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

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• saints
• colchester
• scunthorpe
• leicester
• coventry
• blackpool
• barnsley
• relegation
• season
• 07/08

[PompeyBoy15]

yor never gonna get promoted to premier league wid da team u got!!! explain to mee how many players u got in da england team and where did u finish last season???!!!

[MikeAndWillFilms]

The England team is shit mate. Lmaoo.

And yeah key word 'LAST' season.

Dumb fuck.

[oasis4ever92]

why make a video of a season where u scummer cunts did so shit?

and sorry pal but you have no chance of getting promotion next year, your best striker is a thieving bastard haha

[MikeAndWillFilms]

Because we don't support Southampton because they're good - we support them because we love them.

We have every chance of getting promoted mate. Just like you can get relegated.

And our best WINGER (not striker you dumb fuck) maybe a thief, but at least he has the decency to plead guilty...

... On the other hand, your best players either go to Inter Milan for a shit fee or do back flips and fuck up their hamstring!

Now comment on this again and I will delete your comment you inbred bastard.

[skybluesfan1987]

We lost 4-1 for the record ;)

But I don't care, we still in the league (undeservedly tbh)

[MikeAndWillFilms]

Aaaah OK. Still a great story though isn't it? I will change it now for you.

[KardiffFan99]

im glad you stayed up because your to big a club to be in League 1

[dilloss]

1st division next season

[FreemansMindFan101]

4-1

[ozonegirl901]

Well i am not comminting on the vidio even if i was its retarded anyway funny how you dont have your age on are you a sad 40 year old who has nothing better to do then call 13 year old girls little bithce's? get a life zut! yes its french for damn LOOK IT UP.

[0zNiko21]

calm down dear

BARNSLEY FC!!

;)

[XxAZZ4xX]

Nigel pearson whadda ledgend for keeping us up all duecredit to him *clap clap clap clap*

[XxAZZ4xX]

erm.. not wuite

[XxAZZ4xX]

Cheers adam , well take a season or 2 to clear whats happend this season .. but lets hope it workd out .. btw beckford whdaa striker .. i think we had our eyeon him but u sad u wernt selling but images 4-3-3 rickie lambert , jermain beckford and david connolly all upfront unstopable

lol

gl leeds

[XxAZZ4xX]

why the fuck u watchin this if ur a barnsley fan?

[Studogaccount]

There Is Only One CCFC. Coventry City Football Club!

[adventussaxonum]

Thank you adam. I think it might take us a season longer than you !

[adventussaxonum]

Why would any Saints fan want to remember THAT season. Thank God we seem to have sorted things out now.Onwards and upwards !