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League table for the last 50 years
at 09:23 15 Feb 2024

Interesting, Sky have put together a league table from the last 50 years of the game and have us at 11th in the list.

Weirdly given they're such a MASSSSIVE club and clearly the biggest, hugeest, most pashooonist club in the world the skates are 37th.

This surely can't be right given that would make them perennial lower league fodder and not the glaticos of the south coast that we are so often told they are?

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/13041555/sky-sports-ultimate-leagu
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Top three songs by people named Martin
at 16:39 24 May 2023

1. Dean Martin


2. Steve Martin


3. Tony Martin
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Train strikes for newcastle away
at 13:13 17 Jan 2023

Not sure if others spotted this but it looks like there’s train strikes on the first, so fair to assume most who’ve bought tickets might now be stuck.

We managed to change ours to Flybe flights back down for £40 which was decent.
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by the 12th of Feb
at 23:38 22 Dec 2022

We could potentially be out of both clubs and more or less know our likelihood of going down,

Brighton (h)
Fulham (a)
Forest (h)
Palace (FA Cup)
Man City (league cup)
Everton (a)
Villa (h)
Wolves (a)

Would personally assume we'll lose both cup games, and anything less than 12 points in those league games and we're going to be in serious trouble.

Guess on the plus side at least it should be an exciting period...
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Rip terry hall
at 01:09 20 Dec 2022

Like many on here I guess the specials were one of those bands that was incredibly important to me growing up so I was gutted to hear the news terry hall had passed.

Honestly one of the celebrity deaths that’s got me more than most.

Enjoy yourself mush, it’s later than you think

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Iranian player to be executed
at 13:00 15 Dec 2022

For protesting in favour of women's rights at the world cup.

Honestly lost for words here, absolutely disgusting, and surely FIFA (if they had any balls) would now permanently ban Iran from any of their competitions

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February’s games
at 15:58 5 Dec 2022

If I’m reading this correct we play every single game in feb as 12:30 Saturday kick offs.

What a f*cking piss take that is

https://www.premierleague.com/news/2975440?sf262526004=1
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City tickets for sale
at 12:15 3 Oct 2022

Not sure if anyone is looking for tickets to City but my mate is selling a couple

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Train strikes for city away
at 16:55 22 Sep 2022

Looks like there's a strike on all train lines for the day of the City away game, which means i'm not going to be going, bit gutted to be fair as i was looking forward to a decent piss up in manchester.

https://www.rmt.org.uk/news/rmt-announces-new-strike-date-in-national-rail-dispu
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City away
at 12:28 6 Sep 2022

Logged in to buy my tickets at 11am and was shocked to see there was probably only about 200 left, then realised we'd only taken the smaller allocation.

Does anyone know if we can extend to the full allocation because going by how quickly these have sold it seems a pretty bad mistake by the ticket office
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Given Gao is now gone...
at 17:56 4 Jan 2022

I can safely share some bits i knew about him and the club, some are boring, some are interesting, but they probably put more of the why he bought us into perspective.

It's worth saying the reason i know this is because one of my family worked with him on it, and were even invited to watch games from his box.

So the reason for the initial purchase of Saints by Gao was originally for two reasons, neither of which had anything to do with the football team.

Gao bought us at a time when football was a priority for the Chinese government and his intention was to use our academy model to set up Chinese football academies to help the sport grow in the country, the second was to create "football business programmes" partnering with Southampton University, to train and create an education system and model of revenue based around football.

Both of these key aims collapsed when the chinese government changed their policy towards football, and that was the point when he stopped putting money into the club.

Gao was never going to put billions into Saints, his intentions were to use Saints to create favour in China and to create business connections in Southampton, primarily with the university.

One thing that was never mentioned much was that he was also a devout buddhist and his religion and Katherine's religion were one of the reasons she trusted him as a buyer.

Anyway like i said it's a bit dull maybe, but should give some insight into why he bought us in the first place, and maybe give us an understanding of the things that make us attractive to other buyers.
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Premier league approve saints takeover
at 23:26 23 Dec 2021

You heard it here first, should be done by 29th/30th of this month, the club has been sold for £125m
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Club taking the p*ss
at 12:56 1 Dec 2021

So Saints have decided to give tickets for a tenner for students? Utter f*cking p*ss take this, given how many folk are priced out of going these days how about they prioritise locals instead of students.

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What's gone wrong with our support?
at 14:29 28 Nov 2021

I know the premier league ruins most supports over a period of time but since the restart after covid our support has gone to new levels of embarrassing.

It used to be that we only sung OWTS and/or yellows away from home, that was dull but nothing more, but we seem to have been infested by a new generation of "lads" who seem to think social media/soccer am is the height of wit and have taken it upon themselves to embarrass our city at every opportunity.

Their constant singing of "pompey got battered" in northern accents (why the f*ck is someone from 'Ampshire singing Home like they're from Yorkshire?) they now taking their noddiness to another level.

Yesterday at Liverpool we had people singing possibly the most tin pot embarrassing sh*t i've heard in years "we've won/lost the ball" as if we're some tin pot tiny team supported by yokels who've got all giddy at their first trip out the city (yup the skates sing it).

And then there's this...



Grown f*cking men taking a cardboard cut out of an internet fad to a football game, is there anyway we can get banning orders for these c*nts before they embarrass us further?
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RIP Bob
at 12:33 11 May 2021

Surprised not to see this on here already but it seems like Bob Mcmurray has passed.

I'm sure most on here will have seen him at games, i personally drank with him a few times in the Spitfire pre game, and shared a pint or a few in Israel with him (as did Pat).

Lovely fella and Saints through and through, can't think of many more loyal than him.

RIP Bob.

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The ugly inside fanzine
at 14:25 6 Jul 2020

Nick have you considered doing a one off physical copy of the Ugly for the first game back after the pandemic? I reckon there's loads of folk that'd love it, and a fair few willing to contribute too.

We could even possibly rope back in the cover designer of the infamous "hope you die soon" cover
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Kind of hard to argue with this
at 18:32 18 Feb 2020

Feels like i could've written it myself to be honest

https://tinyurl.com/y6h8nwde
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Football is broken beyond repair
at 13:02 12 Feb 2020

Nothing new in here really, and i assume most of us probably agree with it all, but it's a good read non the less.

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/champions-league-sup
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