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It was a good night out, yes the beer was £8.50 but you bought 3 pints and got 1 for free, so £25.50 for 4 pints wasn't bad for London, obviously not much of an offer if you were on your own
1. It was good to see the home areas virtually full again, for what was a decent game of football although the result wasn't quite waht we wanted.
2. Frank Lampard has always had a better reputation due to his bad behaviour as a Chelsea player paling into insignificance when compared to the likes of John Terry and others, but we should remember his uncle is Harry Redknapp, so his toys out of the pram behaviour is understandable. I rest my case
3. I went in the Northam Fanzone before the game and to be honest I am warming to the idea, it fills a gap in the market and if building it was money that could have been spend on a new striker then by spending money on beer there I am helping to buy one in the next window
4. The result was disappointing, but lets put it in perspective, Coventry have lost just twice this season, Lampard for all his faults has done a good job, they took him on when most thought he was a busted flush but he has built them into a well organised side
5. This game was not two points dropped, however we now have to win at Oxford United on Boxing day
I initially thought it was wrong to leave on 3 centre backs, but when I thought about it there were some good tactical reasons for doing so.
Firstly we were going to get a lot of corners and set pieces and the only height we had in the team was the three centre backs. We sent up Bazunu for the last two corners in injury time, no one sends up a keeper for a corner as a normal tactic throughout the game, so we needed the height.
Secondly we needed to keep Quarshie on for his pace to contain a breakaway which was literally there only attacking threat, the long ball punted up. So we couldnt take him off and needed the other two for their height.
Thirdly if we got a second goal then they would have dropped their park the bus tactics and gone for it, so we needed to have our defensive shape intact.
Of course in hindsight we didn't get the second goal, so easy to criticise, but I can see what he was trying to do, if we had taken a defender off and then scored and Coventry had come back at us and scored we would be complaining about taking off a defender
We played Coventry at home in the final game before Xmas in December 1979, for some reason I remember it better than most games we played against them.
One quirky fact was that 4 Coventry players were stuck in a hotel lift and got released by the fire brigade just in time to make the game.
That perhaps unsettled them, they were a goal down after just 11 mins when Malcolm Waldron scored, on 15 minutes it was 2-1 with a Trevor Hebberd goal and when we made it 3-0 through Phil Boyer, the group of fans who used to gather in the Archers Road corner on the West Stand terracing taunted the few Coventry fans in attendance by singing ",We wish you a Merry Xmas, We wish you a Merry Xmas and the score is 3-0".
That song increased to 4-0 on 66 minutes when Graham Baker scored.
On 71 mins Coventry missed a penalty and the song changed to We wish you a merry Xmas and the score is STILL 4-0.
It was a decent crowd being right before Xmas 19,102, although a bite less than most of the crowds that we had that season, the average being 21,356, although as i said not many Coventry fans made the trip, I think they might have had just the small corner under the scoreboard there were that few.
A good omen is that we are playing in the same kit that we are wearing this season and it is right before Xmas, I would love us to beat them again 4-0
It’s that festive time of year when decent, honest boozers are plagued by non-drinkers. And not real non-drinkers, not people who don’t ever drink, they’re fine. We’re talking about people who don’t go near a pub for 11 months out of the year, the kind of awful human beings who buy their beer from supermarkets with the weekly shop, people who consume such a laughable quantity of alcohol that they can only be designated as “non-drinkers”.
Whether it’s the Christmas Work’s Do or a Festive Drink With Friends, you are ruining pubs for the rest of us. Everyone hates you. Every actual drinker in the pub hates you and all the serving staff hate you. You’re awful. Here’s a guide on how to not be quite so awful
DO NOT APPROACH THE BAR UNTIL YOU KNOW WHAT YOU WANT • The bar is an intricate machine full of separate-yet-interconnecting cogs. It is NOT the place to think or choose or decide. The engine only works if everyone knows their place and performs their function. Do you hear that collective groan as you ask the Bartender if they’ve got Cranberry Juice? Or as you turn around to ask Barbara what she wants to drink? That groan is you single-handedly sucking life away from your fellow drinkers. Make a decision first, then go to the bar and order what you’ve selected. Just like ANY OTHER FORM OF COMMERCE!
DON'T START DRINKING AT 4pm • You’re NOT a drinker. We haven’t seen you all year. You’re an amateur, so don’t start out with a Marathon. You can’t just rock up to the Premier League one day saying “I’m Match Fit, lads!” This is why you’re puking and crying before nine o’clock at night.
YOU ARE IN A ROUND • I don’t care who you’re with, how many of you there are or how well you know them. You are in a Round with all the people you came in with. That’s how it works. You see those twenty-five loud, burly, drunken Rugby Players on the other side of the pub? They are a pleasure to serve compared to you. They order eight pints of lager, eight pints of Guiness, six pints of bitter and three Jack Daniels, then they pay the bill in one fell swoop.
Your group orders ten drinks one-at-a-time and then pays for them all one-at-a-time as the rest of pub creeps closer to Death’s eternal grasp waiting for you to finish, despite the fact nine of you are drinking the same f*cking drink and the last person, THE LAST PERSON, wants a Guiness putting on. Every single person waiting to get served wants your group to die in a complicated house fire.
KNOW WHERE YOU ARE • Look around you. What kind of drinking establishment are you in? Is it a pub or a bar? If there’s 85 lads watching football on the telly, stop trying to be a drunk, flirty attention-whore because it won’t work. If the walls are cluttered with offers of 6 Shots Of Neon Sourz For A Fiver, don’t try asking for that Single Malt whiskey you memorized from Mad Men. Equally, if it’s a pub adorned with wood furnishings and hand-pulls, stop trying to get the Landlord to make that shitty cocktail you saw on Sex And The City
iPHONE ETTIQUETTE • Okay, the music isn’t great. It’s nothing to write home about. But it’s been specifically selected to offend the least amount of people. It’s background music. If you want anything else, then you want to be at a club or a gig. If, however, you’ve decided to“do the pub a favour” by blaring out a playlist from your iPhone, then you are a tw*t. A prize, prize tw*t. Other expletives come to mind. Likewise don't get offended if the barman politely gives you a pound and rejects all six Abba songs you paid for.
ATTRACTING ATTENTION • Newsflash: You are NOT next. You might have been in the bar queue longer than anybody else, but that doesn’t mean you’re next. Do you know why? Because there are no "Official Rules Of Queueing At The Bar." The Bartender is 100% in charge of who is next. So do not p*ss them off. Yes, they can see you. You do not need to bang your change on the top of the bar. You do not need to wave your money around in the air, as if you’re the only person in the room with a tenner (unless it’s a Strip Club).
You especially do not need to click your fingers like a Parisian Cafe pr*ck or whistle like a Shepherd herding his flock. These tactics will only achieve one outcome: no matter how long you’ve been waiting up until this point, you’ve just moved yourself to the back of the queue.
PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT • If an old bloke sat at the bar gets served before you do, and the Bartender knows him by name and even seems to know what he’s drinking before he orders it, just shut the f*ck up. That’s Bob. Bob drinks here all the time. Bob drinks here five times a week, every week. Bob’s custom pays the bills. Bob and the other Regulars keep the pub open eleven months of the year whilst you’re having dinner parties and bulk-buying booze from the supermarket. Yes, they get preferential treatment. Accept it and shut the f*ck up.
Perhaps we could adapt the song Follow The Leaders by Killing Joke
Time moves on and then you notice The ground starts to tremble beneath your feet Man killed man and blood was shed And the gasps of relief at human nature like Follow the leader (Fellows The Leader )
Ive seen the picture and again it is strange a gap in the crowd with a little square of perhaps 50 or so empty seats.
As tickets are not sold en bloc to coach companies or individuals who want to run a coach etc its not a broken down coach or if it is then its happening every week so they need to change their coach company.
I don't know why, but for every away game there is a blocked out number of seats empty, this has never been the case before
If I am right it was played because you didnt have enough for a proper game.
So you usually had one goal with a goalkeeper and a couple of defenders and then 3 or 4 attackers, as you say you got points for a header or volley and I think you got double or an extra point of they were from outside the 6 yard box
I have no problem with people frothing at the mouth, when it merits it, but when I see Tonda Eckert getting abuse for losing a game after winning 6 out of the last 7, I think the frothing goes too far.
Yes Alex Ferguson liked a good froth, but he also knew when to do it, if he had done it for every goal conceded and every game lost, then firstly he knew he would probably have a heart attack and secondly he knew it would just reduce down it's effectiveness over a period of time.
You are right you have to fight your corner, but frothing at the mouth is not fighting your corner, it is just ranting, from experience I know that those who run football clubs are not concerned when people are ranting on the internet all over the place, as they know it just blurs the situation and they can easily dismiss it as just ranting from people whose opinion changes with the wind and that those ranting will soon turn around with a few wins, this is not particularly my opinion, but I know that is how those running football clubs think.
What does worry them is organisation, when fans get organised and form supporters associations and have organised protests then they start to take notice, the head of P & O Cruises our main sponsor, probably doesn't read saints social media such as this site or others, he will be wined and dined and will be schmoozed by our CEO who will tell him how everything is fine and all Saints supporters are currently looking at booking cruises.
But if there were 20 Saints fans with a big banner stood by the Ted Bates Statue he would see that and take notice, he would be fobbed off about a small group of idiots, but if the following week there were 100 and then 200 and then 1,000, he would start to be concerned about his brand image and so would other sponsors.
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