John Boy Saint

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.

Link your accounts on line as friends and apply as one, you will need one or the others login doings etc to facilitate it. But should work.

But we will still poke up with it and cough up the readys sadly not enough folks will revolt against the various little "stings" the club are squeezing a little more out of us with, and boycott a game on mass: if a tax too far was to occur and we did all stay away, for someone dealing in business money that would be a severe kick in the nuts. Bought a coffee on the concourse recently? same price and 2 cup size reductions this season already at the current rate a white coffee really will be an Espresso with milk by April. All leaves a bit of a taste in your mouth............. Damn good job Beer is sold in regulation Pints.

Sitting in the Chapel you get to hear quite a bit of noise and witty chants from the Northam & Kingsland corner. You also notice that people are getting absorbed in the game and concentration takes over from singing, but then you always get someone who can't concentrate as much and something starts to get sung. Just as an aside there is a bloke 2 - 3 rows behind me who is going the be told to shut up soon. For the best part of Saturdays game all you could hear was him talking a whole load of cobblers, this mate that, that mate this, some mate who thought driving his van from Sholing to Chandlers Ford was too far to go all at a few decibels below shouting. Then when he does actually pipe up about Saints it is an absolute Horses ar$e that dribbles out of his gob. I don't actually think he sees much of the game as he is talking to his mate................. Be surprised if you Northam dwellers can't hear him too!!

Come on give us a hand Roberts you big lump this one is too damn strong for me

As said elsewhere Premiership v Championship. From the off Reading were scared of us, which was surprising considering They gave Manure the right runaround for the first 15 - 20 minutes last week, 10 men behind the ball was their default setting. Shaw had their talisman Roberts in his pocket to the point that Ben from Eastenders switched him to the left in the first half: won't get much change out of Clyne you plum Brian. Reading must have thought they got a break when Lallana went off, only to be replaced by Gaston: that's the kind of substitution you dream of. Jose Fonte has realised that he can defend in the Premiership, a good few weeks ago he looked like he had gone a league too far the last few games he has looked like he believes in himself. Cork is very tidy player, last season I felt that Morgan seemed to set the tempo, now Jack's back he seems to be the metronome. Nice one Saints

Luke Shaw has without any doubt taken his opportunity to secure a first team place firmly by the throat! And for someone of such a tender age that is so refreshing to see. I remember seeing a young Gareth Bale like young Luke breaking into the first team, then playing back with his mates v Villa in the Academy league final. You could see Bale was different gravy to his team mates through playing first team football. I thought today Luke was fantastic, he was up against the Reading talisman and to my mind he had him tucked nicely in his pocket. In fact Roberts was trying to induce a reaction by nudging and pushing Luke in the centre circle when Saints were defending corners and LUke just brushed it aside. Then he started getting played in by Ramirez and whipping in some really evil crosses. Well done Young Man.............................. Mr Cortese screw this lads feet firmly to the Southampton ground.

Poor fans, poor team, they set their stall out early doors with 10 men behind the ball. Roberts like Holt both big units looking for the foul for the set play rather than actually playing football. Interestingly Ben from Eastenders actually switched Roberts over to the left wing because he was getting rinsed by a 17 year old!! That says a lot that their Talisman was in the pocket of a nipper most of the game. They were scared of us. And sat in the Chapel you get to hear the full force and wit of the Northam (and naughty words) Reading fans were mere Church Mice. If folks commented that they we fantastic, that must make Saints fans on the road F**king awesome!