Gave you an up vote as you managed to string this thread along for five pages almost single-handedly.
First of all, damned good work fellas. I will go back and upvote when I’m sober.
Just back from the game…
and yes it’s taken me this long.
We never fucking beat Man Utd at St. Marys. That right there is the facts. And we are always better than them and the ref’s a cunt and blah blah blah blah.
One nil up and cruising and Pelle hits the post when he should really have scored. Right there. That’s the game.
Then, shit defending, + Yoshi brain fart. 1-2
Chasing the game.
1-3 all over but.
2-3 dangling the juicy carrot.
bollocks.
I would like to hear Michael Owen describe a game like that but fear it will never happen.
So what did I learn from today?
Firstly, Saints and Man U are pretty close in terms of quality. Just let that sink in for a moment. There is not a great deal between these two teams. £200m spent over the summer and the northerners are still slightly above average.
Secondly,
don’t give me all that shit about Man U fans being the best travelling fans in the country. Yeah whatever, maybe they’re the real mancs but they were fucking deadly silent at 1-0 down and shit a brick at 2-3. Fair weather disease ridden fucks imho. It’s easy to be loud when you are winning and the MU fans have had that in abundance in the past. My advice to them is get used to being quite shit also rans. “We’re Man Utd, we do want we want,” they sang. Yes, that’s true. If it involves over spending, under performing and generally being shit, and finishing fifth, mouthy northern cunts.
But what I really learned from today is that football is a tiny part of being a Sotonian.
Had a great time in the pub before the game meeting up with various fuckwits from here. I can only strongly recommend the meet ups to other posters for future games.
After the game I was stomping home with a bee in my bonnet to type up my match report, when I was accosted by my brother and my uncle.
A few more beers in the South Western and a bit of a chat about the game, life, death whatever and here I am now thinking what a lucky Goat I am.
It’s not about whether JWP is a number 10 or a holding midfielder. Or whether Sadio goes down too easily or we need a more mobile centre forward.
It’s not about missing The Dell or hating the concourse.
I could really care less about paying Gaston too much or Koeman’s contract running down.
It’s about us… About us coming together and sharing a load of shit that doesn’t really mean anything but that brings us together anyway.
It’s about hearing someone say “Southampton” in a pub and your ears pricking up. Anywhere In the world.
It’s about being together as Sotonians.
And I fucking love it.
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It was strange. We could have won that game, but we backed off. They weren’t that good, and when we went for it, they looked rattled. Annoying game.
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Was wondering what in earth Pelle’s strange leap was all about, and have just seen on Twitter it was a rugby dive!
Originally posted by @Goatboy
Firstly, Saints and Man U are pretty close in terms of quality. Just let that sink in for a moment. There is not a great deal between these two teams. £200m spent over the summer and the northerners are still slightly above average.
Yup, I agree.
Secondly,
don’t give me all that shit about Man U fans being the best travelling fans in the country. Yeah whatever, maybe they’re the real mancs but they were fucking deadly silent at 1-0 down and shit a brick at 2-3. Fair weather disease ridden fucks imho. It’s easy to be loud when you are winning and the MU fans have had that in abundance in the past. My advice to them is get used to being quite shit also rans. “We’re Man Utd, we do want we want,” they sang. Yes, that’s true. If it involves over spending, under performing and generally being shit, and finishing fifth, mouthy northern cunts.
LOL!
But what I really learned from today is that football is a tiny part of being a Sotonian.
Had a great time in the pub before the game meeting up with various fuckwits from here. I can only strongly recommend the meet ups to other posters for future games.
It’s about us… About us coming together and sharing a load of shit that doesn’t really mean anything but that brings us together anyway.
It’s about hearing someone say “Southampton” in a pub and your ears pricking up. Anywhere In the world.
It’s about being together as Sotonians.
And I fucking love it.
Heheh, Matt you’re quite poetic when you’ve had a couple 
But, I agree!
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Thank you very much.
Can only do this if
a) it is on sky
b) I’m not at the game (which is unlikely if on sky, as it is a waste in my mind of a trip, as I can only do a few anyway)
c) I am not working
d) if the kids or rest of the family are not bugging me (today I got family stuff out the way in the early part of the day)
e) I can be arsed.
f) if the goat is not around to do the job.
I quite enjoyed it though, it is amazing what you notice when you are reporting on the game, rather than just staring at the screen hoping we just score!
I find the post-match inquests in the other place more depressing than the actual defeat!
An individual error and some world class goalkeeping lost us the game against a genuine top five team.
Next.
A very entertaining game that we unfortunately didn’t get the better of. No complaints from these quarters - United had a spell of dominance in which they were untouchable, at least by anyone in a Saints shirt. A few shots go a few inches in a different direction, and we could have easily seen United chasing a multiple goal deficit. It was not to be, and I’ll admit to having ominous feelings when the Itchen North started to sing “what a waste of money” in respect to Martial, who went on to score two goals.
Yoshida lacks consistency; not necessarily week to week, but in the course of a single game. Famine or feast, and I think the whole ground knew United were going to score when the backpass went awry. It is so fucking disappointing to go behind to a goal like that, but it is fixable. It’s not some insoluble Chinese Puzzle box; it’s a Japanese international making a fucking howler.
Once again, the spectre of glory hunting cunts in the home end marred the experience, and assuming you’re one of these people that believe the crowd have an effect on the players, completely ruined any chance Itchen North had of whipping up something to silence the well organised, and very loud United fans that were stood in the correct part of the ground. Loads of trouble after United fans (I think in one of the corporate boxes) started celebrating after Martial’s second. Mayhem. Almost everyone in Blocks 1-4 was too busy looking at the off-pitch action to be especially arsed about shouting for the players on the field.
I don’t know what to do about this issue, particularly on a day like today when the match is televised and many of the season tickets can be potentially resold, but it is something that has affected us with Big Club Uniteds every season since we got up. That’s no excuse for the play on the pitch; the trouble was triggered the moment we went 2-1 down. However, I am starting to get a bit tired of the tight-lipped fans in neutral clothing taking up space that could go to a committed Saints fan. It is actually fucking dangerous as well, as this fixture has demonstrated over the past few seasons.
I’ll keep this simple. It all went wrong at the coin-toss. We lost it and had to attack the Chapel End in the first half…when that happens…we lose. It was the same at the Dell if we attacked the Milton in the first half we lost.
Some things never change. 
Was frustrated when we left. Frustrated on the way home. Frustrated watching the highlights. Now I am fucked off and fuming. Not at the quality of our players, or our play, but our sheer inability to not make howling errors, or to keep the foot firmly on their throat as we did so well for the first 30.
As posted elsewhere, the pre match drinks were great as was the company for the day. Still fucked off about the team I love though.
Well I am not as suicidal as those of TSW.
Thing is - it was Man U - a team that has spent £200m this summer and has started the season at a bit of a canter.
If anything I see progress, given that appalling start to the seasin we have had - we almost did them, and in parts we absolutely battered them.
From 30 minutes to 80, United got their act together - when a big club decides to play football, it can be really tough to do anything with them.
That said, we have got to stop shooting ourselves in the foot. We need to hire Mr Miyagi to sort out Bertrand sharpish and someone needs to teach Martina or Soares to defend so we don’t have to play Yoshi out of position
That was an odd crowd.
The bloke with two kids who upped and left as soon as Man Utd scored their third…
What??
We’ve come to see Man Utd but we are losing so we are going home in a sulk!
Is that what the Premier League has become?
Fairweather fans who dip in and out of watching the big league at their nearest branch??
Tosser.
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The crowd is getting worse, I agree, especially for the “big” games like yesterday. So many left when they scored the third, and again after about 84 minutes, so missed our 2nd goal and fightback. Then you have the oddities like the couple in a row behind me who spent half the time filming the game (its on the bloody TV and they have better cameras fuckwit) and the other texting / posting their shitty handheld out of focus handiwork. £40 per ticket to not watch the game. jeez
I still have a sore throat shouting at so called supporters who upped and left at the third United goal. Troop out as far as the exit point from the stands and linger watching the next attack. I was shouting…“If you’re going…fucking go!..we don’t need your kind of support”
Ditto all that on people leaving. Round where I sit (Kingsland, roughly level with the six-yard line) they flooded out after the third United goal. Pretty feeble.
Who leaves a match after 68 minutes??
If we were five down (or up) and I had the last ever train to catch I might consider an 85th minute departure, but 68??
Exactly, saints fans should know this. After all, we have thrown away perfectly good 3 goal leads after 68 minutes before.
Originally posted by @Rallyboy
Who leaves a match after 68 minutes??
If we were five down (or up) and I had the last ever train to catch I might consider an 85th minute departure, but 68??
Perhaps they started this by having great foresight at the worst match I have ever attended, to this day:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/4431034.stm