I'm surprised no one picked me up on this because reading through this thread I realised I am utterly wrong and there are probably a few here who've seen Saints win a title, Division Three in 1959-60, the season when we won 5-1 at First Division Manchester City in the FA Cup! So apologies to them and apologies to Saints, that's two Division titles in slightly over 90 years in the Football League! Also I have come to the conclusion re-reading some the Forum threads that I am a pompous old wind-bag too...oh well, it's good to know yourself as others do
I think the scariest thing for me is the 'history' repeating itself. In 1973-74 season we were 8th at Christmas and then managed to win only two or three games from then on and finished third from bottom and got relegated. The first top level side to fall victim of the new three down policy [typicial]. I'm sure there were Saints fans at the time saying we would win enough games to stay up when the slump started. I know it was different times etc, but it can seem ominous too. I was eleven at the time, but for some reason wasn't so much into football at that time although my brother bullied me into supporting Saints and memorising all sorts of stuff about them by thumping me if I didn't; yet I can't remember much about this season.
Obviously that's impossible. But I will entertain the discussion for anyone prepared to join in with less pointless comments. The Saints team that was relegated in 05 looked half decent on paper. If my memory serves me correctly (please correct me if I wrong) consisted of players such as Niemi, Lundekvam, M Svennson, A Svennson, Redknapp, Beattie, Phillips, Oakley, Prutton. Our current team looks ok on paper, although they're not playing well. But who willeven be left next season?
A point made by Strachan in his autobiography. I only hope that the sale of Morgan isn't our 2015/16 equivalent miss. The comment about 73/74 is a good call. I saw so many games that year that we should have won, but didn't. We had two greats up front in Channon and Osgood yet we couldn't score. One game in particular I remember was a 4-1 hiding at Stoke around March, I think, when I suddenly clicked that going down was a real possibility. If this lot put me through that again - 2005 seemed written from the start of the season - then I'll be forced to follow another sport!
An injury to VVD or Jose next season and it's Yoshida to fill in. With a run of games he may prove to be decent, then again, he may not.
Seems to me we all got drunk on the heady wine of success, and now the hangover is starting to kick in. You have two choices with a hangover; curl up into a ball and pull the duvet over your head, or bolt down a full English and tough it out.
Hair of the dog was a weekly thing for me 20 years ago. These days I'm with Fran and need to sleep till afternoon to recover from a night out.
