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[forever a red and white]

Not Saints related but reinforces the same idea to all Saints fans for the future:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/jakehumphrey/2009/05/glory_hunting_is_not_for_me.html

[SoccerMom]

Funny how he avoids mentioning Saints in all of that...

 

But how true for all of us! Tell you who my heart breaks for, it's all the second-generation Saints fans out there who may not live in the area. My nipper can still wear his Saints strip without too much fear of mockery and reprisal, but one of his mates is living north of London and is about to give up the fight (according to his New Forest-born Dad). He gets too much stick from the Arsenal fans...

 

But happily in the nipper's class it's the other way around - the Southampton-born Manure-shirt-sporting kids are dealt with with the contempt they deserve...

[Pancake]

Funny how he avoids mentioning Saints in all of that...

 

Not being funny, but why should he mention us. I dont think he has avoided mentioning us, it just that we dont really appear on poeple radars that much.

[SoccerMom]

I guess he was just being politic - but it would seem an obvious comparison (rather than Hereford, say). If Norwich do go down with us and Charlton, that would be three sides very recently in the Prem who have fallen on hard times both in financial and sporting terms who desperately need to keep hold of the fanbase to have any chance of revitalising.