so22saint

mods, i've not paid, but i helped set up some cloud serving with automatic up and down scaling for http://www.goalrun.com and also migrated foootball.mitoo onto new servers (that gets 80,000 concurrent sessions on a sunday), so pm me if you want any help / advice or the name of an excellent php chap in bournmouth. if you can't pm it's jim.herbert at sceneric dot com

had my stag do in Newquay just before it turned into the massive **** hole it is now (or because i was younger i just didn't notice - it was 11 years ago). things that went well: foam party in Tall Trees (since renamed - the club by the station) golf at the little 9 hole on saturday morning having a Magnum PI night (nicked the idea from Loaded issue 1) and best of all, there was an open air party at Pentire Heads which was superb. watched the sun rise to some late nineties trance with 500 other people did a bit of surfing but it wasn't that successful as a group thing - mainly due to hangovers!

Agree 10,000% - you've read my mind.

My sister once went out with a saints youth player (Paul Harper) and Harps met Sir Alex in the tunnel at the Dell. He asked SAF who he would buy if he had his choice of any player in the league (this was 1991/92) and he said it would be MLT, but that it was well known in the game that his wife wouldn't let him leave Southampton. Later that year (I think) he signed Cantona from Leeds, who I thought was quite similar to MLT. I often wonder how he would have turned out if he'd gone to Man U - and how England would have done in Euro 96 with an integrated Le Tiss - (though well aware that we would have been in League Two or something -oh). there's a video of Berbatov on YouTube saying that MLT was his hero growing up by the way - a great watch but I've looked and can't find it now. It might explain his game, 80 minutes of seemingly not much, a few flicks, then a hat trick

He's on the Saintlist for sure - met Herbie a few times, and did the stadium tour with him when it opened. He's a top, top fella

Worth trying to book the Isle of Wight hotel on Phillip Island isn't it for a bit of a Hampshire connection?

He is compared to Hilfanhaus ;-) Up the saints!

Not Saints, but another one that did turn uncomfortable was when I met Bryan Robson while ****faced in Manchester. He came over to talk to our table and I thanked him for being manager of Middlesborough. He said no problem and was I a smoggie and I replied "no mate, I'm a Saints fan and if they had a decent manager we'd have gone down". Didn't go down too well

heh, I lived in Manchester for a year in the 90s and had Teddy Sheringham open a toilet door in a panic as I was obviously about to puke - fair play to him he checked I was ok. Also saw Ryan Giggs and that Jenny girl from "No Limits" in a ****ty nightclub near the airport on a Thursday night. Best Saints story for me is when we partied the night away with the team in New York New York after our 6-3 against the Mancs in '96. Got in as I sold my shirt to Claus in the queue so his mate could get in (he didn't have a collar - what sort of day was it when a Southampton bouncer would turn away a Saints player after beating the then Champions 6-3 - ****). Anyway, bought another shirt, got in and got very very very drunk. Only awkward moments were telling Jim Magilton to leave it out with my sister (again) and talking to Tore Andre Flo's sister (tho she was introduced as Jostein Flo's sister) who was at the Institute and my mate turning to my now wife and saying "****ing fair play to him, he never chats up birds that good looking". Good days

So, I tipped my business partners on ARM in Jan at 100p (I once made a pretty penny on Acorn shares at 8p - sold out at 100p when they became ARM, they are now at an equivalent 1200 thanks to splits etc. - my old man still has his - best 250 quid ever invested). Anyway, they're 420+ now - did I buy any - no. arse A fundamentally good company who for reasons only known to the analysts I worked with at BAM tracked Man U's share price back in the day.

should be fine benj

and Posh

I heard a debate on Radio 4 as well (sorry) and Peta, 23 from Essex turned out to be intelligent and quick witted, and totally owned Kathy Lette, the unfunny Ozzie *****. it was good to hear. I seem to remember Peta, 23 from Essex was on Top Gear as well

Still? Still? Did we ever?

this sums up offence best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAGJpISVERg&t=3m27s

That 3rd goal summed up his domination of the Inter defence. Receives the call, looks up "I've got the beating of you", puts the ball 40 yards in front of him and runs the defender then puts in a perfect cross that I could score from (if I'd been goal hanging). He was immense last night - makes you think about where we'd be if we hadn't gone down - though by now he'd have left anyway.

Is it really going to happen then? It all comes down to if the crook makes more money through liquidation or through the admin exit plan. That we don't know but all will be obvious Tuesday. Do you think they need closure Tuesday / Wednesday as this is pay day perchance?

Is it really going to happen then? It all comes down to if the crook makes more money through liquidation or through the admin exit plan. That we don't know but all will be obvious Tuesday. Do you think they need closure Tuesday / Wednesday as this is pay day perchance?

another season wasted. what a massive **** up

if it's Jimbo I'll have to warn my brother in law and he tried to knob my sister on numerous occasions

**** off.. ho ho

so, new manager wants loads of new players and has no time to buy them, January he goes mental so our reserve squad goes through the roof pushing overheads up. Players have no idea who is in charge in the mean time. ****ing stupid

cheers for that email - I'm in the web business and FLi spoke to me about 3 months ago about doing a review of Perform - I think I'll call them back

at the game

is it possible to start one thread on this site without it turning into a ****ing slagging match? Personally, I'm pleased we're trying to address the midfield where we know we have issues - it means that AP and NC can see the same problems as us and have moved to get a tall, pacy, skillful attacking midfielder. What more can we ask for?