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Not until they lose against Aldershot in the league. Assuming of course Aldershot don't pass them on the way up.

FFS, hurry up FF. Or some loser nut job is going to steal your thunder! Edit: To make up for the above sin, this has to appear in the 100,000 post. From this epic thread's founding father, Fitzhugh Fella. In recognition of going past the 100,000 posts milestone, I have done a little research into one of the enduring myths as to why Southampton people are known as scummers. According to our fishy friends it is all to do with a strike being held in Portsmouth which was broken by casual labourers from Southampton. I could find no references to this myth but did uncover a story which sort of puts the boot on the other foot. Ladies and Gentlemen (and Nutjobs) I give you the true story of the 1890 Southampton Dock Strike. Portsmouth’s involvement in the 1890 Southampton Dock Strike. In 1890, emboldened by the London Dock labourers’ success of the previous year when they won the “Dockers tanner” (sixpence an hour), and by news of similar increases gained at Portsmouth and Plymouth, the Southampton dockers formed a union and decided to strike for more pay, shorter hours and recognition of the union. They were duly offered five pence per hour for day work and sixpence for night work but were denied recognition for their union. The men subsequently downed tools at midnight of the 7th of September and assembled in a crowd outside the dock gates, completely blocking Canute Rd and access to and from the docks. On the 9th the strikers were joined by many seamen as well as “town roughs” according to contemporary sources and all work now came to a standstill. The police made repeated charges but were unable to clear the road whereupon the mayor – James Bishop – applied for troops and 280 men of the Yorkshire Light Infantry were sent over from PORTSMOUTH. The Riot Act was read by Bishop after which the troops attempted to push the crowd away with the butts of their rifles and later with fixed bayonets, but were met with volleys of stones, one of which struck the mayor. There were calls for the troops to open fire but the mayor stayed calm and instead ordered the fire brigade to use hoses and a small area was cleared enough for the troops to occupy a passageway. Some of the mob took revenge by rushing up to East St and demolished the mayor’s boot-and-shoe shop, while others went the next day to his house in Grosvenor Square where the troops stationed outside to protect it threatened to open fire. Meanwhile some strikers had now gained access to the Docks from Southampton Water and the shipping companies appealed to the Admiralty who then sent two gunboats and a torpedo boat from PORTSMOUTH. The stand off came to an end when the shipping companies revised their offer which the strikers accepted “for the time being”. Several of the rioters were given three months imprisonment, while others were fined or bound over. The mayor meanwhile was given a unanimous vote of thanks by his fellow magistrates but the strain of the dispute brought on congestion of the brain from which he did not recover for some months, after which he removed himself and his business to……yes, you’ve guessed it, PORTSMOUTH!

Please post some here. Most of us have been banned years ago.

Somebody wake FF up. We're getting perilously close.

Maybe they should post them here. That would give us some hearty laughs. And get us to 100K PDQ.

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Lots of streams for El Crapico. Good news L B Ave, some of them are in Russian and other languages.

Good call. Don't know if they can actually stop nut jobs posting, but the mods can delete all the inane posts that may appear at 100,000 and after, reserving the 100,000th slot for one of the nut job giants. FF and RB are being very modest, but one of them, or Trousers, should have the honour. FF for being the father of this thread of course, and RB and Lord T for being between them responsible for about 50% of the posts, without which we'd be nowhere near this historic landmark. One idea is for the above mentioned nut jobs (and maybe others!) to submit to the mods their contribution of wit and wisdom for the historic post, and the mods to combine them and post it themselves. Failing that, feel free to cut and paste this.

You make that sound like a bad thing!

I don't want to say. But Cahill and Wilshere are pretty good players.

And one of those non-saints is complete shite.

But that would also require Athletico Madrid being stupid.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/live/match/309000/teams No. 21. Golden generation??

I see Jelle Van Damme is playing for Belgium. Is he that Jelle Van Damme? The crap one who used to play for us and must be about 100 now?

Oh dear, could this be the start of an Awful run for them? Maybe the the players had half an eye on their massive derby cup tie coming up, against their main Hampshire rivals. The good news is they do still have an 11 point cushion to the relegation zone. A bit like our 11 point cushion to Everton in 10th place.

If they know that he has to miss 2 matches, he should limp on in the 89th minute against Villa, toss his shirt into the crowd, pick up the resulting yellow, and serve his suspension while recovering during the next match.

6 losses out of 7 actually, and 4 of those were in succession against Arse, Citeh, Chelski, and Everton. True, their two most recent losses were against shite teams (QPR and Spurs), but that could be because they were in a slump from their previous nightmare run. Most recently, an away draw against in-form Wham suggests that they could be pulling out of their slump. They did also start the season well, winning at Anfield for example.

https://www.gambling.com/sports-betting/football-betting/articles/football-betting-strategy-time-of-first-goal-markets In the 2012-13 Barclays Premier League season, for example, the average time of the first goal was the 30th minute. You can narrow your betting even further by reading more into the statistics, which reveal that 33.9% of first goals came before the 15th minute - with just over one third of all goals coming in the vital starting minutes, it might be a good option to focus your resources on the 0-10 and 10-20 minute markets. As exhilarating as a late goal can be, the stats speak for themselves in terms of where the smart money should be placed in this market. The Premiership first goal average time overwhelmingly favours the first half, with a huge 77.7% of goals coming in the first 45 minutes of the game, so if you're looking to achieve a bit of extra value in this market, it's worth opting for teams who traditionally score outside the pressure cooker of the closing period.

This should add a little spice to the match day thread.

Not in the champions league. They're making Citeh look like school boys.

Bugger, just logged on. Earliest time left please. Ta!

Yes, but we can lose a number of those 27 games and still finish 4th (or higher). Lose a cup tie and that's it. The bookies have us at about 2-1 to finish in the top 4, and about 5-1 to win the cup.

We're 5th favorites to be in the top 4. We've got the best defensive record in the whole country, and the best g.d. in the league. We're 4 points ahead of 3rd place. So I beg to differ that top 4 isn't really realistic and it's a huge outside chance and will require a lot of luck. We're only 3rd favorites for the league cup (with only one winner of course), so I'd say the odds are better for a top 4 finish versus winning the cup. But RK will go all out to win it, and I'm glad about that, and that he's the anti-MP.

Indeed. Let's hope Morgan can behave himself until SD gets fit.