A church-free day today swapping St. Mary's Alderbury for St. Mary's Stadium, Southampton. a big day for the Saints - a home game against Chelsea! Thom and I arrived in Southampton at around 1 p.m. and I hobbled along (without a stick) from Rockstone Place to St. Mary's Street where we had our usual lunch of fish and chips. We were in the ground just a little after 2 p.m. and the stadium filled up almost to capacity. Saints scored first with an equaliser coming quite quickly after that from Chelsea - but not as quickly as the reply - 50 seconds later Southampton scored the winner - all in the first half. Saints managed to keep the ball out of the net in the second half and secured a wonderful 3 points from the team which, at the start of the day, had been third in the table and currently are the European Champions! Tonight, after Stoke failed to beat Everton, Southampton are 12th in the Premier League table - the highest position this season and the highest for over a decade. Feeling very elated tonight. What a marvellous achievement considering Saints just a few years ago were bottom of League 1 with minus points! There are calls, tonight, for Lambert to be signed up for England! He is the top English goal-scorer in the Premier League.
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