcpics.com/

Do footballers like RD have their own website that their PFA membership gives them a login to, where they can order themselves a WAG from a very narrow selection criteria.

That's one of the games that always pops up in my head when the question is asked, Forest were Champions of Europe at the time and we were not given much of a chance on paper, we gave them the right runaround. Another game that pops into my head is v Blackburn in our 1978 promotion season, probably because it was the second game I had been to (the first a 3-1 cruise v Notts County) things were a bit feisty going into the game as the away fixture on firework night a few months earlier (Osgoods last league game for us if I recall) was a bit of a war with 2 Saints sent off. Well we battered them, at full time the score was 5-0 and promotion to the top league was a little closer. A 3-2 v Liverpool is stuck in my head too, I thought it was first season up in Division 1 but the chronology seems to have blurred, Liverpool were the Kings of English football at the time all the big names were there, including some new nipper on the block called Beardsley. Trevor Hebberd scored to make it 1-0 at half time, we had now pulled the Tigers tail, second half they came out to put us straight we were having none of it and got to 3-2. Liverpool back then had a habit of destroying teams in the last 5 minutes of games and with the 90 minutes long up they were getting stronger and stronger as the ref just seemed to be letting injury time carry on until they scored (bit like us v Arsenal a few years back) the tension in the ground was immense. The game stopped for something and a chap,who could take no more, broke cover from under the West Stand and ran out on the pitch screaming at the Ref and tapping his watch as he went, thankfully it triggered the Ref out of his stupor and within seconds he had blow time. Beating "the mighty" Liverpool was the result but those 5 injury time minutes that felt like 30 and the bloke reminding the ref of the time are what makes it stick in the head.

Noticed on Saturday that the need to tick the little box against the playing player on the back of the programme has been dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st Century by the inclusion of a QR code that says scan to see today's team sheet. Well on a 30,000ish normal Matchday getting any sort of half decent signal on a mobile is a tedious affair at times so getting a QR reader to scan and connect to our mobile un friendly website.................. Last night being a quiet attendance we gave it whirl out of curiosity, well unless you take your iPad to the game don't bother. Everything is so tiny on an iPhone screen you would need a microdot reader to see anything. The guys who set up all this generic web based malarkey must be stunned at how easy it was to sell such a flawed system. If you have your anorak moments at Football it's a nice clever idea, just a shame that it just crashes and burns in its execution.

What was surprising last night was normally when the other squad players were given a run out in the cup the bench was normally peppered with a few of the more of the clubs bigger guns, last night the only name that you would expect to see on a Saturday team sheet on the bench was Kelvin.

Jeez..!!!!!

Oh forgot to add, having failed to get Arsenal tickets due to not being loyal enough with my ST alone: if we get a tasty away tie that everyone comes out of the woodwork wanting to see, using the new whizz-bang ticketing system, those who bothered to turn up tonight should have first dibs on the tickets regardless of whether they have been to Citeh, Arse or the Toffees for the league games.