Along with countless others I was really upset after the QPR game especially as the bloke opposite me in the office is a Rangers fan. My long suffering wife whose name temporarily escapes me is used to my moods but when she finally noticed my angst driven despair she enquired as to the problem. I explained about the Saints game and she replied then 'why don't you change your team?'! She just doesn't seem to realise that once you have a team you stick with it through hell and high water and by God we've experienced enough of these over the years! Like all football fans I'm proud of my club and it's history I'm not knocking the present management and it's fantastic to read today of the club's healthy financial position and no doubt about it Mr Cortese knows a thing or two about finances but I just hope that the club's fantastic history is never forgotten and indeed that we honour it. And similarly that the club's past players and management and indeed anyone who has worked for the club in whatever capacity are respected, remembered and thanked for all that they have contributed and not consigned to the footnotes or indeed dustbin of history. I am not saying that we should live in the past but let's equally not forget it or see it as a threat. I'm in my sixties now and Southampton FC has been part of my life (good times and bad!) for so long now and I wouldn't want it any other way
We don't always select our team, often your team selects you. Pompey born, I took my son to watch ManU at The Dell beat us 1.0...did my heart sensibly say, 'Wow, support the team that just won.' No, it didn't. The rest is history. Sorry to bring up Merson, but today he described Chelsea as his team. He said, I love Arsenal, but Chelsea is my boyhood team...you can't change that. And he's right.
Sorry - my first ever posting today and being an old geezer and a bit of a technophobe I pressed the wrong button before I had finished - DOH! Apologies - I mean no harm and come in peace
Its been an awful week football wise. Even the mid week nice cup games couldn't drag my dispairing gaze away from the fact we have managed to resuscitate the financially crippled yet still hanging in there Qpr. Even Betty Boothroyd got himself some media time this week, when most of the fooball world thought him KIA in 2011. I'm hoping tomorrow will help draw a fat blue line over this week, the cats only got two more big kicks left in it, so I expect he's thinking the same thing. Welcome to the party TWGD, get more sense on here than from the mrs, thats a promise (although amazingly it can be more annoying some days).
Worry not HR, the next week will be good. Starting with a Saints win and a clean sheet (WHAT ARE THEY?!) tomorrow.
Remember my wife's name? I forgot that years ago. I just call her Mrs Godders now as it is easier. That is of course when I remember I am married. Now the big question is who the hell is it I support?
Nice post TWGD - proper fans can`t change their colours - it`s in our DNA. When the good times do come along after periods of mediocrity, it makes the satisfaction that more acute.
With Saints it has often been long periods of mediocrity and worse, but otherwise this is an accurate assessment! We cannot forget our history, it is there. But glorious? Let's think, in my supporting life I've seen: Promotion 1966 FA CUP 1976 Promotion and brief period of being a "big team" 1978 - mid '80s JPT Trophy 2010 (don't knock it!) Back to back promotions 2011/2012 So compare that with Liverpool, or even Nottm Forest, let alone Man U and it ain't much. I'm accepting that with Nicola Cortese pulling the business strings and a decent manager the glory days are ahead of us. Like HR I'd quite like the first green shoots of this future glory to show today otherwise my wife is going to have to accept another week of me being bloody miserable!
THESE are glory days. Just think back to this time in 2009 when we might not have had a club to support, let alone one that is in the Premier League. On the OP's point, it's not a sexist thing that a lot of women don't get football. Quite a lot of men don't either, or they just follow Man U or whoever just because they win stuff. Fran is right, your club chooses you if you have it in you to be chosen.
"Not meant to be a sexist post but..." *sexist post follows* You just know when you read a title like that, it is going to be a sexist post.
