Southsea.. I go to every home game & only ever drive to evening games. The train takes around 50 minutes to an hour to get me to Woolston. A to B over the bridge.
Live in Totton,so train into town,few beers,then off to the game. Unfortunately i work in Andover,so sometimes have a 40 minute dash from work to Southampton,and normally get into the ground with about 5 minutes to spare.
Love it! Thanks to all posters on here. Didn't want to start a "I'm-a-better-fan-cos-I-travel-300-miles-on-my-knees" discussion and it hasn't given us that. Brilliant posts, but this one is always going to be a favourite (living in Liverpool I can't help but love Ireland). What a cosmopolitan lot we Saints are, and I am always delighted to meet fellow Saints. I could never support another team partly because I fell in love with those stripes at an early age and partly because we have the best fans in the world.
I also live in Wales, the north west. It's a 300 mile journey each way and sadly I seldom get to St Marys. My 'Home' games are places like Tranmere (watched Saints there and at Rochdale last season). Why do I still support Saints? Because I still get that sense of excitement whenever a matchday comes around. Looking forward to being glued to my pc following the game at Derby on Saints Player.
Been living in Edinburgh for three years now. I've only travelled down specifically for a Saints game twice (a 900 mile round trip), but I make sure my trips back down South always coincide with a game - the next one being Middlesborough later this month
A simple combination of bus, bus, train or plane would get me to Beijing that would take around 7 hours or over over 24. Then an international flight back to London would take another 14 hours. Not surprisingly I have not been back to the UK in nearly two years, takes too long and costs far too much.
I have lived in Swaythling for over 60 years, but in the slightly posher bit, so posh that we actually put Bassett in the address!, it is not all bad, especially the parts of the Flower Estate where a lot of people have bought their Council houses and made something of them, every car in my road is functional. I guess SG lives on the Mansbridge side of the Railway maybe? The area was a lot rougher in the 50's but has mostly improved, apart from the shopping area which went downhill when the banks closed their businesses and people had to go elsewhere to get their money, and not really helped by the large student population who couldn't care less about the surroundings.
The problem is that once an area deteriorates locals (especially kids) make it even worse and decent people leave and the deterioration continues. Takes will and money to turn it round, but all the people who might be activists have already left. Location was everything when I bought my present house. Saw one great house but turned it down because around the corner there was a car on bricks in a garden. Now have a small house nestled next to detached houses with lovely gardens. Sorry, turned into an episode of Location, Location.
No idea for me as I've never went to a game myself. I'm guessing a few hours on trains from here would do it...
Walk up Swaythling High Road and you would think you were in a third world country. The students aren't a problem it is the landlords who don't care for their property. The litter is not helped by the high number of take aways and the worst of the lot is MacMucks. I fill a carrier bag most days with their wrappers etc simply thrown down by the boys from St George's School. I had a heated altercation with one young woman who having bought a drink form MacMuck's then pushed the empty cup into my hedge. Her response was "who do you think you are? I'll do what I like."
I was not born on Southampton but I love this city. It has a history far more important than that of York and it was a thriving international port when Portsea Island was a mudflat inhabited solely by wading sea birds. However ever since I came here to live in 1970 I have been appalled at the attitude of many of the citizens towards litter. People just throw their rubbish down in the street and never think of using a litter bin or taking their rubbish home. They even chuck the stuff out of car windows. Why do they not have pride in their fine city?
It's self perpetuating..place looks messy, doesn't matter if I drop litter. It starts with their parents not teaching them properly. By the way, have no links with Southampton (other than the team) but I agree with you..it's a nice looking place.
