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FULL-TIME: #SaintsFCU18s 3-1 #WHUFC U18s
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The scene is set ahead of #SaintsFC’s #EmiratesFACup third round tie against #FFC!
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Who would you like to see in the #SaintsFC starting XI today against #FFC?
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Here’s how #SaintsFC line-up to face #FFC in the #EmiratesFACup third round this afternoon:
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| Your starting XI to take on Southampton this afternoon at Craven Cottage. #FFC
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Early doors at Craven Cottage with #saintsfc
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Warm-up completed!
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Arsenal star Theo Walcott will not be allowed to join Southampton for LESS than £30m
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Theo Walcott has fallen out of favour at Arsenal
That’s despite the 28-year-old not starting a Premier League game for the Gunners since April.
Southampton are interested in bringing the winger back to the club where he made his name over a decade ago.
Yet Arsenal are playing hardball and refusing to let Walcott depart on the cheap.
Reports suggest that the England international is desperate to leave the Emirates either on loan or on a permanent basis.
With 18 months left on his £140,00-a-week contract, options are thin on the ground for Walcott.
Saints have £75m burning a hole in their pocket, generated from the sale of Virgil van Dijk to Liverpool.
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1: We’re under way here at Craven Cottage in the #EmiratesFACup…
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Mauricio Pellegrino insists that today’s FA Cup third round tie at Fulham should be viewed as a chance for Saints to turn things around, rather than feared as another potential blow.
The Saints boss is trying to rally his deflated squad for the game at Craven Cottage, though he expects their Championship opponents to provide a stern test.
Pellegrino will play the strongest side he can for the match, as he bids to end a run of nine games without a win.
He said: “I think we have to start doing simple things, basics in defence and attack to try to make the team feel comfortable in the pitch.
“I think we did in the last two games but now Saturday we have another opportunity and we use this game as a reference to move one step forward.
“A good opportunity against a Championship team that play good football, good players, quick style, and we want to show we improve, and win first round.
“It will be a difficult game, difficult pitch, but I will use the best for Southampton to win this game.”
While some Premier League bosses are likely to rest a whole raft of players for FA Cup matches, there is no much temptation for Pellegrino given Saints’ current predicament.
“In the recent matches I used to move some players because I got in different positions many players that are really tight the level, all of them can play, especially in the middle and centre backs, even in the final third,” he said.
“Right now I will try to choose my best 11 to win this game.”
With Saints having fallen at the first hurdle in the Carabao Cup at home to Wolves, Pellegrino, who guided Alaves to a Copa Del Rey final, is keen for success.
“We have to think about the first game and obviously it will be a difficult situation because every team is different and every experience you have to live this,” he explained.
“Fulham is a good team with good principle and good football and on their pitch is really difficult.
“I want to use this game to improve, to move one step forward in all different aspects.
“I will try to use my best 11 to win this game.”
He added: “Nobody has got anything to speculate. You are in or out.
“You have to go forward and try and beat your opponent.
“We know this team, they know us.
“I think it will be a good game because they try to go forward and keep the ball on the ground.
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LAWRIE: Managers need to be given more time
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Watching football in our area recently hasn’t given too much pleasure to the home supporters, but normally in any season you have good times and bad.
Sometimes you deserve to lose, other times you are unlucky.
But managers these days have to be successful and lucky it seems more than ever.
Looking just up the road at Reading. Their manager, Jaap Stam, has now got his back against the wall and apparently is getting booed off.
His name reminded me of when Graham Taylor and I in our England days went over more than once to Holland where it was completely different at club level to what it was here.
There were hoards of youngsters connected to each club and their training was all to do with the ball – small sided games, one and two touch football, and their style of play was instilled at a very early age.
The results at international level were people like Stam and the other two Dutch ex-managers here, Frank De Boer and Ronald Koeman, who were world class.
I mention these three as I would never have dreamt they would have struggled at managerial level, but the times have certainly changed.
When we look back for instance at Saints, I took over from a legend, Ted Bates, who had been 18 years in the chair and could have carried on, but had decided himself as some of the others did in those days that 55 was retirement age.
He took over when the club were in the third division and was given five years to get promoted, and then another six years to go up to the top level.
I took over and got relegated in my first season - the first team to go down third bottom but never mind, we still went down.
The chairman said to me ‘sort it out,’ and turned and walked away.
I like to think his and the board’s loyalty were repaid with three visits to Wembley, including winning the FA Cup, second top in the league, a taste of European football, and a production line started of youngsters who came through and eventually brought in millions to the club.
When I left it was my decision and like Ted I could have stayed on, but 30 years between two is something which will obviously never be repeated.
When you look at the situation with our present coach, he obviously needs a win or two, but I would hope that him and others like him are given a bit more time as it is not always as easy as it looks to arrive, particularly from another country, and take over a dressing room which has many more players than in our day.
My Cup squad, for instance, I think probably had 14 senior players, whereas every Premier League club now puts in a list with 25 names on at the beginning of each season.
It takes time for new coaches to get to know the individuals and especially now when there are so many different nationalities.
In our day it was unique when people like Ivan Golac and Ivan Katalinic came to us, with Bobby Robson signing two Dutchmen, and Tottenham with Ardiles and Villa. It was headline news.
Now it is a case of trying to spot a British player in some games.
This does not make the manager, or coach as they are now, have an easier job. It all takes time.
With the fixture list we have there is not much time between games, particularly at this time of the year when we have had Mr Guardiola, who is flying high, complaining about his team having to play two games in three days.
I thought this was a bit rich remembering the supporter at this time of the year has a little holiday and it has always been part of this season to look forward to games that wouldn’t normally be there.
The managers might be used to a mid-season break abroad but when they take the job on they should have a good look at the fixture list and realise the differences here, especially given they have such big squads.
On the one hand I have lots of sympathy for the men in charge, on the other, from a director’s point of view, I suppose the contracts nowadays are such that when the coaches are shown the door after a short time at least their bank manager might be happy.
I just get the impression that some of them give a shrug of the shoulders, go back home for a while and then pop up somewhere else around Europe.
Never mind, Happy New Year to all of them, and also our supporters, who coaches should remember keep the clubs afloat and need to be entertained.
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30: GET IN THERE! IT’S @Prowsey16!! (0-1) #saintsfc
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@Prowsey16 GOAL: #FFC 0-1 #SaintsFC (@Prowsey16 30’)
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@Prowsey16’s strike has given us the lead heading into the break.
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