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I checked the OS yesterday too and it definitely was not there then

I knew Don in the late fifties and early sixties through the war-gaming. He was indeed a very nice man. RIP Don.

Exactly my thought, too!

Probably the most sensible post in all the 18 pages of speculation.

Signed and good luck to you and CCFC Jim

I can remember those years. I used to go in the fifties with my father, from Woolston Station to Fratton Park, when the train was full of Saints supporters going to watch Pompey. There were never any problems, it's just what you did if you wanted to see Division 1 football. You went to see the football, not squabble about some ridiculously fabricated rivalry, it just didn't exist then. There, I saw the legendary Stanley Mathews play for Blackpool, the pre-Munich Busby Babes, including the great Duncan Edwards and a very young Bobby Charlton; I also saw the post Munich Man. U team cobbled together immediately after the disaster for an FA cup match. In that match, I saw Earnie Taylor, he of the devastating 'body swerve' and of course a young Bobbie Charlton who survived the crash. If you wanted to see these players, the equivalent then of Premier League players, it's what you did, mixing with Pompey supporters.

I think he's addicted to them, it's a compulsion to haggle

I hope you will have good health and live a long way past 65.

I hope you will have good health and live a long life way past 65.

I don't think any of us know how long they've got.

I have looked at the tables for the last 6 seasons and averaged them; 85/86 should be enough for 2nd place and 92/93 for 1st.

Bad loser and sour grapes come to mind

Exactly. The original tweet says "top scorer from championship" not 'THE top scorer from championship', which means it could be any of about ten players, including Henderson, McCormack, Vaz Te, and Snodgrass.

I think you must mean 'WE'RE TOP OF THE LEAGUE' - 'WERE TOP OF THE LEAGUE' means something completely different.

Agreed, I remember Paine, Sydenham Reeves and Ron Davies even Eric Day but that's going back a bit too far. However, there is something about the present set-up which makes me so optimistic about Saints' future, because it seems to me that an holistic approach to the development of the club has been adopted and not just the reliance on a few outstanding individuals for survival. That doesn't mean that there aren't outstanding invidual players at the club (Adam Lallana for example) but the club is no longer dependent on them (eg MLT) to survive. Of course it all depends on whether NC, NA and the Liebherr family are prepared to stick around to see it through, but at the moment I think they probably are (that's just an opinion, I've no evidence).