John Boy Saint

Those were the days - the letter key was in the back of the programme. I did think they were down the Milton Road end - because as nippers the first thing to look for when turning up at the Dell was the TV Lorries in the Car Park - BBC or The Big Match - We were always the first ones through the turnstiles when they opened and headed down to the front wall to get our prime spot. Before we did anything else, we all leaned over the wall to see what letter we were over. I thought it was the half time alphabet when I first saw this, but, you’re right as to it’s location, I then remembered it was seeing what letter we were above in which advertising hoarding………….. All that just so we could look for ourselves on TV. As you say simple things from a bygone age.

Nah - but we’ve got a weekend off so we all get to ramble on in a relaxed fashion about any old cobblers that has a Saint related tag in the content to spawn a thread 😁

Blimey a danger of us becoming Budget Brendon Rodgers, raiding the verdant plains of Cobham. The late Matthew Hardings muse about us being Chelsea on Sea might finally come to fruition

Tunnel - Full Time - if I’m not there start without me! Excellent report as always.

I can’t see the advantage of him being here, he has an arrogant air about him that might think us below him which just makes a stink in what seems a nicely bonded dressing room (KWP only had 12 games? for Spurs so was just treading water in a career that hadn’t got off the ground). If as threads above have said we would be stumping up his £100k wages, why would we want him here to stick in the shop window for Spurs, in return for bobbins or no commission. He was proper pants when we played them last month, plus his fuse seems pretty short, only the fact he was playing for Spurs held off him going in the book.

Despite being played in water - Water Polo is well known as a very dirty sport even at the very highest level - "goes with the territory"

I missed that. Even though many think that we are a team of Son in Laws, we are also expert exponents of the dark arts, whilst refs buy simulation like its a penny sale. Our angelic choirboy persona masks it superbly from the eyes of the ref.

Surprised Sterling hasn't chipped in - you could see Perraud slowly winding him up very subtly.

If memory serves me well, when Ranieri signed up and raised eyebrow rose, somewhere in the background there was a passing comment that the Pozzo family and Claudio were long time family friends.

He must have built up a nice little retirement nest egg, given the clubs he has been with since Leicester success. But boy what an absolute basket case of a club, you could be forgiven for wondering if the players have a book on how long each of their new managers will last.

Drag them down the Bargate and burn em at the stake!!! While we all dance round like mad whirling dervishes celebrating that he's getting what he deserves. In real time sat in the crowd facing that incident all Stuart had not an ounce of malice, he was concentrating on getting control of the ball bouncing away from him, Laporte came across rather quickly and replaced the ball with his leg. Bit like a car accident, it happens and there is nothing you can do about it. .............that Ederson can jog on though, running to the ref motioning that Stuart tried to take his leg off with a steam hammer ----------------anyway it turned out alright.

Absolute bullshit penalty for Liverpool - dodgy as f**’k - Jota plays himself into the keeper.

One thing that has been omitted from the highlights is when Broja broke into the box and got strongly cleaned out by Ederson in the box, stadium shouts for a penalty, only to see the Lino waving his flag like he’s in a hurricane then signalling for offside, someone really is going to get broken under the current rule of keeping the flag down.

In the stadium that was an intense game - it has to be said Manchester City are an impressive team to watch they are like a Tsunami in that they just keep coming at you relentlessly. With that in mind, all us Saints fans want is to see is our players pull on the stripes and bloody fight, and boy did they do that tonight. Frasers point blank save and Salisu snuffing out KDB drawing a deserved standing ovation from many summed up the appreciation of the effort before our eyes.

Without doubt an “I was there” goal.

But it’s not 3 times in a games - in a one on one skirmish on the pitch you can put your house on him coming 2nd 99 times out of 100. Most in stadium don’t frequent this domain so have their own opinions. It was very notable when his name was said in the line ups how muted the cheer was from the crowd even audible groans both on the concourse and then in the bowl.

Sorry but that is truly papering over the cracks - he does far more snuffing out our own attacks in nearly every game than 5 bloody assists - when Moi was warming up intensely at half time it was easy to guess who was being pulled of at half time.

Don’t whether it was because I read about this on here - but in the stadium tonight when Mick Channon was receiving his Forever Saint award - he was asked a question, but brushed the answer and went on pointedly to mention Ted Bates.

Are you telling us that Mr Gaos parting gesture of a new player from Guangzhou FC is still cooped up in a container on Yiantian quayside…….poor sod!

Posted a minute ago - a reoccurring comment on here. Reading some of the other comments winning the league has changed them as fans

Be interesting to see how Mr Hooper gets on, (the easy Valery red aside - where most of us went "oh dear" the moment Obafemi hit the deck) he is one of those refs who lets boys be boys and kick more lumps out of each other than quite a few of his colleagues do. Just test the water early on with a few hearty challenges to gauge the level to which we can get under their skin.

Just watching MOTD - that free kick from JWP is absolutely stunning verging on insane.

Interesting read, thanks @AlexSerbia So here’s the plan then, state don’t like him much, but to piss him off, in a roundabout way, hock the family silver and splurge an obscene amount of money grabbing the TV rights for the Premier League that only a complete loon would bid against, let alone consider. Dragans cunning plan is to stick us in the top six or better still do a Leicester and thank the Serbian people for making is possible - either way commentators are going to mention Dragan Šolaks Southampton in the coverage. That last bit was tongue in cheek.

Only by those who didn’t know - It was pre arranged in that final on 65 minutes a torch-light for Markus the age he was when he passed. It was an in the moment thing last night that matched the rare mood of the stadium.

Blimey hope it doesn’t go to extra time! 😁🤪😜😎