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https://linktr.ee/league1minus10 Football and music. Award winning writer of the magnificent League 1 Minus 10 blog on #SaintsFC since 2009. Regular Total Saints Podcast panellist and irregular BBC contributor.

Russell Martin – The Rise and Fall We'll Always Have Wembley It has seemed to be a case of when, rather than if, with regards to Russell Martin being sacked as manager of Southampton. Any doubt over him being sacked probably left town after forty seconds of the game against Spurs at St Mary’s.…

League 1 Minus 10: Championship Play-Off Semi-Final 1st Leg: Middlesbrough 0 Southampton 0. RPs appreciated. #saintsfc Difficult one to write this... was worried about upsetting people for a bit, but then thought.... f*ck it.

League 1 Minus 10. The Spying, the Wembley and the Window A Catch Up on #saintsfc Featuring Hull's bus, Baldrick, Dragan on the offensive, Tonda speaks, the baying mob, big signings and moving on.

League 1 Minus 10 - Championship Play-Off Semi-Final 2nd Leg - Southampton 2 Middlesbrough 1. RPs appreciated. #saintsfc Lots of this overtaken by events since, but I had to put it out at some point.

League 1 Minus 10. Preston 1 Southampton 3. RPs appreciated. 4th it is for #saintsfc. Featuring job done, thug defenders, Daniel Walkabout, Fellows nearly and Cyle from a yard.

League 1 Minus 10. Diary of Arrogance, Delusion and Self-Sabotage. RPs appreciated. Didn't have much fun writing this I have to say and it's probably not covering everything. Happy playoff final day.

League 1 Minus 10 - Southampton 2 Ipswich 2. RPs appreciated. Automatics door closes on #saintsfc. Featuring Manning again, midfield void, tuneless dirge, they Cyle chop and refereeing shambles.

Yeah, About This Wednesday 13th to Sunday 17th May - the Howling Shitstorm Days With crushing predictability, once the result of the second leg against Middlesbrough had landed and Kim Hellberg had finished crying in his press conference, more stuff came out in the Daily Mail and it was the picture of the spy in question, standing in plain sight with his iPhone wearing an outfit that did not remotely blend in with the background.

TSP 382 😬 Saints’ failed appeal 🤐 The club’s silence ❓ Any way back for Tonda? 🔁 Who stays, who goes this summer? 🏆 Hull beat Boro at Wembley @stevegrant1983.bsky.social @glendelacour.bsky.social @georgerees-julian.bsky.social 🎧 pod.fo/e/41e1ac 📺 youtube.com/live/ZAk6nc9... #SaintsFC

Last time here - A Baz Assist The Championship is heading for one of its most exciting conclusions at the top of the table, with three teams fighting for the last automatic promotion spot and three teams fighting for the last play-off spot. Five of the games kicking off at Saturday lunchtime have something huge riding on them. We are playing in one of the games that doesn’t as our game can only potentially have a bearing on whether we finish third, fourth or fifth, which will of course make a difference to whether we are at home or away in the first leg of our play-off semi-final and what days and times the semi-final will be played.

What a Shame it Was At That End of the Ground Normally there wouldn’t be much to write about between the season ending and the transfer window opening but this is no ordinary year. Friday 22nd May - Sunday 31st May - Tumbleweeds And so the play-off final happened between Hull and Middlesbrough. The game itself was absolutely murder to watch, with zero quality from either side and the winning goal was courtesy of a goalkeeper mistake.

The Look of a Man Who Meant It Here we go then for the second leg. It’s actually a relief that there have only been three days between the first and the second leg, so I haven’t had to keep my head down too much with regards to avoiding hearing all the shite. Some of it has been unavoidable, however.

The Championship is heading for one of its most exciting conclusions at the top of the table, with three teams fighting for the last automatic promotion spot and three teams fighting for the last play-off spot. Five of the games kicking off at Saturday lunchtime have something huge riding on them. We are playing in one of the games that doesn’t as our game can only potentially have a bearing on whether we finish third, fourth or fifth, which will of course make a difference to whether we are at home or away in the first leg of our play-off semi-final and what days and times the semi-final will be played.

We'll Always Have Wembley It has seemed to be a case of when, rather than if, with regards to Russell Martin being sacked as manager of Southampton. Any doubt over him being sacked probably left town after forty seconds of the game against Spurs at St Mary’s. If you wondered what a final straw looks like – that was it. Before kick off, the Spurs…

He's Some Boy that Cyle Larin And so it comes down to this, Ipswich town at home. Win this and we take the race for automatic promotion down at the last day, anything else and it’s all done and the game of against Preston just becomes about where we finish in the play-off positions. Ipswich are in a situation where if they win at St Mary’s, then they are up, barring a ridiculous swing in goal difference on the final day, where, Ipswich are at home to Queens Park on the fucking beach and completely unreliable Rangers.

It’s been nice to have a week off in preparation for the first leg of the play-off semi-final at the Riverside Stadium in Middlesbrough. I’m sure everyone wanted a nice quiet week off anyway, where the only focus is on training and getting ready for the first leg of this season defining semi-final. That was how it was going until Thursday, when a story broke in the Daily Mail, that a Saints first team staffer had been caught filming a Middlesbrough training session.

League 1 Minus 10 - Nice Quiet Incident-Free Week - Boro Preamble. #saintsfc Featuring spies, binoculars, hedges, trees and the Daily Mail and their legendary fact checking.

It’s the final Total Saints Podcast of the season, and unfortunately, there is still only one place to start: the fallout from Southampton’s failed Spygate appeal.Martin is joined by Steve Gran...

FFS Tonda It’s been nice to have a week off in preparation for the first leg of the play-off semi-final at the Riverside Stadium in Middlesbrough. I’m sure everyone wanted a nice quiet week off anyway, where the only focus is on training and getting ready for the first game of this season defining semi-final. That was how it was going until Thursday, when a story broke in the Daily Mail, that a Saints first team staffer had been caught filming a Middlesbrough training session.