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Pah! My dad ran a pub and I used to ‘bottle up’ the shelves when I was seven. The old man would reward me with a baby bottle of Guinness. :drink: P.S. A baby bottle in those days was about a third of a pint in liquid terms - marvellous!

Goal average was replaced by goal difference the season before - 1976/77.

Did you, by any chance, consume too many pints of Watney’s Red Barrel, otherwise known as cat’s piss, when observing the South Stand in 1969? :ohmy: :drink:

Of course there’s no evidence, just a load of non-objective, fan biased hearsay. Every Albion fan that day was as bitter as could be and if it meant venting their spleen on the dubious outcome further down the coast so be it. If Tottenham had got their act together and gone all out for the win...

The rumour was, how true I don’t know, that Tony Funnell hit the post for Saints and was immediately substituted. Can’t have that sort of honesty ruining our ‘let’s all cheat’ scenario.

It wasn’t all standing. The back half was wooden bench seating and the front half was terracing. It caught fire c1980? after which they made it all seating.

I still hate Southampton and Tottenham for their manufactured draw at the Dell. A team that scored in every home game against a team that scored in every away game and yet they managed to produce a 0-0 borefest. :angry: