| All This Holier Than Thou Posturing 21:32 - May 27 with 6772 views | SaintNick |
I have seen countless posts all over social media proclaiming this as the worst event in the club's history and how we are now destroyed as a club etc etc.
In truth this isnt the worst event or shameful in our history, it is perhaps behind these, some long forgotten.
1. In 1982 after UEFA cup tie in Norjopping in Sweden, tow of our players were detained and accused of rape in the team hotel , they were unable to play on the Saturday at the Dell still being in Sweden, but received full backing from the crowd.
2. In 1984 after an extra time injury time winner from Everton in the FA Cup semi final Saints supporters responded to a mini pitch invasion which escalated at the final whistle into what was described at the time as the biggest ever mass outbreak of fighting at a football match, both sets of fans going tow to toe on the pitch for half an hor or so as the police struggled to regain control as police horse galloped across the Highbury pitch aided by dozens of police dogs, neither club got much punishment.
3. In 1994 Saints goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar was accused of match fixing both at Liverpool and in Saints matches and charged, no one called it the end of SFC and the crowd at the next game chanted Bruse is Innocent and two fans unveiled a banner in the Milton Road penalty area, charges were eventually dropped about 3 years later.
So here are 3 things that I think tainted us as a club and had far bigger repercussions at the time but are now largely forgotten or unknown unless you are over 50.
Some people seem to revel in proclaiming doom and gloom, we do what we did back then, dust ourselves down, stick 2 fingers up at the critics and march on.
I am sure there are more than these 3 |  |
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| All This Holier Than Thou Posturing on 18:53 - May 28 with 996 views | Tonyfromdk |
Do you get rid of a manager so quickly, when his record speaks for itself.
40 games = 25 wins, 9 draws and 6 losses. |  | | |
| All This Holier Than Thou Posturing on 21:11 - May 28 with 847 views | UTS1885 |
But that record is all totally tainted and people will say he cheated etc
Eckert will also face chants of cheat and media shite whenever he wins another football match and many more after that. |  | | |
| All This Holier Than Thou Posturing on 21:17 - May 28 with 840 views | grumpy |
| All This Holier Than Thou Posturing on 21:11 - May 28 by UTS1885 |
But that record is all totally tainted and people will say he cheated etc
Eckert will also face chants of cheat and media shite whenever he wins another football match and many more after that. |
Do people call Man City cheats? |  | | |
| All This Holier Than Thou Posturing on 21:23 - May 28 with 830 views | cotswoldsaint |
The club accepting Frank Saul as a make-weight in the deal which took Big Chiv to White Hart Lane. Grand Larceny if ever I saw it! :( :( | | | |
| All This Holier Than Thou Posturing on 21:33 - May 28 with 816 views | cocklebreath |
| All This Holier Than Thou Posturing on 21:11 - May 28 by UTS1885 |
But that record is all totally tainted and people will say he cheated etc
Eckert will also face chants of cheat and media shite whenever he wins another football match and many more after that. |
Oh no chants of cheat how will he cope? |  |
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