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Love this, but for me I would slightly change the last couple of lines: Arabs came - Arabs went - you can't pay your #@cking rent - With a nic-nac paddy whack give a skate a pound Your gonna loose your Fµ†çking Ground!

Just noticed this from 30th November, explains that we're going in two groups. http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/9393363.Huge_police_operation_for_Saints__clash_with_Pompey/?action=complain&cid=9872745

You just know whats gonna happen, we'll be waiting around for ages then a load of busses will all come along one after the other!! boom boom

Bus 3 Bursledon - How can bus 3 be Winchester and Bursledon?

Re Flares in the ground, I was thinking, just thinking;-) that as long as you don't get caught with an unlit flare, it would be pretty difficult once lit to prove that you lit it and brought it to the ground, surly if you just said, "it was alight on the ground under me, must of rolled down from behind, I was just holding it to attract a stewards attention and stop it causing a fire" they'd be hard pressed to prove otherwise??

My office is in swanwick side of burs exon bridge and we're so32, I go to most games with a couple of mates from alverstoke and it seems gosport has a sizeable saints contingent. Typical example of the stupidity of the bubble, they have to come to Bursledon to go back to skateland. (good excuse for a **** up sat night up here though )

If we hadn't stopped in Wickham I'm sure we would of got in the Fratton End. Then there would of been deaths or serious injury for sure. My mate and I were the youngest there and only cos his elder brothers were both Warrens and Lord Louis regulars.

In 84 (I was about 17) we all turned up at the Wagon before setting off in a convoy of hired luton vans. A certain Mr Todd had been to Shatton and purchased 200 tickets for the Shatton end. Unfortunately our thirst got the better of us and we stopped off in Wickham. 200 Saints fans don't exactly go unnoticed so by the time we got to the Eastern Road we were swamped by OB. Everybody out, lined up, searched and escorted to the ground. About a hundred meters from the last turn into Milton Road there was a desperate charge to break the escort lines (which resulted in my best mate at the time spending a couple of months in Winch ) then we were all thrown in the fire escape doors of the Saints end. During the game I can remember huge human waves of fans tightly packed into right side of the Saints end and massive surges of skates in their side, occasionally stopping the game as they ended up on the pitch. I don't think I've ever celebrated a goal so much as Morans winner. What a feeling! Then we were all escorted back to the football special trains with only the occasional brick to dodge. No game I've been to since has matched that as a total example of what the OB now term "disorder" at the time it was just a way of life, now it would make national TV news.

Utter Bull****e, saints were james's #1 preference.

My second team is Glasgow Rangers. Least year when Rangers played Manure in the CL I arranged a ticket before the revised travel was announced. A mate and I had to drive to our Manchester hotel, then get a taxi to Wigan where the three thousand Ger's fans had to get off their coaches and congregate with other fans who'd made their own way like us. Then the coaches left the JJB stadium in convoy straight to Old Trafford. The Rangers fans weren't given their ticket till the coach journey from the JJB to Manchester. As it happens we were late cos of traffic in the taxi and got to Wigan as the last coach left. Rangers had one coach left behind for late comers and staff which we hopped on. The aggro getting hold of our ticket off one of the travelling box office staff was a joke. Then to make matters worse we were escorted straight into OT to find they'd closed the bars in the ground. It was one of the best defensive displays I've seen by eleven men to win a 0-0 but then after the. Game it was back to Wigan then taxi back to Manchester. So, I have first hand expierience of this strategy and as much as I've been looking forward to seeing our revenge for the Amarillo game I will have to dig really deep to put myself through this kind of herding treatment again, believe me it will put a major damper on the day and give the home team an advantage. iMHO

Pilchards means an MLS team and obviously knows what he/she is talking about.

Difference is Gibraltar is a tax haven for anyone with more than 1M deposited in a Gibraltar bank, the only stipulation to qualify for cat1 tax status is that you have a gib address. - is Southampton Itchen likely to become a tax haven? ;-) LOL

Apart from being his Brother-In-Law what would I know?

James isn't signing for Saints. Think he would but don't think its going to happen. More likely to go abroad quite soon.

scullard - He's dead I think.

You lot crack me up. Fat, cokehead, lazy, bad in the dressing room, how the **** do you have the right to say these things about someone that at best you might of snatched a chat with while taking a **** on a night out? He's not fat at all, he has always chased back so I don't get the lazy bit, as for dressing room, david Moyes always complemented him on the way he kept the motivation up in the dressing room when he was rested at Everton. I'm not even going to comment about the drugs thing but unless you can prove it thats slander. The only thing thats held James back in the past couple of years was a dust up with Pulis and then a loss of confidence through too much time without match practice. If he did sign for Saints he'd give 110%. His family are here and he'd love to be close to them. If its not Saints, then there will be another team in for him soon, he's got one or two decent seasons in him given a bit of support and the right manager.

You're going to see james around at the moment. This is his family home until he formally leaves rangers. There's nothing more in it than that.

Has it already been asked if they're selling Itchen Block2 season tickets this year or is it still closed?

And I can't type before someone gets there!!!!

They're an attraktive buch down at Shatton

Don't be so bloody stupid he was back for the weekend and was simply going back training.

I've met him a couple of times socially and I think it might be to do with the fact hat he's a real Northerner and I recon it might be just that he's not sure about coming down here. I know he's good mates with Beatts so I would of thought he could of sold him on the area?

Surely its just a play on words... Le Bear???

Kevin Keagan in him prime was unmarkable

How many of you who have commented on his personality really know him? - I don't know him well but he's a really good mate of my brother-in-law and he's been really generous to me with England tickets whenever I've needed them. Apart from that, he's a sound bloke and despite the money, he's had his fare share of crap to deal with. When Andrea cheated on him with Terry his hand shake blank was TV gold for ages after. He's moved on well, he just pays the hand he's dealt and in my opinion is still one of the safest left backs playing. He will not be short of offers thats for shore. I never get involved in the ritual slating that many on this board thrive on. Comment on his football not his personality. - unless he's ****ged your wife of course :-)