I thought Kelvin had a pretty dodgy game on the whole today, though each of the back 5 played their point at some point or another. Richardson was beaten by Bouazza far too many times in the first half, Seaborne was making some awful headed clearances, and Kelvin's distribution was awful as usual (his eccentricity also makes me nervous). To be fair, they all picked up in the last 15 minutes, Seaborne made countless headers (though most were a little iffy) and Kelvin was assured when collecting the crosses they were bombarding us with. Fox was poor, hope he improves as he spends more time with the team. Harding had a relatively good game, and I didn't realise the extra dimension Connolly gives us until he went off. Pleased with the win, though we rode our luck at times.
I had to get the London Waterloo train back home (Basingstoke) and it was crawling with Millwall fans. They even said Southampton are a 'sad, pathetic, PLASTIC club'! Couldn't believe what I was hearing, but given that the drongo spouting all this was three times the size of me I wasn't gonna pipe up and argue. He had his kid with him, who could have been no more than 6/7, and every other word was either 'f**k' or 'c**t'. Awful fans, awful parents, awful human beings.
EDIT: Forgot to mention De Ridder, thought he was class when he came on. Worked his socks off hassling when they were in possession, looks like he has some good footwork and had some cute touches. Very impressed with him.
