Wild partying in Novi Sad tonight. 1 moment of madness, luck, or brilliance depending on which side you support decide's the game. I remember our 1st season in the Premier League 2008/9 after 9 or 10 games third in the League, all the pundits singing our praises, our manager Phil Brown suggested as a future England manager, playing in europe will it be champions league or europa cup? Well for us it all went to poo around christmas time, i really hope it doesn't for you, nice to see the smaller teams taking it to the big money clubs
Not wild partying Tiger - just quietly smug! You have to enjoy it while you can - we all know the swings and roundabouts of supporting a football team! Nice easy game for you next week!
It's okay. Pie has the sporting Almanac from Back to the Future. He knows the future so you can't try to argue - or even enjoy unrealistic optimism.
Garth Crooks on BBC "Southampton have slipped into second in the table while remaining under the radar, without our full attention. But they are doing extremely well. They have momentum and are keeping their form going - and now they do have our full attention. They have such a good spirit in the team and therein lies their success." Yeah Garth, no one noticed (even the hundreds of football writers who have written and analysed the very situation) that a team widely tipped to struggle after a highly publicised "mass exodus" has been conspicuously sitting in 2nd place for weeks now.
Isn't this a sports league? Isn't every team a contender, or am I missing something? Money has warped everyone's perceptions of sport. Anything is possible - even if apparently highly improbable.
He is right though...people saw us in 2nd and 3rd, but thought it was a false position because we are only a few games into the season...now they can see we are the real deal. We may not win the title, but no one laughs at the idea of us getting into Europe now.
Don't worry. The papers all talked about Real and Barca last year. They all thought atletico would stumble so ignored them. I bet the spanish pundits were saying 'they won't be top 2' long after Xmas
Turns out whenever Garth looked at the table on his phone his thumb was covering 2nd place every single time.
Right now I am milking it and living it. Live for today. Today we are second in the premier league. Read it and weep baby!!
@FraserForster: Tough game but another excellent result! Travelling fans were amazing, safe travels back home #saintsfc
Typically, after He and Danny Mills chewed over the fact that they'd been wrong about Saints, they fell back on the old, ah, but they've not played anyone decent excuse. Well excuse me, but we've won away to WHU, Swansea, Hull City, all of whom are having respectable seasons and are decent teams that the big clubs would have difficulty with, away from home. We should have got something from the Spurs away game [OK, we definitely lost that one] and the Liverpool game was the first 1st class competitive game the side had played together. The hadn't gelled yet. The fact is, they've been caught with their traditional punditry pants down. They are so caught up with their big 4-6 clubs that they can't see past them. The big clubs who aren't performing haven't gelled, so we are constantly being told. Well here's an answer back - what about if Saints haven't gelled yet either..? I mean really gelled, but are playing as well as they can while they are getting their act together, eh..? That would be a shock bigger than the one they are weekly having to absorb and are running out of reasons to explain away. Nobody, bar Claridge and maybe Hartson have actually given them any chance of going all the way, and staying in the top 4-6. Fact is, Claridge is more positive about Saints than most supporters, but that's a measure of how he comes to the table with no baggage, and fair play to him for that. There are still too many who can't stop saying it couldn't happen to little old Saints, could it, whereas he says, why not..? And I say, why not..?
