Miltonaggro

Atmosphere terrific that day. One of the best.

Thanks FF, great stuff. I was racking my brains the other night trying to remember whether anything like that had happened in my supporting past. Closest were against Ipswich and Stoke in the halcyon KK days of the McMenemy era. Remember us beating Bobby Robson's great Ipswich side 4-3 at the Dell in 1981 after being 1-3 down at half time. Clive Thomas refereeing one of the best games I have ever seen - peak super Saints, Armstrong getting our fourth and we should have had another couple late on. Stoke 4-3 at the Dell the following year, 1982, with Mark Whitlock's goal nicking it close to full-time when we had been 3-0 up first half - we were in the Leicester position at 3-3 in that scenario! Pleased that the fans who made that trek earlier in the week got to see a rare rampant red and white wave the right side of seven goals!

Ready made song for the Northam wall to use on his debut v the Foxes -

Rumour is Tonda is the life and soul of the party when he's had a drink, but does tend to get a bit punchy near closing time.

There would have been Stewarts, Stephens's, Mannings and Charles's holding the thin red line at Waterloo and Trafalgar - Tonda needs to make that very point at his next press conference.

Clearly a Rasmus signing FFS!

This soppy cunt lives in Leicester...

Love it! Enjoy, Whitey!

Dont get pissed and kick off about the Malvinas or Federico ‘Torpedo’ Arias! 😊

That’s for you Vardy! Steptoe ratfaced cunt!

Fucking crackers!

Ankersen has got one of his junior stooges to hack the site and scoreboard to motivate Tonka!

The soft lilt of Norwegian Cantonese!

Larin and Charles start this game. Failing that, Jander and Archer are hooked at 2-0. It is so fucking obvious. We have the equivalent of a nerd fan competition winner managing us, and it is fucking mental!

I have it on good authority that Tonka’s Clough also has charisma 😊

Peter Taylor to Tonka’s Clough.

Mention in dispatches to the Watford number 8, Giorgi Chakvetadze, who was a handful all game, tricky powerful attacking midfielder. If we are in this league next season would be a great signing.

Enjoyed that. Game was professionally managed by the back four (Bree and Wellington superb), and won by the bravery of our two loan signings, Peretz (coming out to dive at feet) and Larin (with the Rickie Lambert debut special).

The ‘showreels’ that accompany Larin are quite worrying, as he doesn’t seem to do anything a forward should do particularly well. Hopefully a reverse De Ridder, if you will. Not expecting much, but he improves massively on Damion Downs if he can niggle and mix it with defenders, hold up play, and know roughly where to stand for crosses and set pieces. If he does that, the likes of Scienza and Azaz will be able to benefit. Feyenoord are managed by Van Persie and second in the league, so whilst he flopped on loan there, you’d like to think he must have something about him. Good luck Cyle, do the business and celebrate with a few beers and a kebab!

To have any chance of that project these days i think we’d have to already be established and competitive in the premier league, with the academy on par with 15-20 years ago. Hard to imagine the likes of Henderson or Bowen playing under Tonka.

Richard ‘Dick’ Dunn, the fighting Para. Ended up challenging Ali for the world title.

Cheers GS, that’s brilliant! If you watch the big match revisited on ITV (currently on another chronological rerun) you begin to notice a growing interest in Saints and McMenemy after the cup win, and the club starts to be featured much more in 77/78 and 78/79 into the heyday. The producers clearly saw Saints as odds on to provide entertainment and they were dead right. Few years ago Steve Williams (my favourite player back in the day) was interviewed and said that his memory of those sides was the team spirit, workrate and pure enjoyment of playing professional football - they would be relentless until the final whistle. Thus, not scared of anyone and happy to go toe to toe with any side. You watch these matches (nice clear footage on TBMR) and this really stands out, top pros in a final hurrah alongside young talent keen to learn from the maestros, giving it everything they’ve got for the shirt -nostalgia can be incredibly refreshing.

Alas for Phil, only CEO of one leg of the tripod...

Of course, every complex organisation has a few such specimens. The dupes who suggest that he's not been interfering are either naive or ignorant, perhaps both.

By now, we must assume that he is, TDM!