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In That Number
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Saints v Pompey
Saints v Pompey

 

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About Hagiology

 

HAGIOLOGY PUBLISHING is a collective comprising four Saints fans - David Bull, Gary Chalk, Duncan Holley and Dave Juson – each of whom has been appointed an Official Historian of Southampton FC. The collective is committed to the collection and dissemination of accurate information on the history of the club. If that seems a pompous statement of their commitment, then you have obviously never experienced the depth of their irritation at inaccuracies published by the club or the local media - although they are concerned to learn from their own tendencies to recycle errors: see Can You Help Us?

To date, their dissemination of accurate information has taken the form of answering enquiries, many of them from callers referred by the club, about the Saints’ history (a service they are pleased to extend to visitors to this site: see Can We Help You?) but a major purpose of this site is to advise you of the information on that history that has been gathered together and published in six books.

The original collective was five-strong but Norman Gannaway, who contributed substantially to MATCH OF THE MILLENNIUM, opted to retire at 70 from this project. He is still involved in the production of local club and league histories, but Hagiology Publishing now consists of just the four Saints fans:

DAVID BULL saw his first game at The Dell in 1948, soon after which he left his native Salisbury to become in turn a Camberley teenager, an Exeter student and a university teacher in Exeter, Manchester and Bristol. His ‘retirement’ consists of occasionally chairing tribunal hearings, while otherwise being absorbed in Hagiology Publishing. A longstanding contributor to the Saints Matchday Programme, he has also written for three Southampton fanzines. Edited two collections of fans’ memories (1992 and 1994), as fund-raisers for the Child Poverty Action Group. The author of DELL DIAMOND, his next Hagiology project is CONSTANT PAINE, a biography of Terry Paine.

GARY CHALK was born in Eastleigh and educated at the Alderman Quilley School. Has been employed at the local Railway Works for more than 30 years. A dual interest in history and collecting led him to record and publish material on Southampton FC (with Duncan Holley, as below). Having travelled the length and breadth of the country collating facts and figures to that end, he has now amassed a huge amount of ephemera including an almost complete collection, from 1946, of the Football Echo and Saints programmes. Shares responsibility with Dave Juson for historical contributions to the Matchday Programme.

DUNCAN HOLLEY is a fourth-generation supporter, whose great grandfather was an original shareholder, whose grandfather went to the 1927 semi-final and whose dad bought a house in Archers Road to be near The Dell, where he was a stileman in the 1960s. Developed a passion for stats and photos and was determined that, if he could not play for Saints, he would write about them. The initial outcome in 1987 – SAINTS: A COMPLETE RECORD – and its successor, IN THAT NUMBER, each set a new standard for football club histories (see the latter’s reviews). While hoping for another idol to thrill him in the manner of a Davies, Channon or Le Tissier, he somehow feels the glory days lie in the past – which is why he continues to appreciate and document it.

DAVE JUSON was born in Southampton and saw his first game at The Dell in November 1962 – a six-goal victory against Middlesbrough. Has since been a regular, geographical location permitting. Following a diverse working life, including seafaring, labouring, driving and selling jokes to BBC radio satire programmes, he tried education, emerging from the University of Leicester, via Ruskin College, with a BA in History in 1999. Has scribed occasional heritage articles for the Echoand contributes historical features (with Gary Chalk) to the Matchday Programme. Principal author of FULL-TIME at THE DELL and SAINTS v POMPEY.

 

 

Full-Time at The Dell
Full-Time at
The Dell
Match of the Millennium
Match of the
Millennium
Tie A Yellow Ribbon
Tie A Yellow Ribbon