Saints say sayonara....

[Footie Psychic]

To all the Saints fans (err one....) of ishikawa.... saw this on the bbc website... spooky....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/funny_o ... 555559.stm

amazing last day of the premiership though where at one point all four teams would survive ..... Bryan Robson reborn... who would have thought it...

to saints, may u rest in peace in the championship.

[moby1kenobe]

They'll be straight back up out of the murky depths of the Championship, leaping like a sparkling minnow out of the filth and scum.

Just like Leicester.

[gary]

As a Norwich City supporter I share their pain. Not a good day. Having beaten Man U to start a revival when 6 points adrift at the bottom was amazing, but to lose 6-0 to Fulham on the last day when a win would have ensured survival was a bit hard to handle. Being 1-0 down having a disallowed goal, and certain penalty turn down, and a dubious free kick which was put away to make it 2-0 just meant it wasn't our day.

[lobu]

I saw Dean ashton disallowed goal, was blatant foul, and the defending that Norwich had rediscovered over the last few months left them...... bless em, they even interveiwed `lets be aving u` delia on MOTD (UK nova for ever).... was still the best relelgation fight for ages...

Now its just come on the pool on may 25th!!!
Leciester, now who are were they again....oh yeah decent with Martin, ever since then its been downhill.

Predictions for FA cup final?

[angryostrich]

I saw Dean ashton disallowed goal, was blatant foul, and the defending that Norwich had rediscovered over the last few months left them...... bless em, they even interveiwed `lets be aving u` delia on MOTD (UK nova for ever).... was still the best relelgation fight for ages...

Now its just come on the pool on may 25th!!!
Leciester, now who are were they again....oh yeah decent with Martin, ever since then its been downhill.

Predictions for FA cup final?

now im american, so i dont know much about it, but this cant possibly be english.

[gary]

Yeah, I didn't see the disallowed goal, but everyone seemed to agree(including Fulham) the penalty was certain. I couldn't see the game, but from what I hear that at 2-0 down, they took the chance to go all out and opened themselves up at the back, and once you go 3 down playing against an opposition with nothing to lose, but still knowing that 3 goals will bring you a point then you open up the back further.

It's somewhat ironic that since Norwich beat Manchester United their only non-Victories were Southampton(4-3), Crystal Palace(3-3), and Fulham(0-6), but underlined their inability away from home. I think what killed Norwich over the course of the season were the 4 months of missing up to 8 players through injury between November to March. When you have a squad that costs less than a single Man U player that means a real struggle.

It's a shame that it's just a money thing now, and the only teams in with a real shout are those with huge resources. Chelsea without money win nothing, with money are champions. Of course, everyone remembers the Hillsborough Disaster, but the other semi-final that day Norwich lost 1-0. At the time they were also top of the League, and many were predicting them to win the double. They actually came third in the end, and next year in Europe knocked Bayern Munich out of the European Cup. (still the only British club to beat Bayern in Bayern). The chances of that sort of thing happening now are non existent.

FA Cup Final. Arsenal to win by 2 goals. (2-0) Although, they seem to have a jinx against Man U, so if things go badly at the beginning like last year it could easily be reversed, but I don't think so this time. In fact, Arsenal are the first team I supported as a kid, and I remember well the best FA Cup of them all when they were 2-0 up with 4 minutes to go, and suddenly found themselves at 2-2. From the kick-off, Liam Brady dribbled the ball up the pitch seemingly defeating the whole team on his own, it gets crossed to Sunderland who bangs the ball into the net. 3-2. Liam Brady made the best comment about the whole thing when asked to explain the genius run:
I was just trying to get the ball as far a way from our goal as possible so we could get to extra time.

[coolscribe]

Gary, by chance I just read this retrospective of that game on the Guardian site.

Enjoy

[gary]

Gary, by chance I just read this retrospective of that game on the Guardian site.

Enjoy

No I hadn't! Thanks for that. It was the first FA Cup that I watched and as I was at school in Ireland at the time, lots of us were Arsenal fans - some Irish players in the team. It was the most riduculous 5 minutes of football I have ever watched. I don't remember the cross, but I clearly remember Liam Brady's run. He seemed to go on forever, and beat everyone.

[Tommo]

Am I not the only Southampton fan in Ishikawa? Or was the first comment directed at me?!

Thanks anyway, I'd seen that and it really is spooky.

Being relegated truly is gutting though, and I just hope and pray we can bounce straight back up again.

The first FA Cup Final I saw was Spurs v Coventry in 1987, and I really can't think of a better one since. I really don't think I've ever seen anyone lift a trophy above their head which such relish and sheer joy as the Coventry captain (Brian Kilcline?) that day......

[moby1kenobe]

Oh crap, we're never going to get promoted now.

We've just signed our third Aussie. He's a big lad but without curls and a ginger beard I'm just not convinced. The rest of our squad are all Irish and Scottish so it looks like we're scuppered...

(Holds breath and waits for tri-nation ear-bashing)