Your Greatest Saints Memory

[Chris cooper]

April 1984 ..saints 8 Coventry 2 

stood on a unigate milk crate ..hatricks from Danny Wallace & Steve Moran & a goal each from frank worthington & Dave Armstrong.

was hooked from that day on ! 

[Noodles34]

4 hours ago, Turkish said:

The introduction of bar code scanners on the turnstiles

The day they announced the fan zone area

The opening of the Oakwood Lounge on non match days

The prematch light shows

Curiosity Killed the Cat in our first (I think) Sky live game at the Dell, what a performance, stays with me forever.

Cant remember who we played and what the score was, Aston Villa maybe? 

Edited December 18 by Noodles34

[Stud mark of doom]

The day we changed the transfer target algorithm weightings, setting potential future resale value to maximum and team improvement to minimum. 

[Miltonaggro]

Suggested bronze medal position (fittingly so), for those supporters who like high art, and metallurgy! 

[whelk]

The one home game at St Mary’s when I didn’t have to re-key my details into my phone to reconnect to the Wi-Fi 

Edited December 18 by whelk

[Turkish]

1 hour ago, Noodles34 said:

Curiosity Killed the Cat in our first (I think) Sky live game at the Dell, what a performance, stays with me forever.

Cant remember who we played and what the score was, Aston Villa maybe? 

Good shout. That was very much a benchmark day for us as a club as this is when the era of the match day experience really started to kick off. An era defining moment which i cant believe i missed to be honest. I think there was also a firework display before kick off which paved the way for the awesome light shows we now enjoy. We always have been very much leaders in the match day experience tables.

IIRC the singer of CKTC had a Chelsea shirt on underneath his top and pulled his jumper up to show it towards the Milton end as they left the pitch.

[ant]

I'm late 30s. And whilst we really ought to have added to our major trophies during my lifetime, reading this thread makes me realise I've done alright out of big memories.

For me, it'll take some doing to beat the Coventry match that secured promotion under Adkins.

1. The thumping result itself, in such a crucial match;
2. The feeling of being BACK, after nearly ceasing to exist;
3. The celebrations at the final whistle, and long into the night;
4. Being there with my uncle, who's the reason I support Saints in the first place - he used to cart me around to home & away games as a kid.

[Noodles34]

33 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Good shout. That was very much a benchmark day for us as a club as this is when the era of the match day experience really started to kick off. An era defining moment which i cant believe i missed to be honest. I think there was also a firework display before kick off which paved the way for the awesome light shows we now enjoy. We always have been very much leaders in the match day experience tables.

IIRC the singer of CKTC had a Chelsea shirt on underneath his top and pulled his jumper up to show it towards the Milton end as they left the pitch.

yes, I mean I missed Pulp at Glasto 95 (instead of The Stone Roses) and Nirvana at the Joiners, but I was there for Ben (sure that was his name, didn't see the shirt pull, I was Under the East and still coming 'straight back down to to earth' - ta da

[Turkish]

2 minutes ago, Noodles34 said:

yes, I mean I missed Pulp at Glasto 95 (instead of The Stone Roses) and Nirvana at the Joiners, but I was there for Ben (sure that was his name, didn't see the shirt pull, I was Under the East and still coming 'straight back down to to earth' - ta da

another one i forgot about was when we beat Man United 6-3 and they changed their shirts at half time. Great day. 

I think you're right his name was Ben, he was on First Dates recently. He never mentioned waving his Chelsea shirt in the direction of the DEF when he spoke to his date, which surprised me

Edited December 18 by Turkish

[sambosa75]

Jim Branning immediately comes to mind.  Wasn’t even a Saints fan was he?

[PaulSaint]

Some great moments, many I was there for. Just two that I need to add:

Mane getting the quickest hatrick.

Long getting the fastest opening goal.

[sambosa75]

20 minutes ago, Turkish said:

another one i forgot about was when we beat Man United 6-3 and they changed their shirts at half time. Great day. 

I think you're right his name was Ben, he was on First Dates recently. He never mentioned waving his Chelsea shirt in the direction of the DEF when he spoke to his date, which surprised me

Pretty sure that was the 3-1 game.

Edited December 18 by sambosa75

[Lymington Saint]

1976 and Fratton 1984 having been mentioned. Scoring 3 goals in the last 5 mins against newcastle in the mid nineties

[Noodles34]

2 minutes ago, sambosa75 said:

Pretty sure that was the 3-1 game.

pretty sure he knows that

 

[Noodles34]

I was there for Ali Dia, still recall being quite impressed for the first few minutes or so

Neil Ruddock running the entire length of the pitch to headbutt a Notts County player

Matt's penalty miss (well, keeper saved it) at the Archers Road end

[sambosa75]

10 minutes ago, Noodles34 said:

pretty sure he knows that

 

In fairness I noticed who I was replying to after I posted it and thought he must have been on a wind up. 

[franniesTache]

18 minutes ago, Noodles34 said:

I was there for Ali Dia, still recall being quite impressed for the first few minutes or so

Neil Ruddock running the entire length of the pitch to headbutt a Notts County player

Matt's penalty miss (well, keeper saved it) at the Archers Road end

The police dog display where the dog ran into the milton road end

The Valley Slags winding up the away fans when performing on the pitch

The midweek league game that got stopped because some kids were chucking tennis balls and footballs over the top of the east stand/archers onto the pitch (probably the same youth who put the razor blades in the whip at center 2000 i reckon)

[Stud mark of doom]

19 minutes ago, Noodles34 said:

 

Neil Ruddock running the entire length of the pitch to headbutt a Notts County player

 

Great shout - legend has it that Neil cocked his head back as he crossed the halfway line in preparing for the inevitable ‘butt’ and instant straight red.

That has reminded me - what about the bruise brother (Neil and Shearer) coming on as subs to turn round the Swindon cup tie, from 0-2 to 4-2 in the Nichol era. 

[redkeith]

The whole of the 83-84 season for me. It is the only season that I managed to get to every game home and away. 

The cup run was brilliant, makerel stuck on the spikes at the away end at Forest, The Sheffield Wednesday forward getting hit on the head by a makerel and of course the  Steve Moran goal at Fratton Park.

It finished with a 3 1 win at Notts County to seal runners up spot .

Strangely , the letters page in the Pink was filled up every week with people moaning about playing 5 at the back ! 

 

[Jack]

On 18/12/2025 at 00:34, Thripp87 said:

A very left of centre one, but one of my favourite away days was Millwall in the Championship promotion party. Lambert tucked away 2 dubious pens in the last 10 mins to win it for us 3-2. 
The years under Adkins were the best for me. Proper football.

This is still my favourite away game. Early train up, between the 5 of us we decided to chuck £25 on a long shot bet - picked a Lambert hat trick at 25/1. Right behind the goal for the penalties. Absolute chaos afterwards.

[Stud mark of doom]

On 18/12/2025 at 14:37, Turkish said:

Good shout. That was very much a benchmark day for us as a club as this is when the era of the match day experience really started to kick off. An era defining moment which i cant believe i missed to be honest. I think there was also a firework display before kick off which paved the way for the awesome light shows we now enjoy. We always have been very much leaders in the match day experience tables.

IIRC the singer of CKTC had a Chelsea shirt on underneath his top and pulled his jumper up to show it towards the Milton end as they left the pitch.

From memory the first Sky game was a Monday night game against Man united in August 92. I remember the air being so dense with firework explosive after the match it was difficult to breath. 
 

I think the CKTK game might have been Leeds United the following month - also an evening game. Didn’t the lead singer goad the Leeds fans during their ‘set’? 

[Willo of Whiteley]

An odd one, but the second goal against Coventry (2012, Jose Fonte).

It was a cagey opening twenty minutes and we got that first goal through a deflection, and the second came minutes later.

After that goal went in it was almost a sense of “yep that’s it, we’re up”.

[the colonel]

I was in the home end with a pompey mate and his family. I had to stand there and watch, while smiling wanting to cry out. Went on to beat his dad's darts team mates that evening too. great weekend in Portsmouth,

[benjii]

Mr. Wu.

 

[benjii]

Has anyone mentioned Dellhurst Park yet?

That was a great away day.

[Breeny]

Used to love the walk to the Dell from the Haymarket Tavern via Plested pies ! 

[CheshireSaint]

14 hours ago, benjii said:

Has anyone mentioned Dellhurst Park yet?

That was a great away day.

It was. Could only get tickets in the 'away' end. We scored a goal that was ruled offside but too late, i was up celebrating. To be fair, there were pockets of Saints fan all over the away end. All went well in the end. Great day #greatescape

[West Dean FC Legend]

My mate's aunty queuing up at the Dell and getting me and my mate tickets for the FA Cup finals in '76. I was 14 he was 13, we were the only people, adult or child, in the village that got tickets for the FInal. That included my brother who was 6 years older than me and had been watching Saints since he was 6, he wanted me to give him the ticket because of this and then he was going to beat me up to get it.

My mate and I went, thought we were going to lose, Bob sat down on the terrace and gave up with about 15 minutes to go, he was convinced they were going to score - then that goal went in, luckily he'd got up just before it was scored. 

Saints will never, ever, have a moment like that again in my lifetime.

The drive back on the coach was fantastic.