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Matt's Bakery off Leigh Road do good pies and cakes. Haven't tried their bread.

The perceptive Jonathan Pie:

Saints Women's games are to participate in a trial of allowing alcohol to be drunk at your seat. 3 other clubs are taking part, 2 of them with experience of this because they also host Rugby.

if you know Southampton, it was obvious that the scenes supposedly shot here were not Southampton.

Similar pattern to Brexit not surprisingly with the older and/or less-educated voting to leave.

When did "detailing" cars become common? Another US import. What's wrong with a wash and polish?

The situation in the rest of the World:

Has Russell been coaching them? West Ham had 21 shots, Saints had 0.

Just watched Girona and Liverpool, ended 0-1. Gazzaniga in goal and Romeu taking no prisoners in midfield (he's on loan from Barcelona) Girona put in a decent performance but lacked a bit of quality in the final third.

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I think that the first Saints presence on the internet was in the early 90's and was a mailing list hosted by Ian Barclay on a server at Hewlett Packard in Bristol where he worked. It then migrated to Southampton Uni where Dr Dave Currie and Mike Furby created the first Saints website. They got the club interested and it was officially launched at the Uni by Matt Le Tiss in early 1996. I did the home match reports for a while but when Rupert Lowe took over they started to edit them so I stopped. The mailing list is still going but with much reduced numbers.

It's often forgotten that McMenemy got a lot of abuse in his first season. Taking us from top half when he joined to relegation upset most fans. I was under the East Stand but was told by friends under the West that he was roundly abused and regrettably even spat upon on the walk to the dugout. I'll always be grateful to Souness for the 6-3 Man Utd game.

2 separate things. Branfoot was long gone when Lowe arrived. The Ipswich game was December '93.

0-2 now.

I think that the argument is that as a foul was committed before the shot, the game stops at that point and what happens after doesn't count.

Roughly £12m to pay off Russell and his team. According to Adam Blackmore, that takes us close to our FFP limit. So no new players in January without selling first and no buying a new manager out of his contract. That leaves us with managers who are out of work and won't mind having a relegation on their CV.

In terms of a comprehensive win over top opposition, one of the best games that I saw at The Dell. Liverpool were on fire that season. Won the league by 9 points scoring 78 goals with a goal difference of 41. But we took them to the cleaners with Kenny Dalglish saying that it could have been 8-1.

Croatia v Scotland live on YouTube now. Adams on the bench for Scotland, Caleta-Car playing for Croatia. Orsic also on the bench fro Croatia.

Also, when he was a nipper, he lived opposite my Uncle in King George's Avenue.

Good news for Labour. Cleverly had the broadest appeal to the wider population Badenoch could start a fight in an empty room and Crooked Bob has the sort of face that you'd like to punch. When was the last time that a leader of the defeated party won the next election (Wilson in '74?).

Remember going there in '98. It was mid-October and we had 1 point ( a draw against Spurs). Bergkamp scored for them and David Howells equalised. We stayed up by 5 points helped by the unforgettable game at Selhurst Park against Wimbledon.

Just came across this article on "The Floating Toilet": https://www.theguardian.com/football/2007/apr/25/newsstory.sport2?utm_term=66f2d77fc2a13da6c90adb00f7bcfc6f&utm_campaign=TheFiver&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=fiver_email

A memory for all to treasure.....

Former Saints reporter for the old Football Echo (The Pink). His death was announced at half-time yesterday. In the pre-internet days the Footy Echo was required reading on a Saturday evening. I grew up in Romsey and used go with my dad to the newsagent and it was usually there by 7.00pm. In later years used to do the same with my son until they moved it to Sunday and, not long after, it ceased publication. I always found Bob's reports to be a bit through rose-tinted glasses. We'd get stuffed 0-3 at home and the headline would be "Unlucky Saints".

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