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Middlesbrough Deepdale 14/2/2024 |
Posted by: themaclad - 13-02-2024, 16:55 - Forum: Preston North End
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Preston North End v Middlesbrough
Deepdale 14/2/2024
Ten years since the demise of Sir Tom Finney special shirts will be worn by the players on a one off occasiin, although expect limited edition to go on sale for a sum of eye watering amount in club shop
LAST TIME OUT
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PNE 13 BORO 5
HOT STUFF
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Who’s Available?
Alan Browne and Brad Potts both limped off in Cardiff on Saturday, and the manager expects to be able to call upon skipper Browne, whereas a late decision will be made on Potts.
Duane Holmes won’t be available on Wednesday night, but he’s now back on the grass in training and may make Saturday's Lancashire derby against Blackburn Rovers.
Ched Evans saw a specialist on Monday to take a look at his knee and he may be absent for another few weeks yet.
Opposition Focus
After reaching the Play-Offs last season, Middlesbrough are one of many teams hovering outside the top six and looking to find a way in.
Their league form hasn’t quite reached the heights of last term, but Michael Carrick’s side enjoyed a superb run to the Carabao Cup semi-final where they lost out to Chelsea.
They will be quietly hopeful they’ll have enough to earn a place in the end-of-season lottery, especially with a number of players still to return from injury.
Match Officials
Referee: Mr T Harrington
Assistant Referees: Darren Cann and Derek Eaton
Fourth Official: Anthony Backhouse
Tony Harrington will take charge of a PNE fixture for the first time since April 2022, when PNE came out 2-1 winners over Queens Park Rangers.
North End have had varying success with Harrington as referee over the years, but notable wins include a 12-11 penalty shootout victory over Oldham Athletic in the EFL Trophy back in 2014.
So far this season, Harrington has shown 50 yellow cards and two reds in 12 matches.
MACS VIEW
Five points to avoid relegation, so first objective nearly achieved, interesting game against Boro who are slightly struggling at the moment, still bizarrely just outside the play off zone having been quite average over the course of the last few months, Potts absence may give Josh Seary a chance although Browne seems to be fit no doubt fantastic will play him at wing back. Win's a posssibility but Boro have stuffed us 4-0 last two times we've played them
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HTAFC Prediction League 2024 Matchday 7 |
Posted by: Lord Snooty - 12-02-2024, 22:09 - Forum: Huddersfield Town
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2 points for correct result
4 points for correct score
2 points for each correct scorer
Correct joker doubles your score (correct score on a joker would give you 8 points)
Wrong joker result gives you minus 2
Correct Random Badger gives you 2 points 
The random badger is used for any random prediction used once in each matchday sequence. For instance, a scorer at a particular match, the number of red cards in the matches or yellow cards or own goals or owt you want really within reason, I do need to be able to check whether it's correct or not. Please don't put stuff like....."Commentator says...."
The joker is played for one match in each sequence and if correct you get double points. So if you've predicted 1-0 and it finishes 2-0, you get 4 pts, but if you've predicted 2-0, that's 8 pts. But if you get it wrong, it's minus 2.
Jokers and badgers are optional. You don't have to play one if you don't want.
The prize for winning the league is one rep point.
Cup games: In the event of a draw, it's half the points if you've predicted a draw when it gets to 90 mins and the full points if it's still a draw after extra time. Half the points will be awarded for correctly predicting the winner of the match if it goes to penalties. Similarly with the badger, if your random prediction is affected by this, it'll be half the points.
Random score generator: I will be using the random score generator again for those who miss predicting, so we shouldn't get some people too far behind that after missing a couple of weeks they lose all interest, because I know it's not easy getting on here every week.
To be fair to everybody, this is going to be like, say if three people in one week miss their predictions, the first one in the table will be given all 0-0, the second one down the line will get 1-0 and the third will get 0-1 and so on, like if there's four missing the 4th will get 1-1, then 5th 2-1, 6th 1-2. and if there are so many missing, might as well pack in. 
And if you miss two weeks on the trot, I'll stop until you come back on again. Not doing it for half a season like I did t'other year. 
End of season Play Offs: The one who finishes top of the league will still be champion, but after the season finishes there will be Play Offs between the top 4, with 1st v 4th and 2nd v 3rd. This will take in stuff like the EFL Play Offs, FA Cup Final, final day of Prima Donna League, European Finals etc. It will be one matchday for the semis and one for the Final. It will be the individual scores for each matchday against the allotted opponent, with some kind of tie breaker for a drawn match.
The prize for winning will be enormous. Another rep point. 
So we have a new format for this season, which I put forward as an idea at the end of last season. Nobody offered any objections so here it is explained......
Firstly, I thought it was getting a bit boring towards the end with the league format as it was with the champion being so far ahead and everybody else not much to play for apart from the push for a play off spot, which was a bit of an anticlimax anyway. The most exciting bit was the tussle for 8th, 9th and 10th positions with Shep, Ritchie and Amelia.
So I'm splitting the group up into two groups with the top six from last season in the top group and the bottom six in group 2. At the end of the season, the winner of group 2 and the bottom of group 1 will swap places in what is commonly known as "promotion" and "relegation". It's something that most football fans will be familiar with, unless you're a fan of Liverpool or Arsenal or one of those other fashionable clubs.
The second placed player in group 2 will then have a play off with the player who finishes second from the bottom in group 1 to decide whether they will be going up, down or staying where they are.
We're going to have two seasons in one though, just to try and make it a bit more interesting and not so long drawn out. The first season will end on the Boxing Day fixtures, with the play offs being on the dates of the Twixtmas fixtures and the NYD fixtures.
The second season will start the following week, finishing on the last game of the Championship season. Then another period of relegation/promotion play off games, taking in such fixtures as the EFL play offs, FA Cup Final, UEFA finals and such like.
Each group will have it's own set of fixtures. Both groups will have the Town games, with scorers to predict as before. Then it will be a split of Championship fixtures and bonus matches. And not as many fixtures to go at. Hopefully around ten, eleven or twelve games per Matchday.
The rest of the rules will be the same as before apart from the which will still be in use, but I'm going to get arsey about it. Sometimes in the past, I've been able to just award two points immediately because it was such a nailed on thing to happen. Not accusing anyone of cheating. Far from it. I didn't put any boundaries on it, so anything was alright. So now I'm restricting it to three goal scorers in any of the games in your group. Sorry to all our more adventurous badgerers.
Here's how that will appear at the end of the fixture list. All you have to do is fill in the blanks.......
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
Any of those will score two points if correct. No minus points for getting it wrong.
The joker will still be the same as before, ie doubling your points for a correct prediction or minus 2 for getting it wrong.
Postponed matches will only count if the match is re-played before the next Matchday is under way. Abandoned matches will be awarded half the points for the score at the time of abandonment, so 1 point if you have the correct result, 2 points if you have the correct score.
Substitute :- These will be only be allowed if you change them before the match involved has kicked off.
Division One table after Matchday 6:
- ritchiebaby = 160 pts
- St Charles Owl = 148 pts
- jjamez = 146 pts
- Lord Snooty = 146 pts
- Baggiebob(BBB) = 144 pts
- themaclad = 120 pts
Saturday 17th February:
Town v Hull
Town scorers:
Hull scorers:
Leicester City v Middlesbrough
Millwall v Sheffield Wednesday
Norwich City v Cardiff City
Preston North End v Blackburn Rovers
Rotherham United v Watford
Swansea City v Ipswich Town
Tuesday 20th February:
Plymouth Argyle v West Bromwich Albion
Southampton v Hull City
Bonus matches:
Premier League:
Saturday:
Brentford v Liverpool (12:30)
Tottenham Hotspur v Wolverhampton Wanderers
Manchester City v Chelsea (17:30)
Sunday:
Luton Town v Manchester United (16:30)
Monday:
Everton v Crystal Palace
Scottish Premiership:
Saturday:
Aberdeen v Hibernian
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
*** scores for ***
Division Two table after Matchday 6:
- theo_luddite = 142 pts
- Devongone = 129 pts
- neonfoxinthebox = 128 pts
- SHEP_HTAFC = 126 pts
- Amelia Chaffinch = 98 pts
- WakeyTerrier = 75 pts
Friday 16th February:
West Bromwich Albion v Southampton
Saturday 17th February:
Town v Hull
Town scorers:
Hull scorers:
Plymouth Argyle v Leeds United (12:30)
Birmingham City v Sunderland
Bristol City v Queens Park Rangers
Stoke City v Coventry City
Tuesday 20th February:
Cardiff City v Blackburn Rovers
Ipswich Town v Rotherham United
Southampton v Hull City
Bonus matches:
Premier League:
Saturday:
Fulham v Aston Villa
Newcastle United v AFC Bournemouth
Sunday:
Sheffield United v Brighton & Hove Albion (14:00)
Wednesday:
Liverpool v Luton Town
National League:
Saturday:
Bromley v Chesterfield
Champions League round of 16 1st leg:
Wednesday:
FC Porto v Arsenal
*** scores for ***
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*** scores for ***
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Dike |
Posted by: Salopbaggie - 11-02-2024, 12:12 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion
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Looks like we may have a question to answer, whether to proceed with the midfielder signing or look for a striker now we are back to square one on the striker front, with Dike looking to be out again and Josh Maja out for a couple of months with a fractured ankle.
On Dike you have to feel for the lad and give him every opportunity, but realistically you also have to question whether he will ever play anywhere near his promise again. Obviously there is something going on with him physically which is making him more prone to serious injury than the norm, you also have to question whether he will now ever recover mentally from these setbacks, by that I mean the majority of his injuries seam to be caused by impact on landing or extension (stretching), will he ever be able to function properly or in the back of his mind will he be thinking, "I am not jumping/reaching for that, I might do something bad", even if that thought is in the sub-conscious?
Not just thinking of just Dike here, but I dread to think how much of our wage bill has gone up in smoke in the treatment room this season.
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Saturday games |
Posted by: Dancingwilldoit - 09-02-2024, 15:43 - Forum: Chesterfield
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Altrincham 3- 2 Rochdale
Boreham Wood.1-3 Maidenhead United
Chesterfield 4-0 Ebbsfleet
Dag & Red 0-1 Oxford City
Dorking 2-2 Halifax
Eastleigh 2-0 Fylde
Southend 3-1 York
Woking 2-1 Hartlepoo
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Ipswich & Cardiff vs WBA - Match Thread |
Posted by: Ska'dForLife-WBA - 09-02-2024, 10:16 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion
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It's amazing how much can change in two and a half months. In the last week of November, Albion went up against Ipswich at home and Cardiff away in back to back games that we won, despite Ipswich being in 2nd place with a lead over the playoff contenders that looked unassailable. And yet little by little the wheels came off for them after that defeat, with their last eight league games yielding a record of DLDDDWDL plus a cup catastrophe against Maidstone. As a result, they now sit directly above us in 4th, albeit with an 11-point cushion; but if Albion can pull off an unlikely win at Portman Road in Saturday's early kick-off, you wouldn't bank on that cushion being intact two and a half months from now.
It's our first trip to Suffolk since November 2018, and after three consecutive defeats on the road without scoring, the unlikelihood of that potential victory can't be emphasised enough. The Tractor Boys just haven't been in the business of losing at home, and loanee Kieffer Moore is in good goalscoring form while Conor Chaplin has hardly put a foot wrong this season. Moreover, Semi Ajayi remains absent as he contemplates Sunday's ACON final, but Ipswich are able to welcome the returning Cameroon Burgess, boomeranging back to their defence from international duties with Australia. Take the draw if it's there? Absolutely.
There are far fewer excuses against Cardiff on Tuesday night, if any at all. They can certainly win on the road, having done it at QPR and Watford so far in 2024, but having got back to winning ways ourselves against Blues last week, we need to keep getting the job done at home. A first league double over the Bluebirds since 1974-75 is the prize at stake, and it's well within our grasp.
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Cardiff City Cardiff City Stadium 10/2/2024 |
Posted by: themaclad - 08-02-2024, 16:30 - Forum: Preston North End
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Cardiff City v Preston North End
Cardiff City Stadium 10/2/2024
Another long day on the Coach, back in Europe at a ground where our last two league games have ended 0-0, my last visit was a Friday night televised game won 1-0 , 93 rd minute goal by Tom Clarke a result which thoroughly naffed off Sol Bamba's wife
https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/
https://www.cardiffcityforum.co.uk/viewf...&mobile=on
https://www.ccmb.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?...sage-Board
https://www.not606.com/forums/cardiff-city.36/
LAST TIME OUT
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FORM GUIDE
CARDIFF 10 PNE 8
IN FORM
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HISTORY
The Welsh National War Memorial (Welsh: Cofeb Ryfel Genedlaethol Cymru) is situated in Alexandra Gardens, Cathays Park, Cardiff. The memorial was designed by Sir Ninian Comper and unveiled on 12 June 1928 by the Prince of Wales. The memorial commemorates the servicemen who died during the First World War and has a commemorative plaque for those who died during the Second World War, added in 1949.
Design and construction
Welsh National War Memorial statues
Victory on top of the central stone pylon
Sailor (Navy) surrounding the central stone pylon
Soldier (Army) surrounding the central stone pylon
Airman (Air Force) surrounding the central stone pylon
The Memorial was first suggested in 1917.[3] However, detailed proposals were not established until October 1919 when the Western Mail created a national subscription fund and a committee set up to manage the scheme.[3] There were four designs submitted to the committee and the design selected was by Sir Ninian Comper and approved in 1924.[3] It was sculptured by Henry Alfred Pegram.[4] The stone masons were William Drinkwater Gough and Messrs E Turner & Sons.[4] The bronze statues were cast by A.B. Burton.[4] The memorial is the only 'secular' work by Comper, who was primarily a furnisher of churches. He received much hostility, from the president of the Royal Institute of British Architects and others, for not being a qualified architect, but was supported by the sculptors Sir William Goscombe John and Sir Hamo Thornycroft.
The memorial takes the form of a circular colonnade surrounding a sunken court. On the frieze above the columns are inscriptions in Welsh, on the outer side, and in English, on the inner side. The English inscription was composed by Comper himself. At the centre of the court is a group of three bronze sculptures arranged around a stone pylon. Around the base stand three figures, a soldier, sailor and airman, holding wreaths aloft. There are appropriate inscriptions above the figures e.g. 'Over the sea he went to die', above the sailor. Above them, crowning the structure, is a winged male nude representing Victory.
The memorial's form was inspired by two visits to French North Africa and particularly Tunisia, where the architect was inspired by the public works erected by the emperor Hadrian[citation needed]; it seems that historical and secular architecture and religious design in architecture coincided within the memorials erected in the West, in particular in the 1927 Lorimer War Memorial in Edinburgh where the use of a sword as an element with the Cross of Sacrifice in the cemeteries of the Imperial War Graves Commission is echoed within the central element of the Shrine (this memorial having been opened in 1927 by the Prince of Wales as the Scottish National War Memorial, and consequently presumably in some form associated with that of Wales and possibly others[citation needed]). In order for Pegram to find a model for the bronzes, the crews of two battleships were invited to the Union Jack Club in Waterloo, London. The sculptor selected a young sailor called Frederick William Baker, an Englishman from Brixton, in the nude and in uniform.
The memorial was unveiled on 12 June 1928 by Edward, Prince of Wales.[5] The ceremony was broadcast by the nascent BBC.[5][6]
The Memorial is Grade II* listed.[2]
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ICT v Hibs - Saturday 10 February |
Posted by: ritchiebaby - 08-02-2024, 13:24 - Forum: Hibernian
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A long trip up the A9 (weather permitting) for what will possibly prove to be a season-defining game for Hibs against Super Caley in the Scottish Cup.
Following Hibs' much-improved display against Celtic last night, there will be a new confidence in the team. OK, we still lost (again), but we showed we can be an exciting team to watch. We just need to convert the excitement into cool, clinical finishing. I'm expecting goals galore from this game, probably going right down to the wire for a Hibs win.
ICT will be no pushovers, though, and I'm certain Duncan Ferguson will have his players fired up for this one. They are having their own struggles in the Championship, especially at home, but will look upon this as a welcome break.
GGTTH
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Southampton away |
Posted by: Lord Snooty - 07-02-2024, 23:41 - Forum: Huddersfield Town
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Southampton v Huddersfield Town
The Sky Bet Championship
Saturday February 10th - 15:00 ko
at St Mary's Stadium
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Huddersfield Town travel to Southampton to the Dell on Saturday afternoon for the first game under the new management of (insert name here).
Or will it be more of the same with Jon Worthington in charge? The lad did well last Saturday, but this won't be as easy. A trip to the south coast to play a team currently on a club record-breaking unbeaten run in all competitions, which now stands at an impressive 24. Impressive? Come back when you've gone 43 regular league games unbeaten, pal.
The 24th game in this run came in an FA Cup replay on Tuesday night. Young French striker Sekou Mara scored twice and Scottish international Che Adams got a third. The Armstrong boys were both on the bench, rested for the big game against the Terriers.
We haven't won away at Southampton since 1971. If that run is ended on Saturday, I will double my current tally on the Players for Pounds chart. Hold on, that's a bold statement. Just checking. Bear with......
Six quid. Reyt theo. If we win, I'll double that.
Tickets:
Adults - £30
Over-65s - £25
18-25-year-olds - £25
Under 18s - £20
Under 14s - £15
Official coach travel is available, priced at £34-per-person. Coaches will depart from St. Andrew’s Road Car Park at 7.30am.
Head to Head
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Southampton lead the head to head with 13 wins to Town's 11, with 6 draws.
There's never been any kind of rivalry between the two clubs. Most of the time we have avoided each other with us being brilliant in the first part of the 20th century and they being mainly in Division Three (South). Then when we were in the lower leagues ourselves, the Saints had their glory days.
The first meetings came in Division Two in 1952/53 after we had been relegated for the first time ever. It was just a one season stay in the Second Division as we stormed back up again, doing the double over Southampton along the way. It was 2-0 at the Dell in the first game with Tommy Cavanagh and Jimmy Glazzard scoring in front of a crowd of 20,867 squeeezing into their tiny little ground. Huddersfield Town still pulling them in. The return game at Leeds Road saw our brave boys wallop the Saints 5-0. Cavanagh and Glazzard were amongst the scorers again, with Vic Metcalfe (pictured) getting two and Len Quested rounding it all off.
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The first time that we met in Division One was in 1970/71 after we had won the Second Division title. It was a special night at Leeds Road, coming as the second game of the season. We had beaten Blackpool 3-0 in the opening game on the Saturday, then on the Tuesday night, we beat Southampton 3-1 to go top of the league. Most exciting! There were 24,424 there, me and my dad amongst them. Dick Krzywicki, Jimmy Nicholson and Steve Smith scored for us.
We got relegated after the next season, so we didn't play each other again until 1994/95 in the League Cup 2nd round. It was our promotion season under the leadership of Neil Warnock and we were part way through an unbeaten league run of 13 games when we got the Saints in the Cup. It was a two legged affair, which we were totally outclassed in. They won it 5-0 on aggregate with all five goals being scored by Matthew le Tissier.
Southampton had a fall from grace in the early 2000s and so we met up in the third tier in 2009/10. Lee Clark was now in charge at the Town and the Saints came up north for the second game of the season again. Having scored on his debut away at Southend in the previous game, Jordan Rhodes scored his first goal at the Galpharm Stadium in a 3-1 win. He scored from the rebound after his penalty was saved by Kelvin Davis. Rickie Lambert equalised shortly after, but then Jordan put the Terriers 2-1 up before Antony Kay made the points safe.
We met up again in the top tier, now calling itself the Premier League, in 2017/18 and 18/19. Three draws and a defeat in those four games, the first of which at the John Smith's Stadium being the only goal less draw the two clubs have played out. The last of those four was the final match in our short but eventful Prima Donna League life. A one all draw down there with super Alex Pritchard getting an equaliser in front of the huge away support, all dressed in the free away shirts given away by the club.
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The season after our relegation, we had our one and only FA Cup meeting, which Southampton won 2-0 at St Mary's. Will Smallbone and Jake Vokins both scored, Smallbone on debut, Vokins in only his second game as their second string proved too good for ours.
And then they got relegated last season, so played each other in the Championship in November. Adam Armstrong opened the scoring, before Ben Jackson equalised late on in a 1-1 draw.
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So what's going on down at St Mary's church? Managed nowadays by Russell Martin, a former Scottish international who recently told Rishi Sunak to piss off!
He's a member of the Green Party, a vegan and a Buddhist. A decent bloke with no time for a corrupt Tory prick. He was born in 1986 and is now 38 years old. His childhood was anything but normal, growing up in Brighton with an English mother and a brutal Scottish father, who's gambling addiction led to them losing the family home. His dad was a bad man who also spent time in prison for domestic abuse.
Russell had to get himself a job, cleaning pub bogs before school, but at school he did well and eventually got a place with the Brighton and Hove Albion Academy before signing for Wycombe Wanderers.
He stayed there for four seasons, all in League Two, then signed for Peterborough United in 2008. Manager Darren Ferguson made him club captain and he led them to promotion to the Championship in his first season there. Things didn't go great though and Fergie got the chop, replaced by Mark Cooper, who's first job was to ship Russell out on loan to Norwich, who at the time were a division below in League One.
That loan was made permanent in January 2010 and he helped the Canaries win promotion back to the Championship. He played every minute of every game in the next season as they won a back to back promotion into the Premier League under Paul Lambert. Russell came second in the Player of the Season award, second to Grant Holt.
At the end of that season, he won his first of 29 Scotland caps, as a sub against Wales.
He had ten seasons at Carrow Road, four of them in the Premier League. At the back end of his time there, he had a loan spell up in his adopted country, playing 15 games in the Scottish Premiership for Rangers, before winding down his playing career at Walsall and then the MK Dons.
He'd been player/coach at both of those clubs and when Paul Tisdale got the boot from the Dons, he was then given his first proper manager's job, in November 2019.
Although praised for his team's style of play, Russell couldn't get the Dons higher than mid table obscurity. His card had been marked though and so it came as a surprise to some when he was appointed Head Coach of Swansea City in the Championship in August 2021, following the departure of droopy faced Steve Cooper, who had spent the summer on gardening leave.
He had two season's of mid table obscurity again, but his one big achievement was when his side became the first team in the 110 year history of the South Wales derby to do the double. They beat Cardiff City 3-0 and 4-0.
So after all these mid table finishes, it was once again a bit of a surprise when newly relegated Southampton took him on in the summer, to replace Rubén Sellés, who had taken on the job til the end of the season after they looked doomed following the disastrous tenure of Nathan Jones.
He's got the Saints up into the promotion race, but his name made it onto the front pages when at a game against Plymouth in December, he refused to meet diminutive dimwit Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, a Southampton born leader of the country's most effective criminal cartel.
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The midweek line up at home to Watford in the Cup:
13 Lumley
24 Charles
5 Stephens
35 Bednarek
29 Meghoma
16 Smallbone
4 Downes
19 Rothwell
33 Dibling
10 Adams
18 Mara
Subs:
1 McCarthy
2 Walker-Peters
3 Manning
9 A Armstrong
17 S Armstrong
21 Harwood-Bellis
23 Edozie
27 Amo-Ameyaw
40 Bragg
Southampton in popular culture: The most famous thing about Southampton is the doomed ship, the Titanic departed from there in 1912 on it's maiden voyage.
Southampton's club anthem is of course the song "Oh When The Saints Go Marching In". This obviously sounds a lot better when it's the Town that go marching in, but for now, here's Stuart and Adam's dad, the legend Louis Armstrong, giving it some welly.
Recent form - last 6 matches:
Town 4-0 Sheff Weds
QPR 1-1 Town
Blackburn 1-1 Town
Town 1-1 Plymouth
Man City 5-0 Town (FA Cup)
Leicester 4-1 Town
Saints 3-0 Watford (FA Cup)
Rotherham 0-2 Saints
Watford 1-1 Saints (FA Cup)
Swansea 1-3 Saints
Saints 4-0 Sheff Weds
Saints 4-0 Walsall (FA Cup)
Town are 21st in the Championship table with 31 points. Southampton are 2nd with 61.
Leading scorers:
Terriers:
Michal Helik (8)
Delano Burgzorg (6)
Saints:
Adam Armstrong (15)
Ché Adams (10)
Ryan Fraser (7)
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