Match Day Thread Saints Vs Brighton – Sunday 14th March 12.00pm, BBC1

So, here we go. My first match thread – please be gentle:

The mighty Saints look forward to the second leg of the South Coast ‘non-Derby’ match. Having clipped the Seagull’s wings in December, culminating in the most useless, flightless bird since the Dodo, we aim to help their flight towards full extinction from the Premier League.

Not so interesting facts about Brighton:

· In 1974 the Brighton Dome was the venue for Eurovision, in which Abba triumphed with Waterloo

· The Brighton Dome also saw the debut of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon with their first ever live performance of it in 1972

· During WW2, it has been reported that Hitler instructed people not to bomb Brighton’s Royal Pavilion. Supposedly, this is because he wanted to keep the palace in tact to use as his seaside home once all the commotion had passed

· 60,000 light bulbs light up Brighton’s Pier

· Over 50% of the states in America have at least one “Brighton”. Australia is the only other place in the world to have Brighton & Hove next to each other

· Brighton is home to Britain’s oldest cinema – the Duke of York’s

· Brighton’s Sea Life centre is also the world’s oldest aquarium… dating back to 1872

· Sir Winston Churchill went to school in Hove between 1883 and 1885

· Ze Germans awarded Brighton it’s name that was adopted in 1810. Before then this seaside settlement was actually known as Brighthelmston(e)

· My first proper date with my, now wife, was a dirty night away in Brighton

· Ralph would win in a fight against the Brighton Manager, Graham Potter

· Brighton has a really **** beach and too many Seagulls

Surely with Fulham playing man City, a win at St Marys this weekend will see us open up a 10 point gap, with just 9 games to play. With Che on a scoring run, key players rested, ‘The Wall’ back in goal and KWP ripping it up on the right, there can only be one result!

Finally, a quote from my avatar… "The proof is in the pudding, and the pudding, in this case, is football. Booof, eat my goal. The goalie has got football pie all over his shirt!"

COYR!!!

 

Referee: Stuart Attwell. Assistants: Constantine Hatzidakis, Richard West. Fourth official: Robert Jones. VAR: Andre Marriner. Assistant VAR: Andy Halliday.

 

*** pedant alert ***....Nothing to do with the match, but I beg to differ on the Floyd's Dark side of the moon debut - according to Wikipedia its first full live performance was at the Guildhall, Portsmouth on 21 January 1972. I was there, on a rare trip over from the Island - great gig, despite being in Portsmouth! As for Sunday, I am looking forward to a good win from an almost full strength Saints

COYR!!!

Slightly embarrassed edit: On another Wikipedia page, it seems that they played most of Dark Side in Brighton the day before the Portsmouth gig but interrupted it at "Money" because of technical issues. Apologies to Lambertissier.

 

Our PL stats when live on BBC:
Played 1 won 1. Good omen.

 

Had to post it...I love it when he says "and another" when the player kicks the ball in the net again after the goal...

 

Saw The Jam's final ever gig in Brighton at the end of '82...it was emotional.

 

No worries, i was at the mercy of the internet, so didn't take it personally. Happy to hear that though, as I'd much rather Pompey didn't have the association with the premier of such a historic piece of music!

 

Thanks, i haven't worked out how to add video clips, otherwise would have posted the same one. Funny as!

 

One of my favourites v Brighton:

 

Still can't believe we got a penalty for that.

 

One for @fran-MLs little camera

 

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts. VAR will probably confiscate them anyway.

 

I wanna know more about the ‘dirty night away’.

 

Peter Andre Marriner is on VAR duty, he's half Greek as well.

 

They got married 9 months later....

 

****ing hell. In my day you were lucky to get a kiss good night on your first date never mind a night in a hotel room in Brighton.

 

Well, the train table on the way down there was really grubby, the hotel room hadn't been cleaned to Mrs LBT's standards and the litter on the beach the next day was terrible - proper dirty night away!!

 

My “interesting Brighton story” happened just after Brighton opened its nudist beach in 1980. We were playing rugby away to Lewes, which meant driving right past Brighton. This was January 81, from memory. It was a foul day, raining and very blowy. After the game and a couple of sherbets we were driving back to Havant in convoy at about 7pm when some wag announced “Brighton has a nudist beach! Let’s go for a dip”. So we detoured and about a dozen or so of us parked up, threw off our clothes and dived into the water ....... instantly sobered up, we shivered and grumped our way back to the cars and then had to stop on the way back at a pub to “warm up” ....
The one and only time I’ve been on Brighton beach ..... can’t say I was impressed. Bit stony and I never saw any other nudists ......

 

Big game this, not quite as important as the Sheffield United game but still part of this current run of season defining games.

Normally I wouldn't think a draw would be an awful result but following the disaster of 8 losses from 9, I get the feeling anything less than 3 points will be met with a very negative reaction.

Prediction 1-1.

 

2-0 home win.