Southampton Greatest Games

Saints' Fifty Finest Matches

Alex Crook, Alex Smith

• Publisher: Pitch Publishing
• eBook ISBN:
  9781785312779
• Year: 2016

From causing one of the biggest shocks in FA Cup final history by beating Manchester United in 1976 to promotion to the Premier League in 2012, here are 50 of the club's most glorious, epochal, and thrilling games of all! Expertly presented in evocative historical context, and described incident-by-incident in atmospheric detail, Southampton Greatest Games offers a terrace ticket back in time, from the bygone days of Ted Bates and Lawrie McMenemy to the club's rise from League One back to the top flight via administration and near bankruptcy and their highest-ever Premier League finish under Ronald Koeman's masterful management. An irresistible cast list of club legends—including the great Matt Le Tissier, record appearance-maker Terry Paine, Wembley heroes Mick Channon and Peter Osgood, promotion winners Rickie Lambert and Jose Fonte, and former European Footballer of the Year Kevin Keegan—comes to life in these thrilling tales of goalscoring feats, great comebacks, Wembley glory and the odd glorious yet crushing disappointment. In all, a journey through the highlights of Saints' history which is guaranteed to make any fan's heart swell with pride.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• 1 Southampton 1-0 Manchester United 1 May 1976
• 2 Southampton 4-0 Coventry City 28 April 2012
• 3 Southampton 3-2 Arsenal 19 May 2001
• 4 Southampton 1-1 Leyton Orient 9 May 1966
• 5 Middlesbrough 0-1 Southampton 30 January 1982
• 6 Southampton 4-1 Carlisle United 28 March 2010
• 7 Wimbledon 0 Southampton 2 8 May 1999
• 8 Manchester United 1-4 Southampton 16 August 1969
• 9 Southampton 3-1 Manchester United 13 April 1996
• 10 Southampton 2-1 Watford 13 April 2003
• 11 Southampton 1-0 Leeds United 30 January 1979
• 12 Southampton 6-2 West Ham United 4 February 1967
• 13 Southampton 8-0 Sunderland 18 October 2014
• 14 Southampton 6-1 Aston Villa 16 May 2015
• 15 Portsmouth 0-1 Southampton 28 January 1984
• 16 Southampton 2-1 Newcastle United 24 October 1993
• 17 Southampton 4-0 Olympique Marseille 15 September 1976
• 18 Southampton 5-0 Nottingham Forest 8 April 1963
• 19 Southampton 6-3 Manchester United 26 October 1996
• 20 Southampton 2-0 Portsmouth 2 December 2003
• 21 Southampton 5-1 Portsmouth 13 January 1906
• 22 Southampton 4-2 Arsenal 9 April 1988
• 23 Norwich City 4-5 Southampton 9 April 1994
• 24 Southampton 4-1 Manchester United 4 November 1986
• 25 Southampton 4-1 Liverpool 21 October 1989
• 26 Southampton 7-1 Ipswich Town 7 January 1961
• 27 Southampton 3-2 Manchester United 5 December 1981
• 28 Southampton 3-2 Liverpool 20 March 2016
• 29 Southampton 4-0 Swindon Town 30 August 1920
• 30 Leeds United 0-1 Southampton 3 March 2012
• 31 Brighton and HA 1-2 Southampton 23 April 2011
• 32 Southampton 4-0 Tottenham Hotspur 4 January 2003
• 33 Southampton 5-0 Newport County 6 May 1922
• 34 Southampton 2-1 Newcastle United 19 February 1927
• 35 Southampton 3-2 Bolton Wanderers 26 February 1992
• 36 Southampton 3-0 Swansea Town 4 May 1929
• 37 Southampton 9-3 Wolverhampton Ws 18 September 1965
• 38 Southampton 2-0 Rosenborg BK 1 October 1969
• 39 Wolverhampton Ws 2-6 Southampton 5 October 1976
• 40 Southampton 4-3 Tottenham Hotspur 2 April 1995
• 41 Southampton 4-1 Fulham 2 October 1976
• 42 Southampton 3-0 Sparta Prague 15 September 2016
• 43 Southampton 4-3 Norwich City 30 April 2005
• 44 Southampton 3-2 Sheffield United 4 May 2008
• 45 Manchester United 0-1 Southampton 11 January 2015
• 46 Southampton 4-0 Arsenal 26 December 2015
• 47 Chelsea 2-2 Southampton 16 January 2013
• 48 Southampton 6-4 Leeds United 5 December 1960
• 49 Southampton 2-3 Liverpool 24 April 1982
• 50 Southampton 4-0 Newcastle United 29 March 2014
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