mikec

Interesting fact reported by the BBC from tonight's Arsenal Vs Dundalk match - "Dundalk made a bit of history as the first team in the 10 years of the Europa League not to commit a single foul in a game." Must be quite a rare event. Didn't help them much though - they still lost 3-0

I somehow don't think that replacing the presenters of a football chat show qualifies as "evil".

Yes I think he said that he (or a team mate) deliberately kicked the ball out for a throw-in straight from kick-off in a televised game because he had some bet on the time of the first throw-in. However I seem to remember that when people looked at the records, there was no game that matched his description so he either made it up or got the details wrong. Lawrie McMenemey as manager? Wasn't he done for drink-driving? Doubly embarassing as he was on a TV advert for alcohol-free lager at the time.

We always called it the "Football Echo" although I don't think that was ever its real title. I always thought it was an impressive feat to have them printed and on sale by about 6pm on a Saturday evening, especially at those pre-internet times when reports would presumably be phoned in and transcribed. As well as the report on the Saints games they would cover matches involving Saints Reserves, Pompey and Bournemouth and the centre pages would cover a whole bunch of local league games. You could always tell it was a bit rushed though as the first half's would have quite detailed coverage while the second half's would just be restricted to a short summary of any goals - and sometimes not even that for the more minor games.

Scoring 3 to win at Everton but still getting relegated. That will sound familiar to Saints fans of a certain age.

Yeah Foster was really unlucky there wasn't he. Of course as every "You are the ref" fan would know, if the ball had come back off the woodwork rather than the goalie, then it would have been disallowed because no other player would have touched the ball between Sterling's 2 shots.

Even though it only postponed our relegation by a year and lots of great stuff has happened since, that game has remained one of my favourite memories at St Marys. What a rollercoaster match that was.

Sad news. If I remember right, his final game as a player was against us at the Dell.

Subs made at half-time don't count as one of the 3.

As the team third-from-bottom that year, we were the first ones to suffer from 3-up, 3-down (before then, only 2 teams were relegated). We were joined by Norwich and of course, Manchester United.

Iain Dowie ?

A great site and once you start reading it's hard to stop. I like the description of John McGrath as "a barn-door in a red-and-white shirt".

Oh yeah, I forgot about the Tottenham league games - I wasn't at any of those.

Yes, aintforever just got there first. 1976 Charity Shield which we lost 1-0 to Liverpool.

This will probably be easy for some, but it gives me the chance to say that I am lucky enough to have been at all 8 of Saints' Wembley/Millenium Stadium appearances. 7 of these matches were: 1976 FA Cup final vs Man Utd 1979 League Cup final vs Nottm Forest 1992 ZDS final vs Nottm Forest 2003 FA Cup final vs Arsenal 2010 JPT final vs Carlisle 2017 EFL final vs Man Utd 2018 FA Cup semi-final vs Chelsea Which game is missing from this list?

Spurs

Does the bonus point for Clive Thomas relate to the game in WC 78 when he disallowed a last-second Brazil goal because he had blown for full time just as the ball was being crossed from a corner? No-one could understand why he didn't just end the game before the corner was taken. If 3) relates to the Anderlecht home tie, the ref was Rudi Glöckner who had previously reffed the 1970 World Cup final between Brazil and Italy. I remember that Jim Steele's error led to the decisive Anderlecht goal but don't recall him being sent off.

I think it was Mark Twain that said referring to Papa Waigo as a "Southampton hero" is a bit of an exaggeration. He did a decent job for us at the time though.

Agreed. A good listen and some great memories. Interesting that Beattie gives a lot of credit for the goals he scored in later seasons for us to Brett Ormerod who a lot of fans didn't really rate.

Sad news. He was a hard man indeed. I'll always associate him with the Leeds fans' banner "Norman bites yer legs!" that used to be shown in the opening titles of The Big Match on a Sunday afternoon.

Lets B is correct. Bale made his debut in that match at 16 years and 275 days old according to Wikipedia

Ok, as it's Easter weekend, this question is about a match on Easter Monday 2006. Saints beat Millwall 2-0 in the championship, a result that confirmed Millwall's relegation to League 1. During the game, a light plane flew over the stadium trailing the banner "Time to go, Rupert Lowe". Those 2 things aside, there was something else significant about that match - what was it?

The first game I saw at St Mary's was a 3-1 defeat against Villa. I think Rory Delap got a red card that night followed by a Villa player later, so I'll say Delap

I remember at least one game where Danny, Rodney and Ray all started. I think it was reported at the time as being the first time 3 brothers had started a top flight match for the same team, but I could be wrong.

They beat us on their own ground then in a 2 legged tie. The game at the Dell was a draw, so they have never beaten us at home. Let's hope that continues today.