Really good article

[ByTheGolacs]

Nice piece of work. Anyone know anthing about the author? Well balanced, extremists (on both sides) take note please :-)

 

http://prosoccertalk.nbcsports.com/2013/10/18/premier-league-supporters-the-dramatic-rise-of-southampton-fc-and-their-fans/related/

[Sour Mash]

Great article all told. Don't know how many Yanks will read the whole thing though!

[Turkish]

Yes, great to see our " defense" and high pressing soccer being praised. Good to see they understand soccer fans and mentioned them congregating in City center pubs.

 

Good to see him describe a typical Saints as one stuffing his face with a pie and shouting 'Guly you're sh*' too.

[offix]

Author's information

Full name Joseph Shaun Prince-Wright

Date of birth 2 September 1988

Place of birth Southampton, England

 

Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)

Playing position Midfielder

 

Youth career

2005-2007 Salisbury City

 

2007 Eastleigh FC

 

2007-2011 Pittsburgh Panthers

 

he now writes for NBC Sports

[Colinjb]

A few generalisations but an otherwise excellent read. I've had a few overseas colleagues ask about us knowing I am a Southampton fan, our exposure is growing and anything to put us in perspective in foreign media can only be positive.

[South City Si]

Does this mean we'll go after Yank players now now we've cracked the Japanese market?

In seriousness good to see us get exposure anywhere. Not seen it so much, even at the cup final it didn't feel we had as wide spread attention.

[swannymere]

Nice to see SISA getting a shout, their membership must be overjoyed. All four of them.

[charlie saint]

I assume this is because the English Premier League is getting shown live and all over the place in the USA this season, like it says here:

 

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-08-16/sports/41416559_1_nbc-sports-network-english-premier-league-fox-soccer-channel

 

There was a good article about it in When Saturday Comes the other month - there are taxis and tube trains in New York plastered with advertising urging Americans to pick a team.

 

Quite a good season to be doing so well - as all those 'floating voters' with no real idea of who's (supposed to be) who will may well find themselves be rooting for us. Even if that results in nothing tangible (ticket, shirt, advertising sales), it can't really be bad, can it?

[Chewy]

I'm glad they included the picture of the newer statue