Southampton Fc 07/08

The First Match Is Wrong It Is Supposed To Be Crystal Palace Not Cardiff City Video Creator Mistake* One Of Southampton Fc's Most Emotional Seasons By Far. Includes A Picture From Every Game And A Mini Tribute To The Spiritual Survival Sunday Against Sheffield United. Securing Championship Status Was Not Over Until The Last Game Of The Season, Five Teams Could Of Still Gone Down! Unlucks To Leicester Who Unfortuntly Took The Plunge, You Didn't Deserve It! Here Is A Special Story By A Huge Saints Fan, Detailing The Emotion Of The Last Couple Of Games Of The 07/08 Season: Thursday... I Hate Football. Well, That's Not True. I Love It. What I Hate Is What Football Is Doing To Me. For Fans Of The Championship Teams Fighting To Avoid The Last Relegation Spot, These Last Two Months Have Been A Gut-Churning Nightmare. My Saturdays -- And Mondays, Tuesdays And Wednesdays -- Have Become A Hellish Rollercoaster Ride Over Which I Have No Control. You're Up. You're Down. You're Almost Safe. You're Doomed. You Need Someone Else To Win. They Lose. Precious Points Are Snatched With Last-Gasp Equalisers. Even More Precious Wins Are Thrown Away With Calamitous Added-Time Errors. Penalties Are Won. Penalties Are Missed. Star Names Get Season-Ending Injuries Just When They're Needed Most. Loan Signings With Unspellable Names Become Instant Heroes. There Was Always A Fear That It Would Go Down To The Wire, But This Is Ridiculous. With One Round Of Matches Remaining, Five Teams Can Still Go Down. A Man Could Go Blind Just Thinking About The Permutations. Oh, For The Comfortable Boredom Of Mid-Table Obscurity! The Pre-Match Pattern Is Always The Same. Two Days Before, The Sick Feeling Starts. Mere Rumours Of Possible Injuries Are Enough To Induce Stinking Black Depression. The Day Before, The Manager Comes Out With What He Thinks Are Bullish Quotes -- Determination This, No Surrender That. You Hear Only Panic. Hours Are Wasted Dreaming Of Spectacular Winners. Evenings Are Ruined By Thoughts Of Worst-Case Scenarios. Kick-Off Makes The Heart Thump Like A Trapped Rabbit. At The Game, Solace Is Sought In Songs, But Silence Soon Takes Over. At Home, With Television And Radio On, The Phrase "...And There's Been A Goal At...." Brings A Bowel-Shifting Mixture Of Desperate Hope And Sick Dread. I Could Deal With It If We'd Looked Doomed All Season, If We Hadn't Beaten Teams At The Top Of The Table Away From Home, If We Hadn't Sometimes Passed Teams Off The Park And Looked As Full Of Play-Off Potential As Any One Of The Lucky Lot At The Other End Of The Table. I Could Deal With It If I Couldn't Name, Off The Top Of My Head, At Least 10 Shots Hitting Woodwork Which Would Have Seen Us Safe Had They Gone An Inch The Other Way. I Could Even Deal With It If There Was Any Certainty In Other Results. My Boys Are At Home, Against A Team With Nothing To Play For. Others Are Away At Promotion-Chasers. But This Is Division Where Form Makes No Sense. No-One Can Be Trusted. So It'll Be That, At 2Pm On Sunday, I'Ll Be Sitting Down For 90 Minutes That Could Make Or Break My Year. And There's Not A Thing I Can Do About It. Three Days Later, Southampton Finish 20Th - They Won 3-2, Leapfrogging Coventry Who Narrowingly Escape Relegation After Being Beaten 4-1. Leicester Who Finish 22Nd, Therefore Relegated, Can Only Draw Goalless At Stoke, If They Won Their Game, Coventry Would Of Been Relegated. Southampton Fans Storm The Pitch Hugging As Many Players And Staff As Possible, They Did Good, And Leicester Know It Only Too Well. End Table: 1 West Bromwich Albion 81 C 2 Stoke City 79 P 3 Hull City 75 P/O C 4 Bristol City 74 5 Crystal Palace 71 6 Watford 70 7 Wolverhampton Wanderers 70 8 Ipswich Town 69 9 Sheffield United 66 10 Plymouth Argyle 64 11 Charlton Athletic 64 12 Cardiff City 64 13 Burnley 62 14 Queens Park Rangers 58 15 Preston North End 56 16 Sheffield Wednesday 55 17 Norwich City 55 18 Barnsley 55 19 Blackpool 54 20 Southampton 54 21 Coventry City 53 22 Leicester City 52 R 23 Scunthorpe United 46 R 24 Colchester United 38 R