Golac's Iron Gonads

I didn't like taking a **** there, let alone lay a pipe. I'll ask my dad though, it's highly likely he has a tale. He once blocked the loos in the San Siro, and he still uses that stadium's name as a euphemism when he needs to unload.

Did you used to work on 3-2-1?

Arguably other ex-players would be better for the 'team', but it has to be Le Tissier. The sheer pleasure of knowing that the best player in England is playing for us, that every game there will be a moment when he does something magical that no other English player could do, not always a goal, sometimes a pass, a flick or an amusingly laidback walk to the cornerflag. All that and knowing that he'll never leave us, even when the big boys come knocking. Knowing that every other fan, despite their teams success or history is envious that we get to see Matthew Le Tissier everyweek, whereas they only get to see him once a year.

Manager Lawrie Mcmenemy (his abilty to get big name players to a small club was staggering) GK - Peter Shilton RB - Ivan the terrible CB - Mark Wright CB - Dean Richards LB - Mark Dennis RM - Rod Wallace CM - Nicky Holmes CM/AM - Matt Le Tissier LM - Gareth Bale ST - Alan Shearer ST - Steve Moran

A band? No, thanks. However, I wouldn't be adverse to a solitary analogue synth making an occasional whoop-beep beep noise, add a bit of delay on it and it would be suffciently wierd enough to make me smile. Coming through the tannoy would be ideal.

This is the goal you're all looking for

It means we are only one division away from my South Korean students knowing who the team I support are. Unfortunately they don't show much live on TV here that isn't Man U (Park Jisung) or Bolton (Lee) related, but fortunately they do have the fastest internet in the world so let the streaming start! WE ARE GOING UP!

Didn't he used to carry blue and red victory signs? I recall him holding them aloft as he walked around the pitch, cheers for the red boos for the blue. As a kid I always though it was a political thing, looking back it was probably team colours, though Liverpool wore yellow in them days and that's the only time I'd see the sponging toerag.

mentions for Mark Dennis, Dave Watson, Ivan Golac and Mark Wright. Was underwhelmed by Keegan's signing as I am of the generation that had seen little of him playing having started watching football in early 79 and anyway we already had Channon and Moran.

I'd guess Nick Holmes too

So glad I'm not alone in thinking this, I was getting rather worried with the Gerrard love that has been presented in most peoples alternative teams. Gerrard was awful, roamed around the pitch leaving the left side completely open, and Cole having to defend against Muller and the best right back in the business! Worries me that Capello didn't pull Gerrard off as the big headed superstar couldn't stick to a game plan. I don't have an alternative team, as far as I can see we are f**ked for at least 10 years unless something is done about the grass roots coaching in this country. Interesting little stat I saw in a paper yesterday: Prior to this tournament, there were only 2,769 English coaches holding Uefa's top qualifications. Spain has produced 23,995, Italy 29,420, Germany 34,970 and France 17,588. Yep France and Italy have bombed out, but both were finalists 4 years ago and I know they'll both be doing better than England again within 4 years

The impression I got was that Lowe thought he could outsmart the F.A and avoid the 10 point deduction as the debt/adminstration belonged to Southampton Leisure Holdings. In my opinion it was this arrogance not Barclays that resulted in us copping -10 this season.

I'd be interested to know who he feels is the best player he played alongside at Southampton, as he played with a lot of great players. I'd also ask him if any of the older players (again there were a lot of them in his days) gave him advice/influenced him. Oh and thank him for making it such an exciting time to be a Saints fan. I was at the Man City game when he made his debut. Back then my dad would hang around with me outside in the car park after games so I could get autographs, I got Steve's that night, think I was the only person to ask for it, it's now 30 years later and I still remember it, largely because he wrote his name in very schoolboyish cursive, it looked as though I'd written it myself (I imagine he would have only been 6 years older than me) a couple of years later I saw his autograph on a photo and was disappointed that it had transformed into a rather elaborate loopy affair and looked nothing like my treasured autograph. Whatever the score during a game you knew you could add another goal to the Saints column if he hadn't yet scored, HE ALWAYS SCORED! LEGEND!

I'm 41 and it was my first Saints cup final. I cried but still wore my Phil Boyer badge with pride.

ahhhhhhh now Phil Boyer would have got a hat-trick yesterday, if it was 'yesterday', I'm not really sure as I'm living in Seoul.

will any of their scorers be playing for them next year when we beat them? Feel sick!

to the tune of 'And your bird can sing' by the Beatles you tell us that your team is better than ours and you're premier league but you're going down you're going down you say you've got better players and you're premier league but you're ****ing **** you're ****ing **** when your prized possessions are flogged on the cheap you may be awoken that you're **** that you're ****

to the tune of 'my old man's a dustman' Avram's off to Thailand to get himself a pro he picked one up on the cheap but the hooker was a bloke ohhhhhhhhhhh repeat until he shifts uncomfortably on his buttocks

I missed the 1st 10 minutes, but Antonio looks a decent player to me, a little raw, but decent. Took his goal nicely, holds up play, goes past players and can pass a bit. I don't think we're going to have a Rosicky or Ashely Young playing for us at this level. And I've seen rough looking players in the Prem, Babel, Malouda, Agbonlahor not everything they touch is gold. Give the bloke a break!!

Just looked at our team that day, and despite being in the Premiership I'm not sure it's any better than the one we've got now! Southampton: Blayney, Telfer, Lundekvam (Kenton 36), Hall, Crainey, Fernandes (Griffit 81), Folly, Anders Svensson, Prutton, Beattie, Ormerod (Phillips 74). Subs Not Used: Poke, Blackstock

Worst game had to be the 4-1 (maybe 4-0 as I've tried to forget it) loss at Pompey. That's when I knew for the 1st time in my 25 years of supporting them that Saints were definitely going down.

Yes!!!

I'd choose Saints over England. Perhaps if England played an exciting attractive style of football I could get patriotic about it, but all to often it's bland and disappointing. When I watch England, in the major competitions, half of me is always thinking what do other nations think of our football, are they held in wonder by our superior skill, determination, tactics, good looks? I can't remember the last time I was proud of England's football, possibly the 10 men against Argentina in 98 or the knock out stages of the 90 World Cup. Quite often I'm in wonder at other teams, Zidane playing at another level to every other player, the non stop running of South Korea in 2002, even the brick wall that was the Italian defence in 2006. If England were clearly the best team or had something special about them, maybe it would sway me away from favouring Saints. I still find it hard to believe that the Germans could really have celebrated the 1990 W.Cup win with such glee, if that had been England I'd have been gutted. In addition I was thoroughly embarrassed by England in 2006, it was a ****ing awful display.

I was 10, been a Saints fan for 1 year, a football fan for about as long, I was distinctly underwhelmed as I'd never seen Keegan play, found it hard to believe that someone could be a better footballer than those already wearing the red and white stripes, when I did get to see him play he still didn't seem as good as Golac or Channon, Holmes, Williams etc. Just another cog in a great team. Only years later did I realise what a coup it must have been. I lived in London and was told by my dad (the only other Southampton fan I knew) who never rated Keegan anyway, called him a clockwork mouse. So it didn't seem that big a deal. Great times though!!!!

and I mean EVERYONE!!!