| Assault, a ship and Shilts Interesting Stories of Saints V Leicester Games on 09:44 - Oct 16 with 1429 views | saintmark1976 |
Thanks Nick. Interesting read.
I was stood on the Milton Road when Shilton scored.
Amazing really, given that now whenever I post a comment that doesn’t comply with the herd mentality you can guarantee some doughnut will accuse me of being a Skate.
I was probably watching the Saints before some of them were even born. |  |
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| Assault, a ship and Shilts Interesting Stories of Saints V Leicester Games on 10:37 - Oct 16 with 1380 views | SaintNick |
| Assault, a ship and Shilts Interesting Stories of Saints V Leicester Games on 09:44 - Oct 16 by saintmark1976 |
Thanks Nick. Interesting read.
I was stood on the Milton Road when Shilton scored.
Amazing really, given that now whenever I post a comment that doesn’t comply with the herd mentality you can guarantee some doughnut will accuse me of being a Skate.
I was probably watching the Saints before some of them were even born. |
The footage is in the story, perhaps if you can point yourself out in the crowd, it would saisfy some of them that you are indeed a Saints fan  |  |
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| Assault, a ship and Shilts Interesting Stories of Saints V Leicester Games on 15:14 - Oct 16 with 1212 views | kingslandstand1 |
| Assault, a ship and Shilts Interesting Stories of Saints V Leicester Games on 09:44 - Oct 16 by saintmark1976 |
Thanks Nick. Interesting read.
I was stood on the Milton Road when Shilton scored.
Amazing really, given that now whenever I post a comment that doesn’t comply with the herd mentality you can guarantee some doughnut will accuse me of being a Skate.
I was probably watching the Saints before some of them were even born. |
Ah, so maybe you are the "local ten-year-old boy called Brian" who went on to be "the Sports Editor of the Observer, and - with this eye-opening first experience standing on the terraces at Southampton lingering in the memory - a Portsmouth fan"  
But yes, an interesting read |  | | |
| Assault, a ship and Shilts Interesting Stories of Saints V Leicester Games on 17:26 - Oct 16 with 1150 views | LondonSaint76 |
Thanks Nick, an interesting read - those bikers should have followed that frightened 10 y/o to Fratton Park, they’d have probably found the scrap they were looking for.
I wonder what the 10y/o would have done if he’d encountered Westwood on his first visit to Fratton Park? Probably ended up supporting Brighton 😀 [Post edited 16 Oct 17:28]
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| Some bullsh!t Stories of Saints V Leicester Games on 17:30 - Oct 16 with 1143 views | dirk_doone |
"A group of Leicester fans who were wearing motorcycle helmets and giant leather gauntlets and stalking through all four stands at The Dell." Pure, unadulterated bullsh!t.
This batallion of Darth Vaders marching around inside the Dell could obviously march through walls too and so could the 10-year-old Brian Oliver who was supposedly watching them do it, or did they pay to enter at four different gates?
In Brian Oliver's original version of his 'childhood football memories', the leader of the Leicester helmets had knives protruding from every finger of his gauntlets. Obviously at the time he wrote it, Edward Scissorhands was a popular film. He is a total fantasist. It's funny how these myths get created and once they're in print, they become accepted as reality. Pompey fans do it all the time. Of course, the one who started this story was one of their top myth makers, Brian Oliver. He's also the one who wrote the mythical dock strike story in the Guardian.
I was at the Dell that day and I saw all of the 200 Leicester fans (and I'm being generous) who were there, in normal clothes getting very wet and getting pelted with bangers by Saints fans as we sank to a 5-1 defeat. It's the only time I can recall fireworks being thrown at away fans so it's a vivid memory and, even though their team beat us, I felt sorry for them.
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| Some bullsh!t stories of Saints V Leicester Games on 18:10 - Oct 16 with 1067 views | dirk_doone |
This is the "local boy, Brian" in question:
The 6.57's leading media cheerleader, Brian Oliver, who has no connection with Southampton whatsoever and who's never lived here, (he's from Sussex) but a lot of the Portsmyths seem to have emanated from him.
This is another example of his bullsh!t: "Southampton are known as 'Scummers', a term going back to a Portsmouth dock strike in the Fifties, when blackleg labour was brought in from the Solent to breach the picket lines."
He's managed to pack nearly all of the Portsmyths into this article:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2003/aug/03/newsstory.sport1 [Post edited 17 Oct 12:09]
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