LEMMINGS CLAIM BRAGGING RIGHTS..

This is the majestic Itchen Bridge, which carries traffic and pedestrians over the River Itchen in Southampton.   It has been a popular gathering place for Saints fans after years of  seemingly endless disappointments inflicted by their football team.  In the top left corner of the picture, you can just make out St. Mary`s Stadium and how portentous it was of the Samaritans to place their notice and emergency buttons at the highest point on the bridge.

Now, yesterday`s televised 4-4 draw away to Peterborough saw the usual extreme reactions by Saints fans to the fact that, having been two goals ahead twice in the game, it ended in a draw, thanks to a last gasp penalty awarded to the home side.  You see, the message boards of Southampton FC fans seem split between those, like me, who shrug our shoulders at what might have been, move on at the end of the day and wait to see what next week brings:  and those for whom a draw away to the league`s highest scorers seems like the end of the world.   They are the ones who, had the game been played at St. Mary`s and ended like this one 4-4, would have headed for the highest point of the Itchen Bridge.

In other news, Gillingham continued their unbeaten run with a reportedly dull 0-0 draw at home to Oxford but Charlton managed a 1-0 win away to the Glovers of Yeovil Town.   Not a lot of bragging rights to be had this week in Snopper Street, it seems, so in a fit of desperation I put forward the proposition that Southampton at least has a nice high bridge spanning a wide river where disenchanted fans can gather for their lemming-esque post match wakes, whereas as far as I am aware, there is a distinct shortage of high level bridges and wide expanses of water in both Charlton and Gillingham.