Cup fever gripped the town again - sort of - as Premiership Birmingham City landed at St.Marys. Saints were shorn of new signings Hammond and Trotman who were cup tied and Schneiderlin and Paterson who were benched. Thomas, Wotton, Murty and Saganowski started the game.
Again, here is the story of the game from the Dublin correspondent, watching Sky Sports in his B&B. Ed Chamberlin is presenting the show and he's a Saints fan. Paul Jewell is the expert summariser watching the Saints game and he's a bell end, a classic case of a decent football player / manager who is absolutely no good whatsoever at being on TV.
For the first half, all I'm hearing is 'It's all Southampton' which is encouraging but the lack of a goal to show for it is less so. 'Should have had a penalty', 'should have scored' etc etc. There are not as many updates from St.Marys as you would normally get because another featured game is West Ham against Millwall and it's all kicking off outside and inside the ground. Quelle surprise.
Half time comes and goes and Saints finally turn pressure into a goal from Lallana. 'Over to St.Marys with more news', says Ed. "Ehhhhhhh, Merty injured like and he don't steh down if 'ees net injered", says Paul in his best scouse. So, Murty is injured and replaced by Simon Midget Gillett which is a blow because Murty is solid as you like but it's nice to see Gillett on the pitch as he was one of the better performers in last years ultimately successful quest to get relegated.
"Ehhhhhhh, if anyone's going to score it'll be Southampton"... says Paul and five minutes later, Birmingham are winning 2-1. "Ehhhhhhhh, goals change games" says the insightful one. One last update as the final whistle goes and that's it, out of the cup, West Ham and Millwall, to the delight of the Met, have gone to extra time so the fans can spend another half and hour beating the crap out of eachother.
As far as Saints are concerned, it sounds like we played really well for all bar the last 10 minutes which is an improvement when you consider the relative strength of the opposition and the changes we had to make in the team. Out of the cup which is a shame but we have bigger fish to fry and that fish is caled Stockport County and we're at Edgley Park on Saturday to play another team who should really have started this season on -10 as well. They went into administration after us but because they got enough points last season, they had 10 deducted from their total then, rather than now so were in effect, not punished in the slightest. Good one...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/league_cup/8222630.stm
Again, here is the story of the game from the Dublin correspondent, watching Sky Sports in his B&B. Ed Chamberlin is presenting the show and he's a Saints fan. Paul Jewell is the expert summariser watching the Saints game and he's a bell end, a classic case of a decent football player / manager who is absolutely no good whatsoever at being on TV.
For the first half, all I'm hearing is 'It's all Southampton' which is encouraging but the lack of a goal to show for it is less so. 'Should have had a penalty', 'should have scored' etc etc. There are not as many updates from St.Marys as you would normally get because another featured game is West Ham against Millwall and it's all kicking off outside and inside the ground. Quelle surprise.
Half time comes and goes and Saints finally turn pressure into a goal from Lallana. 'Over to St.Marys with more news', says Ed. "Ehhhhhhh, Merty injured like and he don't steh down if 'ees net injered", says Paul in his best scouse. So, Murty is injured and replaced by Simon Midget Gillett which is a blow because Murty is solid as you like but it's nice to see Gillett on the pitch as he was one of the better performers in last years ultimately successful quest to get relegated.
"Ehhhhhhh, if anyone's going to score it'll be Southampton"... says Paul and five minutes later, Birmingham are winning 2-1. "Ehhhhhhhh, goals change games" says the insightful one. One last update as the final whistle goes and that's it, out of the cup, West Ham and Millwall, to the delight of the Met, have gone to extra time so the fans can spend another half and hour beating the crap out of eachother.
As far as Saints are concerned, it sounds like we played really well for all bar the last 10 minutes which is an improvement when you consider the relative strength of the opposition and the changes we had to make in the team. Out of the cup which is a shame but we have bigger fish to fry and that fish is caled Stockport County and we're at Edgley Park on Saturday to play another team who should really have started this season on -10 as well. They went into administration after us but because they got enough points last season, they had 10 deducted from their total then, rather than now so were in effect, not punished in the slightest. Good one...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/league_cup/8222630.stm
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