The Exiled Saint  allows me to voice my personal observations on the fortunes of my favourite football team, Southampton FC, as well as my other interests, photography and travel.

 

If you're no longer living on the South Coast or if you're a fan of Southampton Football Club living abroad, then I hope you'll find The Exiled Saint useful for some background  information and views on Southampton FC.  

 

Contibute or Comment Welcome

 

I welcome any comments you may have, especially if you're like me, living in “exile”. You are also welcome contribute to the site, either in the Contact Me link.

 

Needless to say, I will not reply to, or publish anything sent anonymously. Nor anything containing abusive or foul language, or which denigrates another’s ethnicity or gender.

 

 

Backstory - The Saints

 

Should you have stumbled onto this website in error then perhaps a little background might be useful. Southampton Football Club was formed in 1885 by members of the St Mary's Young Men's Association, based at St Mary's Chruch, who played their games on the banks of the River Itchen, one of rivers which form the port of Southampton.  In 1894 they joined the Southern League as Southampton St Mary’s FC.  However, to their fans they were always known as "The Saints".

 

Shortly after joining the League they moved to a brand new ground costing  £10,000; a fortune in those days.  It was called The Dell and it was where they were to remain until 2001 when they returned close to their roots to a new 32000 capacity stadium called St Mary’s.

 

After some twenty-eight years in the England’s top echelon the Saints were relegated and have been in the Coco-Cola Championship League for the past few seasons.  We supporters are confident that this season will see our return to Premiership.

 

Exiled Saints

 

Along with my wife Gill, I am retired and now live in a North Shropshire village in the English midlands .  Prior to moving to Salop, (Shropshire’s other name), in May 2006, we lived in Southampton and later near Salisbury, Wiltshire.  Hence, our interest in Southampton FC.   

 

I’m an amateur photographer; love travelling and am a keen hobby cook. Gill is a big England cricket fan, enjoys gardening and reading. However, our principal love is football (soccer) and with Tim, our son and Teri, our daughter-in-law, are season ticket holders and die-hard supporters of The Saints (Southampton FC). 

 

Non-football supporters may think we’re more than slightly crazy.  However, it is our view that in life one may change one’s job, politics, religion, and/or spouse, but never change your allegiance to your football team.

 

All photorgarphs are the copyright of Paddy Browne unless otherwise stated. You are free to transcribe any of the The Exiled Saint's content I would apprecaite an acknowledgement of it's source.

 

Whilst the majority of The Exiled Saint is devoted to Southampton FC I hope you will enjoy the non-football pages as well.

 

IMPORTANT NOTE

 

All images and artwork are the property of The Exiled Saint, except where otherwise stated. 

 

Other artwork and/or images have been sourced from what is generally understood to be in the public domain, e.g., “free-ware” or similar “free-downloading” methods.  In all cases the original source has been accredited and acknowledged as the “rightful” owner and wherever possible permission was sought prior to up-loading.

 

It is not the intention of The Exiled Saint to infringe either the copyright or the intellectual rights of any other artist.

 

Enjoy The Exiled Saint.

 

Paddy Browne

Sun Jul 12 12:19:32 UTC+0100 2009