Miltonaggro

It's probably my age, but when I started supporting Saints in terms of going to the Dell as a nipper in the late 70s early 80s things were much more open, and we were right in there challenging with the likes of Forest, Ipswich, and Villa, but they all won more than us in that period, so it's where I visualise our position as a club - there or thereabouts. When we got relegated in 2005 a Palace fan I was working with remarked 'well it's probably your turn' and I remember thinking cheeky bastard, how very dare you, we've been in this league for nearly 30 years! On balance all things counted last 50 years I see us in the top 20, despite Sport Republic's best efforts.

Yes, that and the positioning over the last forty or fifty years, a half century seems a good marker. A lot of the historical success of clubs like Preston, Burnley, Blackpool and Portsmouth is beyond living memory, so not sure how relevant this is to perceived club size today unless you are approaching 100 years old. I think of Saints as a top twenty provincial football club, our biggest problem is that we have a solid history and have enjoyed relative success, but won very little, the Achilles heel. Premier League average overall ranking has us in 11th, and it's the same in terms of top flight average attendance over the same period (last 34 years).

Hopefully he manages to blub to camera before someone chins him near KFC!!

Year before it was the 3-3 game so there was a lot of needle and previous. The wet game where Butcher was sent off for chopping Channon and Williams, and Boyer missed a late sitter which would have made it 4-3.

Atmosphere terrific that day. One of the best.

Thanks FF, great stuff. I was racking my brains the other night trying to remember whether anything like that had happened in my supporting past. Closest were against Ipswich and Stoke in the halcyon KK days of the McMenemy era. Remember us beating Bobby Robson's great Ipswich side 4-3 at the Dell in 1981 after being 1-3 down at half time. Clive Thomas refereeing one of the best games I have ever seen - peak super Saints, Armstrong getting our fourth and we should have had another couple late on. Stoke 4-3 at the Dell the following year, 1982, with Mark Whitlock's goal nicking it close to full-time when we had been 3-0 up first half - we were in the Leicester position at 3-3 in that scenario! Pleased that the fans who made that trek earlier in the week got to see a rare rampant red and white wave the right side of seven goals!

Ready made song for the Northam wall to use on his debut v the Foxes -

Rumour is Tonda is the life and soul of the party when he's had a drink, but does tend to get a bit punchy near closing time.

There would have been Stewarts, Stephens's, Mannings and Charles's holding the thin red line at Waterloo and Trafalgar - Tonda needs to make that very point at his next press conference.

Clearly a Rasmus signing FFS!

This soppy cunt lives in Leicester...

Love it! Enjoy, Whitey!

Dont get pissed and kick off about the Malvinas or Federico ‘Torpedo’ Arias! 😊

That’s for you Vardy! Steptoe ratfaced cunt!