Football Special

The biggest concern of global warming for me is the lack of orange ball action we get to see in the modern era , always felt special when that came out

All good ones. Yes beat Spurs but I think was New Years day then beat them again in fa cup few days later 2003? Beating Arsenal 4-0 Cucu Martina was brilliant 2015. Loved the Chelsea 3-1 Frankie Bennett, I need to check this but think we then played Man City away THE NEXT DAY and the buzz of the 3-1 win inspired us to travel up to Manchester next day for a Northern away game, pay on the gate, those really were the days

Great find that mate. Love that era, absolutely zero glamour, Archers Road pens, oh Terry Hurlock, Iain Dowie football genius and no nonsense headbutts That all said, if we lose Friday I blame Ruddock

I was just joking I doubt he'd remember a Saints player headbutting him 34 years ago and still want revenge

He looks like Messi when dribbling with the ball

I'm sure I remember him from Notts County, possibly a Neil Ruddock headbutt in 1990/91 season? He'll have a grudge against us

Caretaker manager in for boxing day then, who knows what difference that will make , Craig Short rings a bell, played against us in the 90s?

We haven't won away to Oxford for 50 years, not a good omen , I fancy this one to be 1-1 , Paul Moody to score for them

Club hoping to get a record crowd in for the South Coast Derby vs Pompey on 10th Jan, but for some reason have moved it to be on same day as Doncaster away which immediately rules out some fans who will be at that https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/news/article/keep-hampshire-red-against-portsmouth-women-in-january

Just watched the football league highlights show, Doncaster lost 5-1 at home to Plymouth yesterday and drop to 23rd in League One, definitely a kind draw for us

Will be nice to see another name on the league trophy, hope they do it. I've always quite liked Heart of Midlothian FC.

Scienza really should have scored first half

I agree, but apparently some Oxford fans were calling for him to be sacked after defeat at Charlton yesterday

Is he injured?

Makes Rob Edwards decision to leave Boro for Wolves seem even more crazy, they are certain for relegation but now just end up like us trying not to break too many records , hard to tell how strong they'll be in the championship next season

Didn't we think that against Norwich as well? I don't know much about Oxford, but they've had some decent results this season particularly at home, last time we visited was a rubbish defeat pre season with Russ , hope for better this time. Just a short journey up the a34 shame ticket allocation was so small, anyone going to try to watch over the fence at the car park end with no stand?

Yeah we needed someone to be a handful in the box for the all the crosses we were putting in , Cov were struggling but our options off the bench were limited, their keeper played well though fair play to him

Three central defenders, two deep midfielders dropping to receive the ball , very few options in front of them to them to receive the ball, not set up.to counter a physical team who sit deep, Not the best tactics Tonda mush. Maybe throw the keeper up for corners again

Spoke to a few after the game, we seem completely off the radar to them as far as promotion rivals are concerned, probably fair enough

It's really poor, atmosphere was dead for so much of the game, even when we were going for the win at 1-1

Cov weren't great. Probably gave us too much respect, will take a point but with more quality could have won it.

I don't think all the seats have been put on sale yet , few blocks still to go

Might be a bit extreme but a good plan is for one of us to go down the panorama route as suggested, get a job in the ticket office and go undercover , then expose the corruption with an report published on here

We're not keeping a clean sheet are we