Two Mr. Happys for the price of one.   On the left is yours truly, looking duly smug as the Saints took a well deserved point away at Derby to maintain their place at the top of the Championship.   It was their first draw of the season with Rickie Lambert Southampton`s Goal Machine (RLSGM) equalising a third minute strike from Rams Theo Robinson, thus putting RLSGM firmly in contention to take the place in the England set-up vacated by the rightful suspension of Wayne Rooney from international competition.  Well, why not?  After all, RLSGM is also a scouser, to be fair.

On the right is perhaps an image that captures the prevailing mood of my neighbour Mr. Slightly, whose Gillingham side made the long journey to the English Riviera and came away 5-2 winners against Torquay United at Plainmoor.   I imagine he`s over the moon, on cloud nine but cursing the fact that only a bout of man flu prevented him  treating Mrs. Slightly to a weekend on the sunny south coast to watch his heroes pull off a stirring victory, having been 2-0 up and pegged back to 2-2 before romping away with the points to raise them to ninth in the table.

So, they`re the only highs from today`s Snopper Street teams.   And so we come to Mr. Bump and the Addicks of Charlton, who were also playing away, this time at Broadhall Way against Stevenage Borough, only recently elevated to League One.

Now the table topping Addicks had remained undefeated in the league this season, but they came down with a bump this afternoon, going down to the only goal of the game in a 1-0 defeat (to quote David Coleman.)   Until a couple of games ago, Charlton had pretty much kept the same team but manager Chrissy (The Legend) Powell decided to make a few changes with the result that their fortunes have waned.   One of his changes was to drop our local hero Scott (Buzzin Six-pack) Wagstaff to the bench, only to bring him on with just 17 minutes to go in the hope that his blistering pace might see him take on tiring leg weary defenders and turn the game in a game turning cameo.

Didn`t happen, I`m afraid, but maybe The Legend has learnt the lesson that you don`t change a winning team unless you have to, especially one that includes a pacy flanker of the quality of our street`s hard working gay icon who has already proved that he can ghost past defenders, reach the by-line and provide pin point crosses for onrushing strikers to plant the ball into the top corner beyond the despairing clutches of opposing custodians (to quote Herbert Marshall.)