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Quiz: Last game at The Dell

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It’s Arsenal for Southampton this weekend! Ahead of Sunday’s game, see if you can remember the Saints squad from the famous 3-2 win over the Gunners, in the last game at The Dell…

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Saints of Sin End of Year Party at The Joiners

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BIG-haired Lycra-clad Hampshire band Saints of Sin are celebrating the end of a phenomenal year with the final gig of 2017 at SOuthampton Joiners.

The New Forest rockers will play the city’s iconic venue on Tuesday December 19. And what a party it’s going to be!

Saints of Sin have had a fantastic year: they signed an album deal with London record label 3Ms; have just released their debut album ‘Welcome to the Circus’ to some rave reviews; played some truly memorable gigs including headlining the second stage at the Hard Rock Hell festival in Sheffield; and have just played a sold-out gig in Bournemouth opening for one of Finland’s biggest young rock bands, Santa Cruz, who are in the middle of a major tour of UK and Germany.

“We’ve so much to celebrate. We’ve had a brilliant 2017. We wanted to end the year at The Joiners because it’s a really special venue for us. It’s where we played our very first proper gig about 4 years ago. Since then, we’ve gigged all over the UK and built up a really loyal following. Our fans, The Sinners, do so much for us. An end-of-year gig at The Joiners is a way of saying thank you to them all.”

Saints of Sin will be joined by fellow rockers Our Propaganda from Southampton and Blues Rock outfit The Wilderpeople from Bournemouth – a great line-up which will have rock fans thinking Christmas has come early!

Saints of Sin End of Year Party with Our Propaganda and The Wilderpeople is at The Joiners, 141 St Mary’s Street, Southampton SO14 1NS on Tuesday December 19. Doors open 7.30pm. Age restriction 14+. Tickets are £6.00 on the door or £5.00 in advance from joiners.vticket.co.uk or direct from Saints of Sin. Just message them on www.facebook.com/saintsofsinuk

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We’ve been speaking to #SaintsFC boss Mauricio Pellegrino ahead of the visit of #Arsenal to St Mary’s this weekend:

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Want to hear more from the #SaintsFC boss ahead of #Arsenal? Watch the full interview here: http://sfcne.ws/MPonAFCh

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Pellegrino: No Austin World Cup limits

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Mauricio Pellegrino has refused to accept that Charlie Austin has technical limitations which will see him overlooked for England’s World Cup squad.

Though the Saints boss was at pains to point out that squad selection is a job for Gareth Southgate and not for him, he admitted he hopes that Austin will be one of a number of his players that make it to Russia.

Austin is in hot form, with three goals in his last three games for Saints.

There is already talk as to whether he can force his way back into the England set-up, and Pellegrino rubbished talk that the striker is somehow unable to play at that level.

“For me Charlie is not a player who has got technical limitations,” insisted Pellegrino.

“Everybody has got limitations. As a person I have got a lot of limitations. Everybody has got limitations.

“I think also you have to know which is your main quality and your character to be a top player.

“Charlie has character and is competitive and now is training better and for me he deserves this opportunity to play because he was training much better than at the beginning, and this is the consequence of his job.

“After everybody has got strengths and weaknesses, but hopefully Charlie can continue in this moment and the team can improve.”

Of his England chances, Pellegrino added: “It’s not my concern at this moment.

“Obviously now England has got a top striker in the national team and you have to do a really good job.

“We have to be patient with the player because football is changing every single week.

“Hopefully Charlie can continue working with humility because every single player has to use the training session to be better.

“It doesn’t matter your result in the last few weeks. In football when you win, you have to win again. When you draw, you have to win again. When you lose, you have to win again. It is never finished.

“We have to use your behaviour in the training sessions to be a better player.

“Every single day you can improve your performance.

“As for the decision of the other manager it is not for me.”

Austin’s goals have reinvigorated Saints, and the manager hopes they will continue coming.

“Hopefully he will continue in the same way now his confidence is high,” said Pellegrino.

“After scoring three goals in the last two games it is important for him and important for the team.

“I have the same opinion – we have to create chances to try to find in every single game a different solution and way to attack.

“Everybody knows about the other teams and how to defend and every year teams are better in organisation and in this small space and small seconds be really clever, to decide as quick as possible.

“We have a massive game Sunday and it is a nice challenge for us.”

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Referee Moss wins Pellegrino praise

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Mauricio Pellegrino has praised referee Jon Moss for his honesty after last weekend’s penalty controversy at Bournemouth.

Moss booked Cherries full back Smith for diving in the 1-1 draw with Saints after he went down under a challenge from Sofiane Boufal.

Replays divided opinion as to whether or not it was a correct decision, but after reviewing the evidence Moss has apparently apologised to Smith for making an incorrect call.

Cherries manager Eddie Howe praised Moss, and Pellegrino did too.

“This action talks about the good intention as a human being of the referee,” said Pellegrino.

“You have to have personality to assume your own mistake.

“It is really difficult in our society to say ‘I made a mistake.’ “For me this is something really good and you can accept for the future, and you can be better when you accept your mistake.

“For sure you will be a better referee in the future.”

Asked if he was relieved that Moss didn’t give the spot kick at the time he replied: “I trust in the good intention as a human being of a referee.

“All of them want to do a good job because they want to keep their jobs and in the top level it is not easy to decide in one second.

“In the next few tournaments they are using the technology to help them because it is really difficult.”

Football is starting to bring in technology to help referees, including a trial in this season’s FA Cup.

Pellegrino is cautious about its full introduction until it has been proven in action, and wants to see the trials reviewed to allow the sport to move forward properly.

“I think we have to try and after analyse and decide if it is good for the future,” he reflected.

“Most sports use the technology to make the decision as quick as possible and be correct.”

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Academy Focus: Enzo Robise

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We put 17-year-old forward Enzo Robise in the Academy Focus spotlight this week, as he speaks about making the switch from his native French club Reims to play for Southampton FC.

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Opposition View: Arsenal

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The Frenchman picked out a number of Saints’ forwards who pose a threat to his backline, while Mauricio Pellegrino’s men may also take confidence from the fact that Arsenal haven’t won successive away league games against Southampton since August 1997.

“There should be goals because they [Southampton] are an offensive team as well, with offensive potential," Wenger suggested.

“They have Charlie Austin back now, and of course they have players like Tadić, Redmond, Boufal who are all very strong offensively.

"They have a good technical level as a team and both sides can create chances so there could be goals.

“The result against Everton and the quality of their performance against Bournemouth [shows Southampton are on the rise].

He added: “I thought in the second half they always looked dangerous against Bournemouth and capable of scoring - it is true that if you look at the number of goals they scored and the quality of their last two performances, it looks like they are coming back to a much more dangerous team."

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