adrian lord

How much longer?

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Same here - crack pipes

Christ it's only 4:30.

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What was in our tea?

Get a grip saints

Now that is the narrative I like.

Super Lukie Shaaaaw!

never did like Lineker, far too smug and self-regarding

That is staying up luck to get that decision

Sky says JRod dived? So what!

Pen

We need to get a spirit-crushing goal before half-time.

WBA ahead!

It certainly feels right

If they click, Villa won't know what's hit em!

Guly is not very well.

officialsaints: Southampton team: Boruc, Clyne, Yoshida, Hooiveld, Shaw, Puncheon, Schneiderlin, Cork, Ramírez, Lambert, Rodriguez. #saintsfc Attacking.

Saints win today and that will be a sickening body-blow to QPR.

Lets just hope frustration doesn't give way to disillusionment. It is a fine balance.

Now you're talking - but don't forget the Monkey Tennis courts.

Nutshell. Need to bolster the squad not the manager.

I honestly did derive a certain masochistic, nostalgic pleasure from trudging across muddy car parks in the pouring rain to pay cash to stand on the terrace at P'borough on that Tuesday night last season. And to top it all we won the game, and I knew in my heart we would definitely get promoted. Vivid memories, far better than endless identikit sterile afternoons at St Mary's.

The thing that really sickens me at the soulless tourist stadia, like Stamford Bridge and the Emirates in particular, is the pathetic practice of the "fan style" banners and flags they patronisingly put out around the place proclaiming and celebrating "legends" and various silverware. Usually situated on the first tier balconies, where TV exposure is too limited to sell the space for adverts. They think it looks like real, fan-supplied stuff and adds to the atmosphere but it fools no one. Fans are banned from bringing their own banners in FFS, lest it obscures a precious sponsor's advertising hoarding or contravenes H&S... Anyway, it is no surprise that the best atmospheres in the Premier league are in stadia of unfashionable, working class towns - such as Swansea and Stoke.