SOUTHAMPTON FC HERITAGE, MEMORIES AND SUPPORTERS’ STORIES
Saints Archive Stories
Episode Description Show Timeline: Intro Music- 00:00 Intro- 00:55 Saints Archive Hall of Fame- 6:18 Dean Hammond- 11:48 Sport as a Child- 13:21 Coming to Saints- 18:55 Captain- 21:04 Club Hierarchy- 23:29 Promotion to the Premier League- 28:53 Moving on, Dealing with Disappointment- 32:55 Playing in the Premier League- 46:53 Dean Hammond Elite Fitness and…
So thats this years Saints Archive ‘Hall of Fame’ over for this year, and with any luck the club have seen these posts and will implement an ‘Official’ one for our heroes. We could not end the HoF 2020 without inducting a man who was ‘everything’ to do with Southampton FC. Ted Bates MBE –…
Fifth and final Inductee (before we announce the overall ‘Gold Special’ inductee) from the Saints Archive ‘Hall of Fame’, taken by the amount of people suggesting this across all of our platforms goes to : Rickie Lambert – https://www.facebook.com/groups/SaintsArchive
Fourth ex-Saint Inductee to the ‘Saints Archive Hall of Fame’ is :Matthew Le Tissier A recent post asking members of the archive who should be one of the ‘first 5’ into our own HoF – and of course Matt was in there up near the top! https://www.facebook.com/groups/SaintsArchive/
Third Inductee into the Saints Archive ‘Hall Of Fame’ – Mick Channon Read this great write up about Mick Channon on SaintsPlayers: https://www.saintsplayers.co.uk/player/mick-channon/
Over the next few nights we will be announcing the first inductees to the Saints Archive ‘Hall of Fame’. There will be opportunity again I promise to add more, but for 2020 I would like to introduce our second inductee: Ron Davies Congratulations Ron from all supporters of Southampton FC and members of the Saints…
Over the next few nights we will be announcing the first inductees to the Saints Archive ‘Hall of Fame’. There will be opportunity again I promise to add more, but for 2020 I would like to introduce our first inductee – Terry Paine – Congratulations Terry from all supporters of Southampton FC and members of…
Joining Matt to discuss last weekend’s match and his newest project, Lawrie and The Boy’s of 76, is Michael Kurn. We’ll discuss his new documentary which looks back at the 1976 FA Cup Final, developments around the football, and, of course, the United match. To get in touch with Michael and learn more about Lawrie…
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…
During 2020, Southampton FC embarked upon a project which began to take a deep-dive into the club’s extensive history, including revisiting the contribution made by the club’s first ever black player, Alf Charles, who was signed back in 1937. Club Statement: https://www.southamptonfc.com/news/2020-10-27/black-history-month-alf-charles-southampton-football-club-2020 SaintsPlayers.co.uk https://www.saintsplayers.co.uk/player/alf-charles/
Saints turned in a limp display as they went down 2-0 at fellow strugglers West Ham. Attention seemed to centre on the presence of Gordon Strachan in the stand with most assuming he was ready to take over as manager of the Hammers. In fact the exact opposite was true as stunned Southampton supporters were…