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Reply | Being a Saints supporter
at 18:08 24 Dec 2025
First game 1977 v Nottm Forest stood under the East stand.
My older brother was a Saints fan, our dad hailed from Pompey but we were born in So’ton.
After all the build up & winning of the FA cup the year before and now being old enough to being allowed to attend, it was so exciting to actually be at The Dell & to see football live.
The atmosphere, we had to be there early to be able to see, the smell of the grass, the lineament & I could see the Vaseline on the eyebrows of players when they were near for the like of a throw in, Micky Channon my favourite, who I copied in the playground at school, taking the ball around the floundering keeper & rolling it from an angle into the empty net, peeling off doing the windmill!
The crowd, the noise, being near the pitch, the banter towards the players in earshot, it was a memorable experience, I was hooked.
I wasn’t allowed to attend a night game for sometime but THe Echo always had photos, which I cut out & kept in a scrap book, couldn’t wait for The Pink on a Saturday tea time.
Listening on the radio was always exciting & had you on the edge of your seat.
Why was the radio commentator always up to speed with the action?
Nowadays you can tell by the crowd that it was a miss or hit the post before they’ve mentioned it!
A few years later, we even skived an afternoon off of school & took the ‘Special’ to Everton on a Tues to see us play in a replay v Everton, imagine doing that nowadays?!
Approx a week or so later we returned to Liverpool for, I think Keegan’s debut & another defeat.
So many other away games followed.
Following Saints has never been easy but when you become addicted at a young age, it becomes part of your DNA.
They represent your city, you represent our city when away on a holiday.
Love chatting to fellow football fans, most seem to have a soft spot for Saints, always a good chat about players present & past.
The chat with your school mates and later become work mates, I don’t understand those who ‘support’ another team that is a million miles for the only reason that they consistently win something.
Became a season ticket holder at The Dell when the capacity was reduced & had to buy a ticket for nearly every game, picked my seat at St Mary’s in the portacabin in the car park, kept it for 29years before moving to deepest Dorset but still try to attend the odd game, it’s been hard for last couple of seasons but we keep the faith, going through the bad times that then make the good times even more special, love it!!
COYRs! |
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Reply | Today's Championship Games
at 12:22 22 Nov 2025
Bristol City v Swansea 2-0
Charlton v Saints 1-2
Coventry v West Brom 2-0
Sk*”es v Milwall 0-1
Oxford Utd v ‘Boro 1-1
Leicester v Stoke 1-1
Ipswich v Wrexham 2-0
Derby v Watford 2-1
Birmingham v Norwich 3-0
QPR v Hull 0-2 |
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Reply | QPR Away
at 08:20 5 Nov 2025
Anyone remember the great away day in1991?
Cricket at Lords to watch Hants in the Nat West Final, then back to QPR to watch Saints 2-2 draw I think, then back to Lords to watch a Hants win, great away days! |
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Reply | Lighthearted music thread
at 18:40 7 Jul 2025
1) Sound & Vision Bowie
2) UB40 at the Gaumont Signing Off
3) Roger Walters Berlin The Wall/Frank Sinatra Docklands
4) Bob Dylan, nearly left only stayed because he’s a leg’ & hope it would get better.
5) Doves - Some Cities/Kingdom of Rust
6) Steps, just not my cup of tea |
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Reply | Goodison Park Memories Thread
at 16:45 9 May 2025
Mid week cup replay Feb 1981, afternoon off school & we got the train up then a bus to & from Lime Street.
O’Keefe I think,with the late winner, stood on the deep terrace behind the goal where up the front you were eye level with the pitch. The days when their old bill walked round with a metre long truncheon!
About a week and half later we were back up there, I think on Foley’s coach, to watch us lose at Anfield, could have been Keegan’s return as I remember large letters held up in the Kop giving him a warm welcome! |
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