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Another saints No 7 scored a hattrick in an England jersey Terry Paine in a 8-2 win over N ireland at wembley if my memory serves be correct

Intersting stat earlier about relative weights of Lee and Billy Sharp Assumed Sharp was chunkier Lee received a decent knock down from Ricky neat the end of the game but got nudged off the ball by the, admittedly very sturdy Cardiff CB. Said to my mate at the time that I thought Sharp would have been a bit more robust in the same situation. However agree with other posters that it is not possible to judge a player (especially a foreigner with no English) after one cameo role Hopefully he will do OK after getting used to English football. Have to say I am am far more concerned with the Spurs loanee. He seemed to be a complete loss during the Leicester game and wondered who scouted him!!

Dear old Rupes and co received an awful lot of stick from Saints fans when his stewardship of the club led to Admin (for what, one relatively small unpaid bill?) Interesting that whilst Rupes had to put up with a whole lot of vitreol, shoe and coin throwing etc, down the road the succession of those in charge have had welcome banners draped on motorway bridges, asked for autographs and, in Henry Redknapp's case, put forward for a knighthood!!!

I remember a lad we had in the Youth squad many years ago by the name of Peters?? Scored goals for fun and look a bright prospect. Lost his way, ended up at Brentford and from there to obscurity You can never tell at that age

Think Dave's butler once bought a book on the ancient art of tattooing from a second hand book dealer in Petersfield and his nanny purchased their kids Xmas pressies from a recent Toy Fair and was served by our resident purveyor of inside gossip on all things PFC.

Interested to see he went out on the pitch after the game and shook the hand of most/all of the Saints team Perhaps he was a bit relieved that Cardiff had been able to withstand our late pressure but it struck me as unusual and a nice courtesy Didnt think that Cardiff were they good individually but well organised as a unit Good job Kenny Miller had an off day though

Minty What a great shot The station itself looks like it serves a small seaside town in the west country I think around this time there were plans for another line into Soton (avoiding the tunnel) which would come down from Didcot Land was purchased in expectation and this included a prospective new station at Shirley where the park is now, (St James Rd?) opposite the old Childrens Hospital never seen this before

Great old photo of the Western Docks, presumably taken just before/after WW2 re the stations. Soton Docks/Terminus was the original station for Soton (built late 1840's)but was superceded when Southampton West, later Central was built in the 1870's. At that time the water used to run very close to the station until Millbrook Bay was filled in in the 1920/30's. I remember going up to cup tie at Hull on a special train in 1966. Left Soton terminus at 11.00Pm and got into a very foggy Hull about 7 am. Back at 4 am and had to be up at 6am to do my sunday paper round in heavy rain Lost 1-0 Also went by train the the FA Cup Semi Final at Villa park v Man Utd in 1963 i think there were something like 15 special trains and the sight of seeing all the Saints fans milling round Central Station as we walked down the hill was somrthing I will never forget

Wonder what the sitation is with payment fro use of their training ground at Stoneham Lane? The Youth Academy used to train next door at Stoneham Park (ex AC Delco's) but they have recently been given their marching orders due to payment issues

Apparently there has been only one person who has failed the FAPPT test and that reportedly was some Boxing Promoter/Alleged Gangstar who tried to take over at Chester City when they were still in the League

Portsmouth News 20 May 2008 'ARISE SIR HARRY SAY THE PEOPLE' 03 July 2008 'NEWS PETITION GOES TO THE QUEEN' 2,000 signature petition sent to the Queen demanding that dear old Harry gets knighted Perhaps someone with approapriate IT skills could transfer the appropriate articles from the News archives for all to see Interesting to see that at least one Pompey MP and members of various supporters organisations, in cluding the Pompey Trust were vocal in their support of the motion!!

Just think that for quite some time the 'Portsmouth News' ran a major campaign endorsed by many of their readers (and those read to), politicians (including some MP's now asking for the Govt to put pressure on the HMRC to cut some slack on PFC's outstanding tax demands), and various n'er do wells, promoting Henry Redknapp for a knighthood Some even suggested Peter Storrie was also worthy of such an honour I bet there won't be many admitting to their folly now!!

Have they gone to the wall? Seems a lot of activity around their site today and signs being taken down

Any one out there in the trade? Possibly looking to change my car and assumed that, due to the recession, prices for used cars would be on the slide However read an article recently which said that prices had hardened due to a combination of lack of supply and people not buying so many new cars

Didnt have the commercial success and profile of others but a great voice nonetheless

Obviously it is a different model at Pompey Assume their youngsters are not 'Professionals' When we had injuries/suspensions earlier this year a number of U18's were drafted in as was the case when we went into admin

I share a degree of cynicism on this but understand from a couple of well placed 'sauces' that there will be an announcement shortly about major developments, starting, I think, with the Royal Pier scheme

Are you sure you dont mean Greg Llewellyn?

Dont rule out Pompey Plenty of their fans predict a late run after late spending splurge by their prospective, minted, new owner They have a game in hand as well!!

Presume Hooper is English? likely to be wanting to get his exit visa sorted before he is nationalised post devolution!!

I am broadly in favour of speed cameras but can understand people being a bit cheesed off if they are caught marginally exceeding the speed limit, especially on clear roads I dont understand why the insurance companies work on a 5 year clearance of speeding fines whilst the DVLA work off a shorter cycle Also the double whammy of 'fines' ie the actual offence fine plus the additional insurance cost, which is often significant Compare these to some paltry firnes for violence against the person which is irksome to generally law abiding motorists

Away at Stoneham!! Wonder if we will field a stronger side than when we lost at Staplewood 1-0 before Xmas Interesting that Pompey play their Youth cup game next Weds so may rest some of their better players for Saturday

He was the lad sent off against Pompey Youth in a League game before Xmas

Perhaps we should have asked the FA to put their crack Appeals team on the case, you know the one that represented Rooney after his sending off for blantantly kicking a player from behind whilst playing for England!!

Very decent turnout to watch an under strength Saints team