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Mike McCartney: An Appreciation
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The left-back played at The Dell in the 1980/81 season, making 24 appearances and scoring once for the team.
The first of his appearances also coincided with the debut of Kevin Keegan, with McCartney part of the side that finished sixth in Division One under the guidance of manager Lawrie McMenemy.
A Scotland schoolboy international, who was born in Musselburgh, near Edinburgh, McCartney had arrived at Saints after seven seasons with Carlisle United – a club he made 287 appearances for, across two spells.
McCartney, whose opportunities in the Southampton team became limited after Nick Holmes took possession of the number three shirt, had begun his career with West Bromwich Albion, ahead of his switch to Cumbria in 1973, where he established himself as a firm favourite.
Following his time on the south coast, he would move to Plymouth Argyle, before returning to Carlisle for his second spell with the club in 1983.
After an ankle injury forced him out of League football at the age of 33, McCartney moved back to Scotland, becoming player-manager at Gretna in 1988, who were then in England’s Northern League.
He would lead them to back-to-back titles in 1991 and 1992 and, in the latter of those seasons, helped them become the first Scottish club in 105 years to feature in the first round of the English FA Cup.
McCartney eventually left Gretna in 2000, working in the building trade and as a delivery driver in Carlisle.
Everyone at Southampton Football Club sends their condolences to Mike’s family and friends at this time.
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Southampton pitch invaders banned from St Mary’s
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Three men have been banned from St Mary’s for three years after running onto the pitch following Southampton’s defeat to Crystal Palace.
Hampshire Police says no further action will take place.
Southampton went in front against Palace but conceded two second-half goals to lose 2-1, making it nine Premier League games without a win.
The result also left Southampton just one place above the relegation zone, with only their goal difference separating them from the bottom three.
There were loud boos from fans inside St Mary’s at the end of the game.
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Southampton have given new manager Mauricio Pellegrino their “full backing” despite their dangerous slide towards the relegation zone and remain determined to add two or three players this transfer window, including Theo Walcott.
Everton are also interested in Walcott but a potential loan or permanent deal has so far been delayed by Arsenal, with manager Arsene Wenger as yet undecided on whether he will allow his longest-serving player to leave this month.
Walcott just wants to play in a final attempt to force his way back into the England World Cup squad and is open-minded about a move if his first-team chances at Arsenal will be limited. Wenger, though, has his own concerns this month over other attacking players, notably Alexis Sanchez and Olivier Giroud, and is expected to wait several weeks before making a decision.
Southampton’s home defeat against Crystal Palace has left them just a point above the relegation zone following the £75 million sale of Virgil van Dijk and a dreadful sequence of just one win in 13 games. The final incoming fee from Van Dijk will be around £60 million due to a large sell-on clause to Celtic but that money is being made available to reinvest, even if it is likely to be spread over several transfer windows.
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Ticket Information: Saints vs Liverpool
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Saints face Liverpool in the Premier League on Sunday 11th February (4pm). Ticket information is as follows:
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Virgil van Dijk’s meteoric rise from pot washer to £75m defender
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Virgil van Dijk has gone from restaurant pot washer to world football’s top table – stunning those who felt he would never make it.
Van Dijk became the world’s most expensive defender when Liverpool paid Southampton £75million for the Dutchman, who will earn £10million a year at Anfield.
It is a far cry from a decade ago, when a 16-year-old Van Dijk washed dishes to make ends meet for a few Euros in as he dreamed of making it as a professional footballer.
Van Dijk worked as a kitchen hand at the Oncle Jean restaurant in his native city of Breda, where those in charge tried to convince him to forget about a career in football.
But Van Dijk has had the last laugh, with those who doubted him proud of how he has proved them all wrong with his meteoric rise to the summit of world football.
Restaurant owner Jacques Lips was stunned when his former employee became the world’s costliest defender, earning £55m over the next five-and-a-half years.
“£75million? I had to repeat the figure when I heard it,” said Lips. “Se-ven-ty fi-ve mil-lion. I still can’t believe it. Absolutely crazy money.
“He was a good worker. He would scrub hard and do his job properly. He was always here on the two busiest nights of the week. He was training hard to try and become a professional and had joined the academy of neighbours Willem II.
“After work, his dad always used to pick him up. I would often tell him he should wash more pots and stop trying to become a professional player.
“‘Stay here, Virgil’, I used to say. ‘Here you have the opportunity at least to earn a few quid’. He has absolutely made it and I hold my hands up. He deserves everything he is getting.
“Nobody at this place has ever forgotten Virgil. He was a great lad. In fact, we’ve always kept his name and phone number in our work book for temps.
“His name and number is still there. I’ve tried to call him. No not to ask him to come back, I just want to congratulate him.
“I’m so proud of him. He’s now the £75m man in the world of football."
Lips was not the only one of Van Dijk’s former associates left astounded by the defender’s record-breaking move to Liverpool.
Van Dijk’s youth coaches at his first club, WDS in Breda, were just as shocked. Ferdi Hoogeboom, John van den Berg and Rik Kleyn helped nurture the young Van Dijk.
The trio took training twice a week and would coach Van Dijk on a Saturday morning when the aspiring world star of the future was just seven-years-old.
Van Dijk has never forgotten his humble roots and has returned to where it all began for him to say thank-you for helping him on the road to stardom.
“Despite our coaching, he’s made it!” joked van den Berg. “Last year he turned up here with his signed Holland shirt. That was very emotional.
"He came to show his respect for his very first club and the people at this club who helped him. I’m not surprised he’s become a central defender. When he was seven he was bigger and stronger than the others.
“He was always in a central position. He would direct the play and take care of everything at the back. As he got older, he was so much stronger than the others. Physically he was head and shoulders above any other team mate or opponent."
After leaving Breda, Van Dijk joined the academy at neighbours Willem II, where he was told he would never make the grade and was forced to move 200 miles to FC Groningen.
After impressing there, Van Dijk earned a move to Celtic and then Southampton, where his performances convinced Liverpool to spend on him a world record fee for a defender.
Van Dijk used to clean up in his part-time job as a teenager, with Liverpool now hoping he can rinse their rivals and provide them with a platform for a fresh period of success.
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Ticket Information: Saints vs Huddersfield Town
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Saints face Huddersfield Town in the Premier League on Saturday 23rd December (3pm). Ticket information is as follows:
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Premier League - 10 things we learned this New Year
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Manchester City have managed to maintain their 15-point lead as well as their unbeaten status throughout a hectic festive period.
Meanwhile, the race to beat the drop has twisted and turned as Crystal Palace and West Ham rose from the ashes while West Brom and Stoke nosedived.
RALPH ELLIS looks at 10 things we learned from the New Year fixtures up and down the country…
If Pep Guardiola gets credit – and rightly so – for the improvements in players like Raheem Sterling and Fabian Delph then it’s time to give Jose Mourinho some kudos too for how Jesse Lingard has taken a leap forward. The 25-year-old has always been rated at Old Trafford as he’s come through their academy system but failed to show any real consistency.
His goal at Everton, though, was his seventh in nine league games on a roll that began in the 4-2 win over Watford in November. During that time he’s scored a goal every 99 minutes on the pitch.
John Stones has lost none of his quality on the ball during nearly two months on the sidelines with a hamstring injury. The England defender slotted happily back into the middle of Manchester City’s back four against Watford alongside Nicolas Otamendi as Pep Guardiola reunited the pairing that first got the club’s record winning run going earlier in the campaign. Stones played 74 passes in his 67 minutes on the pitch, failing to find a team-mate only three times.
Mark Noble’s return from injury has come at just the right time for the West Ham skipper and fans to lead the team against Tottenham on Thursday night. The 30-year-old, out since he damaged a hamstring in the 3-0 win at Stoke last month, came on at half-time against West Brom and was one of the key reasons the Hammers came back to win. He won the ball back seven times in the second half – no other West Ham player made more recoveries in the full 90 minutes.
Dominic Solanke’s first 90-minute appearance in the Premier League for Liverpool was hardly a roaring success with the young England striker having only one shot – off target – in the 2-1 win over Burnley.
But from his point of view it confirmed his decision to walk out on Chelsea in the summer in search of regular football at a top club was the correct one. The 20-year-old has now made 17 appearances under Jurgen Klopp, which is 17 more than he got in three years as a professional at Stamford Bridge.
Islam Slimani’s club-record £30m move to Leicester can hardly be classed a success but somewhere there’s a player in there waiting to get out. The Algerian’s neat finish in the 3-0 win over Huddersfield meant he has five goals from the four matches he’s started this season, and now 11 in the 20 matches in all that he’s started since his arrival from Sporting in Portugal.
Karl Darlow has given Newcastle boss Rafa Benitez a decision to make when his first-choice goalkeeper Rob Elliot is fit again. The 27-year-old Darlow, who almost left to sign for Middlesbrough in the summer but was called back when a deal to take Adrian from West Ham fell through, made four saves to keep a clean sheet in the vital 1-0 win at Stoke. It was his second shutout in two games while Elliot nurses a thigh injury. Newcastle had not kept a clean sheet before that since October.
You can’t blame Robert Madley that his linesman Marc Perry made such a poor decision failing to disallow Fernando Llorente’s goal against Swansea for offside – but he was clearly wrong not to show Davinson Sanchez a second yellow later in the game.
Madley, the ref who angered West Ham by overruling his assistant to hand Bournemouth a late equaliser on Boxing Day, does seem reluctant to send anybody off in Premier League games. Of the five red cards he’s shown in 17 games this season, two were in the Man City v Everton game in August, two of them were in Championship fixtures and the other in the Community Shield.
Jack Grealish could be a key weapon for Aston Villa in the second half of the season with Steve Bruce’s side now just five points away from the automatic promotion places.
The local boy whose career went off the rails after he first broke through was excellent in the 5-0 win over Bristol City and crowned his display with a 70-yard dribble before playing a perfect pass to set up the third goal.
Bruce had planned to build his system around the flair of the 22-year-old before he got a freak serious kidney injury in pre-season and will hope he can now return to his plan A.
Credit to Plymouth for sticking by manager Derek Adams when they slumped to the bottom of League One in early October with just five points from 12 games. The 42-year-old, who guided the Pilgrims to promotion last season, has now turned things round and his side are sat in mid-table after taking 14 points from their last six games.
Marc McNulty has shown great character in ignoring his critics in Coventry’s crowd to bounce back with the goals that have put the Sky Blues in the League Two automatic promotion places.
The 25-year-old, a free transfer from Sheffield United, was a target for the boo boys as he missed a host of chances in the early part of the season when he was also suffering from hamstring problems. But boss Mark Robins has stuck by him, and his winner against Chesterfield on Monday means he’s now got eight goals in his last nine games.
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Southampton favourites to sign Arsenal’s Theo Walcott
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Southampton are favourites to sign Theo Walcott if the winger leaves Arsenal during the January transfer window.
Sky Sports News understands the position is likely to become clearer in the next week with talks expected between the club and Walcott’s representatives, but at present a deal is not imminent.
Arsenal’s longest-serving player left Southampton as a 16-year-old in 2006 and he remains a popular figure at St Mary’s.
However, Southampton’s ability to attract new players is being hampered by their poor recent form in the Premier League.
The Saints may also struggle to match Walcott’s £120k a week wages but, if he does decide to leave, he may be willing to take a pay cut to secure more game time and increase his chances of re-entering England manager Gareth Southgate’s thinking ahead of this summer’s World Cup in Russia.
Walcott is out of contract in 18 months and is unlikely to sign a new deal while he remains on the bench most match days.
Southampton have been linked with Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge and Fulham’s Ryan Sessegnon in this window, but these reports are understood to be inaccurate.
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SAINTS star Shane Long insists the players have to take the blame for the club’s predicament.
Supporters chanted for manager Mauricio Pellegrino’s dismissal after Crystal Palace’s 2-1 win at St Mary’s, Saints having led through Long’s first goal in 325 days.
Long said: “It is nice to get that goal but it counted for nothing in the end.
“In the second half Palace came at us. Naturally you drop off and try and hold onto your lead and that cost us.
“Confidence is low and the sooner the win comes the better.
“We know it is frustrating for the fans but we need them more than ever.
“It’s on the players heads as well. We cannot put it on the manager, everyone has to take a bit of the blame.”
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Southampton ace Shane Long: Mauricio Pellegrino not to blame for poor form
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Saints are only outside the relegation zone on goal difference after extending their winless run to nine games after losing 2-1 at home to Crystal Palace on Tuesday.
Fans are calling for Pellegrino to be sacked just seven months after the Argentine replaced the axed Claude Puel.
But Long, who ended an 11-month goal drought to put Saints ahead, said: “We know it is frustrating for the fans but we do need them now more than ever.
“It’s on the players’ heads as well. We practise well all week. We cannot put it on the manager’s head - everyone has to take a bit of the blame.
“I think we have got a lot of good players in the squad and a lot of players who deserve to be in the starting 11.
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