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The Saints Fans In Training programme, which is being run by Saints Foundation, is open to male Saints fans aged 35+, with a waist line of 38” or more.
The 12-week programme will help you enjoy a healthier lifestyle, while getting the opportunity to use the facilities at St Mary’s to do that.
There are 18 spaces available on the programme, which is available to Southampton residents only.
Participants will attend the stadium every Thursday for the duration of the course between 5-6.30pm, taking part in educational workshops and physical activity sessions.
Free kit and scientific equipment will be provided to every participant. If you would like to receive more information, contact Paul Hedges on 02380 718 605 or email phedges@saintsfc.co.uk.
The course runs from 6th October to 15th December.
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ERIC Black will today spend his 53rd birthday wondering if he has a future at Southampton Football Club.
The assistant coach was captured on video at a New Forest hotel talking to an undercover reporter purporting to be a representative of a Far East firm looking to invest in English football.
The meeting was arranged by Scott McGarvey, the football agent who also teed-up Sam Allardyce’s, pictured, now ill-fated meeting with Daily Telegraph undercover reporters which cost him his job as England manager.
Mr McGarvey is a good friend of Mr Black’s from their Scotland days in Scotland together.
The video appeared to show Mr Black and Mr McGarvey discussing managers and coaches in the lower leagues and how they could possibly be persuaded to identify players who could be signed up on management contracts.
FA rules state that intermediaries “must not give, offer or seek to offer, any consideration of any kind” to a club official “in return for any benefit, service, favour or any kind of preferential treatment”.
A spokesman for Mr Black told the Telegraph: “[Mr Black] does not recall Mr McGarvey making suggestions that football officials should be paid during transfer negotiations – this was not the purpose of the meeting so far as our client understood it. Any suggestion that he was complicit in such discussions is false.”
Saints have asked the Daily Telegraph to provide them with all the video and written evidence they have from their reporter’s meeting with Mr Black and Mr McGarvey.
Until the newspaper does that, Saints are unlikely to make a decision on whether to sack, or back, the man who only joined them as Claude Puel’s assistant in the summer.
In the same vein, QPR have said they are “unable to proceed” with an internal investigation into the conduct of manager Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink until the Telegraph fully discloses its evidence.
The Telegraph alleges Hasselbaink requested a fee of £55,000 to work for a fake Far Eastern firm seeking to sell players to the club, with the former striker immediately denying any wrongdoing.
“We urge The Telegraph to provide full disclosure of all its information relating to the allegations, including video footage and a full transcript of the discussions that took place,” a QPR statement said.
“The club believes this information should not be provided selectively, but unedited and unconditionally, in order for the club to view the full context and the sequence of what was said by all parties to include in its investigation.”
It is believed Saints require the same information regarding Mr Black’s meeting at Lime Wood Hotel on September 2.
The FA also asked for all the Telegraph’s information, but the newspaper says it has not passed on the huge amount of evidence it has obtained to the clubs and football authorities as the police asked to see it first.
A spokesperson for the newspaper said its “intention” was still to release “the relevant transcripts” of its investigation, once the police have reviewed the material.
The City of London Police have confirmed that detectives have spoken to the newspaper’s reporters and the FA to determine if any criminal offences have been committed.
The Telegraph’s revelations about Mr Black came a day after Saints chairman Ralph Krueger gave some strong views on the paper’s ‘corruption in football’ exposes.
Mr Krueger is currently on a month’s sabbatical from Saints, and has been working at an ice hockey tournament in Canada.
Interviewed on Wednesday in Toronto, he said of the Telegraph’s first few days of exposes: “Our whole board is shocked and upset by it.
“We’ve been a club that’s been driving, wanting to get control of the evolving agent world around us, and we believe we’re going to have ears now.
“Southampton is built on a completely honest and open culture and on values.
“The reason I took the job was the unbelievable value structure and foundation of our owner, Katharina Liebherr.
“That’s why I embraced this, was to be able to lead and be the de facto owner of an organisation where it was driven by culture.
“So we’re extremely upset by this. We see it as a shocking evolution – I wouldn’t say we’re so naïve to believe that this didn’t exist, but we did think it wasn’t part of our English football culture.
“We’re going to use this, for sure, as a club, to fight for change and to fight for more regulation.
“We are all for regulation, and we are one of the most disciplined clubs in English football in terms of the way we deal with agents and youth academy players.
“Staying within the rules is something we really … everything we do is based on that.
“We will react, for sure. It’s going to become a major thing for me when I get back. Absolutely top of the agenda.”
Asked for his thoughts following Mr Black’s naming by the Telegraph, Mr Krueger yesterday said: “In regards to the situation with Eric, it’s a personal issue for him.
“It has nothing directly to do with us as a club.
“I don’t have enough information to make [a] judgement on it.
“All I know is that Southampton Football Club is going to do everything possible to participate with The FA in finding ways to improve regulation as a result.
“That’s all I can tell you.”
Mr Black was in Israel with Saints for their Europa League tie with Hapoel Be’er Sheva when news broke of his involvement in the Telegraph exposes.
After Saints trained in Israel yesterday, he was due to return to England last night.
Mr Black will be in Leicester tomorrow when Saints visit the reigning Premier League champions.
Eric Black has always been seen as a safe pair of hands to guide clubs through turbulent waters as the board decide on their next captain at the helm.
Black is the latest individual to be named in the Daily Telegraph’s investigation into alleged illicit behaviour within the English game.
The newspaper alleges that Black offered advice to an undercover reporter posing as a businesswoman on how to bribe officials at other clubs for information on players. He denies the allegations.
The Scot was appointed as assistant to Claude Puel at Southampton for the start of the new domestic season, having overseen Aston Villa’s final few matches in the Premier League at the end of last season following the departure of Remi Garde.
When Birmingham needed a caretaker following Steve Bruce’s departure for Wigan in November 2007 Black was the obvious choice, just as he would be for Sunderland a few years later, then again at Blackburn and Rotherham before a return to the top flight at Villa under Garde.
Black, who turns 53 tomorrow, was given his break at Aberdeen by Sir Alex Ferguson when still a teenager, the Lanarkshire-born forward repaying his manager’s faith with the opening goal in the 1983 European Cup Winners’ Cup triumph over Real Madrid in Gothenburg.
After leaving Pittodrie in 1986, Black moved to French club Metz, where he would spend five seasons before the Scotland international was forced into an early retirement by a back problem.
A transition into coaching seemed a natural progression, with Black taking up a role at Celtic before leaving after the departure of John Barnes in February 2000.
Black stepped into the managerial hotseat at Motherwell and then Coventry, where he would soon become accustomed to the precariousness of the job when he was sacked after just 20 games. He won nine games and drew two more before being replaced by Peter Reid.
Following his exit from the Sky Blues, Black returned to a backroom support role, eventually following Bruce to Sunderland, before spells at Ewood Park under Steve Kean, a stint with Wigan and then Rotherham, where he again stepped in as caretaker when Steve Evans left.
Black found himself thrust into the spotlight earlier this year as he presided over the closing seven matches of Villa’s top-flight campaign, and was technically the man in charge when the midlands club were officially relegated on on April 16.
Yet despite suffering six defeats and only collecting one point, the Scottish coach never ducked his media commitments or highlighted the shortcomings on and off the pitch he had been left with.
A fluent French speaker, Black provided a link for Puel as the former Monaco, Lille, Lyon and Nice manager settled into the English game at St Mary’s, with the Saints now starting to produce consistent results in both the Premier League and Europe.
Southampton executive director of football Les Reed said at the time: “Eric Black has an excellent pedigree as a coach and vast experience domestically and internationally.”
IN PROFILE - THOSE NAMED IN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH SAM ALLARDYCE The former Bolton, West Ham and Sunderland manager left his role as England boss after footage emerged of him negotiating a £400,000 deal to give speeches to Asian investors in Hong Kong and Singapore. He also suggested there were ways “to get around” the Football Association’s “ridiculous” transfer rules and made rude remarks about his immediate predecessor Roy Hodgson and the FA. The 61-year-old described it as “a silly thing to do”, but said “entrapment has won on this occasion”.
ERIC BLACK The Southampton assistant manager, who enjoyed a distinguished playing career with Aberdeen, is alleged to have discussed with undercover reporters how managers and coaches in the lower leagues might be persuaded to identify players who could be signed up on management contracts. He denies the allegations. Southampton are seeking the Telegraph’s full file of evidence on Black before initiating an investigation.
MASSIMO CELLINO The controversial Leeds owner, an eccentric Italian businessman, appeared to explain to representatives of a fictitious Far East firm that they could become club shareholders in order to receive a portion of players’ sell-on fees. Leeds called the allegations a “non-story”. The club added: “This is plainly not a suggestion as to how to circumvent the rules (on third party ownership) but rather an accurate, albeit concise, explanation of how to operate within the confines of the rules.”
JIMMY FLOYD HASSELBAINK QPR manager Hasselbaink is alleged to have requested a fee of £55,000 to work for a fake Far East firm seeking to sell players to the club. QPR said the 44-year-old would be subjected to a “thorough internal investigation” but added: “We have every confidence in our manager and the robust systems and processes the club has in place.” The former Leeds and Chelsea striker denies wrongdoing. The west London club said on Friday they were “unable to proceed” with their investigation until they had been sent all the Telegraph’s evidence related to the Dutchman.
SCOTT McGARVEY The football agent was present at the meetings involving Allardyce, Black and Hasselbaink. Allardyce said he was helping a friend of 30 years, believed to be McGarvey, who is claimed to have helped negotiate the alleged deals. A spokesman for McGarvey said he would “vigorously defend his reputation” and that he denies all allegations of wrongdoing.
PINO PAGLIARA Unlicensed Italian football agent Pagliari was one of those secretly filmed and apparently arranged the meeting with Cellino. It was reported that Pagliara claimed a former top-flight boss had “more back-handers than Wimbledon”, while he also allegedly made claims about Belgian clubs which could be used to circumvent English transfer regulations. He was previously banned from the sport for match-fixing, the Telegraph said.
TOMMY WRIGHT The 50-year-old Scot was sacked as Barnsley assistant head coach after being accused of taking a £5,000 payment from undercover reporters posing as agents. Wright was initially suspended by Barnsley before being sacked following a meeting with chief executive Linton Brown. Wright denies wrongdoing.
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Which Premier League player is the best in the air?
Is Christian Benteke the best aerial attacker in the Premier League?
The Belgian nodded in Crystal Palace’s equaliser against Everton on Friday night, taking his tally of headed goals to 19 since his September 2012 Premier League debut.
No player has scored more since the start of the 2012/13 season, with Arsenal’s Olivier Giroud also on 19.
Benteke’s opposing striker at Goodison Park, Everton’s Romelu Lukaku - who opened the scoring with a fine free-kick - is third on the list with 14 headed goals to his name.
Benteke has scored 54 Premier League goals, meaning 35.2 per cent have come via his head. In comparison, Giroud (33.3 per cent) and Lukaku (21.5 per cent) are less reliant on the method.
However, West Ham’s Michail Antonio has scored 11 of his 13 Premier League goals (84.6 per cent) with his head - including all five of his goals this season. He’s headed in 10 times in 2016 in the Premier League - more than any other player and on average scores with his head every 2.9 games.
Antonio’s team-mate Andy Carroll has scored more than half (12 of 23, 52.2 per cent) of his Premier League goals since the start of 2012/13 with his head, while Stoke City’s Peter Crouch (10 of 23, 43.5 per cent) and Southampton’s Shane Long (10 of 30, 33.3 per cent) have also proven their aerial threat.
Manchester United’s Marouane Fellaini, Chelsea’s John Terry, Crystal Palace’s Scott Dann and Tottenham’s Harry Kane are unsurprisingly not far behind, given their height, but Manchester City’s 5ft 8in Sergio Aguero is also on eight headed goals since August 2012.
Other players feared in the air include Leicester’s summer signing, Islam Slimani and West Brom’s Salomon Rondon, who have both scored twice with their head this term.
Manchester United pair Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Paul Pogba have also scored headers this season. But who is the best?
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Saints have gone seven-and-half hours without conceding in a five-game unbeaten run. But Dutch star Van Dijk knows Jamie Vardy and Islam Slimani will have to be watched closely if his side are to continue their run at the King Power Stadium tomorrow. The former Celtic star said: “Sunday is going to be a massive game and hopefully we can keep this good run going. “Leicester are a great opponent and I am going to be ready for it. I am looking forward to it.
“We can beat anyone in this league but it still needs hard work” “The defenders are not defending by themselves. I think it starts up front and everybody can be proud of themselves.” Claudio Ranieri’s men bounced back from their Manchester United embarrassment last weekend to make it two wins out of two in the Champions League – by beating Euro giants Porto. Saints’ European jaunt was a 6,000-mile round trip to Israel and Van Dijk added: “We have to respect the champions and they won in the Champions League this week so are full of confidence. “It’s going to be a great game and another challenge for everyone. We are all focused and ready. “We can beat anyone in this league but it still needs hard work and us all sticking together.”
Saints chairman Ralph Krueger yesterday distanced the club from corruption allegations made against assistant manager Eric Black. Black allegedly gave advice to undercover reporters on how to bribe officials at lower league clubs. “It has nothing directly to do with us as a club. I don’t have enough information to make judgment on it. “All I know is that Southampton Football Club is going to do everything possible to participate with The FA in finding ways to improve regulation as a result.”
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Harry Redknapp has told undercover reporters of a game during his career as a manager when players gambled on the result, according to the Daily Telegraph.
Redknapp is the latest manager to be filmed in the newspaper’s series of investigative reports on corruption in football, the first of which led to the sacking of England manager Sam Allardyce earlier this week.
Football Association rules prohibit players from gambling on games in which they play, while managers must report any knowledge of betting to the governing body.
Redknapp said he only learned of his players’ gambling after the game, which his side won. The Telegraph reported that he did not report any misconduct to the FA.
Redknapp is shown saying in a video that the opposition “murdered us early on,” and adding: "At half-time I took [a player] off and put, erm, [another player on] and they’re all looking at me, all the lads, ‘cause I didn’t know they’d had a bet, ‘cause they was [sic] all choked, they’d all had a spread bet and everything.’’
Football agent Dax Price, who was also present in the Telegraph’s film, said players from both teams were betting on the result, with one player having as much as “20 grand” on the line.
Redknapp said the gambling was particularly high on this game because his club, with nothing to play for, had been expected to field a weakened squad, but the players knew he planned to play a strong team.
The Telegraph, citing legal reasons, did not reveal which game, teams, or players were involved in the gambling.
When contacted later by the newspaper, and told that betting by players was against the rules, Redknapp reportedly replied: “Oh would it? Oh, okay. But not at that time I don’t think it was, was it? They weren’t betting on the other team, they were having a bet on their own team.”
Asked about his remarks about the players gambling on the game, the Telegraph claims he told the newspaper: “Unbeknownst to me. No, not a spread bet. It wasn’t a spread bet. I think they had a bet on the game, but it wasn’t, that was nothing to do with me … after the game I’d heard the rumour the lads had had a bet that day … I’m not in control of whether they go and have a bet or not.”
Price is quoted during the filmed conversation as saying a player, who is not identified, had been in touch about the match in question and urged him to bet on a victory for Redknapp’s side.
Price reportedly said the player from Redknapp’s club "phoned me and said remortgage your house ‘cause the odds were mental, they were 5/2 at the time.’’
Redknapp, 69, had a long managerial career, starting at Bournemouth in the 1980s before moving to West Ham for much of the '90s. He then had two stints at Portsmouth, one season at Southampton, four at Tottenham and three at QPR, before stepping down in 2015.
Allardyce’s sacking came after he was filmed telling reporters how to get around FA and FIFA rules on third-party ownership of players, and Allaryce said he couldn’t understand any objection to the practice, which has been forbidden in England since 2008 and worldwide since 2015.
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TRAVEL-WEARY Saints have the unenviable task of trying to halt Leicester City’s incredible, year-long undefeated run at the King Power Stadium tomorrow.
It is an assignment that is only made more difficult by the fact that Claude Puel’s side will arrive at the home of the Premier League champions following a gruelling 4,500-mile round trip to Israel after Thursday night’s Europa League draw at Hapoel Be’er Sheva.
The Foxes have not travelled well this term, failing to tally any away points in the Premier League this season.
At home, though, it’s been a different story.
The champions followed up a 0-0 stalemate with Arsenal by beating Swansea 2-1 and Burnley 3-0.
As a result, they have stretched their undefeated league run at the King Power to 18 matches, which includes 12 wins and six draws.
It’s been over a year since they were last beaten in the league in front of their own fans – Alexis Sanchez hitting a hat-trick in the Gunners’ 5-2 romp on September 26, 2015.
Since then, Kasper Schmeichel has only conceded nine goals in those 18 unbeaten games – keeping 11 clean sheets in the process (one of which was against Saints last April).
The only two teams to have scored more than once in the league at the King Power since Arsenal are West Ham and West Brom (both in 2-2 draws).
Saints arrive having kept five successive clean sheets and, despite a punishing trip to Be’er Sheva, will arrive in Leicester with confidence high, and some key men fresh and ready for action.
Top-scorer Charlie Austin, captain Jose Fonte, Steven Davis and Ryan Bertrand will all be in contention after Puel kept them in England to prepare for the Foxes match while the rest of the squad travelled.
James Ward-Prowse believes that the key to Saints’ success of late has been their inpenetrable defence, which has made them very hard to break down.
“I think Fraser will be after breaking his own record again,” he said. “The base of our success is defending as a team.
“We always know that we will score goals and create chances because we’ve got great players in the team, but if we keep the ball out of our net it gives us more of a chance to win the game.”
Ward-Prowse, who started against Hapoel, is ready to take revenge on the Foxes after the 1-0 defeat in April, in which Wes Morgan scored the only goal.
“It has been a disappointing start for them, but our focus is on us,” he said.
“Hopefully we can get revenge on what was a disappointing defeat for us last season.”
The England Under-21 international has been very much a part of Puel’s squad rotation, starting in each Europa League match and in the EFL Cup third-round but only once in the Premier League so far.
The midfielder believes the squad are dealing well with the chopping and changing.
“It’s obviously something we knew was going to happen due to the amount of games,” he said. “You can see from the three different competitions we’ve played that there’s going to be different challenges and different teams set out.
“Everybody’s dealt with that really well so far.”
After making just one Premier League start this term in the 1-1 draw with Watford, Ward-Prowse admits that he is targeting more league action.
“It has been [frustrating] but because of the volume of games coming our way, the manager has got to rotate his squad,” he explained.
He added: “You’ve just got to take the chances when they come.
“Obviously, I’ll try and get some more Premier League starts under my belt – that will be key.”
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CLAUDE Puel fears that Saints could suffer at Premier League champions Leicester tomorrow as they try and recover from their exhausting trip to Israel.
Saints made the decision to stay in Israel after their goalless draw with Hapoel Be’eer Sheva on Thursday night, do some light recovery work yesterday morning and then make the journey home.
That consisted of a two-hour coach trip and then a five-hour flight.
In contrast, tomorrow’s opponents Leicester played a home Champions League match on Tuesday and so will be ready for the challenge.
Puel, pictured, confessed: “It’s difficult. You just finish the game and our mind is now for the next game and it arrives very quickly.
“It’s very hard to do a good recovery after this game (Be’er Sheva), after a long travel, a long journey, and we will see this.
“I don’t know what will be our condition but for the mind, for the confidence it was important this result and we don’t take a goal but we have a strong defence with a good spirit and a lot of solidarity between the players.
“Now we go to Leicester for a good result.
“Leicester will be two days more of recovery on the week and this is too big but we go to make something.”
Puel does at least have four fresh players to call upon, with Charlie Austin, Jose Fonte, Steven Davis and Ryan Bertrand having been left at home with the game at the King Power Stadium in mind.
“We have four fresh players but we play with 11 players,” he smiled.
“We will see but I hope they can work well and with a good level for this game and I am sure a good spirit because they can see all their partners do a good defensive game and it was important to keep this result for the future and for the confidence of the team.”
Leicester haven’t hit the form of their title-winning campaign yet this time out, but Puel is expecting a tough game.
“I saw for example the last game in the Premier League against Manchester (United) and it was a good team. Manchester are a difficult team and they score three goals on free kicks and Leicester come back very well,” said Puel.
“They are good physically, they have direct play and it’s very hard to play against this team.
“With five days of recovery between the games and this game in the Premier League and for us just two days, I think it’s important to make a good recovery and to do a good performance on Sunday.”
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