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Southampton boss Mauricio Pellegrino backs under fire goalkeeper Fraser Forster

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Forster came under fire from supporters and pundits alike after an error-strewn display in last weekend’s 2-2 draw at home to Newcastle.

But speaking ahead of the televised clash at home to West Brom, Pellegrino said: “The goalkeeper needs confidence.

“Three or four games ago everybody was saying he has to come back to the national team and is one of the best goalkeepers in England.

“I have got the same opinion. Fraser is a really good goalkeeper.

“The position of the goalkeeper is always exposed in this type of situation, but nobody remembers the good situations.

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West Brom boss Tony Pulis says Gareth Southgate is eyeing Jay Rodriguez

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The 28-year-old - currently a one-cap wonder - has caught the eye of England boss Gareth Southgate, who watched him in action at Leicester this week.

And Baggies boss Tony Pulis has now confirmed that Southgate called him to ask about Rodriguez, who made a £12m switch to The Hawthorns this summer.

He scored 35 goals in 126 games for the Saints and made his only England appearance as a Southampton player in 2013.

“Gareth has spoken about a couple of players here and Jay was one of them,” said Pulis.

"Jay will get a great reception at Southampton, he had a great time there.

"We were fortunate enough to get a great deal for him and he’s been fantastic for us.

“He had poor injuries there and that stopped his progress but he’s moved on. He enjoys it here, he’s a good lad and he’s well liked in the dressing room.”

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Jaïdi: It is a game to learn from

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Saints were undone by two first-half own goals, as well as a pin-point precision free-kick in the second period, but had chances themselves to punish Norwich - who fielded first-team pairing Michael McGovern and Russell Martin in their starting XI.

Reflecting on a tough night for his young charges, the ex-Saints defender said: "It is a game to learn from. It isn’t about preparation, it is about belief and I’ve spoken about that with the boys.

"Second half especially, they dropped a little bit, we were 2-0 down and needed to raise the tempo. We need to believe we can get back in the game.

"I didn’t feel that the body language was poor, but their reaction was too slow given the situation on the pitch. We were conceding the play too often, that is something important for the boys to learn from.

“If you want to play at a high level, you need to be more mentally prepared for those scenarios. You need to be ready to react and have that determination, show more desire and compassion to get back in a game.”

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Highlights: Norwich City 3-0 Saints

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Pellegrino: Turn St Mary’s nerves into a positive

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Mauricio Pellegrino has urged his Saints side to turn their St Mary’s anxiety into a positive when they face West Brom tonight.

Midfielder Dusan Tadic this week admitted the squad are feeling some nerves when playing in front of their home fans, which is hardly surprising given Saints have collected just two victories on their own turf since the end of January.

However, Saints know they need to get over it and quickly as they find themselves in an important run of fixtures.

Pellegrino wants his team to keep the anxiety, but to channel it in an effective way.

He said: “It’s a fact that we are not getting really good results (at home), not just in this season but from last season, and some who have more time here than me in the past can feel this anxiety. It is something that is normal.

“At the top level it is up and down all the time, and every single game, and you have to challenge in these types of moment.

“Dusan is a guy with experience and when you explain this it’s because you want to challenge it.

“Anxiety has a relationship with excitement and that’s because you want to do it right.

“Anxiety is something positive when you want to do your best performance. It would be worse to feel nothing.”

He added: “I think the fans always receive the message from the team on the pitch.

“Sometimes we use football to try to be happy and every single weekend we can’t sometimes because we fight for the other.

“In society we need to be stimulated all the time to be excited and happy and sometimes the movie is not good enough.

“We want to play well, we want to score goals, but it is part of our job.

“We have to understand the people and show we want to win and the crowd will be behind us.”

Pellegrino admitted he and the players can sense the mood of the crowd during a game, but insists it is up to the team to set the tempo.

“During the game always I receive the feeling from my players,” he said.

“Sometimes we hear when the crowd support us or when they are complaining about something. It is part of our job.

“I would like to make happy the people every single week because the people pay their ticket to be happy, to stimulate, to finish the weekend in the best way, but sometimes we can’t do it because we are competing and the top level is really tough in the Premier League.

“Every single Premier League game you have to fight for every single point.

“I think the people sometimes are happy with the attitude of the team.

“For example, against Man U the crowd were supporting the team until the end and when the game finished all of them were really grateful with us and this is really good.

“Hopefully we can give them a victory and we can covert this start, this number, in points.”

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LAWRIE: Shakespeare’s tragedy comes as no surprise

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I THINK I have mentioned more than once how times they are a changing with the advent of the Premier League.

The money coming in gets more and more because television is showing the games in more countries all around the world.

Obviously, from a business point of view as we can see at Newcastle United this week, the sort of people linked with buying clubs are not necessarily sports minded but have already made a great success of other businesses.

For instance, the Turkish gentleman reportedly interested in Newcastle is apparently the richest in that country and has a company which makes biscuits. I am sure the Geordie humour if he takes over will soon talk about ‘crackers’ if the results don’t go well.

I think one of the other signs that it is all about money and business is the shorter time frames coaches as I call them rather than managers, are getting at Premier League clubs.

A classic example was the departure this week of Craig Shakespeare.

I believe that name was associated with many other tragedies, but having said that, while the initial thought for people like Craig, as it was with others such as Claude Puel is one of pity and sympathy, you then realise that whilst they haven’t been in the job long they all have good contracts.

In Craig’s case he signed for three years, so going after only three or four months means he will get a pretty good pay-off, but will he get another job?

Consistency has always been a word coaches or managers have wanted, not just from their own point of view but right through the club and on the pitch.

Looking at Leicester’s history, which to be fair isn’t the sort of club who would normally hit the headlines, what transformed them was Claudio Ranieri, winning against all odds the Premier League title, and not by the skin of his teeth either but ten clear points, and for him then to be sacked the following season after a handful of games.

Looking at the eight previous Leicester managers to Claudio, the only one who managed more than double figures in terms of total games is Martin O’Neill, who was in charge for 152 matches.

Others such as Dave Bassett (26), Mark McGhee (24) are now topped by Craig Shakespeare who only had 21 games, and not all of them in full control.

I suppose British coaches and managers have got to get used to the foreign invasion.

As we have seen with some of the players at the biggest of our clubs, probably prompted by their agents, they make it fairly clear with their performance, or lack of rather, whether they are ready for a move.

I still cannot understand how we can read every morning in the gossip columns coaches actually saying how much they would like to sign a particular player from another club.

In my day that would have bene classed as an illegal approach. Why would you not want that made public? Because it would unsettle the player and fans.

However, particularly with the foreign players they are fairly used to moving around and they are really coming into the top flight here to be more in the shop window than ever before.

Also they want the best pay with some of the earnings made public at the top European clubs, and of course now in China where I couldn’t believe to read this week somebody has been offered £345,000 a week after tax.

I suppose part of you has to think ‘it’s a short life and not many are performing in the top flight in their mid-30s’ but the fact is supporters work their socks off to get enough money to come and watch players and staff, no matter where they are from, give nothing less than 100 per cent.

Anyway, I suppose we now have to wait to see who arrives at Leicester, as the owners have pointed out they are looking for a big name.

My advice to him, whoever he will be, is don’t unpack the case too soon, and only take a rented property.

They came up against the best in the rest of Europe and apart from Celtic no one lost.

The next games are something to look forward to as we welcome the winter weather.

It would be good to have one of our teams win the Champions League as the last time it happened was Chelsea in 2012.

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Southampton’s Nathan Redmond on how his every goal or assist helps a charity

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The setbacks suffered by Nathan Redmond have left him even more determined to reach his goals.

The Southampton star has the perfect incentive to shoot his club up the table and himself into the ­England reckoning for the World Cup next summer.

For every goal or assist this season, Redmond could provide access to education for a year for as many as 33 deprived children.

In doing so, he will join the growing band of players whose social conscience has inspired them to work as hard outside the game as they do within it.

Redmond is an ambassador for the Right To Play charity.

It uses sport and play to educate disadvantaged kids in the world’s poorest communities.

The strength of mum ­Michelle, who brought him up as a single parent, has helped Birmingham-born Redmond overcome his own setbacks in life – now he wants to ensure others are able to do the same.

“I guess it’s easier for me to just say, ‘Here you go. Here’s a sum of money,’” he said. “But that’s not who I am.

“It is a little bit of motivation. It’s challenging – and I think once I actually get out to witness it for myself I’ll maybe come back with a new lease of life and even more motivation.

“When I am playing the most important thing is the three points. But when you go home and you get that time to relax, you think: ‘Wow, getting that assist or goal has made a difference.’

“I’ve been around players who don’t boast about ­charity work. Youssouf ­Mulumbu (Congo international) was a perfect ­example when at Norwich.

“During every international break he would say to the boys after the games: ‘Have you got any boots or shinpads you don’t need? Give them to me.’

“He would fill up four or five black bags and take them back to the village where he is from.”

Redmond is well-­researched on the charity behind which he has thrown his full support.

He is also an ardent supporter of the Sands charity for ­bereaved families, after his mum lost stillborn baby Tilly five years ago.

An England Under-21 international, Redmond embraced education, inspired by his mother.

Now he is as much role model to his younger siblings Niall, 15, and six-year-old Tiah as he is a rising star.

The forward, set to face West Brom this evening, went on: “Everyone from my mum to my agent knows how I feel about trying to help children. I have a few local charities but this helps me reach more.

“I had support from my mum when I was trying to become a footballer. If I had to go to training she would rush back from work to take me there. But there are kids all over the world who don’t have any parents at all.

“If Thierry Henry had come to my school and given advice, telling me to focus on whatever, I would have listened because he was my idol. That’s what I want to do.

“You watch Comic Relief where superstars are going out to deprived countries and you think: ‘Wow, this is mindblowing.’ I want to experience that.”

  • Right To Play trains local volunteers and teachers as coaches to deliver critical education programmes in 16 countries across Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

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