Saints v Falkirk Preview

Last updated : 03 October 2003 By Stuart Gillespie
John Coughlin is treading thin ice with some of the Saints support, after the recent poor performances and his comments in the press recently, which many fans feel was an attack on the support. He's denied this, saying it was an attack on those staying away. Either way, all is not well down at Love Street and if Saints go a goal down inside 15 minutes tomorrow, the atmosphere will turn very bad, very quickly. Coughlin just has to hope his team come out fighting for once, and are the ones dishing out a hammering.

He'll have to do it without John O'Neill, without Simon Lappin, without David Jack and without Kevin Twaddle. Brian McGinty and Mark Dempsie return to the squad, whilst Allan Russell and Paul McKnight are doubtful. This means that a strikeforce of Barry Lavety and Eddie Annand could start a game together for the first time, a strike pairing most fans would love to see in action.

He might not play tomorrow, but that doesn't matter. Falkirk have argubly one of the most famous players from British football in the early 1990s in their squad. Jason Lee. Never heard of him? Shame on you, and you call yourself a football fan. Allow me to explain. David Baddiel and Frank Skinner once presented an extremely silly show called Fantasy Football, where English football generally had the piss ripped out of it. Think of Tam Cowan's Offside, only funny and based on English football and you get the idea. Lee's dreadlocked hairstyle looked just like a pineapple, and so the slagging began. His form dipped, and chants of "He's got a pineapple, on his head" could be heard echoing around the terraces of England. Sadly, the pineapple is no more, but his form has never returned. If he plays tomorrow it will at least provide some amusement.

Saints need to win tomorrow, but probably won't. I reckon we'll lose 5-0.