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I once got this paddington bear in Saints colours that stood on the fireplace, What the **** was someone thinking?

I don't mind a scarf, hat or T shirt but a ornament which looks like it's been done by a 10 year old makes me feel special indeed. NOT!

 

Come on don't be shy and tell us your weirdest gift from a loved one or grandparent?

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As a 8 year old kid really wanting a Saints shirt before the days when you could really get replica kits. Folks got me a generic yellow kit and told me it was the away kit. I thought it was the best present ever until some kind child pointed out to me that it wasn't the proper kit. Ungrateful brat that I was I threw a right strop.

 

Sorry folks.

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anyone recall the Saints after shave of the late seventies?

You didn't want to get it on your clothes, but you could run the mower on it.

 

Though I think the 04/05 dvd takes the biscuit, I remember them advertising it at the time with the slogan, 're-live every moment'.....

I'd rather not ta.

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Xmas 66, I was given my 1st Saints shirt. Only it wasn't.

 

Edwin Jones (forerunner of Debenhams) peddled what was nearer to Stoke or Sunderland shirts of that era and trying to hide the disapointment was hard. It didn't help that the first time my mum washed it, the colours ran and I was left with a Red and Pink striped embarassment.

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On the subject of Megastrore Tat, is anyone else offended by the selling of a Saints branded dartboard, with the club crest across the face of the target?

 

In my youth, you put pictures of people you disliked on the dartboard and aimed for them. Surely our shop should be selling Pompey dartboards so we can defile their logo.

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For some reason, my mum thinks anything in red or white is Saints-related. She bought a very expensive and hideously gaudy watch for me once, which was actually coloured red and black, with a hint of white. I pretended to love it, like a good son would, then it lived in a drawer, where it still is, incidentally.

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Just remembered my scarf that my parents got me from Australia a good few years back, They have a team called St Kilda that play in our colours and plus they are nicknamed the saints, however they insist that all scarves are 3 times longer than ours.

In the 80's anyone that saw a pratt wrapped up in a scarf from head to toe then that would of been me :-(

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My missus bought me a Saints logo car freshener - the ones that hang on mirror. Trouble is I do business in Poopey sometimes and so had to hide it each time I went down for fear of finding my car trashed at the end of the day.

 

Thing is, when it ran out I couldn't bring myself to throw it away so now it is hung on the inside of my up and over garage door.

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Late 70's I returned home from visitiing Nanny 'Eastleigh' (couldn't pronounce her Polish surname as a baby, so Nanny 'Eastleigh' stuck to this day) with a plastic Saints duffle bag. It was 'ace'. When it was replaced with a cheap market stall Saints holdall a classmate decided to use it as a dartboard, a fight in the corridor ensued as did detention for us both. Contrary to the noramal accepted rules in fight circumstances, I never forgave him and to this day am not friends with Peter Blackwell -ex Upbury Manor Secondary School, Manor Road, Gilligham, Kent. ******.

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Not exactly shocking but when I retired from teaching in Gosport, one child gave me a Saints mug as a leaving present. His dad was a die hard Pompey follower and had to go to the Megastore to buy it.

 

Working there was a bit like missionary work.

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Worst Saints gift - any calender as by about June every bloody player in there has been sold on. Not much fun having someone like Theo Walcott or Gregory Vignal on your wall in October when they've already buggered off.

 

Best Saints gift - Saints mats for my car, two for the front seats, two for the back. Really smart black with red and white trim and a little Saints crest in the top right hand corner. Bloody loved them.

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Worst Saints gift - any calender as by about June every bloody player in there has been sold on. Not much fun having someone like Theo Walcott or Gregory Vignal on your wall in October when they've already buggered off.

 

Best Saints gift - Saints mats for my car, two for the front seats, two for the back. Really smart black with red and white trim and a little Saints crest in the top right hand corner. Bloody loved them.

 

I get one every year, and I find it well annoying as well... Still, last month it was Paul Wotton, so I am glad September has come!!

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The kids gave me a teddy bear key ring wearing a Saints shirt saying Saints no1 fan which was nice of them but it is camper the a row of pink tents and has never seen the light of day.

 

I bought my brother the Saint gnome for his last birthday it is Quality and has been to a few away games.

 

In the seventies & eighties scarfs where all the rage & I had a silk yellow & blue 1 bought in about 78/79 that was so cool I used to have a red & white 1 on 1 wrist & the yellow 1 on the other & 1 round my neck I must have looked a proper T W A T but thought I was cool as F U C K

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As a 8 year old kid really wanting a Saints shirt before the days when you could really get replica kits. Folks got me a generic yellow kit and told me it was the away kit. I thought it was the best present ever until some kind child pointed out to me that it wasn't the proper kit. Ungrateful brat that I was I threw a right strop.

 

Sorry folks.

 

As I would have. This kind of "no fakes" behaviour should be encouraged. My dad bought me a purple velour adidas-wannabe tracksuit from France in 1988, completely missing the point - hell I wasn't going to wear an abomination like that if it didn't have the right label on it... :D

 

I let him off for the wool-type long-sleeved AC Milan shirt from 1983 though, thin-striped design classic and back then their shirts were usually brandless anyway, except for a massive advert which made your belly sweat.

 

On the Saints front, no-one's ever bought me any Saints tat, one of the benefits of not being local and the club's retail horizons not extending beyond the Isle of Wight.

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