1976_Child

When I win the lottery it won't be becks i'll be supping! It will be Krug champers...

Southampton 'till I die. The bloke just speaking on Hampshire radio is absolutely correct. The stay away fans are decieving themselves if they think it will help the club in the long term. All fans, all true supporters of the club should show that support by being inside St Mary's at kick-off. (obviously if you can make it. would't expect Tim from LA to fly in every week!) Well done the 300 odd who made it up to Preston today. Wish I had gone...

I have to say (and I know I bang on about it) but when i saw him play at Farnborough he looked very, very impressive. He was running up and down the wing chasing after everything, physically strong and winning balls. Really good attitude and he was communicating with the other players well. Could well be cut from the same clothe as a certain Arsenal and England rising star...just hope we get a few years out of him before Lowe flogs him...

Tijuana Tim - just heard you on the radio. totally agree. Well said. also agree with you about Oscar - sounds like a level headed young man. good on him!

radio hampshire hasnt restarted streaming the third half on the internet! come on sort it out...i want to hear the reaction...

We are the champions! We are the champions! We are the champions! Come back from 2-0 down! F@ck me! This could, just might, possibly be the turning point of our season! Oh when the Saints! Oh when the Saints! Oh when the Saints go marching in! I wanna be in that number! When the Saints go marching in! Well done you Reds! Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Yes!!!!!!! What a result!!!! Well done you super super saints!!!! And wigan have just scored at fraton! This really is our day!!!!

Super super saints !!!!! Come on lads!!!! Hang in there !!!!!! Come on you reds!!!

Goal !!!

skates equalize....darn it

hull are battling hard! 4-3 man u

i am really please for young oscar. saw him at farborough and he was very impressive. a talent to watch...

COME ON YOU SAINTS!!! let's get the 3 points...

2-2 get in !!!!!!!!!

christ, have we REALLY scored from a corner? F@ck me! What ever next...

crickey. 2 nill down. Super Super Saints come on, up your game lads. Lowe out

yeah, great.

A very good article by the OP. Does Anfield really only hold 40,000? That shocks me! They make enough bloody noise for two Emirates. As my forum name suggests, I was born in 1976 - just 8 days before we won the Cup in fact. I grew up between Germany and Southampton/New Milton/Isle of Wight. I was an army child. Amongst all the moving - I lived in 28 different houses in my first 18 years - one thing was always constant. Through out the 80s listening to 'final score' every Saturday afternoon at the end of Grandstand, while munching on hot toast and marmite, was one of the most romantic and happy moments of the week. Yes, I do mean romantic. For a young lad, as I was, to hear the results come in, spoken with that perfectly enunciated voice, was romantic. Where exactly was Leeds? Leyton Orient - that sounds far away! Liverpool - that meant Ian Rush (I, and millions of others idolised Rush). All these wonderful, mystical places have been forever etched in my mind and associated with football. I even (briefly, very briefly) lent my 10 year old support to Luton Town because it was from Luton airport that we army families were flown out to Germany every six months and therefore, to a ten year old, Luton was THE most exotic place in the whole wide world! There was something about the 80s and football which I guess will never be recaptured. Frankly, the rioting can stay in the past – but even the rioting can be put in its historical context. Maggie versus the miners, loads-a-money city Essex-boys and football riots. All very much part of the 80s historical landscape. The original poster suggests that football has become sanitised. I would argue that the whole country – indeed our whole way of life – has become sanitised. Where is the massive upheaval in the country at the moment? The sort of football supporters passion of the 80s to which the OP refers was really born from the underlying events of the country as a whole. Maybe I am not articulating myself very well. Put it like this: for the last 16 years, until the other day, the country had been experiencing the most prolonged economic expansion ever. The standard of living of even the poorest in the country went up dramatically. With rising living standards the politicians don’t need to compete so hard for our votes. There is really nothing between the Tories, Labour and Libdems and there hasn’t been for the last 16 years. They are all the same. Politics has been sanitised. Society has been sanitised. There is no anger anymore. We are all just plodding along. And football has been sanitised as well. The soul-less stadia are more a result of complacent lives, easy credit and null-and-void politics than the architecture of the building itself. Perhaps it will now all change. I believe that the country is in for some hard times. I think there will come an abrupt end to our cosy, complacent lives. I am an amateur historian; I read history books like they are going out of fashion and the one big constant throughout history is that the good times always come to a messy end. The country is on the brink. Real politics will re-emerge. People will be shocked out of their cosy credit-card existences and then we will see people congregate once more on football terraces up and down the land with passion and comradeship once more in their veins and in the voices. Football is not just a sport. It is an expression of the national mood. And the mood is changing…

got to say that I did not sing that song last night. Heard the a lot in the Northam sing it. I decided not to join in because he was aquitted of all charges and so technically he did not rob from the skates. I got to say it's not the best song even he did steal from them - like dyer did, and was found guilty of.

I just realised that my current avatar is Jemima Puddle Duck. F@cking hope the duck hunter doesn't come after me!

JP's interview video on the Echo site (can't be Rsed to find the link) looked as though he was p!ssed of with everything. looked like the duck hunter had given him a spanking after the swansea game and his butt was still sore. Welcome to English footy mate.

duck hunter in the changing room eh? What a pr!ck

sh!t on, sh!t on, sh!t on the basturds below, below.....

Totally agree. F@cking barking decision. Waiting for the sub to happen killed any forward momentum we had. As for our set pieces in general they are still really poor. I will never understand how corners can be so rubbish. Have one corner taker and get him to bang in 100 into the box every training session. That's what johnny wilkinson does.