I probably have been overtaken by you or vice versa on the way to the match on the A43, A43, M3 . Although I will always support Saints, last season I found it really hard to get the inspiration to make a 360 mile round trip to watch them play. Whilst my Mum lived in Salisbury and my dad was alive in Gosport it was easy to justify the journey as I was able to see them. Sadly by dad has passed away and my mum had emigrated to Chesterfield (don't ask me why). This season sssh! I share it with my cousins son but its a really big commitment. I think I enjoyed it more in league one and the championship. However cut me in half I have Saints running through me. I will never change the team I support because win or defeat, promotion or relegation they mean a great deal to me, and my grandfather who is sadly no longer here
Like others on here, I'm finding the money and big team hype close to unbearable at the moment. But there are so many other things that just contribute to my general feeling of 'meh': entitled fans, biased media, regular manager sackings, teams buying rather than developing their own talent. I know it's been going this way for some time, but this season, more than any other, it feels like football has finally sold it's soul. I have said it before that the bias nature of the media is killing the game. A peripheral player who doesn't matter that much from the top 4 gets injured and we hear about it on the radio, a major player who means a lot to any lowlier Premier team gets injured we don't hear about it. Also Boufal's goal against the baggies was amazing but the BBC have hardly announced it, they said he scored. I believe that if Hazard, depay, or any other top 4 team player had scored it they would have made such a fuss about it. The fact that a lowly scoring team scored it should have made it an even more of a media buzz but it didn't. I believe money and the media are killing the game
The fixtures this season haven’t helped much. The teams we’ve played have hardly added to the spectacle and as much as we try and act that the opponents don’t matter, the atmosphere around st Mary’s for the United game was a lot more positive than for any other match so far. Like a poster said, that Boufal goal is the kind of thing that makes those 0-0s worth it all, even the bruised shins. I’ve been to hundreds of games over the years. We’ve been the club everyone wants to watch, to the club no one wants to watch over that time. Think it’s natural for enthusiasm levels to ebb and flow and now is obviously a low time, but I want to be around for when things get high again.
If it weren't for the fact I go to Saints with my dad, and spend time with him and my mum, I'm not sure I'd bother making the trip down from North London. I'd probably get my football fix from watching Barnet. But I'd still be a Saint. My grandad was a Chelsea fan. I often wonder what he'd make of them now. Maybe Saints will win the league after I'm dead and buried.
If you remember, I offfered you a lift previously as I live in a village less than one minute off the A43 before Towcester. You drive passed my house.
Wise to put that PS....some people on social media have hair triggers....I think they must be 80% offended before anyone says anything.
We need a safe place and someone to filter hurtful comments before they get posted so that I don't become upset.
If I was going to die a Saints related death, it should have been whilst celebrating Gabbiadini's equaliser at Wembley
More likely getting smacked perfectly in the temple whilst sitting in the crowd from one of our attackers shots.
We always were,**** knows why we all have to be on the lookout for something to get offended by now.signed the ageist bastard.
