Welcome back. It is tempting to look ahead at all the coming fixtures and cook up various hypothetical scenarios. My advice is don't. It is crucial all focus be firmly on the game in hand and look no further ahead than the next fixture. Saints are capable of winning against any team in this division. This season has been the most exciting for years and we have got our club back as the saying goes. This opponent have given as good as they have got this season but can be defeated at St Mary's. We had a great Xmas and now we need to demolish the Easter bunny. Up The Saints.
I'm properly buzzing for this Easter weekend. Will be a huge few days in the promotion race. We're the only team of the 4 to be at home on Friday - we simply have to win this.
It's been so long I've forgotten half our team. I'd go; Gazebo Peter Walker Reknabed Sophie Ellis Bextor Cheddar Dyn Flownes Hair Haribo Mini-Lurch Thighs Big Man
Said all season I love Easter in the football league. Quite often is so decisive and can make or break a season and this definitely seems to be the case for us.
I hope our international players, especially in friendlies aren’t over used tonight. Bedders will probably play the whole game but hopefully Brooks will only play part of the game, as he did last week.
Southampton v MIDDLESBROUGH Referee: Matthew Donohue, Assistant Referees : Lee Venamore. Matthew Smith, Fourth Official: John Busby,
Some blokes at walking football are Boro fans, who turn every week with a resigned, perplexed look. Even when they win, they can’t explain how it happened. According to them, Boro are the most consistently inconsistent team in the league. They can beat the top six but then lose to relegation teams. It’s anybody’s guess as to which Boro turn up.
Going to have to remind myself of the directions to St. Mary's - feels like it's been forever since I was there now. (I was out of the country for Sunderland!)
You should hear the response from an American secretary when you ask her is she has a rubber.. Stone silence for a few seconds and then "why do you think I would have a rubber?"
An Easter Story Easter is one of the most important football festivals for the Saints and one celebrated with the greatest joy. It celebrates St. Martin's resurrection after he was crucified for losing 4 out of 5 in late February. The date of Easter changes each year and several other festivals fix their dates by reference to the Easter results. (auto promotion, play-offs and relegation). This year on Good Friday, Middlesbrough FC are invited to the church of St Mary's. St Martin has now been taken down from the cross after casting out the demons of Brum and Mackem in early March. He will be taken to the player's changing rooms and an enormous security man will guard the entrance until it is time to banish the Boro. After the game there will be special hymns and songs. On Easter Monday some women fans will visit St Mary's but the enormous security man will be removed and the changing rooms empty. For The Saints' pilgrimage to smite The Young men of Tractor from Portmanland will have begun. When St Martin addresses the 11 disciples in the room consecrated to the Saints for that day, he will reproach them for not believing the vision that visited him while on his sojourn with Swans. Then he will say to them: 'Go forth to every part of the pitch, and proclaim the good news at the creation of each goal. Those who believe in my vision will find salvation; those who do not believe will be condemned to another season of hell in this ****ing Championship. Faith will bring with it these miracles: believers will cast out the devils of relegation in my name and speak in strange tongues (eg "every team needs a Jack Stephens"); if you go a goal down you will come to no harm; and the sick (long suffering Saints' fans) will recover.' Then he will say "you've got to watch out for these ****ers, they never know when they're beaten either" (or something similar). The Young Men of Tractor will then be torn asunder and St Martin's Ascension Day to the autos will be completed after all games have been played. Then there will be more special hymns and songs. So after talking with them St Martin will be taken up into heaven (EPL), and he will take his seat at the right hand of God (Rasmus). He has risen. .................................................................................................................................... No offense meant to any true believers out there.
