Southampton is Going to Die

I've always loved the Saints, and not just because of their nickname which for some reason consistently brought to mind a rag tag inner city basketball team from some seventies sports flick. Mostly I loved Southampton because Matt Le Tissier loved Southampton, a man who'd you pass by on the street without a thought, perhaps surmising he might be in security, or construction, but on the pitch could do things with the ball worthy of Zico.

So it's sad that Le Tiss' financial group Pinnacle has tried and failed to save the club he stuck with through the large part of his career. The point of contention seems to have been the FA's imposition of a ten point deduction for administration, which the Association refused to rescind (fair enough until one considers the FA's treatment of badly-managed, debt ridden Premier League clubs).

So now, if the Guardian is correct, Southampton is likely to go out of business for good if another buyer doesn't come forward. I'm just amazed that an ex-footballer with Le Tissier's talent would even give a passing thought to investing money to save the club that employed him so many years ago. Loyalty like Le Tissier's shouldn't be considered nostalgic; one must avoid the temptation to believe there were no mercenaries before 1995. Loyalty like that is simply unwordly, worthy almost of a Saint. And now as the ledger tips every wildly to the wealthy and powerful, the Saints are now poised to be leaving us for good...