Whitey Grandad

Indeed. That's the rashness of youth.

More for the transfer kitty: '... and both clubs will receive The FA live broadcast fee of £144,000. '

Lucky guess or inspired deduction? I'll leave you to decide. http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2263967,00.html

To be fair, it was only a penalty shootout away from succeeding.

What, 'Crystal Palace Football Club 2010'? (If that's what it stands for).

Live Saturday games are timed so that they don't clash with the normal 3 o'clock league programme, so it's normally 12:30 or 5:15. If there is a police concern about drinking before the game then they may move the early one to 11:30. My money's on the evening kick-off on the Saturday.

So.... on the tele and not 3 o'clock then?

That match was a fix. We never heard of that referee again, did we?

Far too young. My thoughts are with his wife and family.

Don't forget VAT is now 2.13% higher so a £30 ticket last year would now be £30.64.

Hmm, Bournemouth play home to Brighton on the 22nd. I was hoping that they could cancel each other out. Now I'm not so sure.

FA rules are £15.00 minimum and prices have to be agreed by the two clubs. Nice idea, but...

These are not tears of laughter.

Thanks for that, I watched it on tv at the time. Ivan Golac didn't have Sky so he came round to watch it with me.

It's only a game of football, and not a very important one either, but I shall enjoy the occasion whatever happens.

Distracting to the fans and distracting to the club are not necessarily the same thing.

In case anyone is interested in money, Saints get £67,500 for winning yesterday, fourth round winners get £90,000. TV money for a live broadcast third round tie was £144,000 to each club, fourth round would be more.

There's too much live football on tele these days. There was a time when the cup final was just about the only match that you ever saw live.

Correct. The game was drawn but Saints progressed on penalties.

That's true. I'm certainly a lot happier than I used to be.

Nah, he's cup-tied and would be of no use to us in our cup run.

It's sad that Markus could not be here to see it.

Some of the extra visitors may well see what a great experience it is to come to a Saints game and come again more regularly?

Home draw, suits me. I don't mind who we got.

Home draw, that's all I wanted. Who have we got again?