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Ralph’s Visit
Ralph answered questions for a good hour and a quarter which turned out to be about an hour an a half by the time he had left the room. It is not always easy to have questions being fired at you for that length of time, but Ralph is an excellent speaker and PR man […]
No semi finals for years and two come at once
It was a night London Saints darts had been waiting for years progress into the darts cup semi final, record books are being checked to see when this last happened. Playing Plymouth away, Saints had the advantage of the game being played at their training pub The Sir Sydney Smith. The captain surprisingly won the […]
West Ham Away Lost 3 – 0
Relative to some recent performances, Saints benefitted from a new manager bounce when beating a side two divisions lower in the Cup, but Mark Hughes’ first League game in charge, at West Ham, started badly, got worse and finally faded into oblivion. A line-up that omitted Romeu and included Gabbiadini and a risky return for […]
Wigan Away Quarter Final FA Cup and Mark Hughes
Having let him spend good money on his own man, Carrillo, the club’s plan must surely have been to keep Mauricio Pellegrino, at least until a low-key dismissal in the off season. That had to be thrown into reverse after the affair at Newcastle – Højbjerg’s enigmatic TV interview hinted at an unholy row, but […]
Missing Mick Macey
Mick was well known for going missing at away matches. Final farewells were made to Mick as he made his final missing at Salisbury crematorium last Friday 9th March to Oh When the Saints Go Marching In. He will be missed.
Newcatle Away lost 3 – 0 to much fog on the Tyne for Saints
You kind of knew things might go wrong at Newcastle when a team that excluded Romeu was revealed: we rarely play better without the Spaniard, and surely his qualities would have been ideal for this particular fixture? Then the selected XI took to the pitch wearing an unusual combination of shirt, shorts and socks that […]
Stoke Home Drew 0 – 0
Piles of snow around the pitch belied the fact that we’d moved into the meteorological spring in time for the visit of Stoke, and both sides were hoping to rejuvenate a disappointing season – for Saints, that meant a surprise start for the youthful Sims, although he has proved most effective as an impact substitute […]
Burnley Away Drew 1 – 1
Romeu for Højbjerg was the only team change at Burnley, but we now had Ward-Prowse operating on the left and Tadić in centre midfield – maybe they’d done that at West Brom as well, but it was more obvious at Turf Moor. Either way, it might have paid off but for Pope saving from Tadić […]
West Brom Away FA Cup 5th Round
BBC TV kindly informed us that the 5th round cup tie at West Brom was a repeat of the 1968 competition which WBA eventually won. Thank you for that, but for Southampton a more relevant incarnation of the same fixture came a mere 42 years ago, prior to our own final triumph. This time round, both […]
Liverpool Home Lost 0 – 2
Rather late in the season Southampton have come up with something of a settled side with Højbjerg for Boufal the only change to the line-up to face Liverpool, complete with the returning Van Dijk (amongst several other apostates). That means no place for Yoshida, with the manager maybe sharing the view that the defender always […]
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