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Fair play. I've always liked him as a person, think he comes across very genuine but really worried he was far too tactically rigid and didn't have a Plan B. Then we get to the playoffs, he plays it perfectly. 3-5-2 away at the Hawthorns to keep it 0-0 and get back to St. Mary's, brings out the 4-3-3 and sticks three goals past them at home. Then back to 3-5-2 at Wembley to force Leeds to play the way we want them to and grind out the result. Only that silly late goal against WBA which stopped us going the whole of the playoffs without conceding a single goal. Nice one, Russell

As the title says, seen some good ones floating around online already and thought we could pile them all in here

Can't say the same for the ones on ours, culminating in a bloke getting dragged off the train and arrested for racially abusing a member of the public.

Same boat here. Didn't realise it was going to rain though, was a rainy morning and sunny afternoon last time I checked 🙃

FT: City 1-2 United Ten Hag wins the FA Cup, Newcastle lose their Europa spot to United and Chelsea drop from Europa to Conference League.

Suppose he kept Plymouth up last season so he might be able to do it again...

See you there

Going to be a lot more 12:30s next season though, which is annoying

Yes, I don't think Kraft was suggesting imprisoning him

Henrik Kraft has confirmed in an interview with the Daily Echo that Russell Martin will continue as Saints manager next season, regardless of which division we find ourselves in after Sunday's final at Wembley. Not sure anyone really thought otherwise, but interesting to hear it from the chairman.

For anyone who is still yet to receive tickets... sharing the below info if useful. Spoke to the ticket office just now. They had about 25 people in the queue on the phones - presumably all saying the same thing! You can call them today or tomorrow (on Sat they are staffing the phone lines 10:00-14:00) to get put on the duplicates list. Duplicates are to be collected from the west Wembley ticket office on Level B1. You can collect them any time after 11am but aim to do so before 2pm. However, if you call them today and go on the dupes list, but your tickets then do arrive in the post tomorrow, the ticket office person was stressing that you should call them before 2pm on Sat so they can remove you from the duplicates list as Wembley would deactivate the QR codes on your original tickets and render them useless.

Do you still need tickets @Saint Keef...?

Wondering if this is what has happened to me too and they've sent it to a previous address. Saw my postie this morning and nothing there for my address. Would be weird if they've sent it to an old address, considering they've sent every set of away tickets all season long to the right address... but nothing would surprise me

https://twitter.com/jpercytelegraph/status/1793718407411782076?s=46&t=f0hgNyKSvvOD5qjGLJhsXQ

I’m in the same boat. Obviously a struggle to get post to the capital

It's exactly that

They’re using a third party rather than Royal Mail, I think? I’m sure there was some mention of that. Something about a third party company who specialise in fast turnaround of event tickets in tight timeframes. Or have I imagined this?!

In which case, I suppose the issue (from an EFL perspective) is then that WBA had suitable socks immediately available in another registered and EFL-approved kit (because the alternate kit is navy) whereas Saints don't, because our other sock options are turquoise or yellow and black. So if an FA official pushes back on white socks, there's not an immediate fix other than totally changing the kit selection. Still, a shame common sense can't be used around these rules to enable them to flex kit rules when it absolutely will not negatively impact the officials or the opponent. Having both teams in their primary colours for the EFL's #1 showpiece game would be better optics (even if ultimately meaningless) I quite like the black and yellow kit anyway, but I can see why it disappoints people for Saints to not be in red and white.