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at 08:52 24 Dec 2025
Christmas lunch will be a table of seven..
Me
Spurs fan
Arsenal fan
Palace fan
Wolves fan ( surely they will not show up)
Flora Tallinn fan...that'll be my daughter (who has Asperger's Syndrome ) for whom Estonia is a special interest.
AND
Sister in Law. She is a consultant micro-biologist at a major London Hospital and, having no connection at all with the "real" world, thinks Willy Caballero is a serious prostate condition.
If she had been alive in 1939 she would have had a fiver on Poland to win World War 2.
I've asked the white bearded reindeer fiddler for promotion this season.
Let the trauma begin..see you on the other side.
Happy Christmas to all. |
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Reply | RIP Chris Rea
at 09:22 23 Dec 2025
He was a massive petrol head..mate of mine used to race sports cars with him 30 years ago...top bloke by all accounts.
Por sod was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer many years ago and when they removed it he immediately developed Type 1 diabetes. Also had surgery to remove bits of his stomach and small intestine. Survived a massive stroke 10 years ago...TBH sounds like he did well to get as far as he did.
RIP |
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Reply | Tonda is doing a great job
at 15:42 22 Dec 2025
Looks like this thread is also a score draw.
Differing opinions well made in a good spirit...what's not to like. |
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Reply | Tonda is doing a great job
at 12:35 22 Dec 2025
You nailed it.
Long gone are my days when CB's were big fat guys who couldn't run. Now they are athletic and versatile..( or damn well should be ). After the sending off , at least one CB can adopt a role that either pushes him into centre-mid allowing a higher attacking shape or asks him to perform what us old fookers call a sweeper role covering the wing backs who can be relieved of defensive duties and prioritise attack.
Conceding a second when 0-1 would have been terminal. Eckert had to punt that we get ahead and then revert to starting shape and park our bus. to see the game out.Yes, the go ahead goal didn't materialise but the tactic of keeping 3 CB's was logical.
Amateur statto alert !!...In this league 60 percent of teams scoring first win....60 percent of teams down to 10 men lose...So, we had one half of the former and one half of the latter which in my mathematical pea brain suggests a draw was the most likely result.
Funnily enough..... |
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Reply | Tonda is doing a great job
at 14:27 21 Dec 2025
I would echo those sentiments.
To award Eckert the WAC Trophy wrapped in his P45 redefines "premature" .
'Tis the season to be jolly...good will to all men and all that happy horse shit.
Six points off 3rd place with 24 games left if I'm not mistaken. |
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Reply | Saints v Coventry
at 21:39 20 Dec 2025
There are only two people that might be more depressed than the majority of Board members on here this evening:
1. The Boca Juniors fan who has just heard that Maradona was gay.
2. My daughter who has just landed in Melbourne to attend the Boxing Day Test. |
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Reply | Saints v Coventry
at 17:49 20 Dec 2025
Easy, Tiger.
Coventry are top of the league...the best team in the league by far...nailed on for automatic promotion.
OK they played with 10 men for 40 minutes but we all knew they would play in the trenches and use shithousery in spades..(we would have !! )
I am not sure making wholesale reactive changes to the sending off would have been the best idea. Keep a shape and play through them as planned...there's only 10 of them. Don't forget they are one up...last thing you need is a breakaway second goal cos we ain't scoring three,even against 9 men!!. The plan would be to then equalise early (tick) and wear them down and look for a later winner vs a knackered bunch (ok that didn't happen)
One of the more famous 10 man games I recall was Monaco vs Chelsea in the CL Semi first leg in 2004. Monaco had a bloke sent off at 1-1 and Ranieri took 2 defenders off to go for glory.
Fook me if Monaco didn't score 2 more.
A stress free win at Oxford would pep us up a bit. |
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Reply | Lets Rock Southampton
at 14:45 18 Dec 2025
With that line up the event should be called I Didn't Know They Were Still a - Live Aid.
That said, with the addition of a Showaddywaddy tribute act plus the bloke from the old Fools and Horses show who couldn't pronounce his R's, you might have another Woodstock on your hands. |
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Reply | Playing football
at 08:08 17 Dec 2025
And the last line was..
"So (insert name of opposition) are in for a thrashin' "
That was indeed in our repertoire...I was a sad bastard then and have remained so. |
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Reply | Playing football
at 20:10 16 Dec 2025
Crikey...who was in goal for them ?...Lev Yashin's wife ? |
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Reply | Playing football
at 12:02 16 Dec 2025
In terms of playing career, cricket was my main game too.
Before flying the nest I played at Esso Fawley (Dad worked at refinery). We definitely played NALGO. There were great days out at Brockenhurst and Hampshire Hogs. plus the local derby vs Hythe and Dibden (bubble game)
Twice a year we played Old Tauntonians who would beat us like a red headed step child.
Our opener and WK was Tony who also was the head groundsman. At home games Tony would spend the opposition innings behind the sticks shouting at the batters...Get off the fookin middle of the fookin pitch you fookin c*ck s**ker.
Tony was a man of few words but they all had a c or a k in them somewhere. |
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Reply | World Cup through the years
at 12:30 14 Dec 2025
Ancient History Guy here again.
The first WC I recall anything about was 1962 in Chile...won by Brazil.
We as football mad schoolboys could only talk ( for weeks) about the Battle of Santiago between Chile and Italy.
The match was described by David Coleman as " the most stupid, appalling, disgusting and disgraceful exhibition of football possibly in the history of the game "...come on Dave, stop soft soaping it. What did you really think.
The first booking was timed at 35 seconds.
First sending off was timed at 8 minutes...the Italian refused to leave the field until manhandled off by the Santiago Old Bill. While this was happening the Ref was distracted and didn't see the Chilean winger lamp the Italian full back, breaking his nose.When the game restarted an Italian attempted to exact retribution by kicking the winger in the head and was promptly sent off.
There were no tackles recorded below mid-shin and several players were treated for testicular trauma. The amount of spitting would have made it a virus super spreader gathering today.
The ref was England's Ken Aston who went on to head various committees in the FA and was widely credited with inventing the yellow/red card system later in life...he never reffed again after the Santiago match.
Old school that game...jumpers for goalposts ..so old that you need Pathe News for the highlights. |
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Reply | Norwich v Saints
at 16:40 13 Dec 2025
One of the features of a team aiming for a top 6 finish is that they somehow can, at least ,turn a performance that resembles a tramp's dingleberry into a messy, scrappy ugly draw.
That game was a golden chance to at least chalk up a point and avoid a completely miserable evening....{sigh} |
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Reply | Being a Saints supporter
at 17:45 12 Dec 2025
Really enjoyed your memory jog on the 1963 run to the FA Cup semis. Went to every game..first away trips minus parents
Hope you won't mind if I pick you up on some details..
The Forest tie began at the City Ground..1-1 with Paine scoring.
The replay was 3-3 with Saints down 0-3 with less than 30 mins left I think. Even the East Stand sitters were up and at 'em ...unbelievable noise.
The second replay at WHL was indeed a 5-0 spanking..Esimated 20,000 plus on the road. we got in 15 minutes after ko and we were lucky.
Onto the semi...pissing rain...Denis Law popped our balloon...Always loved that guy though... even after that day.
Good to see a fellow old timer in action on here...nice memories of that year. |
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Reply | World Cup
at 17:11 12 Dec 2025
Weapons grade banter there Mr Ninj...you can't teach that. |
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Reply | Southampton V West Bromwich Albion The Verdict
at 21:03 11 Dec 2025
I accept the job...let me know when you want to go to the panto over Christmas.
Now off to bed with you and in case you were wondering I have binned that copy of Reader's Wives I found under your bed. |
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Reply | World Cup
at 20:13 11 Dec 2025
From his vantage point lodged in Trump's arse, old billiard ball bonce probably feels pretty good about himself. After all Blatter and Platini got off scot free even after the Swiss appealed.
Test will be when Trump finds out Italy is in Europe . We all know what he thinks about us. |
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Reply | SPOTY Short list
at 17:44 11 Dec 2025
Well...the word doing all the heavy lifting in the title of the award is "Sports".
Only hard core anti-wokers would suggest that the football and rugby played by the relevant nominees is not sport as imagined by the guiding principles of said award.
There were lady winners in 1962,1963 and 1964 when I don't recall being woke was something that influenced either the nominating committee or the voting public.
I won't vote but will root for the person that demonstrated fitness, passion, extreme skill and drove her Country to World Cup victory.
Ellie Kildunne all day long for me. |
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Reply | Southampton V West Bromwich Albion The Verdict
at 09:07 10 Dec 2025
The last 12 hours on here is living proof (if it was ever needed) that supporting the Saints is something that should only be done under the strictest of medical supervision.
Has anyone suffered any of the following issues this season:
1.Hoping we would lose games under Still in order to hasten his exit.
2.Fearing to celebrate our 6 out of 7 run cos we might lose the next 6 and look like dicks.
These are well known and understandable symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia and nothing to worry about (too much).
Took my grandson to school bus earlier (13 y.o. Spurs fan) and told him of our 6 out of 7.He started waving his hands about and shouting 6-7, 6-7,6-7 which I believe is a current "thing"...I told him he would be laughing on the other side of his face when we bring back National Service.
Don't forget your medication when you get home Grandad says he on leaving the car.
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