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Started charging in the second season in league one (if memory serves) not the Dell, and as for why they shouldn't pay i'd like to think the club are at the core of our community and if they can do something to improve the lives of people with disabilities then they should.

There's far fewer than there was at the Dell, though that's probably to do with the fact that Cortese decided to start charging them. Something that never happened at the Dell as it was seen as a community service to provide free access to the local football club for people with disabilities such as blindness.

I know the people that look after the blind very well at St Mary's and they're superb. The stewards are second to none in terms of how they handle and look after people and the effort they go to should be commended. This type of thing smacks of publicity more than anything else and shouldn't take away from this people Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Morgan and Toby, both are obviously good enough to regularly play for top level champions league teams with Morgan slightly shading it in terms of both ability and potential. Then there's a gap to a few others including Clyne, Bertrand, Vic and Tadic who could get into a Champions League side but probably wouldn't hold a place down regularly (the exception there is maybe Clyne who i feel is closer than the others to that level).

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A complaint for what? Anything other than racism/homophobia and that woman is a complete di.ck, i can't believe people would report one of their own.

There was a fuc.kload of what I can only describe as "football tourists" in the ground today. Clearly not from Southampton, half the time on their mobiles taking photos and smiling even when Swansea scored (or at least the ones I saw in block 43 were). If this is what success is about then I'm sorry give me league one and the championship everyday. Fu.cking hate their kind and seeing them at St Mary's is horrific. By the way I know I'll get abuse for this but I don't care. If you smile when the away team scores and spend the rest of the time in silence holding your phone kindly fu.ck off to whatever hole you came from Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Beamed it back to Fratton to play on big screens there too and remember singing about that. You're right though their away support was meek as **** and incredibly quiet too. Never really understood how they could shout about themselves after that as it was such an embarrassing turn out on their part.

The cup game in 96 was something like the 7th of january if memory serves correct, should've been four too but magilton was greedy and didn't square it instead going for the hatrick (not words i think we could've written before or since). Also remember queueing for tickets in the absolutely freezing cold outside the old ticket office from about 4 in the morning just to guarantee our normal places in the Archers block 5.

Was too young for that game but remember the '88 home game well, and my first away there was the Alan Knight's "testimonial" which was a sketchy day out to say the least. Wish i could've been there for that Moran goal, but for me it's up there as one of the most iconic in my time supporting Saints.

have you just used a fu.cking computer game to do comparison's? Jesus christ there are some dins on here.

Great well in that case i'm sure you'll never complain about plastic Mancs or the like and have no issue with the game being financially skewed towards the big clubs because of their branding overseas.

And that is how any overseas fan should do it, not a problem at all with an overseas fan supporting our club if they're families heritage is from our fine city.

born in southampton, grew up a 15 minutes walk from the Dell and 10 minutes walk from St Mary's. Come from three generations of Sotonians, so was never really a choice, just part of life and can't ever imagine "supporting" a club that doesn't represent my birthplace, my family, my friends and our history.

Is that a hint we're back to the sash?

the post match thread on redcafe is hilarious apparently we're ****, didn't deserve to win and it's a shock that a lesser club like us should ever be able to beat them http://www.redcafe.net/threads/post-match-vs-southampton.400160/ The entitlement of their plastic/armchair/overseas contingent can't get over it and i think that makes me love what we've achieved even more.

Not really sure what points you're trying to score there, a lot of people didn't believe it could be done because most people didn't expect the fairly unusual combination of things that've happened this season in terms of the teams that are usually in the champions league positions. Personally i agree with Turkish i think we'll finish just short in the end, which'll be a shame but not the end of the world, the question is is this a change in the top teams or just a one year blip that'll be re-adjusted next season. Sensible money would suggest the later, which means we'll probably not ever have a chance like this again.

I was a massive naysayer in the idea we could make top four. I'm still probably 50:50 that we will, but unlike before i actually believe we have a chance now and it's probably our best chance ever. In fact despite the fact i'm going to Ipswich away (and despite how ****ed i was about how we performed in the cups last season) i'd actually be happy to see the cups take a back seat and for us to go for it.

**** yes, that was a PROPER performance from our defensive players absolutely shut out Man U and only two shots on target from them at Old Trafford is an amazing feat. You know what i might actually take the Champions League qualification stuff seriously now!!

Up there with the version of OWTS started by someone shouting out "knock knock" then you basically held each word till you ran out of breath which let it spread round the dell and build. Good times they were.

What you mean exactly how we used to in the days of the milton with someone shouting "why don't you give me an S..."? In fact their chant was a carbon copy of the one we did at nearly every game for a good 20 years.

He'll go in the summer i think that's pretty obvious, and to be honest i think it's fair enough. Starting value though should be £25m given his age and the fact that players of his type to hit their peak till 27/28. Also would be really ****ed off to see him go to a club in this country and would hope that we wouldn't do it, PSG seems a good fit from a team that need someone like him and have the money but i honestly believe he's perfect for Barcelona and would fit into their side incredibly well.

Um are you a bit special mate? Plenty of folk i know never wear colours (myself included). In fact of the lot i know (10 - 15) almost no one wears colours to games.

I wouldn't hold up a field as an example of a good atmosphere. It's one of the worst I've been too with the exception of the karaoke version of ynwa at the beginning and end of each game. Absolutely shocking place for noise and even makes old Trafford look decent Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

As long as we don't ever go down the route of "ultras" (the most mickey mouse modern football thing around) i'm happy to try most things. Personally i think the Northam/Kingsland is actually as good as most i've heard in the premier league. I'm not claiming that's good by the way, more that it's a wider problem in the league. The thing with the old Dell that made it better (in my opinion) is that we had little vocal pockets split up around the ground, in the days of the terraces you had a good home "end" in the Milton, though songs split between left and right, the east stand lot that liked something a bit more "in your face" with the away fans and then the Archers lot that was more of a mixture. Obviously when the main home end moved to bikeshed we were helped by the low stand and roof, but there was a good enough pocket left in the Milton to get things going there and the east stand lot kept doing their thing whatever. For me the problem we have at St Mary's is that we have our Archers with the Northam/Kingsland, our East Stand lot with the Itchen but we've never had those pockets of singers that didn't move like we did in the Milton so the Chapel has never really caught on. I personally doubt it'd take massive amounts to get the Chapel going, maybe 50 people at the back who wanted to make some noise would inspire everyone else.