ericofarabia

A little bit of humour to get us through what is doubtlessly going to be a brain frying, gut wrenching, finger numbing F5ing day If only our kids drank more milk and less lager last season we might not be in such a mess now :doubt:

Have you forgotten last season already :confused: 47 points would have seen us safe (excluding the -10 of course :cool:) We got 23 pts away so winning just 6 out of 23 home games would have seen us 4th from bottom Winning just 11 out of 23 plus 1 draw would have seen us beat the -10 point penalty as well. Win all our home games, funnier than most of the Michael Jackson jokes doing the rounds

MJ's dates in London have had to be cancelled but Gary Glitter has offered to cover Simon 9yrs old on Saturday and Nigel 8 yrs old on Sunday. It should be remembered that MJ touched a lot of people in his lifetime ... just a pity most of them were children. MJ is going to be melted down into plastic toys so that children can play with him for a change. On arriving at Neverland police found Class A drugs in the Bathroom, Class B drugs in the living room and Class 4C in the bedroom. In his will MJ asked to be recycled as a plastic shopping bag ... so that he could be white and still be a danger to children. RIP Michael Jackson 1958 - 2009 (Nose 1990 - 2009)

A few months ago I had the pleasure of seeing Rankin Roger (The Beat), Neville Staples(The Specials) and Pauline Black(The Selector) backed by a very good band here in Dubai. Each did a session of their groups hits and then all on stage for a few encores. Twas a very good night indeed and boy did my legs ache the next morning from all the bopping about

But on what day, month or even year will that be

85% hopeful that we will be much closer to the takeover by the end of the day (just not sure which day it will be ) 25% worried that Lord Thinwilly will threaten to completely revoke our license to play in The FL if we persist on appealing, meaning the takeover will be binned and 101% sure I passed my A level maths by fluke

Happy Days + Minty signs for Chelsea

Strange ... I normally see UFOs etc on the way back from the pub

Bollix to that ... I think we should demand a +10 Points at the start of next season for all the heartache we have been put through, especially as the -10 meant even if we got the points to finish in 4th from bottom we were still going to get relegated :cool: so it all became a bit academic in the end anyway (now is not the time to mention that we were so sh1te that we deserved to go down anyway ) On a more sensible note, why should we accept any sort of punishment if, by the FL's rules we didn't actually break any laws that merit the punishment. We are either guilty or not guilty, there is no half way house, and denying us the right of appeal is surely beyond comprehension unless it was written into the terms of the ruling in the first place which as far as I understand it wasn't, in fact didn't Lord Thinwilly say we could appeal, but it would be a waste of time, which in itself is completely against the whole ethos of being able to appeal.:confused: Thanks Tony for the updates, your efforts and communications are most commendable and appreciated. Good luck on Monday.

OOOOOOOOOOPPPPSSS Me and my BIG mouth .... sorry folks :cool:

About a millisecond after an announcement has been made ... well thats what seemed to happen after anybody scored in the last 10 mins on Match Day freds

Nor Jose The Special One Mourinho or Arsene Wenger. Tisdale it is then

Well it's Friday ..... so my guess is YES :supz: :smt026 :drinkers: But it wouldn't be a takeover announcement without some reference to 'we should know more in another 48 hours' ](*,)

But would he be happy with a role on the subs bench behind McGoldrick

Which leads me to beleive that you may actually work for The Echo already

Quite pleased that Huddersfield and Stockport away crop up whilst I'm back in Blighty. We have a house in Leigh, Lancs so most of my hols in UK are spent there Looks like my trip to mum and dads in Beastleigh with my family will coincide with the Brentford game , the others aren't suitable dates. Maybe one of the Cups League or Johnstones Paint will provide another chance of a mid week game as well. 3 games including 2 new grounds is better than I'd hoped for.

I reckon you will be snapped up by The Echo as their number one reporter in a jiffy. Just the cutting edge style that they are looking for

This one certainly seems to be a popular choice, and quite rightly so. I remember that he had recently signed a 3 year contract with Newcastle, and then had the audacity to say he was thinking about taking Tahar to court as, by not appearing in the World Cup his value on the transfer market would suffer . What a selfish c*ck. It couldn't have happened to a more deserving knobhead. Surprised Roy Keanes dismissal in the 6 - 3 "can we play you every week" match hasn't cropped up yet.

One of my all time favourites is actually the thread title 1976 .. Fulham Allstars (BEST, Moore, Marsh. etc ) come to a struggling Southampton in the come down period after winning the FA CUP, well actually just our normal p!ss poor start to the season (P7 W0 D3 L4) and a week after getting dicked at Charlton 6-2, and with The (we love all London Teams) Big Match TV cameras there ready to record the match for viewing the next day, we totally p"ssed all over them and Georgie porgy puddin 'n ' pie spat the dummy big time and got sent off. (remember in those days GBH was the absolute minimal crime for a Red Card ) The arrival of Super (TED) Macdougall helped inspire us to negate the 6-2 defeat 2 weeks earlier with one of our own 6 - 2 at Wolves (who went up as champs with what would have been the best defensive record in the league if we had' stuck 6 past 'em ) In the space of less than 2 weeks we had been involved in 3 games producing 17 goals but Best's sending off still brings miles to my face

Piffle ..... I have often been out drinking with DubaiPhil who is ITK'd up to the eyeballs and of course more importantly The victorious manager of The Saints Web Forum Challenge Cup Other than that I had my picture in The Echo a few days before The 76 Cup Final when they were asking people for their predictions on how we'd do against Man Yoo. I was quite squiffied on Gales HSB but said our experience would be the deciding factor and we'd win 1-0. Now why didn't i follow thru with that thought and go into Ladbrokes . The pic was a bonus as with a combination of Afghan coat and masses of hair you couldn't see my face

Were they in brown paper bags? ..... if so it must mean that either Redkrap is on his way back or the club can't afford the usual pay slip envelopes and are using up all the bown paper bags that Redkrap left behind

In true takeover style ... expect an announcement about the take over party within the next 48 hours (or on Friday, whichever comes later) :cool:

Typical ... all this foot dragging with our take over means we've missed out on buying him We are in bad need of buying someone like Renaldo seeing as we've let our World Class Ryan smith go :cool:

Maybe this has happened on more than one occassion or my beer fuddled memory is playing tricks on me, but wasn't it before the game started, and I think 2 of the faces from The Warrens made it over the tall fence and made the Brighton fans do their impersonation of The Italian Army and hit runaway mode pronto Can't remember if it was the 77 or 79 game although I'm tending for the 79 game. Went up on the footie special train and was hammered before we even left Eastleigh. Was certainly a great day out and to cap it all was the great celebrations in the Saints section when the police rounded up the 2 Saints fans and escorted them back into the Saints section :smt046 Of course I'm not condoning FV in anyway, it was just part and parcel of the way things were back in those dark sinister days Can't remember much happening at The Dell when Brighton came to town, except us missing out on the chance of going top of Div 1 if we'd have won but lost 0-2

I'm still searching for the small print which says 'only applies to a) hot fit females, b) if you bring along your hot ****gable teenage daughter or c) you bring a crate of beer, 6 good bottles of wine, 6 steaks and some Cadbury's chocolate buttons Whilst the invites are going out, it of course stands to reason that any fellow Saints visiting Dubai are most welcome to come and stay with Phil, unless you fall into categories a or b above then see me