I KNOW THE FEELING....

Rewind from two posts down. Over the moon becomes sick as a parrot. Here`s why.

At lunchtime today, Portsmuff beat Birmingham City 2-0 in the quarter final of the FA Cup, helped in no small measure by a sight-impaired lineman not spotting that a Birmingham header had crossed the line, which would have made it 2-1 with ten minutes plus Fergie time to go. So, the blue few are now off to Wemberley for an FA Cup semi-final. Cue reports about beleagured club overcoming horrendous odds with a performance of real grit and character, quite overlooking the fact that they have seemingly spent money they haven't got, been trading whilst obviously insolvent and signing players they shouldn't have been allowed to sign. No wonder I have a heavy dose of parrot sickness.

In the meantime, Saints - on the back of two successive five goal hauls - went to the wilds of Birkenhead only to lose 2-1 to Tranmere Rovers, who were awarded a dubious penalty with just a few minutes to go. In a lookalike moment shortly after, Saints defender Jose Fonte was up-ended in the box in a carbon copy of the incident which gave Tranmere their penalty, only to be booked for diving. Upset? Moi? You`d better believe it.