John Boy Saint

At Christmas Pete the closet transvestite couldn't wait to dress up, eat, drink, and be Mary.

Peter Dreary and David Bleat: whenever they are on together there is not enough Prozac in the World to numb the agony that they bring to Football commentary, they are worse than the lady the Beeb keep trying out on us.

Makes you laugh all this Maggie bashing: in 1979 she inherited command, from the Labour party, of a country that was in no uncertain terms going down the sh1tter. She came in and had to make some unpopular decisions in an effort to get things back onto an even keel but she did it. If you lived in a steel or a coal town you have a bitter enough axe to grind in her direction. Anyone who has lived in and around Hampshire all their lives has lived a far better life as a result of the Tory policies through the 80's, 90's, 00's (even if the greed of plenty at the end of the 80's did give you a bloody nose). If you worked down the docks there is probably a bit of a gripe, but if Union rule had not had a kick up the backside the docks would not be what they are today in Southampton. So here we are again under a labour government who inherited a sound economy and as usual have ****ed it up the wall again. So the Tories will come in and make the unpopular decisions that we know need making just to get the country back on the straight and narrow again: everyone will moan and let Labour back in to fritter it all away again on 5 a day Tsars and the like at £35,000 a year! Back to the original subject, if George doublyah's Pappy had had more guts good 'ole Tony would not have been in the pickle that he is now. Maggie said to keep in going to Baghdad but Bush senior got a bit windy and said to stop at liberating Kuwait. At the end of the day what is unacceptable is that a Prime Minister abused his power to go to war. At least when the Argies invaded South Georgia they were invading British soil so Maggie had a nailed on reason to go to war, telling the Yanks to take a hike of the way down there. That was a legitimate war and came at the right time to buy the Tories time to keep on digging us out of the inherited hole. Tony thought he would gain the same popularity Maggie had at the end of the Falklands by taking us to war. Vanity will always see the demise of a politician.

Pantomine Dames would be very seasonal.

8pm Kick off I believe to allow some recovery time from the previous match: and so we can polish off some more cold Turkey and get a few drinks in........................ Can't wait!!

With their under soil heating might be worth a pitch invasion just to lay on the pitch and warm up!! ;-)

My Mum won't let me out the door without one when the weather is like it is at the moment.............................and my gloves on elastic through my sleeves. With regard to questioning the quality and the number singing along, the overiding fact was those who did join in were signing at the same time as those stood in opposing and neighbouring stands which, apart from the chorus of Swing Low from everyone when we played Chelsea the afternoon after England won the Rugby World Cup, has to be about the only time it has been achieved: hence the number of people commenting about it and the uplifting feeling it has produced.

Who thought the Ref in his nice Lime Green shirt looked like he had already eaten his Christmas Dinner?

My Moment of the Match.

The other thing with Rickies miss was the ball came from behind him and before he went to strike it he looked at the lino to see if he was off by the time he had looked back to strike it the ball had moved........ Sack the Ball!!

Yahoo! You can still get Plastics in the 3rd Division, that was going to be my question on the Muppet show over Christmas. We must have sold loads into the 20K's for Boxing Day I bought extra tickets for Family and they are 6 rows behind where I can normally get seats at shorter notice on the fringes of the masses in the Chapel................................ I just hope we don't get the mothers meeting conversation that was going on between a couple of chaps, who none of us had ever seen before, behind us all through the 1st half yesterday; thankfully they got lost finding their way back to their seats for the second half.

I have to say that second half was enjoyable because sat in the Chapel that breeze was chiiling me to the bone watching 10 men behind the ball twarting us, so it was great to get the circulation going in the second 45. What I want to know is what is with the hatred from some quarters for Lloyd James I just don't get it, yes I prefer him in right midfield but he does as well as anyone else at right back with the exception of Murts. He is probably the best crosser of the ball and has set up no end of goals this season. As for corners compared to the shoite Lallana was "punting" in Lloyds corners are the best we have seen for at least a season. That back pass to Bart was under control from both of them; we just see that self destruct button looming in the background. Pards rates highly him so that to me says what I see is not wrong. How nice it is to walk away from the ground having watched a nice win on a regular basis. How nice it is to be in a stadium full(ish) of people unified in the pleasure of watching the team doing well. That slow Oh When The Saints sung by the whole stadium as one just showed that: being unable to single out a MOTM in the poll I would say, 3 beautifully struck goals apart, that was my Moment Of The Match.

The Chineham branch near Basingstoke was a jewel in the Threshers Crown, last 2 Days sale started Thurs shelves empty and shop shut before the deadline. Shame really the Staff were all nice, for many years run by an ardent Saints fan who could still watch the match at SMS until the final whistle and then get back into the shop by 6pm for the evening shift.

I drive 40K miles a year invariably down motorways at light speed, I thought the bingo bus would be purgatory over great distances. Have to say that the journeys that I have taken have been quite relaxed. On 2 occasions on journeys over 2 hrs the tin lids have been quite happy outbound and invariably falling asleep on the way home (me almost joining them too).

What you will probably find is the Echo have become a little too familiar with the new regime in other matters (maybe sprinkle in a bit too much media speculation), so an easy slap back onto the right side of the line is to dust off the iron fist to show them the hierarchy. The back pages of the Echo when I see it (lazy scrotes stopped distribution north of Winchester a few years ago) are dominated by Saints so when Mondays circulation drops through the floor a few noses Nursling way will have brown tips come Tuesday teatime.

A month in a remote town in the Madrid area would soon sort you out, go to somewhere around Barcelona and you will get foxed with the increasingly spoken Catalan.

3" of Snow on the ground when I open the curtains Christmas Morning. Golf Bag and Clubs off my list Terrys Dark Chocolate Orange Something from the Saints shop, I won't say what just in case everyone goes "Ooo thats nice" before Mrs John Boy can get in there to buy it in my size!!

I met a chap who was a RAF pilot and he said about these low level bombing training sorties, while the Cold War was on, between the US and UK. According to him nearly everyone of these runs saw the Yanks being identified and "killed" whereas the Vulcan proved successful in destroying their target 99% of the time. The Americans asked that we did not mention this failure v our success just in case the Russians got to realise that they were not under threat from the air, the UK ignored this request and were quite happy to "accidently" let it slip that we had the capability to get all the way to Moscow undetected with a Nuclear payload .

They only got rid of the blue "knickers" as they were referred to in those days because they found as the season progressed they got lighter and lighter in the wash. Maybe for the away strip they go back to the Old Gold rather than the Yellow shirts

Wembley stadium = so they will up their game to suit the surroundings

We have been knocked out of the cup by Rotherham in recent years so no easy game on their current form and then Luton are a bit of a wounded animal after the crap cards they were dealt last season, so a bit of a double Banana skin.

What a Carrot for Kettering and they get a warm up at Elland road to prepare themselves

Saints v Rotherham or Luton

That is probably the kick in the pants we needed to keep our feet on the ground. I suppose at the end of the day New Manager and being on Sky syndrome in one game was too potent a force today.

Awwwww............. Don't spoil it for me.