Saints best day in the last two years!!!!

Yesterday turned out to be the best day for the Saints in a long while. A 2-1 victory over sheffield wednesday moved saints to within one point of second place in the championship. But possibly more importantly, the transfer window came to a close with Gareth Bale still a Saints player:-)

Last nights match was a good one for saints in more than just the result. There were plus points all round. Baird was again brilliant putting in a man of the match performance. Rasiak's trickery with flicks and back-heels galore in the first half, idiakez looked good and hungry coming back and the pressure of more competition up front seemed to work as kenny put away a couple of beautifully taken goals, taking him to 11 for the season. The only apparent downside was that he later picked up a thigh injury which makes him doubtful for saturdays huge game at home to Derby. If you missed the match, check out the goals and reaction below, notice rasiak's backheel and kenny's dancing:-)

On the Bale front, it appears that he snubbed a £10 million + 18 month loan-back deal with spurs (despite saints allowing him talks) in favour of a possible move to man utd in the summer. I'd be sad to see him leave any time. But maybe when we're in the premiership we can tempt him to stay a little longer with a big money deal.

Bring on Derby!!!!

FA Cup update

Saints will now play Man City in the fourth round of the FA Cup after they came through a tough match against Sheffield Wednesday 2-1 at the city of manchester stadium. Goals from Stephen Ireland and Darius Vassell gave city victory, despite a good battling display by wednesday, who had Mark Crossley keeping them in the game (at least we won't have to face him again).

The match will take place at the City of Manchester stadium on Sunday 28th January at 3pm, in order to avoid a clash with the Man Utd v Portsmouth tie the day before. Plus it means we can all watch Pompey get trounced live on BBC television :-)