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This is not unique to Southampton,we have had similar outrage in Gloucestershire this year about drunkeness and 'drinking rituals'.This story even made national news in the press and tv: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/student/article4866791.ece Its not a problem with further education or the instititutions,but the social changes and what is deemed acceptable binge culture.

Last match at The Dell.

That was good travelogue programme,possibly the first of its kind. Its credibility was shot to pieces by this classic piece of Monty Python Whicker Island

They were during 1977/8 when we were neck and neck for promotion.The fact they were on the south coast did add a bit more of a dimension to it for many. One Brighton fan I know swears to this day that Saints and the yids conspired to draw 0-0 on the last game of the season which prevented BHA from joining Saints in Division 1 as we were already up. He conveniently ignores, no matter how many times I have told him, the fact Tony Funnell had a shot against the post. Onto today, looking forward to it,hope it does have a 'derby' needle to it.

Yes,I remember the 'derby' matches from the old Division 2,and then in the 1st Division. I recall us thrashing them 5-0 in the Phil Boyer era,and also beating them 2-0 at The Goldstone in the F.A Cup c 1986 which was a great day out. Lets not forget the last match at The Dell,a special occasion in which BHA entered into it and even started a 'if you all hate Pompey clap your hands'. As for the 'Seaweed' chant,that seems a bit too innocent now.At the last match at The Dell it was replaced with 'does your boyfriend know you're here', and 'your just a town full of faggots'. Such chanting seemed to be taken in good spirit by the BHA lot who partook in the mutual pitch invasion at the end.

Yes,I've mentioned it above. The fire burning through the map image at the start was always a dramatic opening,or so it seemed to me as a schoolboy in the 60's,no matter how often I'd seen it before. I must have been a bit of a latecomer to Bonanza though,as I don't remember too much of 'Adam' in it.'Hoss' & 'Little Joe' however were my early childhood heroes - along with Scott & Virgil Tracey- before they were superceded by Paine,Channon & Big Ron.

Probably a pre season friendly at Reading c1973. League match was Bristol City after relegation in 1974.

Alex Best ?

What,Christine Hamilton ? Christ forbid.

Full name Scott Marshall Own Goal.

Don't park outside my f'kin house !

For sheer impact,this is in my view remained the best opening of any of his productions : "anything can happen in the next half hour" was enough to keep me hooked in the 1960's.

Don't want to disappoint you but the 'bangers' thing ends on 15th,Sunday. Obviously the remaining menu will be available but if she is expecting a good sausage or banger it might not be available over the bar.

Man In A Suitcase.I'd stat up to watch it just for the theme tune as a kid.Hearing it on Chris Evans now I often resent the ginger tosser for 'borrowing' it. Agree with that about the 1960's, there was something spectacular about the creations at the time, however limited or sometimes feeble they look now. Westerns also : Bonanza,The Big Valley etc. Thunderbirds.As laughable as it may now seem! Gerry Anderson refused to compromise with Lew Grade and demanded a 72 piece orchestra for the theme tune.Unheard of at the time for television production,let alone a children's programme.

Can't think of that without thinking of this version by Arthur Two Stroke and the chart commandos a memory of student life on Tyneside in the early 1980's.

No real interest at all in a meaningless friendly played in some desert. Saints,and young Badgers junior football are far more important than tomorrow's prestige 'ego trip'.

That would also be my guess.

Do you think the signing of someonr from the Rooney dynasty might lead to a rise in the theft of hubcaps in the SO postcode area ?

Can you imagine any manager now appearing in a team photo wearing hush puppies ? Now it has to be a bespoke training wear or Armani. Ditto, it was the first Saints kit I saw in the great Alehouse era.

Yes,remember that.

According to one less Macclesfield fan posting on the youtube link given above he won't be joining us : and from the same bloke , Obviously a member of the Macclesfield branch of Mensa.

And Simon Charlton

From the 60's when they knew how to make good television: Bonanza The Untouchables Comedy:Steptoe,and Till Death...long before the pc brigade got going. More recently, ie 1980's Auf Wiedersehn Pet.

Hereford away would be more convenient for me