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Reply | Have we lost in our pink kit this season?
at 19:38 15 Jan 2025
Pompey also refers to their traditonal colours, which were Pompadour Pink (pink with maroon trimming). It wasn't an original nickname though as a regiment based in Portsmouth during the 19th century, the 56th West Essex Regiment of Foot, had a Pompadour Pink uniform and were first nicknamed the Pompadours and then the Saucy Pompeys. The football club just copied them. Football club nicknames in that era commonly referred to team colours, like the Clarets, the Lillywhites, Sky Blues etc.
https://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/regtnicknames.html [Post edited 15 Jan 19:43]
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Reply | Liverpool Fans
at 14:48 15 Jan 2025
I agree, Nick. In the 60s and 70s especially it was, along with You'll Never Walk Alone, the most popular song for fans of nearly all clubs, including Saints. It wasn't that Nottingham Forest were particularly unpopular in the '60s, but just a case of their name having the right number of syllables to fit the song. Forest did have their own version of it. They used the name of another team. I think it was West Bromwich Albion.
One of the high points at the Dell was when the whole ground held their scarves aloft and sang You'll Never Walk Alone at the Mick Channnon Testimonial. Of course we also sang it, along with the Nottingham Forest song, when we were at Wembley in the 70s.
Nowadays though, one of the most popular songs at all clubs, except Pompey, seems to be OWTS. I've heard Liverpool fans singing it and It's even sung at Serie A games. Italian fans also still sing Yellow Submarine, which I've never found particularly inspiring, even when we sang, "We all live at the back of Milton Road."
Most of the football songs sung today started on Merseyside: a tradition which goes back to the 1960s. [Post edited 15 Jan 15:11]
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Reply | offside but played onside
at 14:35 15 Jan 2025
It's not only Saints who suffer from unfair refereeing decisions. In nearly all of the matches I've watched this season at every level, the officials have erred in favour of the bigger club. This was particularly evident in the FA Cup match between Tamworth and Spurs, which Tamworth would have won if the referee Peter Bankes hadn't decided that Spurs would. For example, at 0-0 a Tamworth forward was shoulder charged in the back by a Spurs player who made no attempt to play the ball. The referee waved play on. Spurs then ran up to the other end and a Tamworth defender did a legal shoulder to shoulder charge and the referee immediately awarded a free-kick from which Spurs scored. It was very clear favouritism. To make matters worse, Drăgușin was finally given a yellow card after committing a series of dangerous fouls, and then he committed 2 further yellow card offences. Bankes didn't want to reduce Spurs to 10 men so he left him on.
It's big club + referee vs smaller club.
On another note, how much longer can Cucurella be allowed to get away with his persistent cheating? I'm pretty sure that if he played for a smaller club than Chelsea, he'd have been in serious disciplinary trouble by now: a deserved lengthy suspension. [Post edited 15 Jan 15:16]
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Reply | Leicester City
at 15:12 14 Jan 2025
Their similar path included reaching the quarter-finals of the Champions League, a couple of top 5 finishes in the Premier League, winning the FA Cup in 2021 and the Championship in 2024. How I wish we really had followed a similar path. They've achieved more in the last 8 years than we have in our entire history.
Ten years ago they were a league below us and had fewer fans than we did, but, like most clubs of our size, they've won 5 major trophies as well as winning the Championship 5 times.
If we'd even won the Championship once in our history it would be some reward for the loyal support we have. [Post edited 14 Jan 15:25]
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Reply | Sunderland v Saints
at 13:41 13 Jan 2025
They'd be better off staying at home and watching the ants on their back lawn. |
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Reply | Why oh why
at 21:52 12 Jan 2025
The blue-tinted ones? |
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Reply | Why oh why
at 21:50 12 Jan 2025
Yes, well you know that because you're a Saints fan. |
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Reply | FA Cup 4th rd Saints v Burnley
at 21:48 12 Jan 2025
It's an excellent draw and if it's anything like the 7 goal thriller the last time we played them in the FA Cup, it will be the best game of the season so far. |
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Thread | FA Cup 4th rd Saints v Burnley
at 20:20 12 Jan 2025
It should be at 3pm on Saturday, 8 February. There haven't been m/any highlights this season, but I'm looking forward to this one. |
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Reply | Southampton v Swansea Match Thread
at 19:18 12 Jan 2025
12,120 including 600 Swansea fans. This game came at the lowest point of a terrible season. The next league game will be sold out, 31,000, and there will be a much bigger crowd than today's for the Burnley cup game. [Post edited 12 Jan 19:20]
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Reply | Southampton v Swansea Match Thread
at 19:13 12 Jan 2025
"Seems like a 4-4-2 or 4-3-3 but no centre forward, yet two up front but no Archer. Seems a strange team selection. Fernandes back but Ogochukwu, Aribo and Manning in midfield. Sulemana up front with Dibling."
We were all a bit wary of this but Juric obviously knew what he was doing. Sulemana and Dibling were great up front together and deservedly got 3 goals and 2 assists. In contrast, Archer and Armstrong were innocuous as ususal.
I'd like to see Juric continue with Sulemana and Dibling up front in the league, but I'd also like to see Amo-Ameyaw given a chance. |
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Reply | Saints In Talks To Move On Sulemana In The January Transfer Window
at 19:00 12 Jan 2025
Today, admittedly against Championship opposition, Juric found our best pairing up front: Sulemana and Dibling. Together they were a real goal threat, with 3 goals and 2 assists. When Archer and Armstrong came on as subs, they were nowhere near as good, never looked like scoring and, unsurprisingly, had 0 goals and 0 assists. [Post edited 12 Jan 19:01]
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Reply | Some of our fans are an absolute embarrassment to the City
at 13:13 12 Jan 2025
Nick is right. You'll find supporters exactly like them at all clubs, including Millwall, Leeds and Crystal Palace. There isn't one particular type of fan at any club, but how fans act depends a lot on results on the pitch. Our fans are no better or no worse. There isn't some special type of human being who lives only in Southampton. In fact, it's a very average city.
What you'll find on the social media and messageboards for all clubs when they lose is one type of fan who moans and another type who moans about the ones who are moaning, but when their team keeps on losing, a third type of fan seems to emerge, who moans about the ones who aren't moaning. I guess because we are losing much more than other teams, we may have a few more of that type. [Post edited 12 Jan 15:28]
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Reply | Southampton V Swansea City The FA Cup Preview
at 12:50 12 Jan 2025
"I wonder what the attendance will be v Newcastle?"
Over 30,000.
I just checked, There are only 100 tickets left, so it will be sold out well in advance, which means 31,000+. [Post edited 12 Jan 12:59]
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Reply | FA Cup tomorrow
at 09:31 12 Jan 2025
That's the problem with the play-offs: a couple of exceptional performances can see an average Championship side promoted.
The 2 automatically promoted teams, who themselves weren't particularly good ones, both finished miles clear of us, and did the double over us, with the top one beating us 9-1 on aggregate. We all knew that we'd probably come straight back down again, but we didn't realize just how badly we would fall. I guess the heavy defeats we suffered last season should have warned us. A team good enough for the Premier League doesn't lose games 5-0 to other Championship sides. [Post edited 12 Jan 9:51]
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