Always Saints?

[RonManager]

Having just read the post about a Saints supporter changing allegiance to Leeds back along, and destroying all things Saints, have you always been a Saints fan or have you migrated, and if so, why?

 

For my part, I moved to Winchester from Singapore aged 12 in 1967 and that was when I first got interested in football at school (Peter Symonds doncha know). However, I started to support ManUre (can't remember why) and wrote it on my bag. However, I started going to the Dell with mates in 1968 and very quickly became a Saints fan.

 

I know a lot of Saints supporters will have a 'second team', but maybe that's for another thread, I think, unless you moved from them to us.

Edited 11 November, 2009 by RonManager

[Toadhall Saint]

Always Saints - born Northam - Brought up in Holyrood and now live in Woolston - so (as far as I am concerned) no option! :-)

[Tractor_Saint]

Going to get flamed I'm sure...

 

Was a through and through Ipswich Town supporter (hence the name) but have been living in Hampshire for the past 10+ years. Always tried to support from afar and when visiting parents in Ipswich I used to try to catch a game at Portman Road. Was definitely a part time supporter though really apart from signing up for the SMS game alerts for their games that's been about the size of the following I've done on the past few years

 

However, met my fantastic girlfriend a year and a half ago and she's a through and through Saints fan. Started going to games with her last season and found the ground & support fantastic and loved the fact that it was very much like the Ipswich family club that I grew up with.

 

Since then, we've got season tickets (and even have two for my kids to come along when we have them!) and been to the Bristol Rovers away game (and the first JPT round and off to tonights game). Have really fallen in love with the Saints and, for the first time in about 10 years, can name the regular first team It's sparked a new interest in football for me which had been lying untouched for some time. Now I'm extremely passionate about Southampton and regularly have discussions with Poopey fans (live in a PO postcode) and can hold my own in those 'discussions'

 

So, there you go, not sure what will happen when Ipswich and Southampton play next on which side I'll be sat but the way things are going right now they might swap leagues with each other next season anyhow!!

Edited 11 November, 2009 by Tractor_Saint

[Horley CTFC Saint]

Having just read the post about a Saints supporter changing allegiance to Leeds back along, and destroying all things Saints, have you always been a Saints fan or have you migrated, and if so, why?

 

For my part, I moved to Winchester from Singapore aged 12 in 1967 and that was when I first got interested in football at school (Peter Symonds doncha know). However, I started to support ManUre (can't remember why) and wrote it on my bag. However, I started going to the Dell with mates in 1968 and very quickly became a Saints fan.

 

You should always stay a Saint - back in the days of the Dell and Premier League football I took to watching a bit of my local Southern League team Crawley Town - the gulf was enough for it not to seem disloyal especially as tickets were so hard to come by down at the Dell.

 

Now look at it 18 years down the line we are potentially one season away from playing in the same Division as Crawley and supporting Saints and Crawley seems just a bit like bigamy!

[Saint_clark]

I detested football until my dad and brother brought me to watch Saints at the start of the 04/05 season. My first game was the 3-2 win over Blackburn.

[Bakovnetski]

Saints first always. Aldershot are my second team being an Alton boy originally. Anyone else have a second team?

[amsterdam]

First moved to Bitterne from Paris when I was around 12 (many of my mum's relations were already there). I was more a footie "fan" than a Saint although I went to the Dell a few times and we had friends who lived in the flats that overlooked the Archer's Road end, so watched a few matches from there.

It wasn't until I went to Uni in 1984 where there were some 15 of us in the halls of residence and everyone was football mad - Scousers, Mancs, Leeds, Leicester, Forest and a weird ex-druggie from Pompey called Harry the Horse, who kept calling me Scummer (first time i heard that term).

It was traditional as we got ready to go out on Saturday nights to sit round and watch Final Score and take the p*ss out of each other. Because I was from Soton everyone assumed I supported them - I didn't really, but went along with it and gradually got more and more drawn into it; particularly as we had such a great season... so I was a glory hunter!!

I've never lived in the city since, but the Saints are my link to the city I spent my youth in and I cannot imagine NOT supporting them nor following anyone else (even after all the rubbish we've been through in recent years)...

[fromthedell]

allways saints allways red n white personally could never even bring myself to cheer any other team born millbrook now live totton allways red n white 4 life

[warsash saint]

Was, hate to say, a Liverpool fan when I was a youngster

 

Only way to get to see them was to buy a mini season ticket at the Dell, so my Dad bought us a couple in which we saw Notts Forest, Spurs, Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal & Liverpool, I think around 1978.

 

After seeing the 6 games & being mighty impressed with Saints, I changed my alliegence & have followed Saints ever since.

 

Got my 1st full season ticket the year King Kev joined & we finished 2nd in the league..... it's all been down hill since then

[Deanovski]

when i was 14 i got into football i started by watching and liking italian teams mainly Juventus roma and fiorentina i went to a saints game for the first time since i started appreciating football and fell in love and now have been every week since.

[John Boy Saint]

When I was little, the M3 was still just fields. My Dad had to commute up to London and points east from Southampton so he decided to move us closer to London. We ended up in a small village in North Hampshire called Silchester.

I went to the local school when Leeds United were in their Revie led pomp so just about everyone supported Leeds like mad things I even had a number 4 Billy Bremner kit, with the sock flags one Christmas. As time passed Leeds slid and I continued to support them not knowing any better, when I said to friends about Leeds they said "I don't support them any more we support Derby..... then QPR" I was a bit miffed at this and then watching the teleprinter one Saturday I noticed that my home City had a team, problem solved: even if not long after discovering each other we were relegated. I have never looked back since.

 

As I have written before on threads of a similar subject, in the back of one of the Hagiology books Farewell to the Dell (?) where there are the contributions from fans one chap wrote about going to the Dell as a nipper, and his Dad or someone saying "you don't choose to support The Saints, The Saints choose you!!". Since reading that I have always thought that was a nice sentiment and hoped that it applies to me and my transgression when I knew no better.

[John B]

Born in the General Hospital

 

Lived in Woolston Bitterne and Bitterne Manor now live in Berkshire

 

Supported SFC for fifty years and will continue to do so

[St Will]

Grew up in Yorkshire, it was either Dirty Leeds or Southampton, as my dad was born and bred in Southampton. Went to a Leeds game, didn't like it, then went to Saints away at Notts County (of all places) around 20 years ago, and have been red n white ever since.

[Dimond Geezer]

Going to get flamed I'm sure...

 

Was a through and through Ipswich Town supporter (hence the name) but have been living in Hampshire for the past 10+ years. Always tried to support from afar and when visiting parents in Ipswich I used to try to catch a game at Portman Road. Was definitely a part time supporter though really apart from signing up for the SMS game alerts for their games that's been about the size of the following I've done on the past few years

 

However, met my fantastic girlfriend a year and a half ago and she's a through and through Saints fan. Started going to games with her last season and found the ground & support fantastic and loved the fact that it was very much like the Ipswich family club that I grew up with.

 

Since then, we've got season tickets (and even have two for my kids to come along when we have them!) and been to the Bristol Rovers away game (and the first JPT round and off to tonights game). Have really fallen in love with the Saints and, for the first time in about 10 years, can name the regular first team It's sparked a new interest in football for me which had been lying untouched for some time. Now I'm extremely passionate about Southampton and regularly have discussions with Poopey fans (live in a PO postcode) and can hold my own in those 'discussions'

 

So, there you go, not sure what will happen when Ipswich and Southampton play next on which side I'll be sat but the way things are going right now they might swap leagues with each other next season anyhow!!

 

I'm very impressed, I can't believe we actually gained a fan during our worst season in livin memory - respect. :prayer: As for naming the first team, I'm not sure many could do that until recent weeks.

 

For my part I've been a Saints fan since I was a 9 year old & we won the cup (does that make be a glory hunter? ). Although I didn't go to my first game until '79 (I think) when we played Vancouver Whitecaps in a friendly at the Dell. I don't remeber a lot about it apart from the bench seats under the West Stand were bloody hard & they had Bally, Davis Harvey & Jimmy Greaves playing for them. Started going regurlarly from about 1980 onwards, firts in the family centre with my mates Dad, (my mate lost interest & Dad had a spare ticket), then behind the goal in the Milton Rd End.

[nickfinks]

Was a Spud supporter till I was about six when I went to my first game at the dell, 30 years on and I'm still a Saint..

[JustinR]

I didnt think you were allowed to change! Because Ive felt like it many times over the past couple of years.

 

I followed my old man. In the 80s, in Salisbury when I was at school you had to make a choice early on in school. Normally between the Saints and Liverpool (local versus glory hunting) and I chose the Saints. It was always made clear to me you could not change for the rest of your life- was has often felt like a life sentence

 

Having said that, I could never had EMOTIONALLY changed teams. Its like changing my mother or my son. As much as I might often want to, I just couldnt do it because I love too much

[RedAndWhite91]

Born in Southampton, raised in Netley. My Dad is a West Ham fan and tried his best when I was little to make me support the hammers but I was having none of it as I knew, even at that age, I had to support the club from where I was born. So therefore since I've been about 4 or 5 I've been Saints through and through, but I do have a soft spot for West Ham and they are my second team.

 

Incidentally RonManager, I done my A-Levels at Peter Symonds finishing earlier this year, and I'm sad to say that as a Saints fan I was in a minority.

 

I remember a few people switching allegiances from Saints to Man Utd circa 1999, disgusting.

[Thorpe-le-Saint]

I was a Liverpool fan up until I was about eight, so have been a Saints fan 'proper' since 1994.

[saint J]

I have a mate who has got to be the worst!!

He was a saints fan all through school but changed to supporting that Team down the road once we left school!

Bastard.

[Phil the Saint]

Born in Southampton General lived in or around Eastleigh for ever. Always a Saint and rumouredly my first words were 'Terry Paine.'

[doughnutman]

supported saints since the age of 5, growing up in Eastleigh. Though didnt see a game until my dad took me to see saints v derby at the dell for my tenth birthday. Also follow Eastleigh FC seeing as I live a ten minute walk from there ground and so was a good way to watch footy when saints were playing away. I now also look out for Cardiffs results now as i'm a tht uni there (also finished my a-levels at peter symonds this year!)

[Professor]

Summer 1958 - as a schoolboy, I was reading the football pages because of Man U and Munich earlier that year. In the summer, the Third Divisions North and South were being merged into the new 3rd and 4th Divisions and the papers were full of how the northern teams would dominate the soft southern teams. Bury from the old Third North were favourites to win the new 3rd Div. I watched for the Bury result at the start of the season and they lost - to Southampton. Living in Sussex, the closer teams for me would have been Brighton or Portsmouth, but Southampton had caught my imagination. The next year they beat 1st Div Man City in the FA cup 3rd round and went on to win Div 3. I was already hooked, and later I moved to live in the New Forest, which I still claim was for work purposes, but I can't help thinking that love of Saints might have had something to do with it.

[Aardvark]

allways saints allways red n white personally could never even bring myself to cheer any other team born millbrook now live totton allways red n white 4 life

 

Surely you could bring yourself to cheer on whoever is playing against Poot's Muff??!!

 

:smt063 :smt030

[LeBenali]

The very first in a long line of a West Ham supporting family (my great great something-or-other was one of their founders/chairmen) to buck the trend and for some unknown reason support the Saints. I'm from Bournemouth so had no previous Soton links, but I think it was from watching MLT on Match of the Day that convinced me support the red and white.

[Saint_clark]

Surely you could bring yourself to cheer on whoever is playing against Poot's Muff??!!

 

:smt063 :smt030

 

That's always fun.

[amsterdam]

I didnt think you were allowed to change! Because Ive felt like it many times over the past couple of years.

 

I followed my old man. In the 80s, in Salisbury when I was at school you had to make a choice early on in school. Normally between the Saints and Liverpool (local versus glory hunting) and I chose the Saints. It was always made clear to me you could not change for the rest of your life- was has often felt like a life sentence

 

Having said that, I could never had EMOTIONALLY changed teams. Its like changing my mother or my son. As much as I might often want to, I just couldnt do it because I love too much

 

Know what you mean about the life sentence!! Did you see the open-letter rant posted by the Grimsby fan below? Don't know how many times over the years I wanted to say the same to Saints...!!

 

 

Dear Players of Grimsby Town FC

 

I am writing with regard to my absolute astonishment and disbelief as to the sheer magnitude of your complete lack of talent and failure to carry out the job for which you are paid to do. I am not aware of any swear word or other derogatory phrase in my current vocabulary which comes close to a description of your ‘performance’ (and I use that term loosely) this afternoon, but let me just say that you have collectively reached a level of inadequacy and ineptitude that neither I nor modern science had previously considered possible.

 

In fact I recall a time, in my youth, when I decided to call in sick at work and instead spent the entire day in my one bedroom flat wearing nothing but my underpants, eating toast and wánking furiously over second-rate Scandinavian porn. Yet somehow, I still managed to contribute more to my employer in that one Andrex-filled day than you complete bunch of toss-baskets have contributed to this club in your entire time here.

 

I would genuinely like to know how you pathetic little píssflaps sleep at night, knowing full well that you have taken my money and that of several thousand others and delivered precisely fúck all in return. I run a business myself, and I believe I could take any 4,000 of my customers at random; burn down their houses, impregnate their wives and then dismember their children before systematically sending them back in the post, limb-by-limb, and still ensure a level of customer satisfaction which exceeds that which I have experienced at Blundell Park at any time so far this season.

 

You are a total disgrace, not only to your profession, not only to the human race, but to nature itself. This may sound like an exaggeration, but believe me when I say that I have passed kidney stones which have brought me a greater level of pleasure and entertainment than watching each of you worthless excuses for professional footballers attempt to play a game you are clearly incapable of playing, week-in, week-out.

 

I considered, for a second, that I was perhaps being a little too harsh. But then I recalled that I have blindly given you all the benefit of the doubt for too long now. Yes, for too long you have failed to earn the air you’ve been breathing by offering any kind of tangible quality either as footballers or as people in general. As such, I feel it’s only fair that your supply runs out forthwith.

 

I trust, at this precise moment in time, that Mr Fenty is in his office tapping away on the Easyjet web site booking you all one-way flights to Zurich, complete with an overnight stay with our cheese eating friends at Dignitas. Don’t bother packing your toothbrush – you won’t need it.

 

In the event that our beloved chairman can’t afford the expense (understandable given that he’s soon going to have to assemble a new squad from scratch), then I am prepared to sell my family (including my unborn child) to a dubious consortium of Middle Eastern businessmen in order to pay for the flights. Christ, I’ll drive you there myself, one-by one, without sleep, if I have to.

 

Failing that, understanding that most dubious Middle Eastern businessmen are tied-up purchasing Premier League football clubs, I ask you to please take matters into your hands. Use your imagination, guys – strangle yourselves or cover yourself in tinfoil and take a fork to a nearby plug socket, or something. Just put yourselves and us fans out of our collective misery.

 

So, in summary, you pack of repugnant, sputum-filled, invertebrate bástards; leave this club now and don’t you fúcking dare look back. You’ve consistently demonstrated less passion and desire than can commonly be found within the contents of a sloth’s scrótum, so frankly you can just all fúck off – don’t pass go, don’t collect your wages, don’t ever come back to this town again.

 

I look forward to you serving me at my local McDonald’s drive-thru in the near future.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

A very disillusioned Mariner

[St Will]

allways saints allways red n white personally could never even bring myself to cheer any other team born millbrook now live totton allways red n white 4 life

 

It's ALWAYS

[miserableoldgit]

Born and bred in Southampton.Always lived there ( apart from a few years in Colden Common) and ALWAYS a Saint through thick and thin. All of my my family (Mum, Dad , uncles etc) were Saints through and through, and I just can`t imagine any other club coming even close. I live 5 minutes walk from Eastleighs ground and even they, despite the closeness, don`t attract me. I have fallen out of love with football in general and if I didn`t watch Saints I wouldn`t bother to watch anybody. Over 50 years a Saint. Southampton `til I die!!!

[miserableoldgit]

It's ALWAYS

I think that he is getting confused with "Alldays".

[Tractor_Saint]

It's ALWAYS

 

Will let you tell that to the truckers

[rallyboy]

I have to confess to being with John Boy on this one - Lorimer, Reaney, Jones, Clarke, Giles, Bremner, Cooper, etc etc, until I shook that off 30 years ago.

And the bizarre thing is having followed Leeds as a wee nipper I had no interest post-conversion when they won the league nor when they went down so I got that one out of my system long long ago. No feelings for them at all, apart from the obvious!

 

But I know of one person who was with us in the 80s, cup games at Sheff Wed, the semi at Highbury, red and white through and through - and last sighted as a Fratton season ticket holder 'cos it was cheaper' at the time.

The only case I know of someone crossing the uncrossable divide, though he should be back any minute now.

[St Will]

Will let you tell that to the truckers

 

How on earth did you come up with that?!

[SaintDonkey]

I have a mate who has got to be the worst!!

He was a saints fan all through school but changed to supporting that Team down the road once we left school!

Bastard.

 

Growing up in Fareham I know a fair number of the blokes I went to school with who switched from their childhood allegiences (mostly Liverpool) to the blue few when they went to Uni - it being trendy to support you're local team.

 

One of them was a Saints fan - I've not spoken to him for nearly 20 years now for his act of treachery.

[gaz]

Growing up in Notts in the 90s, you were either a Forest, County or Lincoln fan. Hardly awe-inspiring, so when my mates cottoned onto Fergie's ManYoo steamroller, a lot switched. I was still a Forest lad and even went to Forest vs Charlton in 1997 when Pierre Van Hooijdonk got a hattrick in a 5-2 thrashing.

 

However, I was always slightly odd, so I picked Liverpool (at McManananananananananananan's height of fame), then Aston Villa (yeah, I don't remember why either!). Finally settled on Saints because of Parent's links with Netley, the Royal Vic hospital (Dad was stationed there during serving in the Army), and the fact my Uncle lived up Milton Road.

 

Never looked back, Saint until I die.

[krissyboy31]

I have a mate who has got to be the worst!!

He was a saints fan all through school but changed to supporting that Team down the road once we left school!

Bastard.

 

I know somebody who did that but TBF they were sh!t at the time and we were still a half decent team, so it wasn't a "glory" hunting thing! I think he just lost his marbles.

[camdijk]

First home I remember living in was Bowling Green House near the Royal Pier (our flat? overlloked the green and used to watch the 'old codgers' bowling. First school was St Johns (remember nissen hut as classroom) Moved to Bitterne in early 50's until I joined the RN in mid 60's, straight from school. Currently living in Po***mouth!!! , but siblings still live in Bitterne. My first senior school was the first intake at Moorhill 1960.

[John Boy Saint]

Growing up in Notts in the 90s, you were either a Forest, County or Lincoln fan. Hardly awe-inspiring, so when my mates cottoned onto Fergie's ManYoo steamroller, a lot switched. I was still a Forest lad and even went to Forest vs Charlton in 1997 when Pierre Van Hooijdonk got a hattrick in a 5-2 thrashing.

 

However, I was always slightly odd, so I picked Liverpool (at McManananananananananananan's height of fame), then Aston Villa (yeah, I don't remember why either!). Finally settled on Saints because of Parent's links with Netley, the Royal Vic hospital (Dad was stationed there during serving in the Army), and the fact my Uncle lived up Milton Road.

 

Never looked back, Saint until I die.

 

There you go, as I said in my post: You don't choose to support The Saints, The Saints choose you...............................Eventually if you are outside the metropolis for whatever reason.

[WestSaint]

Always Saints since my grandfather took me when I was about nine or ten to the Dell. He was an West Stand season ticket holder (miLton road end) and used to swap seats with his friends so we could sit together and watch the game. Never really supported an other team but took an nterest in other teams if the fancy took me. I remember a shock result donkeys years ago when Morton beat either rangers or celtic and I followed the results when Saints were playing away for a number of years. Used to watch Totton play at Testwood Park in the Hampshire League and travelled to Bournemouth

on occasions

[View From The Top]

Concieved due to a 4th Rd FA Cup win & named after two Saints players.

 

I really didn't have a choice.

Edited 11 November, 2009 by View From The Top

[Winnersaint]

Saw my first game in October 1963, just before my 6th birthday. Dirty Leeds (the Revie team in its infancy). Lost 4-1. I was never aware of any other team to support. Somewhere my parents have a tattered school book from my first school telling of a trip to The Dell complete with a 6 year old's dodgy drawing of a figure in a red and white striped shirt and a building with what I must have thought were floodlights on it. By rights I should have no real Saints connections as my Dad was born in North London and my mum is from Sussex and I've never lived in Southampton (North Baddesley, Fordingbridge, Romsey, Winchester when I was younger though). Through family connections in Southampton my dad started supporting them in the war years and has notched up nearly 70 years as a Saints supporter so it was inevitable when I first wanted to go and watch football it would be The Dell I was taken.

[Bridge]

Supported QPR in the late 70's & 80's when I live in Windsor. Easy to get to. Went off football for a long time when all the silly money got involved and the smaller teams suffered. Moved near Andover about 5 years ago and my son started to play when he was 6 so started to take him to saints now both big fans......

[EastleighSoulBoy]

I have to confess to being with John Boy on this one - Lorimer, Reaney, Jones, Clarke, Giles, Bremner, Cooper, etc etc, until I shook that off 30 years ago.

And the bizarre thing is having followed Leeds as a wee nipper I had no interest post-conversion when they won the league nor when they went down so I got that one out of my system long long ago. No feelings for them at all, apart from the obvious!

 

But I know of one person who was with us in the 80s, cup games at Sheff Wed, the semi at Highbury, red and white through and through - and last sighted as a Fratton season ticket holder 'cos it was cheaper' at the time.

The only case I know of someone crossing the uncrossable divide, though he should be back any minute now.

 

That 'uncrossable divide' has been crossed by a couple of Fair oak residents. One of the Smirk brothers is now a Skate as is Dougie Goodenough who did exactly the same. :smt097

 

No loss to us though.

 

As to a second team? I have one and because I'm Catholic you'll all realise that my affection lies north of the border.

 

Yup! I support the good old Teddy Bears.

[Mister Neil]

When I was a little boy I asked my mother "should I support Saints or should I support Portsmouth", after all I am from the Isle of Wight and both teams have a following over hera. She took a bar of soap to me and washed out my mouth for even uttering the P word. I am not a violent man and my father has never actually owned a gun so I couldn't do the rest of her bidding but I have always supported Saints and can't even imagine myself following anyone else. Que Sera Sera!

[Panda]

A Saint since the day I was first able to look at the players photos in the Football Echo (circa 1955) and I saw my first match in 1961 (aged 11) against Norwich at the Dell under floodlights in Division 3 South. A Saint, man and boy, and despite good times and horrendous times, I have never wavered nor never will. I shall die a Saint - I can't help it!

[SNSUN]

I switched allegiance, thought not in a major way. As a kid in the 80's, really not into football at all, I was a Liverpool "fan" as most people were. (Makes me sick saying it, probably why they're my least favourite Prem team after the obvious...) This was mostly due to having a Liverpool Emblem Shiny - for the Panin football album, a sticker everybody craved.

 

In around 88, and bear in mind I'd always lived in Berkshire and had no affiliations with Southampton, and only the odd holiday in Hampshire, my parents rented out our spare room to a Saints-supporting university student for some extra cash, and the rest is history. It was really in the early 90's that I really got into the club, and have been a Saint ever since - and will always be.

 

I wouldn't describe myslelf as the best fan - a handful of games and a few bits of merchandise do not a good fan make, but I consistently try to improve that - and never want to support another team. My missus is a Norwich fan - if we ever have kids, I'm making sure they're red and white.

[Chorlton]

I have a mate who has got to be the worst!!

He was a saints fan all through school but changed to supporting that Team down the road once we left school!

Bastard.

 

I wouldn't even mock him. Would not class him as a football fan at all as nobody can do that and understand the game

 

I have supported Saints all my life but then all my family do. Plus, when I first got into football, we had the European player of the year playing for us and it was only a matter of time till we won the league. Our school year (Weeke School in Winch) was just about all Saints fans, but the years above & below was a mixture. So maybe we were glory hunters?

[St Will]

Some of you are really showing your age on this thread :-D

[voteforpedro]

Incidentally RonManager, I done my A-Levels at Peter Symonds finishing earlier this year, and I'm sad to say that as a Saints fan I was in a minority.

 

 

I finished my A-Levels at Peter Symonds earlier this year too, and I wouldn't say we were in the minority. Sure there were plenty of United, Liverpool and Arsenal fans aswell as a few Pompey, but from my experience many of the saints fans just kept more of a low profile as we had nothing to be proud of or to gloat about.

[ottery st mary]

Parents..Woolston/ Netley. Father worked Docks Army..Docks.

With brothers and sisters schools Butlocks Primary and Hamble Secondary.

Taken to first Saints games 1956/7.....Services and Goverment work in London but always supported Saints and forever more......Uncle Rupert tried to put me off..but luckily failed..

COYRs.

[Guan 2.0]

I detested football until my dad and brother brought me to watch Saints at the start of the 04/05 season. My first game was the 3-2 win over Blackburn.

Same with me, although a few years before! First Game I went to we lost 2-1 to Nottingham Forest, Stone and Jean Claude darchville for them, Le Tiss last minute pen for us. Hooked on saints ever since...