Sara took Thom to the bus this morning leaving me with some time to pray and reflect. I spent the day at home whilst Sara was out working. She has found a potentially new client for us through one of our former colleagues at FP. Tonight I drove to Winchester to pick up Thom from college and we joined the heavy traffic down to Southampton for the game against Aston Villa. It took us about an hour to drive the thirteen miles or so between the two cities. I parked the car at our old car park near the Employment Tribunal offices and we walked to KFC in the main street for dinner. We noticed quite a few Villa fans around in the city centre although, because it was so cold, there were probably many more we didn't recognise because we were all bundled up. We arrived at St. Mary's with about 45 minutes to go before the kick-off and speculated about the transfer window with Andy. Southampton played extremely well with 77% of the possession with several attempts on goal. Aston Villa, on the other hand, had only about three shots at goal all of which reached their mark. Gazzaniga, our third goalkeeper, simply didn't do much more than pick the ball out of the back of the net. Despite all the possession and two excellent goals from Saints, Aston Villa went back to Birmingham with the three points. Saints have now lost three games on the trot and tonight are eighth in the league table. Thom and I returned home gutted and I really didn't feel at all cheerful when I went to bed tonight. This is not the first time we've witnessed a 2-3 home defeat at the hands of the Villa.
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