John Boy Saint

Getting a Par on the golf course: had to go out to avoid wearing a hole in the carpet thru pacing up and down listening to the game on the radio. My mate I was playing with is Blackpool fan so was itching to know what they were doing, so I relented and fired up the iPhone t'internet. (naughty boy!).

Blimey I thought my hero of the day Phil Boyer had nailed 4. Isn't the record still held by Jimmy Greaves with 5?

My 'Uncle' John turned up at home at 'Auntie' Dots a few times in the early at lunchtime in the '70s after some shop steward had decided they wanted the afternoon off from Southampton Docks? Funny how, despite being a mere Nipper, I recall how piddled off he was when he walked through the door.

2 3 5 2 Large Eggs, definitely not fresh just out of the Chickens Botty 3 Oz PLAIN flour 5 fl oz Skimmed milk or 3 fl oz Skimmed Milk 2 fl oz water Take the Beef out of the oven, to settle. Turn the oven up to 240c. Put your Yorkshire tin in the oven with a little oil in each well. Beat the eggs into the flour adding the Milk Milk/ water along the way, beating all the time. When all the milk eggs and flour is blended smoothly together, take your tin out of the oven and put it on one of the hot plates on top of the cooker and turn the heat up under it. Add the batter mix then put in the oven until fully risen. You don't need to let the mix stand in the fridge either, mix and pour. Not my own recipe but Delia's with an extra egg, works every-time. Using a four hole Yorkshire Pud tin we get some right monsters you can fill with gravy and beef. Aunt Bessie's are pants by comparison. Even in a bun tin if you have done it right you will get some nice Yorkshires.

I will put my neck out and say a Saturday or Tuesday in April. You heard it here first!

Ever since I saw Live and Let Die I always fancied a New Orleans Jazz band, playing OWTS in a really slow sombre way then as the curtains close ramp it up to a cheerful tempo.

Family commitments put the kibosh on this, which is a real shame as Mrs JBS was up for a saucy weekend at the seaside!!

Ooooo He could be a mole............. Just like Agent 'Arry!!!!

Cripes we will be gibbering wrecks by then!!!!!!

I think we played Leeds at just the right time, Warnock is no slouch managing teams in this division, post match today he was almost licking his lips at playing West Ham next weekend. Our destiny is in our own hands, and Nigel seems to be doing his best to keep everyone's feet firmly on the ground.

Not the smartest of moves from a representative of their biggest rivals, but anyone with half a brain, Saints of otherwise, must be scratching their heads at the crassness of even a nomination for any award with any connections to community. Those poor folks who are owed money must be taking that like a slap in the face. Just sums up Footballs attitude to piddling money up the wall at will without any responsibility.

It looks like The Brewery in the City of London, which is no surprise Jordan Sibley said traffic was a bit of a pain. Pretty good venue with a massive main room, been to functions there a couple of times. Well done Rickie richley deserved.

£10 million + Messi!!

It's all the Red Wine and real Ale mate plays havoc with the brain cells......................... So all you nippers for once take a lesson from the old gits: oh reading naughty mags don't worry it's a myth eyesight fine just knackers your hearing.

Thank you Scotty................. More haste less speed.

They have bloomin shedloads of money, on paper, seeing as the parachute payment is now a squillion quid and is coughed up over 4 years rather than the bobbins we got in comparison over 2 years. Still typical Football team, money burning a hole in their pockets and blowing it on tat they cant afford.

Getting this back on track 47- Southampton Born living in Old Basing First Home game: Notts County 1978 3-1, My Hero Phil Boyer bagging a brace to make my day. First Away Game: Reading league cup 1978 0 (very fortuitous) -0 thanks to a blind lino. Me on the infamous South Bank watching Saints fans climbing the Floodlight pylons and being told off!..................................... Then Shock horror! David Peach asking me for a light for his fag outside after the game!!

We had to do the best part of a house recently, had looked in JLP - all very samey. Paid a visit to Carpetshoite, as that was all that was on offer in Blazingsmoke, and was very uninspired, so returned to where we went 21 years previously, Downs Carpets in Newbury. Within 40 minutes we had sorted Stairs, landing, dining, living, and bedrooms, all at a very reasonable price. They have a Branch up at Winnall in Winchester and would imagine that delivery to Southampton is on their patch. Whatever you decide on get decent underlay, not the Waffly cheapo stuff. Cloud9 is the stuff most carpet fitters recommend, bought that independently off the Internet from a company in Hull at a very good price.

Something very pleasant, easy to watch, amusing, nicely filmed by Ridley Scott is: A Good Year. Russell Crowe being humorous is quite different too.

Ipswich showed last night why they are in a rich vein of form, they have always been a bit of a niggle side against us down through the years at our place and last night was another, Paul Jewell had them well sorted for us. Part way through the second half I did comment its another game against a team wearing Blue shirts and white shorts giving us the runaround. Once again we had moaners around us who you doubted came to every game, 2 just behind mithered about the minutest negative for 2 minutes. And showed no interest in the positives!?! Then sitting in the car listening to Solent, well Prozac sales must be through the roof this morning listening to the garbage that folks were texting in, and bloody Solent kept on reading out: if you had just got back into the country and turned on the radio you would have thought that we had been smashed out of sight! Still at the final whistle there was no booing, which is a positive. At the end of the day we were grinding out a result, when someone slips in the box which in turn opens a window for a striker to do what he is paid to do, have a go (and this is something we should learn from). Scotland fires in a shot that takes a deflection and the ball is in the back of the net, we have enough big hitters in the team to do a bit more of that ourselves especially when all else is failing or we are trying to tee up goal of the season. Still we are still in the race.................. and one that looks like it might go right down to the wire!

Everyone knows that sometimes the Wiki info can be slightly awry. Anyone see that QPR - Four year plan: Flavio Briatore showed the kind of Italian you don't want to work for.......... And as for his henchman.

The coincidences run deeper than you think where Wigan are concerned: The season we were promoted to the top flight in 1978, Wigan were elected to the Football League at the expense of Southport, the season we were relegated they get promoted to the top flight............................. Hmmmmm Now the 2 previous times we were promoted to the top flight it was secured with a draw at Leyton Orient: how strange would it be if Wigan were the link on this occasion even if it is just passing between leagues.

Was on the agenda until what was niggling me about that date finally dawned: Mum & Dads 50th Wedding Anniversary. So no dodge available in the book of excuses.

Anyone else watching France v Ireland on a half decent TV, whenever they show a kick for conversion or Penalty, the track camera on the sideline has had a nice slow run making everything look surreal and in 3D. Or is it just my eyes

I have often thought that when Morgan is on his game he sets the tempo for the team, a bit like Oakley under WGS, not a superstar in the spotlight performance just a solid hub in midfield. He also seems to have curbed his desire to react to the niggling he gets from the opposition, but his tackling has become much more precise and still just as hard......... Almost like Hammond with finesse in that department.