Many years ago my female line manager, from Portsmouth, with absolutely no interest in football, would occasionally call me scummer. I would generally just ignore the comment, until one day I called he a skate. OMG!!! As the young like to say. Her reaction was priceless, because she knew where the name was derived from. It so upset her feminist ways, it became funnier by the moment. It stopped her calling me scummer again, though.
1974. I was born in Hampshire in 1969...in Bournemouth. That is why I can say I support my local Hampshire side. I was Hampshire born and bred
I'm sorry but I won't stand by while history is rewritten ro fit a negative agenda Les joined in 2010 and Markus died in the same year, leaving KL in charge 2009 - 2017 was a period of fantastic success for Saints (and fun for us!) So not really a myth we were well run and the only faith in Les & KL was actually not faith at all but confidence based on results and yes now its gone wrong and so all the neggies can come out of the woodwork and say "We told you they were all ****ers" I feel for you because it must be difficult to be so badly let down by the useless fools around you Personally I'm planning my trip to Wembley where I guarantee I'll have the best time possible considering we're going to lose ... that's life !
Basically as I said before, Southampton (and others such as Newcastle as you mention) are making up the numbers. The system is rigged to benefit a small number of teams and the rest are just there as an inconvenient necessity, a bit like fans.
