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Following Nick's numbers, except for 4 as I have no comment on the QPR kit:
1. >30,000 again. I wonder what the real capacity is now i.e. the number of seats that are available for sale. When they publish those league tables with the percentage of capacities sold for each team, they use our old official capacity figure, which was >32,500. There's no way that number is still available.
2. It was only one enthusiastic Saints' fan being ejected from the Chapel, who I'd guess had had a pre-match drink or two, but the amount of security involved made it seem like there was a massive brawl breaking out.
3. The atmosphere at St Mary's nowadays is really positive. Having a proper home end in the Northam and hiding the away fans away in a corner has had the desired effect. We now have a rep for our home support, and our results reflect it. It's Fortress St Mary's. Credit to the much-maligned Parsons for getting it done.
4. The spirit at the Club is the best I can recall since the late 70s/early 80s. Even 2015/16, it wasn't as good as now. We expect to beat everybody and we usually do. If we're ever going to win another major trophy, it's going to be with Tonda. Credit to Sport Republic and Spors too.
5. The QPR fans sang the 'Library' and 'Your support' songs in the 1st half and then fell silent for nearly all of the 2nd half, with many of them leaving well before the end. An odd bunch, for sure.
It was very clear that Stephens ducked to make sure he wasn't interfering with play. There was no offside.
The delay was as bad as a VAR one. The goal sign went up on the scoreboard and everyone was celebrating. Even all the QPR fans thought it was a goal. They were as surprised as we were when it was eventually disallowed.
Didn't those QPR fans shut up in the 2nd half.? After their 'library' and your support is f...ing shIt' songs, they went very quiet. Quite a few of them had gone before they scored their goal.
He was their best player, but his back story is a bit controversial. He came to England to play in the Homeless World Cup. Then he claimed he couldn't go back to Africa because he was gay. Once he was granted asylum, he suddenly discovered he was heterosexual and is now married with kids and scoring goals for QPR.
But it was almost inevitable that he would score today. He looks to be much more of a goal threat then Dobbin or Mubama.
Yes, Thursday and Saturday nights at the Rank in the Tamla & Motown area. I remember seeing Ben E King there, singing Stand By Me and Spanish Haarlem..
I wasn't much good at ice skating, but I saw Southampton Vikings play (they weren't much good at ice hockey).
This one used to fill the dance floor at the Rank:
Yes, the World Championships used to be held at Wembley Stadium until 1981. There were 90,000 crowds.
The grand prix system has replaced the individual world championships. I was at the first British Grand Prix, which was held in front of just a few thousand at Hackney Wick Stadium in 1995. For a few years they were at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff, but they struggled to fill it, so the next one is going to be at Foxhall Stadium, Ipswich, which is just a small venue.
Southampton speedway was just a bit before my time, but I've been to most of the speedway stadiums, many of which have closed down. The sport is still big in Poland and Sweden though.
What's good about speedway is that it's cheap and friendly and one of the last bastions of old school working class entertainment. You can eat and drink at the tracks while watching it and even get to know the stars personally, as there's no big divide between the riders and the fans. But, sadly, most of the old tracks I knew, like Cradley Heath and Long Eaton, have closed. One of the last to close was the big Brandon Stadium at Coventry, in 2023. As has been mentioned, nearly all of the speedway stadiums were also used for greyhound racing.
This year was special because Robert Lambert became the first British world champion for 8 years. The Poles and Scandinavians have been dominant in recent years. You can watch every grand prix on TNT Sports. Some diehard British fans travel all over Europe.
No, but one day, if we had an investigative journalist from Southampton, he might do some digging into Middlesbrough's role in the misinformation campaign and the Middlesbrough connections in the EFL and the disciplinary panel. It could make quite a sensational story.
It didn't affect Middlesbrough. The EFL said they didn't give Wrexham a points deduction because it didn't affect results. Neither did watching training sessions.
The Ipswich incident was just video taken by Eastleigh at their own stadium and shown to Saints. The Middlesbrough incident was Tonda asking the analysts if they could find out if Hayden Hackney was fit to play. We've never heard the details of the Oxford incident, but we lost that game.
Those 5 penalties from Fleetwood were as fine a set as you'll ever see at any level. It looked like they had been practising them all week and they executed them to perfection.
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