FA CUP Wins

[John B]

I am fed up with all this despondancy these wins two wins got me really interested in the Saints although I lived 130 miles from the Dell

MANCHESTER CITY 1 SOUTHAMPTON 5 FA Cup 3rd Round 9th January 1960 Southampton Reeves(23, 32, 67 & 86), O’Brien(64)

7th January 1961 – FA Cup Third Round – Southampton 7-1 Ipswich Town (O'Brien 3, Mulgrew 2, Penk, Paine)

and I still support them today after moving back to Southampton in 1962 and watching them regularly

In those days they were a team not a collection of millionaires with no passion for the club

 

 

 

[derry]

25 minutes ago, John B said:

I am fed up with all this despondancy these wins two wins got me really interested in the Saints although I lived 130 miles from the Dell

MANCHESTER CITY 1 SOUTHAMPTON 5 FA Cup 3rd Round 9th January 1960 Southampton Reeves(23, 32, 67 & 86), O’Brien(64)

7th January 1961 – FA Cup Third Round – Southampton 7-1 Ipswich Town (O'Brien 3, Mulgrew 2, Penk, Paine)

and I still support them today after moving back to Southampton in 1962 and watching them regularly

In those days they were a team not a collection of millionaires with no passion for the cl

 

I saw both those games. City were a first division side, Saints third division (promoted) and Terry Paine tore them apart even though Cliff Huxford pulled a thigh muscle and limped through the game, no substitutes then. The following year it was the Ipswich team that finished Division two champions. In those days teams played their best team in the FA Cup. John Sydenham wasn't playing much, I think he was on National Service in the army at Crookham.

Saints played some of the best attacking football I've seen. I think one year scoring well over a hundred goals. 

Edited 7 February, 2023 by derry