With Southampton coming from behind at Leyton Orient today for a 2-2 draw, the Saints haven't lost a game in their last 5 in League One. In fact, Alan Pardews squad has only lost once in their last 10. Does Southampton have a chance at making the playoffs despite starting out with a 10 point deficit? Click to continue reading...

One of the greatest soap opera returns to television screens on Friday and it will provide us fans with the characters that will love and the ones we love to hate. No this is not Eastenders or Coronation Street it's the Football LEAGUE!

The three Coca-Cola leagues, that are arguably the most competitive leagues in the world, are packed with teams all eager to hit the ground running at the weekend.

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Past English Premier League regulars Southampton Football Club is a professional English football team, nicknamed The Saints and based in the city of Southampton. The club were relegated from the English Football League Championship in 2009 and will play in League One in the 2009/10 season. Southampton last played in the English Premier League during the [. Click to continue reading...

A couple of months ago, Southampton Leisure Holdings, the holding company which owns Southampton Football Club went into administration. There was a brief and ineffectual protest from Southampton FC based upon the argument that this particular holding company wasn't the same as the football club, and that they shouldn't, therefore, face any sanctions from the Football League.

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Mark Fry, the administrator in charge of Southampton FC is a very important chap nowadays.

The saga to save the Saints seems to have taken many twists with a number of mysterious groups all ready for an 11th hour bid. But who are they?

Why does Mark Fry keep giving Matt Le Tessier's Pinnacle group extensions when they fail to submit bid documents?

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I haven't written much about one of my favorite teams, Southampton. But if you haven't heard things are looking dire for the right now. With 2 games left they're on they need at least a win and tie, and really 2 wins, to have a chance at avoiding relegation to League One (division 3). That in itself is pretty bad. Click to continue reading...

Southampton FC are reporting that defender Kyle Davies is returning to America after agreeing a four-year deal with MLS side Real Salt Lake. Southampton only had a contract with Davies until the end of the season so enabling the young defender to return to the USA, Southampton were able to make something out of the deal.

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U.S. youth international Kyle Davies has opted to continue his career in the United States, leaving Southampton FC to sign a deal with Major League Soccer, multiple sources are confirming this afternoon. As is league policy, a weighed lottery was held to determine which team will own his rights, with Real Salt Lake chosen as the lucky winner. Click to continue reading...

I noticed today that not only has Southampton's official web site's RSS been broken for the last 3 weeks, if you actually try viwing it's RSS feeds at it's site (http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/rss) right now you just see the naked PHP code used to build them. Oi vey! A horrible security risk. Is the club really so low on funds that they can't be bothered to fix this? Click to continue reading...

Southampton heads north to London to play QPR today. Saints have a single win with 3 loses in their first 4 games. It's not an encouraging start even for Saints fans who don't have high hopes for this season.

QPR have a few knocks and we should expect a few new faces since their last game, a 1-1 tie with high flying Bristol City.

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Blackpool travels to St. Mary's to take on Southampton. The two clubs barely avoided relegation from the Championship (Div. 2) last year, both finishing with 54 points. Leicester was the 3rd to bottom team, the bottom 3 were relegated, with 52 points.

Can McGoldrick continue his scoring ways? Will we see Stern John get a start up front with McGoldrick?

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Before we press on with other matters, here's a final word on the subject of football kits.
Just before the current domestic football season started here in the UK, we carried out some research to see which kit manufacturers were the most popular among the 92 league clubs, and duly compared our findings to those of last year. Click to continue reading...

Southampton racked up a second win in the Carling Cup. Last week they beat Exter. Yesterday they beat fellow Championship club Birmingham 2-0 at St. Mary's. Lee Holmes and Adam Lallana scored for Saints.

Southampton landed young Tottenham forward Tomas Pekhart on loan for the year. I'm not a huge fan of this move.

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One game down, forty-five to go as far as the 24 teams in the Championship is concerned, but what did the opening weekend of fixtures tell us? Many regard Doncaster's 1-0 win at Derby as the performance of the weekend, but that's only working on the assumption that Rovers were playing League One football last [. Click to continue reading...

Southampton travel to Cardiff Saturday to kick off their 3rd consecutive season in England's 2nd division. Yes, yes, I know it's called the Championship. But that's just a new label the marketers slapped on the old 2nd division.

Saint's new Dutch manager Jan Poortvliet says the team will be ready.

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In the lead up to the 08-09 season, Southampton traveled 20 miles up the road where they defeated Salisbury City 3-0. There were even a couple dozen fans of both teams that managed to create trouble and end up in jail (more here). Jason Euell, Bradley Wright-Phillips and David McGoldrick scored for Saints. Click to continue reading...

Southampton's pre-season starts tonight at Farnborough. The soap opera over Jan Poortvliet is over with Rupert Lowe having finally officially getting his man. Now the real work begins.

Poortvliet was quick to let 6 players leave St. Mary's. Inigo Idiakez, Alexander Ostlund, Darren Powell, Mario Licka, Jermaine Wright and Josh Dutton-Black have all been allowed to leave on a free.

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Saints still have not come to terms for hiring Jan Poortvliet as their new manager. Their inability to do this doesn't install confidence in me that Lowe's return is bringing much change.

On top of it Southampton is implementing a lot of minor cost cutting measure. Well, minor as long as your not the long time kitman losing their job.

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As Saints fans remember all too well, it was only a couple weeks ago they were escaping relegation on the last game of the season. Somehow when they were playing at The Dell and pulling off a last second miracle it's a romantic feat. When it's a relatively big club that just a few years ago was in UEFA and playign for the FA Cup flailing to avoid the drop to League One (div. Click to continue reading...

That was the headline over at the Times Online. Southampton were on the verge of being relegated to Div. 3 (sorry, I'm in no mood this morning for the fancy name the marketers ) for the first time since 1960.

Saints destiny was not in their own hands. Going into today they were tied with Leicester on 51 points.

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The rumors and reports are running wild with talk about Rupert Lowe along with Michael Wilde are teaming up to make a bide for Southampton. Southampton needs new capital but just as much it needs an injection of new blood in it's front office. Having Dumb and Dumber, as many Saints fans refer to Lowe and Wilde, won't lead to much in terms of new capital (the 2 already control 46% and while not poor aren't sugar daddies that can invest tens of millions of pounds into the club). Click to continue reading...

Southampton's been having injury problems all season and lately the goalkeepers got the bug. Poke's been starting as Davis and Bialkoswki have had injuries. Saints just picked up West Ham's Richard Wright on a one-month loan. Nothing to get too excited about but it should ensure the team isn't screwed if Poke picks up a knock before Davis returns to fitness. Click to continue reading...

Just when I thought the Rapids were showing a bit too much desperation in their quest to sign Scottish striker Tam McManus, Southampton turns around and outdoes them with bringing Michael "Not Even Good Enough For Oldham Anymore" Ricketts. Yes, the Michael Ricketts you may remember from a brief goal scoring streak while at Bolton many, many moon ago. Click to continue reading...

Nigel Pearson got his first win with Southampton today at St. Mary's. It seemed like Saints were headed toward yet another tie, their 5th in a row in league play and one that would've left them 3rd from bottom (relegation!!!). But Stern John scored his 16th of the year and Saints got all 3 points, 1-0, against fellow relegation candidates Leicester. Click to continue reading...

I've been trying to write about Southampton more often lately. I really do follow them a lot; I just haven't written much about them. Unfortunately it looks like there will be plenty to write about between their relegation fight and, most recently, the fact that Bradley Wright-Philips (yes, Shaun Wright-Philips' little brother) and Nathan Dyer were busted stealing up in Portsmouth. Click to continue reading...

It's the same old story with Southampton yesterday. Again they played well under Nigel Pearson . But the defense again let the team down allowing Blackpool to score twice in five minutes early in the 2nd half. Luckily for Southampton Stern John equalized in the 63, raising his goal total to 15 in league play. Click to continue reading...

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As a Saints fan it's good to see the club putting to an end the ill-advised Dodd & Gorman managerial partnership. I'm sure it was meant to be temporary but with all the forewarning they had of Burley's departure, they didn't seem to be making much of any progress on replacing him. There was a lot of speculation lately that they wouldn't be filling the role until this summer. Click to continue reading...

Salisbury City manager Nick Holmes has said that he is 'flattered' to be linked to the vacant managers position at Southampton. He says that the one thing he would bring to the club above other candidates is his love of the club. Whilst not saying that he was interested in the position the Whites' manager certainly didn't dismiss the speculation. Click to continue reading...

I got to listen to the Saints game yesterday morning. Unfortunately I didn't listen closely since I was dealing with work stuff (I was on-call) and then dozed off at some point in the 2nd half. I was happy that they had won 2-0. But they were at home and Leicester had only won 1 of their previous 10 games. Click to continue reading...

I'm on vacation right now but not loving it. I caught a stomach flu from my little nephew. Right now I can't keep any food down and I'm pretty sure while I was napping some hooligans beat me with a sack of nickels. At least that's how I feel right now.

Horsfield's little piece over at Sportingo caught my eye.

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Some may label this as a shakeout after Wilde, Lowe and others rejected SISU's bid (original bid info, here). I'm not sure it's that simple. It's clear that the Chairman Dulie, Hone and Oldknow were brought in to a get a deal done. With SISU's offer withdrawn as they've now purchased Coventry and with no other known courters, they had failed at their task. Click to continue reading...

Southampton handled Hull, Jay-Jay Okocha's current club, this morning beating them 4-0. Stern John had a hat trick for the Saints. After Tuesday 0-0 draw at Wednesday at St. Mary's and last weekends 2-1- win at Leicster, Saints find themselves 3 points out a playoff spot. 2 shutout in a row and 1 goal allowed in 3 games may not seem like something to be excited over but Southampton is a squad literally devoid of defenders that can play right now.

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Sisu Capital Limited, a UK-based hedge fund, has declared their interest in buying at least 55% of Southampton Leisure Holdings PLC (LON:SOO). Southampton Leisure Holdings PLC is the company that owns the Southampton football club. It has a market cap £14 1/2 million and debts of £24 million.

It's an interesting move by Sisu.

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It's too bad that Kenwyne Jones wants to leave Southampton. He's still only 22 and has a lot to learn about the game. Another year in the Championship, England's division 2, would help him gain experience and better refine his game before making the move to the Premier League. But he wants make the move now. Jones already rejected a move to Derby but is holding talks with Sunderland. Click to continue reading...