Jimmy_D

No chance imho. Pompey probably won't even make it to the end of the week, let alone through to next season.

SAF (either of them) 'tis a long shot I guess...

again already?

So finding an interesting historical article and bringing it to the attention of fellow Saints fans, albeit with a badly worded title, is more pathetic than wondering whether we'll get taken over or taken off of teletext first then?

You might want to get it checked out regardless of how it feels, just in case you managed to trap a nerve.

The game that had its name taken By Norman Fox After all of the historic notes and romantic notions had been presented ad nauseum, it was almost possible to believe that the FA Cup semi-final tie between Crystal Palace and Southampton at Stamford Bridge on Saturday was to be something much more grand that the "losers' match". But the game quickly revealed itself as the largely incoherent ramblings of two teams of limited ability and one must hope, for the sake of healthy competition that Southampton, winners by 2-0, can play a great deal better at Wembley. Crystal Palace, attempting to become the first third division team to reach the final, deserved a fair hearing, having had a considerably harder journey to the semi final stage than Southampton. On the day, however, they were firmly of the third division and probably it was kinder to their ambitions to be beaten here rather than degraded at Wembley. There's the first paragraph of the article. 'Tis probably not working now because they haven't got a server able to cope with all of us looking at the same time lol. And I meant winning the final! Just meant that it was an incredible acheivement after we'd been put down so far after the semi final. As for the press have always had it in for us... my memories go back as far as Southampton always being favourites to go down, and seems that it hadn't changed since way back then.... Horribly generalised I know, and I guess I've got far too much into the habit of being sardonic, but that doesn't come across too well on the Internet.

Our match report is below that. Drag the article up!

No real point, I just found that old newspaper report of our FA Cup semi final and thought it was interesting! A couple of Palace Fans are STILL bitter than we bullied them off the park that day apparently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975%E2%80%9376_FA_Cup#Semi_finals follow the link to the match report from there... direct link isn't working. It really was an incredible achievement to win it wasn't it... http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewArticle.arc?toDate=1976-04-06&fromDate=1976-04-04&currentPageNumber=1&resultsPerPage=10&sortBy=default&offset=0&viewName=&addFilters=&removeFilters=&addCat=&queryKeywords=Derby+County&sectionId=1040&currPgSmartSet=1&pageId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1976-04-05-08&articleId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1976-04-05-08-005&xmlpath=&pubId=17&totalResults=3&addRefineFilters=&removeRefineFilters=&addRefineCat=&next_Page=false&prev_Page=false&date_dd_From=4&date_mm_From=04&date_yyyy_From=1976&date_dd_to_range=6&date_mm_to_range=04&date_yyyy_to_range=1976&date_dd_from_precise=4&date_mm_from_precise=04&date_yyyy_from_precise=1976&isDateSearch=false&dateSearchType=range&refineQuerykeywordText=

The Statue. Saints reducing the mighty Man Utd. to changing their shirts at half time.

Sounds like Lambert at the start of the season almost... reckon Pardew could knock that out of him if true and we end up buying him.

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12874_5844046,00.html

Hm, sorry. Guess it is about saints fans rather than Saints themselves.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/8445003.stm Great News. Was gonna put this in general sports but thought it deserved a place on the main board as two of that team are Saints fans and trained here!

Do you think they'll change Markus to a Foreground Chairman if the rumoured signings we've got coming in tomorrow go through?

I'd forgotten that! Hope they go into admin now...

I'm glad someone got it!

I bet they were doing something like jumping over rods or running around cones...

Hm, I'm beginning to wonder... With Standard Bank calling in their loan ages ago, with the lawyer saying they have no bank facility and that the money was in HIS account ready to be paid... Plus they only accepted cash for the FA Cup game... I wonder if they even have a bank account at all at the moment?

Walking away doesn't mean they lose the wages they're already due.

I think the players could have walked on 1st January after the wages were late for December to start with. They managed to at least delay this happening by saying they'd be paid today. I'd say it was a delaying tactic while they scrabbled around the world looking for a loan to keep the club going for just a little bit longer, in the hope they'd find a real billionaire to take over. They probably paid the other staff out of the matchday income where they were only took cash. Now they're trying another delaying tactic of saying it'll be tomorrow now, and when that doesn't come through, which it won't unless they find some fool to lend them a bit more money, I'd imagine then the players will hand in their 14 day notice. (Unless they already have and we just haven't heard about it yet.)

Norwich City?

I thought that coming out of administration was down to a buyer and the creditors coming to agreement? In which case Gaydamak could just let the club go under unless someone pays the full amount he's owed?

Not if there aren't already the rules in place to punish them for this in the league, no, not outside of the consequences of what's written in the contract. Remember how much we were kicking up because the Football League decided to punish us when it didn't appear they had any rules in place to punish us, and ended up getting around it by deciding we were essentially the same company, thereby tenuously staying inside their own rules? If there are sanctions they could take but aren't because it'd look bad though, that's a completely different matter.

Wow. I was reading that assuming it was a joke... Then I saw it was the OS for Fulham...