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Here's one from London Saints members the Dutch Francis Benali Fan Club Lots of pre and post match footage and some in the ground

My top 3's Best 1. Hartlepool, good performance. great atmosphere 900 up there on a cold November night, really friendly localsand a a lock in at pub near brewery with 20 other London Saints until 2 in the morning 2 Norwich not great support but most complete away preformance of the season, and great pubs before and after the game 3. Southend good performance and great support around 1000 on a friday night at a time in the season when we were still struggling Worst 1. Swindon poor performance and cosidering we had 3000 fans there support was terrible, mind you Saints didn't deserve good support the way they played. 2. Tranmere terrible ref but no excuse for way we palyed and also had to put up with the Skate and his two girls taking the **** all game long. 3. Colchester sh*t perfomance, hard work to get there due to engineering works, fog mean't couldn't see much at the end and took an age to get back to the station afterwards and support was aweful

Not sure whats up with him, but even though he had a poor game today he was instumental in both goals we scored

Correction to my post above should have said Steve Mills Charirt not Saints Trust

I was involved as a committee member of SISA along with many others including Nick and Clive Foley. we were all involved with fanzines at that time. In the early days we co-ordinated the protests against Branfoot and the board. Anyone who thinks they didn't have a major influence in events then quite frankly hasn't got a clue. In the first year or so we actually did things for club and at end of season did Sponsored walk to West Ham and raised £5,000 for Saints trust. After Branfoot had been dismissed SISA had really achieved it's aims and the Committee got taken over by Perry and got political many committee members and most members left in the next couple of years, although before this happened a couple of pre-season meet the manager and players seasons where held (this was before Solent started their events) SISA in reality hasn't existed for yearts although several still use the name for their own purposes.

I started going on Independant coaches back in the late 70's when they were run by Rolly and Bernie Watts, later to be taken over by Clive Foley. These trips were great fun and still see many o those who travelled on those trips at games today, including Sam Vokes Dad Tim, Nick Ilingsworth and many others. Trips to Blackpool 2 coaches where we arrived at 8am on morning of the game, Anderlecht (2 or 3 coaches), Limerick will live long in the memory. Later back in the early eighties I arranged with a mate transit vans or coaches from Salisbury to most away games including coaches to Pompey, Blackburn, Sheff Weds x 2 and Everton x 2 Semi-Final. In 2003 cup run organised 3 mini buses to semi final and 5 to Final. Like you Stuart, I organised pubs to stop on route and on way back form games, on way to Villa Park semi we got near Gloucester a pub to open early for us to have breakfast on way to game. It's hard work to organise such travel and your constantly let down by people but very satisfying when it goes well as it did for you on sunday Stu, and if you make a little for your hard work you certainly deserve it.

Was standing room only from Andover and they didn't let any extra passengers on train at Basingstoke even though there were loads on the station. Glad I had a seat from Salisbury as the airconditioning wasn't working and it was like a Sauna in my carraige. Had littel trouble on 18.42 train going home however

It definately the Skids version (the original) which is much better than the U2 / Green Day version

I got to Metropolitan (wetherspoons at Baker St) about 10 to 10 and waited with at least 150 others for it to open, after half hour place was absolutely packed with Saints fans but everyone was able to get served reasonable well and they must have made an absolute bomb form beer and food sales, great atmoshere in there. Afterwards tried pubs around Marleybone and Baker St but all pubs closed so went down on Jubilee line to London Bridge and had 4 pints in Wheatsheaf before betting train home

This isn't a better fan than you thread just saying who's coming, from where and how they got their tickets All those coming come over to games several times a year whregularly, hence they were among the 2300 Saints fans in Bucharest, the Dutch lads cycled to Hull a couple of years ago via Rotterdam to Hull Ferry but several had to walk back after having their bikes stolen whilst the game was on despite having locks etc., ity din't put them off though and several of them sailed over in a yacht to a home game in our last relegation season.

I know of one my brother from France, on e from Luxemburg and 4 Dutch Lads coming over all on the back of second ticket for season ticket holders. And before anyone has a pop at why they have got tickets, they are all loyal supporters abd were all in Bucherest to watch Saints in 2003

Charlton could are starting tol struggle too they have 9 games left 4 home 5 away , 6 of which are against top ten teams, and include Norwich, Leeds and Colchester Home and Huddersfield, Saints and MK Dons away.

Sorry mate the last spaces on friends coach went this morning

I have a mate who's running at least one coach possibly two from Amesbury, and he may also be picking some people up in Wilton and Salisbury, let me know if you need his details

Why ? there is still over a week to the game and the majority already have their tickets

If that's true, it's exactly what you deserve the amount of unwarrented grief you've given the ticket office staff in the last few weeks on this messageboard. Everyone will get their tickets in the end just be patient. I find it difficult to believe how much stick ticket office has taken FFS thety have had to deal with selling 44,000 tickets and had received over 50,000 applications. Please explain how you would have done things better ?

Any ticket with the stub missing is a concession ticket I received over 100 tickets for London Saints members and season ticket holders of which 20 were concessions, I recieved 20 with stb missing This is how most clubs designate concession tickets, or certainly how I've found it this season when getting away tickets for London Saints members, as we have at least one concession requoired for every game

All tickets quote adult price but you'll probably find two tickets are shorter than the others as a strip has been torn off to denote concession

Game on SKY SPORTS 2 http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12942,00.html

I was supposed to pick up London Saints allocation from ticket office this morning, but was told they had already sent out, which is a bit of a worry as there are over 100 tickets (43 of us are Season ticket holders), so i'm sure those saying tickets had arrived are correct. People on Ugly Inside website also saying they've received thier tickets too

Who cares if Saints Trust, SISA, whoever exist The important thing is Nick is trying to highlight that there are loads Saints fans without tickets and that the authorities should give us more tickets as there are liekly tobe 20,000 empty seats. He's just trying to get more Saints fans to game What's wrong with that ?

Get of Nick's back instead of just sitting back and moaning on messageboards which numerous people have done, he is actually doing his best for all Saints Fans to get extra tickets. http://boards.footymad.net/forum.php?tno=121&fid=18&sty=2&act=1&mid=2122478871 It seems Carlisle fans don't have a problem with us getting more, so why don't the powers that be give us more tickets By the way it appears Carlisle have sold nearly 20,000 not 12,000 as suggested in BBC article

I sent in postal application and checked credit card yesterday and all 8 tickets I requested had been charged to card.

my postal apllication for General Sale on database was processed yesterday accoring to Credit card company

Your memories of the League cup final aren't too good, there was loads of trouble in one lower tier section behind the goal where Saints and Forest fans were in the same block