Morning all! Was reminiscing and wondered what are all your most memorable moments as Saints fans. I think mine is still the last away game in 1978when we got promotion. Thousands of Saints fans taking over a stadium. Other was in 1980 when we signed Kevin Keegan from Hamburg. I was in shock for days!
Plymouth Away last season, Walsall Pitch Invasion, Sheff Utd game where we stayed up, Wembley of course are my most memorable (bearing I mind i started going when the **** came along in 2006)
Beating Liverpool 4-1 in 1989. I always really fondly remember the ZDS final against Forest at Wembley. The two people I went with have since both passed away as well so adds extra poignancy for me. I will never forget the away game at Orient last season with 3,000 Saints fans singing "We are going up" after Barnard scored the 2nd goal.
Last Premier League match at The Dell, 3-2 win over Arsenal. Le God with the winning goal! It felt like a dream!
Relegating Plymouth after having them celebrating at us on the first day of the season, after all their bragging, to send them down... was great! celebrating towards them with their glum little faces, and then reminding them of when they were chanting ''we are going up'' down at SMS, and then watching them cry... =)
JPT @ Wembley Administration/take-over Beating Man Yoo in the penultimate game at the Dell (my first ever Saints game!) (Mostly) Good times!
Bit of a JCL, aren't you..? Many memories for me and hardly a one stands out above others. They say you know where you were and what you were doing when memorable things happen, eg, JFK being assassinated. Well I remember precisely what I was doing, as clear as I remember yesterday, when Kevin Keegan was signed, so it has to be that.
TSS strange that a transfer signing can stick in the mind as much as it does. I can still remember almsot falling off the sofa when the news broke. I thought at first it was some sort of hoax. Great days!
Pretty much the same for me. Also beating Pompey 2-0 and 3-0 within a couple of weeks to put us 4th going into New Years was a bit special
Same here. I was picking my jaw off the ground for days afterwards. One of the all-time brilliant pieces of football PR it's possible to have. I suppose you know the story about the journalist and Kevin Keelan [the then Norwich goalkeeper]..?
Oh, it's brilliant. I can't remember whether it was a story told days after the KK signing or years after. Anyway, it went that Lawrie had been on at Keegan to bring him an exterior porch lamp out of a catalogue [Keegan himself tells that one], from a company in Germany, when he next came over to England. So KK got this for Lawrie and that's when he cornered KK good and proper and basically wouldn't let him go until he promised to sign for Saints. It didn't take much persuading as Lawrie was a brilliant PR/salesman. A week went by and Lawrie was absolutely bursting to tell someone, but realised he couldn't, otherwise the impact would be lessened, and the media were getting the odd clue here and there, but they had no idea of who the footballer was. On the night before the announcement, Lawrie was in Beaulieu, out having dinner with a few friends, etc.., including Virgin Soldiers author Leslie Thomas. There was also a journalist who kept badgering Lawrie whenever he could, as to who was going to be announced the next day. Finally, as they were all getting into their cars to go home, the journalist called out to Lawrie for a tiny clue. And remember, Lawrie was having kittens trying not to spill the beans, so he just said, KK, and then got into his car. The journalist went home perplexed, but in the middle of the night, he sat up bolt upright and shouted, I KNOW IT..! IT'S KEVIN KEELAN..! Was he in for a shock.
Barry Horne's big old toe-punt from about the half way line (well, it felt that far away at the time).
As an older fan I can honestly say that the final whistle at Wembley in May 1976 was the peak, it's been all down hill since then!
