Hi guy's and gals, i was wondering if any of the older generation were at this round 6 replay? I have been researching the cup run for a course and can not find the scorers anywhere on-line. Would be appreciated if anyone was there and can remember. Many thanks
You're welcome. I have a book called In That Number, which chronicles Saints post-war history up to 2002/3. If you want any more info from it let me know.
Wasn't there and being pedantic but wasn't round 6 was round 4 or 5, round 6 (qf) was Bradford City away
Yep, still got my tickets for the Bradford QF, Crystal Palace SF, and of course Wembley Final, don't know what I did with the West Brom one. £3 to get into a Wembley FA Cup final then too.
I played against a couple of them and shared a pint or two in the Drummond and Fleming Arms with Martin, Steel, Mc Cal and a certain mr Osgood.
My little red book..? Here's a little story then. Some people like to read while sat on the toilet. Some people don't. I do. A couple of days after buying my copy, just after it was first published, I took the little red book into the loo with me and began to read. After a while, I forgot how long, I put the book down and got up, only to fall flat on my face, as the weight of the little red book had cut off the blood supply to my legs. True story.
That book is just brilliant but I would never dream of taking it into the lavatory. I rang my cousin once and part way through the conversation he said "Look I am going to have to ring you back as I am sat on the bog at the moment and I now need to use both hands." I said how ghastly and I couldn't breath properly for days. I am OCD about lavatorial hygiene and there is nothing in our lavatory other than that which is absolutely essential. As for my reading in the lavatory, well my mother would be spinning in her grave. I digress for a moment by saying that Saints fan's level of personal hygiene needs to be improved as only about half our fans wash their hands after using the lavatories at St Marys. I think Cortese is aware of this and never ensures there are enough paper towels. By the time I wash my hands at half time I am lucky if there are any towels left in the dispensers. I am assured by the very lovely mrs Godders that the situation is as bad with our lady supporters. When we played at the Dell I used to sit behind an old fellow who suffered with the most appalling noisy and foul wind. It was just dreadful. Goodness knows what his diet consisted of but it certainly meant three or four of us behind him nearly suffocated at times. Perhaps this is how I should get my revenge on the Guly hating crowd who sit behind me at St Mary's.
I used to work with a guy who would take his newspaper to the lavatory to read in the morning and then at lunch time he would offer it to me to read. I would always politely decline. After a well he stopped offering as I think he could see the grimmace on my face. Perhaps he thought I disagreed with it's politics. As an aside when I was a young man my grandmother who was born at the time of Victoria's Golden Jubillee insisted I always carried a box of matches with me. I was always puzzled by this as I didn't smoke but then she explained that should I use the lavatory and there was a possibilty that a lady might use it after me then I should strike a couple of matches to ensure that there were no unpleasnt smells. Surprisingly it works very well. I have also used them the other way around when following after someone who has not been as considerate. If you are all starting to think I am annal retentive then you are probably right.
When i was a kid we only had an outside loo, it was too cold and there were too many spiders to stay to long. My job was to cut the old newspapers into squares. make a hole with a skewer, add string and hang on a nail, so if you could stand the above you always had something to read. Good old days.
I saw a toilet roll holder with fitted ashtray on sale once....how gross is that? Why not just have a cupholder fitted to the cistern or a cakestand by the sink?
The great film director Luis Bunuel made a film called "The Phantom of Liberty" which turned conventional behaviour on its head. There was a scene where smartly dressed people sat round a table on toilets making conversation. One of them then quietly asked the host a question, to be directed to a small room in the hallway where they sat down and proceeded to eat and drink. On the subject of reading on the loo, Godders' comment made me wonder if someone who obsesses about reading "In That Number" in the lavatory could be called anally annal retentive?
This is why I love this board. Start with a simple question and you get to this! Saints fans are the best, no question
Must check that film out. On the subject of loo reading and hygiene, I'm certainly with you on it, Godders. I'm quite fanatical about it too. However, I do read there, and it is very easy to keep the two disciplines entirely separate. Do a little research and you'll find that one or two deep thinking philosophers and writers did/do the same. I wouldn't encourage others to do as I do, unless they adopted the same strict hygienic approach, and I would indeed refuse the newspaper offer. Taking Fran's comment, it might be a male thing only. For example, the French writer, and pioneer of the naturalism style, Emile Zola thought that a trip to the little room was the highpoint of his day.
