Stud mark of doom

Rod Wallace was 1 April 1989. April fools day. 20 plus games without a win. Last minute. Definite pen.

Plus there was that offside in ‘76.

The one against Blackburn in the last minute of luggy’s last game. 3-2 win for us.

That was the season Arsenal won the title at Anfield. (Without the extra time for Paul Davis’s punch on Glenda, they wouldn’t have won it.) Charlie left the season before, before they started winning titles.

Also, whilst having quite a few injuries/suspensions to key players and giving valuable game time to several youngsters. Quite amazing really.

I think the ref completely lost it yesterday. Giving that foul against Armstrong in the corner was unbelievable. For a few seconds after that it looked like he was about to book the crowd for their reaction - but he let us off with a stern talking to - very unprofessional. Perhaps he should have booked himself for inciting the crowd. Then letting the keeper take the free kick miles away from the incident, deep in injury time, was eerily reminiscent of Goodson Park debacle last season.

Saints want their Danish (right) back cured?

No.

I played at a similar level. I used to try and save them with my feet and didn’t used to dive at all as I couldn’t get down too quick. I’d also be happy to provide the benefit of my experiences to Alex, if he’s interested.

I think summer 2021 would make him our longest serving manage since Chris Nichol - 28 managers ago!

A defender’s worst nightmare

Thanks

Anyone know if you’d be able to watch on iPlayer from overseas?

Four games in the late 50s https://www.11v11.com/teams/southampton/tab/opposingTeams/opposition/Accrington%20Stanley%20%5b1891%5d/ W2 D2 L0

Who are they? (Drinks milk)

Brilliant - this must be the winner

Someone posted it was 16 years since we beat spurs 4-0 in the 3rd round. Great game - but not even our best match against spurs for me, that was the 3 1 win at WHL 29 (gulp) years ago. Still remember the rain falling off the net as yet another great goal was smashed into the net. Any other favourite memories?

Where “good” is defined as the best so far this century, in terms of goals. End.

A thumping 6-0 win for Hull today. Hats off to Nige, who is doing an amazing job there. A Hull supporting friend told me in the summer they were nailed on for relegation, having sold all their players who were even half decent due to finances. That’s 5 wins on the bounce now. Who knows, maybe he will get a fair shot at the prem one day.

To be fair, although it seemed a lot at the time, I think he has been reasonable VFM. Certainly a lot lot better than many we’ve signed.

They could almost be the same person.... except... could the Saintsweb earlobe experts report to the main board please.

Has anyone else noticed that Bubbly Dave has started to refer to the ball (which already has a succinct and readily understood name) as “the guvnor” in recent weeks. This seems like a recent development. Have I just missed it previously? He seems to be banging on about it in all the recent highlights packages. I had to miss the match today but I’m guessing we didn’t get control of the guvnor enough.

They mentioned on radio 5 today that Billy Sharp is now the joint highest league goal scorer this century - joint with Rickie Lambert (Rooney is third). Not bad having two Saints in the top two. Still think Billy was a little hard done by not having a chance in the prem, having got us there.

That’s not what Ralf said in the pre-City press conference. He was surprisingly open about the keeper standing in the wrong position, causing to the goal.

I had a look at this a couple of weeks back, before we started winning. I was thinking that this year is awful and would end up with much lower points than previous years at the bottom, at the end of the season. I was quite surprised that the current points total is similar to the past few years. So there does generally seem to be a pick up in the second half of the season for those st the bottom.