Southampton News

MICHAEL Svensson is moving back to Sweden a ' but with the dream of one day returning to Saints.

STAR MAN SWANSEA smashed the club record transfer fee to sign striker Craig Beattie from West Brom in August.

SAINTS could theoretically jump as high as 14th with a win against Walsall at the Banks' Stadium today.

SAINTS could face a switch back to 4-5-1 this afternoon with David Connolly and Adam Lallana set to miss the trip to Northampton.

WANDERERS' revival was halted in its tracks by Southampton as the Blues missed the chance to climb out of the relegation zone.

KELVIN Davis believes Bartosz Bialkowski will prove to be a very safe pair of hands in goal while he is out injured.

EXCITING Southampton winger Jake Thomson has extended his loan stay at Torquay United into a second month.

Alan Pardew called the Cobblers players 'a credit to their jerseys' on Saturday afternoon.

Click here to make this page automatically refresh ADAM Lallana struck twice to give Saints a 3-1 victory at Hartlepool tonight.

Southampton battled into the third round of the FA Cup with a narrow success at League Two Northampton.

TORQUAY United have received a pre-match boost ahead of tomorrow's FA Cup second round tie at Coca-Cola League One strugglers Stockport County.

SAINTS keeper Kelvin Davis could be out until the New Year with a groin injury. The club captain limped off in the second half of tonight's 3-1 win at Hartlepool and was replaced by Bartosz Bialkowski .

AFTER paying tribute to one of their finest sons, Hartlepool United gave a performance that would have made Tony Parry proud.

HARTLEPOOL United suffered their second successive defeat after Southampton came from behind to claim a 3-1 win at Victoria Park.

Supersub Grzegorz Rasiak may have ended Readinga s 301 day wait for a home victory, but his ever-present wife missed his 82nd minute winner after she couldna t find a babysitter for their kids.

ARSENAL could have done with a helping hand from old talisman Thierry Henry as Sunderland blew away the Gunners' unbeaten 13-match run in league and cup.

Click here to make this page automatically refresh SAINTS and Norwich shared the spoils in an entertaining match at St Mary's that finished 2-2. Adam Lallana gave Saints the lead at half-time. Wes Hoolahan equalised after the break for the visitors.

THIS football management lark really is a bit of a doddle you know. Or at least that is the way Gus Poyet made it look in his first match as a No.

New boss Gus Poyet has dropped Adam Virgo and made Andrew Crofts his Albion captain.

This season, Southampton FC are playing in the third tier of English football for the first time in 50 years.