20 years ago today

[Stud mark of doom]

Who remember’s Crouch failing to take the ball to the corner flag just before the equaliser. 
 

How did Redknapp manage to get a side with Philips, Crouch and Beattie (until he sold him) relegated? 

 

[Colinjb]

Oh. Don't. Just bloody don't.

That Henri Camara goal was a thing of beauty too.

[Saint Fan CaM]

Remember all too well. Remember the “Harry & Jim” songs sung by the entire stadium. A stain on the club and it’s supporters. Dark days indeed that were due to get worse.

[benjii]

8 hours ago, Stud mark of doom said:

Who remember’s Crouch failing to take the ball to the corner flag just before the equaliser. 
 

How did Redknapp manage to get a side with Philips, Crouch and Beattie (until he sold him) relegated? 

 

Proper kick in the bollocks. 

[Gloucester Saint]

That side shouldn’t have been relegated but in many ways similar to the complacent decline from 2016. Quality sold (Bridge, Mane, Pelle) or injured (Svensson, Pahars, Dodd) replaced by significantly inferior quality players in key positions (Nilsson, Jakobsson, Bernard, Redmond, Austin) which didn’t help the remaining quality (Beattie, Tadic).

Redknapp played his part but most of the above wasn’t done by him bar Beattie’s sale and Bernard. He didn’t appoint Steve Wigley and Paul Sturrock, and dilute the quality of the squad in such a short space of time trying to be a clever arse.

Stand up one Rupert Lowe. I hate politics on the main board but it’s an important reminder for all football fans of why this country never wants him anywhere near positions of responsibility. 

[Mr Saints]

I don’t think I’ve ever been as gutted at a football result. Even the League Cup final at Wembley wasn’t as horrible as this.

[Saint86]

11 hours ago, Stud mark of doom said:

Who remember’s Crouch failing to take the ball to the corner flag just before the equaliser. 

 

Yup. Just like i remember everyone saying at the time how costly it was, and just like i think back to it even now sometimes when we let a late goal in.

Not quite the same, but i also remember Doucoure's last minute hand ball equaliser for Watford.

Edited Friday at 08:45 by Saint86

[TheAlehouseBrawlers]

1 hour ago, Mr Saints said:

I don’t think I’ve ever been as gutted at a football result. Even the League Cup final at Wembley wasn’t as horrible as this.

I don't know, it felt pretty raw just a few weeks earlier with Redknapp's first home game. 2-up against Boro with a minute left on the clock, they then scored 2 is as many minutes. The sign of things to come...

[Toadhall Saint]

i stood there with my gob open thinking WTF are you doing - unbelievable  Jeff

[Green]

I wonder where we would be now if we hadn’t been relegated that season. 

[Saint86]

30 minutes ago, Green said:

I wonder where we would be now if we hadn’t been relegated that season. 

I think we were circling the drain regardless, but ultimately that relegation led directly to the championship administration, then to League 1 minus 10... So i doubt we'd have had Leiherr's buyout and the Don in charge, no Lambert, Fonte, Nigel et al, no back to back promotions, no poch, not EFL tophy win, no 2014 buy and sell under Koeman, and probably no Europe and league cup final. So really, it all worked out for the best, and in footballing terms it shows that sometimes you really do have to hit bottom to come back stronger. Just a shame that we lost our way once Marcus passed and then under successive owners with poor investment - and more recently with investment but poor recruitment. But does give me faith that we'll come again.

Edited Friday at 12:07 by Saint86

[Turkish]

35 minutes ago, Green said:

I wonder where we would be now if we hadn’t been relegated that season. 

We were trying to reinvent football back then. Sell to buy, Clive Woodward coming in, buy cheap buy twice policy, trying to find the next prospect, selling off the best players and replacing them with squad players. 20 years on little has changed.

[S-Clarke]

Bloody Davenport, useless centre back. One of the worst we've had to endure.

[Gloucester Saint]

4 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

Bloody Davenport, useless centre back. One of the worst we've had to endure.

Still playing in the Western League along with coaching kids https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calum_Davenport

Professional part of his career was quite short all told.

Agree he was terrible, even worse than Olivier Bernard was. And that’s bad.

[Jeremy Corbyn]

PTSD.  Remember thinking just dont end up in the keepers hands so he can launch it...

Like others, up there with the worst moments of my Southampton supporting life.

[Dr Who?]

Horrible season of late heartbreak. 💔 

[Colinjb]

4 hours ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Still playing in the Western League along with coaching kids https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calum_Davenport

Professional part of his career was quite short all told.

Agree he was terrible, even worse than Olivier Bernard was. And that’s bad.

Never fully recovered from being stabbed in his leg.

[Fabrice Fernandes no.1 fan]

The close-up of Beattie celebrating then seemingly shouting "no" at himself for celebrating against us, like it was instinct to celebrate but not what we actually wanted to do

[St Louis]

On 06/02/2025 at 21:03, Stud mark of doom said:

How did Redknapp manage to get a side with Philips, Crouch and Beattie (until he sold him) relegated? 

Not that Redknapp ever needs an excuse, but he didnt come in until December (I think we hoped he could 'wheel & deal' and pull some rabbits out of the hat in Jan), but the rot/damage was already there... much like this season!

Edited Tuesday at 13:00 by St Louis

[Sarnia Cherie]

I remember my eldest son coming home and saying he had followed a van with a sticker in the back window saying 'Come home, Agent Redknapp, your mission is accomplished;. He said what a good job I hadn't been with him.