SOUTHAMPTON FC HERITAGE, MEMORIES AND SUPPORTERS’ STORIES
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So after just under a week it was certanly one sided on the vote to go ahead with our own ‘Hall of Fame’. Here is where we choose which 5 former players will be our first, to be inducted before the end of the year. Now we could put in minimum requirements etc, but as…
George Kirby scored his first hat trick for the club in a 6-0 win at home to Middlesbrough. His treble came in a blistering four-minute spell between 49 and 53 minutes. Kirby had been bought from Plymouth two months earlier to replace the ageing Derek Reeves who was sold to Bournemouth for half that amount…