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Reading at Majdeski. Easy for me to get to, and lots of crowing when we beat them. I am still thinking we might pass them as they go down this season.

Am I missing something? Are we already in the 3rd Round? There was me thinking that we still had to play Northampton to get to the next hurdle.

Oi! Behave there's nothing wrong with Geography teachers as a species supporting Saints. I've been the former for nearly 30 years and knowingly supported the latter for 45. Personally don't sing much at matches I get to these days. Kind of grew out of it. Used to love it on Milton Rd in my teens though.

I can't get worked up over this. It wasn't Saints and wasn't England. Personally I don't give a flying **** if a hoofball team misses out. Get over it. I've no allegiance to Ireland, I think they were desperately unlucky to get a bum decision, however,it doesn't even rank anywhere near Maradonna's HOG in Mexico

Same. Remember it as quite a scary experience. Having to stand at the back of a covered terrace with a **** poor view (no segregation) listening to endless choruses of "Drink up your cider!" Also went to a cup came at Oxford a few years later, Ron Atkinson was their skipper I think. However my favourite early away game was in Jan 71 when we beat Spuds at WHL.

Put simply we are not as good as we think we are. As usual.

I recall Bob McCarthy as being something of the Dell's whipping boy when he played. Mind you I never thought he was a particularly gifted full back. Didn't Best give a torrid time at the Dell a few years later?

Trying to put names to faces in picture. Reckon it was taken around 1968. Back row Jimmy Gabriel, Don't know,Dave Docker Walker,Gerry Gurr, Eric Martin, Not sure, Joe Kirkup, Mick Judd? Middle row George Horsfall, Frank Saul, Can't remember, Mick Channon, John McGrath, Hughie Fisher, Jimmy Melia, Tony Byrne? John Mortimer, Jimmy Gallagher Front row First two on left I can't recall, Ron Davies, Ted Bates, Terry Paine, Fred Kemp, John Sydenham

Went to Villa game at Dell, missed replay. Saw Blackpool game with amazing Paul Bennett goal. Went with mates in back of a pick up to WBA, but broke down at Bromsgrove so missed game, saw replay. Went to Bradford, saw the flying Party Seven. Missed Palace due to 6th Form Geog Field Trip in North Wales with BWS Salisbury. A fruitless Sunday spent trying to find somewhere in sheep ****gingville where we could view highlights. Went to Wembley courtesy of cup-tie voucher from league game in November possibly Oldham?

Saw my first game in October 1963, just before my 6th birthday. Dirty Leeds (the Revie team in its infancy). Lost 4-1. I was never aware of any other team to support. Somewhere my parents have a tattered school book from my first school telling of a trip to The Dell complete with a 6 year old's dodgy drawing of a figure in a red and white striped shirt and a building with what I must have thought were floodlights on it. By rights I should have no real Saints connections as my Dad was born in North London and my mum is from Sussex and I've never lived in Southampton (North Baddesley, Fordingbridge, Romsey, Winchester when I was younger though). Through family connections in Southampton my dad started supporting them in the war years and has notched up nearly 70 years as a Saints supporter so it was inevitable when I first wanted to go and watch football it would be The Dell I was taken.

PI KEY seen quite often around Wokingham area, also S80NGY parked in Winnersh.

Evidently not as short as MW2. On last level after 15 hours. been playing on and off since release day. Just had a go with Co-op objective online. Awesome!

The ride around the Lookout and Caesars Camp is a good one. Marked heath and forest trails. Not that unlike the Forest in terrain though, so I'd stick with that. If you wanted to think about pootling up the M3 and making a family day out however there is 'Go Ape' the Discovery Lookout Centre and 'Coral Reef' leisure pool all virtually on the doorstep

Always have to do a double take when I see a Pompey shirt. for some reason or other I seem to see the logo G O B S H I T E rather than the actual one they have on there. Is there something wrong with me?

Thanks for that. Now ****ing down in Winnersh.

Why is it ****ing down at Madejski and not in Winnersh?

I holeheartedly endorse this. Everyone in football knew Ron was the best header of a football in the world, possibly the best there's ever been, but I remember that 6-2 Villa game with big Ron scoring crackers with his feet. Ron you are are such a hero to many of us fiftysomethings who watched you in our youths. Please accept my sincerest condolences.

Learnt to swim at Central Baths. Travelling on 63 (I think) H&D bus from North Baddesley to go swimming in school holidays. The bus station. The LIDO! - cold water and rough concrete, and those slides. My first Chinese meal at Celestial Garden Restaurant which if my memory served me right was near Edwin Jones. Cycling to the Sports Centre. Cricket at the County Ground watching Greenidge, Richards, Roberts et al.

For my sins I've lived in the Reading area for nearly 30 Years. Evening Post is the local paper here. Is now published twice weekly I believe. Always a daily evening paper until recently. I suspect you are right with regards to the future of the Echo.

Another bit of my childhood goes west. Remember as a kid living in North Baddesley getting fish and chips on a Saturday night and picking up the Football Echo from a newsagents nearby, and waiting for my dad to finish reading it, before I could get my hands on it. Always has been the 'Footie Echo' in our family even when it morphed into the Sports Echo. Somewhere in my loft I still have, rolled up in a battered cardboard tube the only two bits of Saints memorabilia I own. A signed team photo of the Saints 71-72 squad given to me by a good friend who unfortunately did not see the end of 1972 and the Football Echo from May 1st 1976. Headline IT'S OURS!

GK - Eric Martin possibly due to his resemblance to Harpo Marx than for his goalkeeping prowess. RB - Ivan Golac, Joe Kirkup, because he always seemed to marking the penalty spot. LB - Dennis Hollywood, David Peach, Mark Dennis, Mick Mills Midfield - Steve Williams, Bally, David Armstrong Wingers - Paine, Sydenham Forwards - Davies, Channon, Le Tiss, Boyer, Worthington, plus two others both of whom contributed greatly by scoring in promotion seasons. Norman Dean 1966 and Tony Funnell 1978.

Hope you have a good'un. Never been to Sharm, but spent two weeks in Makadi Bay on other side of Red Sea. Best holiday we've had in years. All inclusive too. Anyway get a decent mask and snorkel and enjoy, there is still plenty to see on Red Sea reefs. I don't do clubbing due to advancing years (50+) so can't comment but, weather is reliable and in our experience the people can't do enough for you particularly if you are going 5 star.

I'd give inFamous a go. Not exactly RPG but with upgrade elements available, a good storyline and a fairly open world it might fit the bill

Just been watching 'The Drive' with John Elway and the Broncos on utube. This is an awesome sporting moment. Also a tribute to Walter Payton, the greatest of them all. A couple of sporting geniuses. Interesting Elway No 7 Le Tissier No 7 Payton No 34=7 Paine No 7. Might be something in that number. Lets hope for a Saints double over teams in green this weekend.