Samuel Johnstone

25. Southampton FC.

[Samuel Johnstone @SJohnstone_]

@paddypower my dad has had a beer, any chance you can create a market?

Southampton to take a corner in all 4 corners of the ground and Southampton to win 0-6? 👀😂

[The72 - We Love the #EFL @_The72]

With news that DAZN plan to broadcast every EFL game live, there’s no better time to explain why the 3pm blackout is so important.

England has the deepest pyramid, in terms of attendances, and no other league has such a traditional and sacrosanct time for football for ALL games. There’ll be thousands of walk-up, casual fans who’ll stop going to watch their local team because they can watch the big boys on telly.
It's these casual fans who pay their £10-25 on the turnstile, plus other spends, which helps to keep these clubs running in terms of a weekly cash flow because season ticket holders pay in one at the start of the season. Think of the amount of away fans that would stop going and travelling hours on a coach cos they can watch it on telly. It's also not about 1 game, or 1 weekend. It's about habit-forming, it's about behavioural patterns. It's about how removing the blackout could, in the long-term, have an irreversible effect on parts of the pyramid.

England is the only country in Europe where we have one time slot. 73% of match kick off at 3pm on a Saturday. As opposed to 28% in Germany which is the next highest.

You’ll then open up the possibility for people going to watch it at their mates or decide to stay in the pub and watch it. Again this is habit forming.

It’s so dangerous and could kill what’s brilliant about English football. You get 40,000 at a ground in the championship. Three League One teams get around 30,000. A League Two team get 20,000. There’s a National League team that got 15,000+ this season. South Shields who play in the 7th tier average 2,000 fans. You can’t risk losing the beauty of that just to pander to those who don’t already go to football matches. I completely understand that there are circumstances that mean unfortunately some supporters are unable to attend. But the power of English football, it’s supporters and it’s attendances far outweigh that.

A lot of this has been taken from @DaleJohnsonESPN who articulates this point so well. Let’s hope the 3pm blackout never gets scrapped.

[When Football Was Better @FootballInT80s]

Southampton inventing football back in 1982

[Samuel Johnstone @SJohnstone_]

@jordancroucher1 That’s the most intellectual comment I’ve ever seen from you son. More in 2023 pls x

[Samuel Johnstone @SJohnstone_]

@_alexdaniel97 I was honestly thinking “no way has a scouser actually uttered these words”

*turns up volume*

Oh no… he’s from Basingstoke

[Samuel Johnstone @SJohnstone_]

@_alexdaniel97 @sebdwhite 💉💉💉

[Samuel Johnstone @SJohnstone_]

@_alexdaniel97 @MundialMag Love it mate. Absolutely love this 🫶🏻🫶🏻

[Samuel Johnstone @SJohnstone_]

Sold 🙃

[Premier League @premierleague]

@SouthamptonFC The @SouthamptonFC player to take the #PL by storm this season will be _____________

[Samuel Johnstone @SJohnstone_]

There might have been if they did it 10 games ago when the team clearly finished their season 🥱

[Dan Sheldon @Dan_Sheldon_]

Not many left inside St Mary’s for #SaintsFC’s lap of appreciation…

[Samuel Johnstone @SJohnstone_]

💉💉💉

[A Funny Old Game @sid_lambert]

This week in 1982 Southampton scored one of the greatest team goals of all time.

Keegan’s header One-touch football. The finish. And then the celebration.

Hang it in a fucking museum.

[Amos Murphy @AmosMurphy_]

Rising cost of living, record-high fuel prices and this is what Man City fans are facing if they wish to travel by train for Sunday’s FA Cup QF against Southampton.

Remember when football fans were urged to pick train travel over driving to help climate change?

[Samuel Johnstone @SJohnstone_]

Go on then my son @_alexdaniel97 🙌🏼🙌🏼

[COPA90 @Copa90]

📍Carrow Road
📸: @_alexdaniel97

[Samuel Johnstone @SJohnstone_]

If you listen to an album on shuffle you don’t deserve music anyway.

Very odd behaviour

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Following the release of ‘30’ by @Adele, Spotify removed the shuffle button as the default option when playing albums.

Now, listeners have to listen to every album’s tracklist in order.

[Samuel Johnstone @SJohnstone_]

Should be a simple two word email, second word being “off!”
#SaintsFC

[FA Spokesperson @FAspokesperson]

Regulation and discipline update on @SouthamptonFC

[Samuel Johnstone @SJohnstone_]

Some replies in here are brilliant.
People genuinely lose their marbles at a home insurance ad where a lad in a dress knocks over his sisters paints and breaks a lamp 🥱😂😂

[John Lewis & Partners @JohnLewisRetail]

Many of you have contacted us regarding the thinking behind our latest Home Insurance advert. Please find our response below:

[Samuel Johnstone @SJohnstone_]

Does this melon think Gao hides in the unit where the Saints Mega Store used to be or something 🤨#SaintsFC

[Andy @Andy261971]

EXCLUSIVE from @SkySportsPL .
Join us live this morning as we discuss with the Taliban , Jack Stephens tackle on Bruno Fernandes in the build up to the Southampton fc goal .

[Samuel Johnstone @SJohnstone_]

The lad is fucking mustard

[Mainly Oasis @mainlyoasis]

Gerry Cinnamon - Belter (TRNSMT 2018)

[Glen de la Cour (leagueoneminus10) @L1minus10]

Any chance we can leave all the negativity behind for 90 minutes in the ground on Sunday? #SaintsFC