John Boy Saint

Err I will 51st my thanks!

I have to say I have a soft spot for Roberto, he cut his teeth in the lower leagues (scored a great goal v Boro in the cup). Most of all though Arry bloody Redkrapp is really ****ed off tonight, breaks my bloody heart.................... Not!!!!

The only slight tinge of disappointment was there was no second place trophy for us to cheer on the final day, although if that the size of the cup you get in the play off second place cup must be huge!! The way we did it was so much more comfortable.

Keep looking over your shoulder shorty, consider your card marked. No team of yours will be sticking 4 past any team of mine in the future! As the Sharks off the Coast of S(unny would say: Eat my Bubbles!!

These days the manager identifies the player and will have chat with him in the process just to make sure he is what he thinks he is, attends the medical. But that is as far as it goes for him until the deal is done, as with the millions involved someone else in the organisation will deal with the pounds shillings and pence of the deal, the manager probably won't know the full detail until the dotted line has been signed.

Blimey that finishing line keeps getting closer. State of Independance popped into my head as soon as I saw the opening post. RIP Donna Summer: like Phil, one of the artists on the soundtrack of my life.

Errr not quite, they had "that Clown Comoly" who did all the player deals....... Yup him what did given the boot a few weeks back. Reliable sources have revealed that in the purchase of Carroll Comoly's opening bid was for £30m!! Newcastle (almost like Dave Jones did when the phone rang with Blackburn offering £7.5m for Kevin Davies) nearly passed out then probably thought let's get a bit of play money and tell them £35m he's yours.

Ooo looks a lethal line up! Especially up front, Nice break for Rooney 4 weeks in Eastern Europe and play one game! Ah well no expectations to be disappointed by.

WooHoo!!! A 6 pack for £40ish! Hell-o Ladies

My point was the getting in to for free when you have stopped cancelled to Direct Debit on the installment plan, instead of Stewards chasing a moving target round the stands, although that will be less likely an empty seat will be available to hide in next season based on previous Premiership attendances. With this system those who have defaulted in anyway will not even get into the stadium. No body is to know how smart this system is, there could well be a simple light system to prompt the the turnstile attendant(s) look up whenever a consessionary ticket is scanned. There were a few aways last year where a scanning system was running and they asked that anyone with a consession ticket brought proof of age ID, whilst this might not have been checked it might have made some of those thinking about trying it on think twice. No one will know until someone has tried their luck at getting in on a Kids ticket as an Adult and succeeded, then broadcast it on here, which I would imagine will shut the loophole.

Worked with a girl called Pauline Conduct when the store tannoy went out for her all you heard was Miss Conduct

They say frost tonight, and my Apple trees are loaded with blossom, be a shame to have a crop failure. With all these fruit growers if we have success this year might have to organise a meet.......... To swap fruit:)

Well the installment plan was shelved due to a small minority (you know the saying) of thieving whatsits getting the season ticket on the installment plan then cancelling the direct debit but still coming to games for nowt. The swipe system makes it a smart system preventing the less honest blagging their way in when the turnstile operator is flat out taking tickets.

"This is the Voice of the Mysterons, we know you can hear us Earth men!". Question for the folks hooked on Captain Scarlet all those years back: what was Captain Scarlets real name? (no Wiki cheating!!). There are some great TV shows listed above. Being born in 1964 the World of Jerry Anderson was immense when I was 5, Thunderbirds was bigger than my eyes. (with all the CGI that exists today the Thunderbirds film from a couple of years back was such a disappointment, but showed what an immense show Thunderbirds was) Captain Scarlet, Stingray (those Titans were a bit scary), Joe 90. There was a great cartoon: Marine Boy, the boy chewed Oxygum and could breathe under water: 'Elfin Safety nightmare! Hectors House The Herbs The Clangers

Be waiting a long time they have gone on their end of season team holiday the 1% holiday fund they syphon off the annual subs ....................... Lyme Regis this year I reckon. ;) Next year with all the JCLs who will sign up it the boat will be pushed right out for Skeggy or even ............ Wait for it.......... Great Yarmouth!!

Kevin Keegan carrying a bit of timber was blowing a bit so walked off removed his England Shirt and gave it to a ball boy and sent him on to play up front with Mitchell Le Tissier he even got to score one from memory. Mike Osman didn't have a clue who he was, so couldn't give him a name check. Apparently he was a nipper from Basingtoke who played in the same team as the son of my Wife's friend. His face was a picture being thrust out under the floodlights in front of 32,000 people. You can just imagine him getting home "did you have a nice time tonight?". Mum! Dad! I played on the pitch at Saint Mary's in front of 32,000 people with Mitchell Le Tissier and his Dad Matt, Alan Shearer, Ian Wright, Tim Flowers, Gordon Strachan, John Barnes....................... I scored a goal, ............. Kevin Keegan gave me his England Shirt and sent me onto play on the pitch in the real game and...... and .......... I think the kids in the half time relay race get a real buzz now the crowd have got into cheering them on. That lad at Mattys testimonial can't have gotten to sleep until it was time to go to school next morning. Great night out....... But blimey 10 years!!!!!

But that was a song they sing in their repertoire, they play Blue Moon over the PA up there too. Like above "another on bites the dust" and "celebrate" by Cool and the Gang are hardly sing-a-long favourites. Our CD doesn't even have OWTS on it, if it did it wouldn't be a version we could all sing along to.

I had to take my Daughter to South Wales on Saturday, on our way down the M4 we saw 1000s of Newport County fans heading to Wembley for the FA Vase final. On the way home with nowt much on the radio we tuned into BBC radio Wales to see how they were getting on, unfortunately they lost 2-0 to York City. When York lifted the cup somewhere in the depths of Wembley someone inserted the celebration CD into the machine and pressed play. So you heard the York City fans cheer as the Captain raised the cup then piped we are the champions, followed by the same tunes we heard following our winning of the JPT at full blast. When it came to interviews of the Newport players they could not hear the question due to the volume. That reminded me of our last game of the season following the pitch invasion stood up in the stand still you could hear the 1000s by the tunnel trying to sing OWTS, we are going up, etc and basically giving up against the PA and you thought why is the person with the music switch not paying attention and switching off or turning down the music as the fans just seemed to give up the battle. When we ambled onto the pitch the sound from the PA was just white noise as the various distances from the speakers in the stands just blurred into a mess, so no wonder the choir gave up. Part of football down through the years is the singing from the crowd, and there are so many times when the crowd at SMS sing as one and it sounds fantastic. I would love to know in this world of TV cameras everywhere if the piping of crap Celebratory music is there a directive to cover up songs with naughty words in being heard at home on the TV and radio. Or whether the folks who run the PA just are like a poor DJ wanting to play what they want and not what the dance floor is dancing too.

Nope, simply because at the end of the day Mike Dean knows that in showing leniency he will get marked down in his assessors report, which might go against him in the maintaining of his Premiership referee status. Agree though bloomin stupid in the moment, just like Billy Sharp getting a yellow for high fiving a Five year old at SMS, apparently that was inciting the crowd!!!??!!

Certainly an exciting game at the end, I thought Mark Hughes was going to spoil the party, (I can imaging him wanting to get into a room with Joey Barton on his own and get someone to lock the door from outside). Well done Man City. Glad QPR stayed up, cos now I can give my Boss some chirp next season.

Those North of Winchester fall into that bracket.

Errrr No............... When we hit 4th after an early Christmas present v P*mpey, WGS was asked "can you stay in 4th" to which WGS said without a quip NO! It turns out that Lowe had blocked the potential signing of 2 players that might have made the difference, his rational, alledgedly, was that he did not want to line the pockets of another Premier League team and allow them to strengthen: being on a mission to prove you could make money from owning a football club would have seen us buying long shots from the lower leagues which would have been our undoing ultimately. What we have been through over the past 7 years is ultimately the best route we could have taken, despite the pain at the beginning feeling like the longest ever slow motion car crash in history. As someone once said "You don't choose to support the Saints, the Saints choose you" well they did a good job in choosing ML and NC. And what a wheeze the last 3 seasons have been.

£££££££££££ wrapped up nicely in a Manila envelope?

5 in 10 games on loan for Notts County makes that statement a tad harsh, add to that 2 game saving goals v MK Dons to get us back on track.

Not so fast! apparently the bloke who heard it from a bloke who's sister is going out with a chap who's Nephews-Cousins - Uncles - Mates -Brothers - Son was listening to 2 chaps in suits coming out of the Swimming baths talking about players going here there and everywhere was getting the water out of his ears so heard BA and Southamptmmmmmmnnnn in the same sentence, but HIS mate who was Crunching on a bag of Monster Munch fresh out of the Vending Machine only heard Drog! So maybe its DrogBA and not Demba Ba after all!!! Ah! Hat ~ Coat.......................