John Boy Saint

Rod Stewart let Saints train on his full size footie pitch in his back garden, Essex Hertfordshire way, when Strachan was here and we were playing West Ham at there's live on Sky that night. Didn't the Ugly refer to Dineage as Fred Sewerage once upon a time?

I think the current badge is perfectly sound, it says everything about who and what we are and where we are from. The fact that it has not changed for so many years (un like Leeds Utds way of screwing customers in the pocket every 5 minutes) shows how timeless and distinctive it is. Overall if you look at all football badges very few have been changed over the years at they are the rubber stamp of a clubs identity.

Well if you look at the last 2 times Saints have been promoted they have been secured by results at Leyton Orient away: be nice to get an everything comes in 3's against them.

Dropped your Hobnobs? Oooooh-Errrrrrrr!

Just like they said that the Titanic would never sink

Its funny that everyone blames Sky, yes the contract prices beggar belief everytime they circulate. But in reality the football has improved overall. They are prepared to delve into the lower reaches of football when the internationals are on, they got behind the FA Cup lower rounds (before Sultana and ITV got it). But the criminals in all of this are the Mandarins of the Premier league, Dave Whelan chairman of both Wigan Football and Rugby League teams highlighted this a while ago. In Super League Rugby the rights are owned by Sky and like in Football the rights are sold around the world to the countries with a Rugby League interest. The teams in the Super League, like the Premiership, have a Piggy bank that gets smashed open at the end of the year and divvied up around the teams in the league, the big difference is that unlike the Premiership there is no reward for position: every team from the top to the bottom gets an equal share. So when you add to the equal divide of TV money and the the players salary cap, at the start of the season no one really knows who will be the top dog, yes there are the leagues big teams by tradition, but when you look at Wigan a few years ago they were a Juggernaut in Rugby League but now they are mere mortals, if the Premiership division of money had been introduced to Rugby League Wigan and St Helens would have been the only runners in the race to the silverware. As Dave Whelan says why should the teams who get into the Champions League every year get such a big slice of the domestic league cake because every year barring a catastrophe those top 4 teams are just going to get further and further ahead of the rest. The only thing that will make things change would be if one of the Big 4 were to crash and burn through their owners (ok Arsene persisting with nippers) going bust, walking away, or falling out. and the Monopoly threat of the European superleague would evaporate for the rules to change. But then the FA have their faces alternating between, the big 4's backside, the trough, and having their self importance polished, so this imbalance will never be acknowledged or acted on.

Went there last Sunday for the F A Vase, I had the all clear to park outside a customers warehouse tucked away round the back of of the trading estate. But when I turned up there were cars everywhere parked inconsiderately, so decided to bite the bullet and drove up to the stadium to see parking at £25! the Adult match ticket was only £20. So we decided to park on Second Way 200 yrds from the stadium outside a warehouse with one of the street parking cowboys, they charged £10 were all immensely polite and gave me a numbered "official" ticket and receipt and made sure that we put the ticket in the windscreen. My car was still there along with everyone elses, there were a couple of Mini buses there too.

Matty always spoke very highly of him, got the impression that Matty considered him a good reader of his own game so fed him the right balls, seemed disapointed that they did not play enough games together.

Shouldn't the caption be "Can you see my Growler?".

This just feels like we are going to just fizzle out into obscurity in the same half ar$ed ****eyed way this club has been run with just a couple of shining moments St Mary's and the Strachan time................. Ah well C'est la vie: there's always Glossop North End who I was supporting in the F A Vase on Sunday.

I was diverted away from the incident coming home on Monday. You knew it was serious, makes a little more personal when you hear that it was a fellow Saints fan. RIP Dean

I will smile quietly to myself in future. By the way Stevo I have those tickets you wanted for Les Miserables.

Saw a funny thing (I thought it was anyway) on my way home tonight. I was driving along the A303 from the west I just got onto one of the dualled stretches out by Warminster when I saw an Aston Martin convertible coming up behind me emitting smoke. Matey boy driving it seemed totally oblivious to it, I slowed down a little to let him pass out of curiosity as I thought that it was tyre smoke. He went past me as he did you could hear the tyre flapping then hey presto the tyre went into a ring of tread and shards of rubber, by this time I had put on the hazards and slowed to almost a stop as the tyre casing was meandering all over the road, even then it was still raining tyre shreddings, Matey still seemed oblivious but I think when his car struggled to round the slip road he was taking he realised something was up and stopped. When he got out and looked at the back of the car he threw his hands in the air, then like a toddler being denied sweets in the shop he had a stamping fit before kicking the naked alloy rim that had been driven for 1/4 of a mile totally unclothed! Ouch!!! ££££££££££££££!!! Made me chortle for a while.

Got over your boredom of Chicken then :-)

Baj you snob! If you think par boiling spuds in the microwave is going to destroy your cooking then please enjoy you dishpan hands with the saucepan.

Yours from new? Or, Sounds like its had the arse ragged off it before you. I have had cars that have been driven hard all day long to in excess of 120,000 miles in 3 years or less and all I have had go seriously wrong with them (touchwood) is the battery turning round and saying "I just can't do this every day". Just for the record I would have checked the plugs then the leads before looking to move on to the coil, although having "detonated" en route to "Halfrauds" sound like, the something else has gone "oh, blow this!". Ponty probably let Mickey the Shoe have a go in his.

Dead simple gets the thumbs up every time: Pre heat the oven to 190c 4 Skinless Chicken Breasts 1 x Can Campbell's Condensed Cream of Celery Soup (you won't know when its done) 1 x Can Campbell's Condensed Cream of Mushroom Soup Empty both cans into a bowl and stir Fill one empty can with White Wine and add to the soup in the bowl Fill one empty can with grated 5 strength cheddar cheese and add to the Soup and wine in the bowl. Stir it all together. Pour a little of the mixture into an oven proof dish then add the chicken breasts, then pour the rest of the mixture over them. Place in the oven for 1 1/2Hours. While its cooking peel some spuds cut them up into cubes and nuke them in the microwave in a roasting bag for 10 minutes. While the spuds are cooking quarter and slice a red onion and slice a few garlic cloves, soften them in a frying pan with the help of a little olive oil. chop up some bacon and add to the onions. When the spuds are done add them to the Onions, Garlic & bacon sautee for a while then bung them in a roasting tin in the bottom of the oven. Try the chicken without telling anyone what you are cooking and see the reaction, if you have friends who are food snobs test it on them then reveal the recipe.

Bob hoped that this Saturday night after the Special Brew Googles went on the Hard, Hi Vis, and grubby boiler suit would prevent the advances of his Landlady Geraldine.

Since the fall of the Iron Curtain the belles of the East German Shot Putt team could be found on many a British high street.

Went to see Coraline this evening with the tin lids, which was right up their street and mine too to be honest, as we all like the Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride. Seeing it in 3D was a wheeze too. I would not recommend it for smaller kids despite its colourful posters, as it builds the story slowly and steadily and like all of the films in this genre its a bit dark with food for Nightmares. My kids who are 13 & 14 lapped it up and thought it was great.

This any good? Based up at Amersham north of High Wycombe. http://www.lightbulbs-direct.com/category/91/uv-blacklight-blue/

Welcome to the United Kingdom where hard work, honesty and loyalty is given a swift kick in the wedding vegetables. All scumbags welcome, come on in, kill our teachers and be sure of failing to be deported as your family rights will be damaged...................!!!!!!!!!!!?! Fight for this country with dignity and honour, and then you can **** back off from whence you came.................. and don't let the door bang on your arse on the way out! Jeez it makes me simmer sometimes!

I am still waiting for West Ham to get their 10 point deduction as their holding company is also in administration thanks to the collapse of the Icelandic Banking system............................. Ooops! silly me they are Billy Big ****** Premier league, under a different ruler.

HELLLLLP! It Chuffin works........................................................... Get me out of here! PLEASE!!

The Bloke sat behind me shouting "Run Forest Run" every time McGoldrick raced alone for or with the ball.