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We will soon be back above them, and he will be long gone. every game where a lower league team are beating a top flight club they sing that song!! He had a go at us before when he was in charge of another of his clubs that we beat!

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Ah yes... Ally McJockstrap wasn't it?

 

Against Plymouth, he didn't think we should have been given a blatent penalty... and after the match complained that 'if that was a penalty, you can call me Ally McJockstrap...'

 

Not sure I can ever remember Holloway beating us, maybe he hasn't.

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Apparently, he was less than impressed with Saints fans chanting "Premier League, you're having a laugh".

"It's an unbelievable turnaround to have their fans singing 'Premier League, you're having a laugh' at us," added the Blackpool manager.

 

"Well I am having a laugh, I am loving every minute of it because my team has earned the right to be there.

 

"I don't think they should be quite so disrespectful, maybe they're a little bit jealous of the fact a little club like Blackpool can do it and Southampton have fallen from grace. But I'm sure they'll be back."

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He missed the bit where they were singing "you're not famous anymore" like every other club that visits St Marys these days ..... to be fair to him, he is quite protective of their achievements and rightly so but the chants are friendly banter really and I'm sure he knows that really. Anyhow, we might play them again next season as that PL bottom half is pretty tight!

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At the end of the day it was a 'chant', fans sing it variences of all over the country. We made eight chnages from Monday and we're 'lowly' league one. He advertised the fact that the side he was going to put out would be changed, so feck off Holloway you can't have it both ways.

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why did he and Blackpool even bother joining the competition?

 

Anyway Holloway is talking bull. He says a great day out for all the youngsters, but the average age of the starting line up was 24.5 for Saints and 26.2 for them (I had to guess Liam Tomsett's age at 18)

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Pretty pathetic, the "champions league/premiership/championship you're having a laugh" has been sung all over the countries for years now. We'd have sung it to any team above us if we were beating them in the cup.

 

So would Blackpool...

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why did he and Blackpool even bother joining the competition?

 

Anyway Holloway is talking bull. He says a great day out for all the youngsters, but the average age of the starting line up was 24.5 for Saints and 26.2 for them (I had to guess Liam Tomsett's age at 18)

 

I think he's a bit older than that. ;)

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Holloway has however gained a few more admirers tonight,although not ones he'd probably want . Just seen this on the Bummers board:

 

http://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?191718-Ian-Holloway-on-Saints

 

Visited that site a few times, they really are a desperately sad bunch. You even get a few of them calling us "scummers" as though we're their local rivals. Bless.

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Why are Brighton fans getting all excited about this? I mean really is it that interesting? If it had been Brighton beating them today and the same had happened I doubt I'd have raised an eyebrow. Anyway, they knocked Pompey out, so we've got to be extra nice to them now. :D

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This quote is by Lincoln Imp and shows they dont what they're talking about "Adkins has been going downhill fast ever since he left Scunny. Arrogant and prone to patronising remarks. I wonder how he and Dean Wilkins rub along?" - bunch of mugs

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Disrespecting a premier league team by using a generic chant that pretty much every club has heard at some point? Someones taking the song a bit too seriously...

 

Should of shown his own fans more respect by actually playing a half decent team instead of the youth players he loves to mention.

 

As for the Brighton fans, wow. There obsession with us is comical. They'll grasp that we dont care about them, eventually. Definitely looking over their shoulders.

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What youth players? He had 2 sub 22 in his starting 11, as did we.

 

Meant in the squad. Reading that premier league article, saying he filled his bench with half the youth team.

 

Holloway: "To bring all my second-year YTS players along and give them a chance, it's a great day for them."

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What an ungracious ****ing moron

 

Not really. He said a lot of nice things about us and anyone who sang "Premier League, you're having a laugh" is complicit in a bout of embarrassing numptyness and dinloism so he's right there. I am surprised he seems to have taken it to heart, which is strange, as although dinloish and numptyfied it was utterly predictable.

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Didn't go today and have no interest in the cups, but if the fans can get into a managers head like that, I salute you.

 

The blokes a loveale nutter, but just showed a very weak charcteristic in his management skills. Nice one Saints fans

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I've got it!

 

What he did today was deflect attention from the fact his Prem team was torn apart by a League One team.

 

If we're lucky enough to get a televised tie, the perfect way to get back at him... we make sure we remind him of the fact we beat him by belting out a few rounds of 'Are you watching Holloway'

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why did he and Blackpool even bother joining the competition?

 

 

I thought that too, especially after his commetns about it being lowest priority, happy to be out of it, fewer games etc etc. Why bother playiong in the event then? Wjy not save the entrance fee?

 

Or maybe, in fact about 100% definite, he makes comments like that to lessen the impact on his team that they were shown up badly by a division 3 team. Blame it all on a few reserves not being up to it and "well we didn't want to win anyway".

 

Still bet they would rather have won 2-0 than lost 2-0.

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Hollaway you k no b head if you read this (which you won't) that game yesterday was played between two championship standard sides and we played you of the park and yes premiership you are having a laugh with that side you put out. I like a lot of people have a great deal of admiration for you with what you have done at Blackpool but today you have gone down in my estimation.

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Hollaway expressed interest in the Saints managers job but Nicola choose "our Nigel" and what a great choice

 

Also as mentioned it was their fans wo started the "we are premier league" stuff - storm in a teacup stuff anyway

 

Great win, good performance onward and upward

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Pretty pathetic, the "champions league/premiership/championship you're having a laugh" has been sung all over the countries for years now. We'd have sung it to any team above us if we were beating them in the cup.

 

Totally agree.

Its a countrywide chant........wonder if he got upset when their fans were singing "Champions league, you're having a laugh" to Arsenal a few weeks back ?

 

No, I doubt it too.

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Funny also how he mentioned jealousy as one of the reasons why that song was sung.

 

I can honestly say I'm not jeaous of Blackpool in anyway, about any element of their football club. Not even their league status.

 

I'd much rather be in our position, building the foundations for a long term, successful (hopefully) stay in the top divisions, rather than a one or two year stint at a club without much infrastucture.

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Hollaway you k no b head if you read this (which you won't) that game yesterday was played between two championship standard sides and we played you of the park and yes premiership you are having a laugh with that side you put out. I like a lot of people have a great deal of admiration for you with what you have done at Blackpool but today you have gone down in my estimation.

 

Holloway is one of those 'lovable rogues' in football. Manic when in front of a camera or microphone but often calm otherwise. As to those over on the 'bummers board', did they not sing a similar song to us when we played them? Did NA get so up his own arrrs that he had to comment on the radio? Of course not. NA has his feet firmly planted and he saw it all for what it was, just banter. Football, like many lines of business, is a hard game and if you have the tendency to dislike being called names then you are best off out of it. Maybe Holloway should consider a different line of employment? But then where would we get our laughs after the Fratton Park pantomime finally leaves town?

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I thought Holloways comments were pretty funny actually.

 

but honestly who really cares, if he cant handle a few fans taking the **** then maybe the pressure got to him a little bit, if he didnt want it he should have played a stronger side, a side that i'm sure would have probably beaten us, but they have bigger things to worry about, like staying in the premier league.

 

As for Brighton fans always talking about us, it's a bit odd... where has this come from, did they used to do it when we were in the prem? Or is it a jealousy thing since we've fallen from grace and they think we're throwing our weight around a little?

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Thought his comments were hilarious - holloway does camp in his inimitable, aggrieved style. On one interpretation they contain alot of respect for us, admitting we're a big club, even if we've temporarily fallen from grace. But for now they are premiership and we're not famous anymore.

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