John Boy Saint

Yeah we did that with Delgado - brought that lad Chala-la-la-la or name to that effect - often referred to as Delgados personal shopper in The Beautiful South Fanzine (The Ugly had become boorishly militant and living up to its title by then).

Wasn't all this going on around the time we had a lad from or with a Russian connection in the Academy can't even begin to type his name but certain it began a P (no it wasn't Tim Sparv who was Finnish from the Russian speaking part of Finland). From memory this lad was a bit useful often featuring well in Academy games and was potentially on our version of the "pathway" at the time. We had a block from the home office with him getting a work permit for the step up as I think he could be in the Academy on a Student Visa but couldn't play in or near the first team on it............................that said the more I type this the more I am thinking my chronology is up the spout, and this lad in particular was around the time of WGS as I have recall of him going into bat for a lad in similar circumstances. I remember thinking the whole system stank, as at the time Manchester United had picked up a couple of players from an obscure corner of the planet without the then required international games for their country quota under their belts, but were signed and presented to the press just like they had been lads from Oldham.

Does sow the seed of thought of not rolling up to the turnstiles 10 minutes before kick off - as the end of the queue could be down in Ocean Village one way and half way over Northam Bridge the other.

I believe that 1% equates to £26,000 over the year, which ain't too shabby. Probably thinking bigging himself up on social media might pressure some of the others to do likewise.

We have Andre Marriner on the Whistle for this one and Craig Pawson watching TV sat in a van parked by the Gasometer.

Think everyone just went “have you seen the time - yeah that’ll do it was a pants penalty anyway” “ come on pull the plug out let’s see if we can get a drink at Ali’s”.

So when the season tickets were test scanned were doors opening at p*rtsm*outh?!

They have tried all sorts to probably try and get the crowd numbers up, as this and the next round have seen pretty paltry attendances over the years (plus where’s the viability in say Carlisle having to play away at Plymouth in a competition they are unlikely to win). Recently for this round (possibly the next) they had the draw loaded so the lesser teams hosted the seeded big teams - in these days where the gate isn’t shared it gave an opportunity for the remaining lower division teams to fill their boots with hopefully increased attendances when a team from a higher division rolled into town. Given the 2am in the morning farcical balls up draws made in Thailand or wherever - the north south divide more than likely makes it easier too.

Nope that’s the Check-a-Trade or if you are Arsenal

Fulham away

Crystal Palace here we come

Hate me now by Nas I do believe Although that is about the only bit they could play of it on the loop as the the lyrics are a bit tooty fruity

Saturday

I know these lot regurgitate all sorts - according to this Leeds were on the sniff too https://www.90min.com/posts/6431719-leeds-middlesbrough-both-failed-with-deadline-moves-for-southampton-flop

For some bizarre reason we had a Bee in the bonnet to change our holiday coming home plans and instead of stopping in France for the Friday night drove the 926 miles home from the Costa Brava to make sure we were in SMS for the lunchtime Saturday kick off (we weren't alone in our madness as friends we made from being Saints fans were staying at the same place and pulled the same daft stunt!!) anyway I digress.......... The penalty was pretty soft, the ball came into the box bounced up hitting Aaron Martin under the back of the arm he had no idea where the ball was, ref blew without even pausing

That should do it just hope that the 3 in the back 6 nail down who’s turn it is to handle the ball otherwise we could be down to 9 in no time

.. very kind Sir.

I’m optimistic about this one, it’s early in the season everyone is finding their feet. As a friend who made a lot of money betting on Leipzig when Ralph was there pointed out, the game Burnley play is like Kryptonite to the style Ralph wants us to play in. I think we need to have Yoshida playing as we looked light in experience and direction on the pitch Saturday, Bednarek plays much better alongside him too, probably because neither have to think too much about what the other is doing. I would say it’s too early for Danso who only turned up to Staplewood on Sunday, if at 20 he was a Mercurial saviour straight out of the box for our creaky defence a) Ausberg wouldn’t be loaning him to us b) we couldn’t afford to be sitting at the negotiating table for him. (Hey happy to be proved wrong on this). Ings is a funny one as he is good at directing traffic when not on the ball up front, Burnley fans gave him a warm cuddly welcome and he went soft, so here we are another ex club - this one made him rich, see if he goes soft with them after Klippety has given him a hug on the sidelines. One thing is for certain come 5pm on Saturday night we are going to have a better idea of if the Ralph Revolution pre season is actually working, or whether we are needing to prepare ourselves for yet another slow motion car crash.

N”Lundalu gently bouncing the ball off the keepers head as he ran back with it for the restart. thats what we like a bit of old school devilment!! Loverly winner.

God Bless Manchester United - back into a position we are use to! WooHoo

It’s not fair neither me nor Mrs JBS got a window sticker I have to say in these days of saving the planets resources the box is quite extravagant.

Don’t think he is allowed to answer that question on the grounds of gender neutrality. If he were then said Steward would have probable cause to seek counselling for being incorrectly gender identified, which in turn would result in stress and being signed off all work for 6 weeks.

What a weird thread and set of replies - no one has stated the build and stature of the lad. You go into the away end of a ground you know you are likely to be patted down and possibly wanded over. If you have an issue with a thirteen year old being patted down by a steward who hasn’t presented his CRB (or whatever it’s called) certificate - I would imagine that all stewards have to be checked as they are likely to be coming into contact with a minors. Your Tesco home delivery driver has to be certificated to deliver to your house not because they will be having your silver candlesticks away but because they may come into contact with children living in the house being delivered to. If you have an issue with a pat down from a steward, you could ask that a policeman be present (there is always one or 2 near the away turnstiles). And those of you who alluding above, that all 13 year olds are God fearing little Angels incapable of naughtiness - pull your heads out of your backsides - please. The fact that you know you are going to be patted down going into football is a deterrent of sorts. As for why it happens at all, football fans have a very old stain on them which is now more convenient to leave in place than remove. I’m still amused by the lady steward at the City of London Stadium, who had removed my daughters SLR camera from her bag and was holding it up confused at what to do with it - I asked the supervising Steward were they being serious - to which he said to the Steward “its a camera - it’s not a problem” to which the Steward looked at the object in her hand in disbelief at what she had been told it was.

Eh??!!

Mine too back now don’t think you missed owt.