Godders, you've got it all about face me old mucker. What would you be without us? Just another provincial wannabee club that every now and again has it's five minutes of fame. You need us - our illustrious history to aspire to, league titles, cups, 50,000 plus attendances etc. One day, who knows, you may get there..... ..but I doubt it
Dear, oh dear, this takes the biscuit. When you bring up stats that belong to an era almost certainly way before you were born, you really start to distort the present climate. You are talking that far back that clubs like Liverpool or ManU were yet to make a real impression on the football world. In Saints own way they have spent the majority of the post war time in higher leagues than Portsmouth. They'll never delved into the depths of the 4th Division, so have some perspective. Enjoy your own resurgence, when it comes and have the good grace to accept that Saints are on another significant upward spiral. One that has the most potential probably in the club's entire existence.
you are writing in the SOUTHAMPTON forum. Just because you support a terrible club with no support doesnt mean that any of us are interested in what you have to say.
For Saints possibly not, and I absolutely love what Corteses and Adkins are acheiving at this club. For football, though, there certainly have been better times. Money kills sport, and the introduction of the Premier League has ruined the game in this country completely, and while I'm lovin the fact that we seem to be on an upward curve, I'll probably give up my season ticket if we get promoted to the so called promised land. I actually wish the Premier League would play all their games on the moon. On Sunday mornings.
You hang on to your 60+ years old memories FFD...........of your large crowds and your achievements in the league. Lets face it you are never likely to do it again. As for your FA cup fair do's you got one more recently.......I won't go down the road of what others keep saying.....You got it and that is that. As to your future achievements who knows.........You have yet more new owners......who seem to be spending some small change, who are also saying all the right things. You never Know maybe your great, great, grandchildren will remember back to those years of fame and say........I wonder what it is like to be in league football like my great, great grand daddy used to watch. They tell me we won the FA cup. How marvellous, I wish we lived nearer to the Saints though we would be able to go and see league football at the highest level. Where did we used to play.....oh I know its where that huge supermarket is.........
Charlton used to get crowds of 75,000, don't hear their fans continually bleating on about it for evermore.
You were still paying for the overpaid mercenaries. Not sure you can call it merit when your Chief Executive is cheating your debtors to pay for a team that is clearly unsustainable. Still at least when you hit the hard times your fans stay wit you... all 12,000 of em. LaP.
Can't take anything away from you getting there most certainly.........Trouble is as all clubs have found at our level....... that is there is a price to pay for fame. The Man U's and Arsenals of this world are no different in a way. We fans would except the fact if we didn't bring home a trophy. There's would jump up and down demanding some recompense for failure. We on the other hand simply would try to emulate one success with another but the normal price for us would be a downward spiral at best relegation at worst administration. Neither club were/are any different in that respect. So with all your trophies and success you paid a very heavy price over the years. Was this last time your third/fourth administration since the fifties? Not trying to wind you up, just making the point about the price of fame.
History is a very subjective thing. The Skates tend to be very selective about history and forget that we were playing teams that were the top clubs, and we were one of them, in league and FA cup matches before their club was even formed. The football league was a northern league made up of northern clubs and the southern League, of which we were founder members, was made up of southern clubs and every bit the equal of the Football League. From an historian's point of view Southampton have the greater history and have won more championships than Portsmouth. An historian would come at the issue objectively and consider all of the facts rather than be selective and neglect to take into account the full history of football in this country. But then Portsmouth weren't around in those early days and their fans have always got their facts mixed up.. As I seem to recall they were Johnny come lately's and as usual found themselves bobbing about in our wake.
2 cup finals in 3 years? 1900 and 1902. Lost them both but didn't go bankrupt in the process. History has a habit of repeating itself. That was then, this is now. We are winning and loving every minute of it. The players clearly are too, as indicated by them all signing contract extensions. COYS
Past doesn't matter. Rome ruled Europe, the Mediterranean and North Africa..does it matter now? At the moment, Saints are the bigger club with more fans and are on the ascendency..that will do me fine.
I remember a Pompey WUM that kept using the four one jibe, I four one am glad that we have had four wins and they have only got one! That is the nearest to a WUM riposte that I am going to give.
