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Pearly gates. Angels playing harps. Chap with a white beard and white cloak. Heaven!!!

Most amusing moment of the night for me was when my West Ham supporting friend leapt of of his seat (block 14) shouting "YESSSSS!!" when he thought West Ham's effort after Fonte's slip-up had gone in. Cue a furtive look around at thousands of Saints fans staring quizzically at his reaction to a lucky Saints escape...

Slightly negative thought of the day... The only trouble with 'flying high' at this time of the season is that most of us have probably gone from a "I'd be content with a decent top half finish this season" mindset to a "I'd be disappointed now if we don't get promoted after that start" mindset. The bar of expectation has been raised. (not a bad thing per se)

We were 'clinging on' to a certain degree towards the end. Well, I was sitting there for the last 10 minutes with my head in my hands praying we could keep them out. Maybe not 'clinging' but they had chances to pull it level towards the end.

Not be sure whether you were coming or going...?

Just back from the game. Superb atmosphere. Saints deserved the win although I always felt West Ham had an equaliser in them so nail biting stuff towards the end. Our 'near miss' passing out of our own penalty area gives me heart palpitations a lot of the time but I guess I can live with that if we keep winning :-)

Pootle from The Flumps for me please Baj (Pootle's the little one on the right playing the whistle)

I just tried Googling that. Three words: Thanks a bunch

If anyone ever doubted the tabloids' ability to twist people's actual words.....exhibit A m'lud :-) Still, at least the Mirror were right about "Chamberlain leaving Southampton imminently".....they were saying that for best part of 12 months.... ;-)

We played well against Derby but didn't win.

If it's good enough for a certain football team....

That bit highlighted in bold seems a little subjective to me. Just because the police that didn't "impress" him thought differently to those that did "impress" him does that make their account any more acurate? I guess it depends what aspect of their character he was "impressed" by

Is it Dusty Bin?

Game sold out

I have no reason to specifically doubt the findings of the Taylor report, but, at a philosophical level, isn't blind faith that any given official report is 100% correct as blinkered as someone who choses point blank to believe it? A report produced by a human being isn't guaranteed to be 100% accurate all of the time I would venture. As I say, I've no reason to doubt any aspect of the Taylor report per se.

I accept it wasn't one of my better analogies (which isn't saying much!) but I was posing the analogy-led question more from a human instinct point of view. I still think in most 'tragic accident' scenarios, people instinctively direct their angst at the metaphorical 'man behind the wheel' rather than the faulty underlying systems and authorities. The Hillsborough disaster however tends to buck this trend of thought. Just an opinion of course.

I'm going to the game with a West Ham fan tonight, ergo we will lose 3-2

If a family member was killed in an accident on the motorway caused by a speeding driver, would your blame and anger be primarily directed at the offending driver or at the authorities for not doing enough to prevent said driver speeding in the first place?

Source as in "horses mouth" or source as in "someone told you" it came from Aaron Martin? Not dis-believing you, just trying to establish if a direct or indirect source. Cheers :-)

Perhaps someone should contact them....just in case they don't keep an eye out for questions about their activities and policies on a football forum

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2484857,00.html Demand high for the remaining tickets currently available for Tuesday night's game. Limited seats are available to database members only and are selling quickly for tomorrow's top of the table contest with West Ham United at St. Mary's. Having hammered Blackpool 4-0 at home this weekend Sam Allaradyce's side visit St. Mary's in good form to test Saints' impressive home record. Supporters are advised to purchase in advance to guarantee entry to what is set to be the highest home attendance of the season so far.

Soak in Guinness for 48 hours before adding a honey & mustard glaze. Lush.

Alpine's bait 34 SWF members taking the bait 34 A well earned score draw by one and all.

Yessssss!

I'm not sure what's more amusing. Alpine setting the bait or those lapping it up.... ;-)