Saints Misery (Again!) - at the hands of the Green Army!

I spent most of today in Southampton as Saints' first league match of the new season, against recently relegated Plymouth Argyle, was to kick-off at the very early time of 12.15 p.m. Tom and I left for Southampton at 10 a.m. and managed to get parked a little before 11 a.m. in College Street car park. As we wanted to visit the shops after the match I put 5 hour's worth of money in the meter (£5.00) which, for a large city like Southampton, is quite reasonable. We walked to St. Mary's Street and had a cup of coffee and an eccles cake before going to the game. Andy, John and the kids spotted us outside the bakery as they were having an early fish lunch at the chippie next door. We all walked to the stadium together and John kindly bought my programme. Expectations were high as we arrived at our seats - expectation of a good match - but we were quite horrified to find that the seat were absolutely filthy with cobwebs and rubbish from the roof. It was clear that nobody had been anywhere near them to clean them during the break since May. John tried to register a complaint on Tony's mobile phone but couldn't get through. Both he and I will register a complaint via the Internet (email) if necessary. Saints played well in the first half but conceded a simple and easy goal on one of the very few attacks by Plymouth. Matters got no better in the second half and the lack of Rickie Lambert (groin strain) told. Lallana didn't come on until halfway through the second half (replacing Harding) and Saints' attitude to the game changed - but too late. The score remained at 0-1 and Plymouth fans went away singing "Top of the League". Saints being bottom! At the end of the day, Saint's position was 21st and Plymouth's 10th. I guess nothing to worry about at this early stage but disappointing. Tom and I bought fishcake/sausage and chips and walked into the city centre. We visited Sports Direct in the West Quay Centre buying some new trainers and some golf balls. We drove back via Tesco's to get some snacks for tomorrow's visit to the Rose Bowl and had an ice cream at Carlo's. Tonight we watched "Night at the Museum 2" together as a family. I hadn't seen No. 1 so had to be told much of what some of the significance of certain parts of the story. Quite funny and a good watch with the exception of that [word censored] Ricky Gervais whom the film could have managed well without. Fortunately his appearance were short (although annoying). I still can't decide whether he is acting or whether he is really a [word censored].