Anyway moan over. Let’s just be thankful that we’ve got a great chairman driving the ship now. Absolutely nothing to worry about….oh hold on a minute….Ken who?

Take Leeds for example. Every football fan throughout England knows it was Peter Ridsdale’s inept leadership skills that led to our demise, yet the ones that have suffered have been the boards that have followed, not the man himself who has been allowed to take over (and subsequently ruin) another football club in Cardiff. Whilst the people who followed Ridsdale may have contributed to the financial problems we’ve had, he started the domino effect and should be the one facing the consquences. Not the Leeds fans.

As a Saint fan, I enjoy reading the impressions of other teams’ supporters on our progress, when they are actually well thought out, well written and balanced.

Over the years, Southampton and Leeds United Football Clubs have certainly enjoyed some epic battles. Who can forget Leeds comeback from three down at St. Mary’s to win 4-3, and similarly, our classic 3-2 victory at St. Mary’s. When Saints play Leeds, often we can look forward to goals. The semi-rivalry we seemed to have developed over the last few years of goading each other during our tense battles also adds an extra spice to the games between us (certainly from our perspective, and I hope for Leeds Utd fans too).

Let us hope that Saturday’s fixture at Elland Road has the making of another classic, and that events on the field are the only talking points after the game.

I hope that when this season is all said and done, that both Leeds Utd and Southampton will be looking forward to renewing battle in The Championship. We’re talking about two big Clubs here, and both should in my opinion be gracing higher levels.

Starting from after our weekend fixture, I wish Leeds United every success for the season, and hope that you can see it through, to promotion, (alongside ourselves, of course).

Best Regards,

A Saint.

That said, both Saints and Leeds are building more responsible clubs which will hopefully mean that we won’t face this type of difficulty again. Lets up this fixture is in the Championship next year!

I agree that points penalties are more of a punishment to fans than they are those responsible. In our case, the fans were punished for Ken Bates’ actions and for me, that’s the main reason we’re still stuck in League One. Hopefully this will be our final year though and we can get back on track.

I hope you have more success getting out of this league than Leeds United have had in their first two seasons. It’s not easy being the club everyone wants to beat.

Pressure’s on Grayson to put faith in who he thinks is his strongest team and start getting 3 points instead of 1.

I reckon if you offered Grayson right now the opportunity to be top of the league level on points with Charlton but with a slightly better goal difference come New Year’s Day, I think he’d bite your hand off.