Saint81

From my perspective as a saints fan, what’s even more astonishing from a Leicester point of view, is that some of our worst performances under him (and there were many) came against yourselves. The 1-4 and 5-0 games the season we both went up have to be among the most embarrassing disjointed performances we served up under him. We were literally wide open the entire 90 minutes in both games. I am bewildered at how your board could look at those games and see how easy we were to play and score against, and think “yep that’s the man to take us forward” You literally saw first hand how bad he was. I am not trying to rub it in, far from it. Our board are just as clueless as yours and we are going nowhere under them, it’s a slow decline for us: we get steadily worse every season.

Saints fan here. Just found this snippet from when we had 1 point from our first 9 premier league games. If Southampton are to go down, or Martin is to lose his job, it will be by committing to a gameplan he believes in. "I took the job [at MK Dons] nearly five years ago, with the club in the League One relegation zone and the chairman saying he didn't care if they got relegated if he could see something he believed in and could be proud of," said Martin. "There have been some moments of real difficulty at MK and Swansea and here, where you get questioned and have to make a big decision. "But if I end up losing my job at some point, which is inevitable, at least I can say I have stuck to what I want to be, as a person first, then a leader and then as a manager. "To get to the Premier League and then change would be illogical. I cannot stand on the sidelines watching something I don't feel connected with or love. I don't see the point in that." That requires Southampton's players to have courage to take the ball in tight areas, carry on passing when the pressure is at its greatest and not allow poor results or adversity to change that mindset. The bloke is crazy. He is prepared to lose every week so long as he loses playing his way. The last paragraph above sums it up, you’re down the bottom of the league with worse players than the rest of the league anyway, and you’ve got to try to Barcelona your way out of trouble. Absolutely nuts and it’s no wonder the players got totally disillusioned. This idiot Should be nowhere near managing a professional football team, where results are paramount. Clearly they aren’t to him. Total joker