Saturday, August 06, 2005
Glenn Hoddle took over as manager on the 7th of December last year when the team lost to Milwall but since then there have been one league loss away to Wigan (who went up as champions) and FA Cup 4th round elimination by Arsenal (who won in the final against ManU). An amazing run of form which looks to be continued with today's showing.
The St Mary's stadium, now 4 years old, is a nice enough ground but of course looks and feels like practically every other 21st century ground. I think the only differentiation these days is the colour of the seats and the names they spell out when no-one is using them. If you had painted the red seats blue, I could easily have been watching Reading v Wolves.
But, anyway, another notch on the goalpost:
Had my first "within-a-stadium" pint today - normally I don't arrive early enough or can't be arsed to queue forever but I thought "why not?" As I found out, the reason is that you don't really have long enough and forcing the first pint of the day down your neck so you can get to your seat is not the best of experiences.
As to the match, we dominated the first half and their goalie kept them in the match on a few opportunities.
The second half we weren't as strong but Oakes hardly got troubled. I wish we could have taken advantage of Claus Lundekvam being sent off for a second bookable offence but it wasn't to be. Definitely a better result than when we were last there but then Southampton don't have half their Premiership side left.
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