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http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/apr/28/southampton-coventry-city-championship?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

Southampton have scratched their seven-year itch. That is how long it has taken the south coast club, once home to Channon, Keegan, Shearer and Le Tissier, to return to the Premier League. There has been a drop into administration and League One football along the way, but with this emphatic, deserved victory the Saints have completed their march out of the darkness.

 

The outpouring of joy at the final whistle was understandably uncontrollable. Despite pleas from the public-address announcer for supporters to refrain from charging on to the pitch, the bulk of the 32,363 crowd – a record for this venue – could not help themselves. They flooded on to the turf while some released red flares into the gloomy and damp south-coast sky. In the midst of it all Rickie Lambert, Southampton's top scorer and recently named PFA Championship player of the year, could be seen looking on with a mixture of bewilderment and pleasure. His face captured perfectly the story of this club's achievement

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/football-league/lallana-gets-saints-over-line-in-style-7687427.html

Southampton have stumbled rather than raced towards the promotion finishing line in recent weeks, but they crossed it in style yesterday. A stroll against relegated Coventry sealed Saints' return to the Premier League after an absence of seven years that had included administration and a descent to League One.

 

All that was missing was a goal from Rickie Lambert, the Championship's top scorer, but the biggest crowd of the season at St Mary's was happy with a result more reminiscent of their team's early-season home form rather than its springtime nerves.

 

Nigel Adkins, the manager, has followed in the footsteps of Paul Lambert of Norwich City by securing back-to-back promotions in his first two seasons at the club and will hope for similar success when he makes his own debut in the technical areas of the top flight.

 

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2136527/Southampton-4-Coventry-0-Saints-promoted.html

Southampton swept back to the Premier League after an absence of seven years on a wave of joyous emotion at St Mary’s.

 

Three years after they went into administration and were 10 points adrift at the bottom of League One, Nigel Adkins’s impressive team followed the example of Norwich City by securing successive promotions.

 

Now they can set their sights on the likes of Manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal and the rest of the big guns.

 

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/championship/9233370/Southampton-4-Coventry-City-0-match-report.html

Only 20 minutes had elapsed at St Mary’s yesterday when this became a raucous promotion party rather than a game of football.

 

Southampton, needing to beat Coventry City to secure their place in the Premier League, had already established a 2-0 lead and, after three extraordinary years spent inching themselves back towards English football’s elite, ecstatic celebrations had already begun.

 

By the final whistle, and with Coventry thumped 4-0, a record 32,363 crowd at St Mary’s could contain themselves no longer.

 

The pitch was completely invaded and the majority of the team were left to navigate their way back to the dressing-room via an extended crowd surf across a vast mass of Southampton fans. Both the supporters and players had earned this remarkable moment.

 

 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/4285701/Southampton-4-Coventry-0.html

BILLY SHARP served up a £90million slice of the Premier League pie to end seven years of hurt for Southampton.

 

Sharp had the Saints Marching In on the top flight after just 16 minutes with his eighth goal in as many games.

 

And it was effectively game over for promotion rivals West Ham three minutes later when defender Jose Fonte headed home Daniel Fox’s corner.

 

Second-half goals from Jos Hooiveld and Adam Lallana signalled a South Coast party to remember against relegated Coventry.

 

And no one deserved it more than Saints boss Nigel Adkins, who spent 10 years as a physio at S****horpe before going into management.

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This from The Torygraph:

"The record crowd inside St Mary’s were certainly making the most of it. Portsmouth, who have been relegated into Division One, were predictably mocked.

 

Past heroes, from Marian Pahars to Matthew Le Tissier, were enthusiastically remembered while Liebherr, the man whose millions have underpinned Southampton’s extraordinary rise, was loudly remembered. Most of, though, the joyous message was uncomplicated: ‘We are Southampton, We are Premier League’."

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Even the main Finnish newspaper Helsingin sanomat picked up the story, hilariously building on the Saints/Pompey contrast. Even more hilarious google translate below:

 

In different directions along the southern coast

 

Southampton rises to the FA Premier League, the local resistance falls to number one in Portsmouth League.

 

More intensive in the south coast of England derbyä not likely to see for a long time.

 

Southampton's St. Mary's Stadium is only 26 miles from Portsmouth's Fratton Park, but the fans were lost yesterday, September folded a short distance away games.

 

Fierce local rivals played this season, right-pound level, but Southampton secured the return to Premier League after a break of seven years.

 

Next season are separated by a whole set of stairs, as Portsmouth's number one fall to the third level League was confirmed in the past.

 

Even the early 2000s in Southampton and Portsmouth were at the same time average on the Premier League, but both slip out of the swim first division and the economic difficulties they plunged into liquidation.

 

Southampton fell in 2005, Portsmouth in 2010.

 

Today, neighbors directions are diametrically opposed. Southampton's rate of increase is furious because last season it was playing even triplet levels.

 

In turn, hold on Portsmouth Premier League after falling just two seasons In championship before sinking into the depths of League number one.

 

Southampton will rise directly.

 

It secured the second place Reading in the wake of winning the final round Relegation team Coventry 4-0.

 

Paint Teossa managed, among others, the Dutch stopper If Hooiveld, who played for Inter Turku on the periods 2007 and 2008.

 

Southampton owes nousustaan ​​coach Nigel Adkins, which has led to the team of two successive rise.

 

Southampton had the whole season and the leading duo had a series of the most powerful team of 85 paint 46 matches. An experienced roller down the Aryan Rickie Lambert, 30, won the overwhelming maalikuninkuuden 27 osumallaan.

 

The third Premier League club shows a rising playoffs with a semifinal pairs are Cardiff, West Ham and Birmingham Blackpool.

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