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9781907792076
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English
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Here's a challenge for all you Southampton Football Club fans. Will you prove yourselves to be sinners as you are sent reeling by the 1,200 fiendish questions in this book, or will you emerge saints and be polishing your halos, as you gloat over how much you know about your favourite team? Covering every possible aspect of the Saints' long history, including players, managers, opponents, scores, transfers, nationalities, seasons, League positions, Cup competitions, and much more, you'll be searching every corner of your brains to come up with the answers. With a fitting foreword by Francis Benali, this tribute to the Saints will trigger fond recollections of all the nail-biting matches and unforgettable personalities that have left an imprint on the club's history, and it is as much a treasure trove of amazing and wide-ranging facts and figures as it is an entertaining quiz book.
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Date de parution
23 janvier 2012
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4
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9781907792076
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1 Mo
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THE OFFICIAL SOUTHAMPTON QUIZ BOOK
Compiled by Adam Pearson Foreword by Francis Benali
APEX PUBLISHING LTD
Publisher Information
First published in 2006 by Apex Publishing Ltd www.apexpublishing.co.uk PO Box 7086, Clacton on Sea, Essex, CO15 5WN, England
Digital Edition converted and published by Andrews UK Limited 2010 www.andrewsuk.com
Copyright © 2006 by Adam Pearson The authors has asserted his moral rights
All rights reserved. This book is sold subject to the condition, that no part of this book is to be reproduced, in any shape or form. Or by way of trade, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition, including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser, without prior permission of the copyright holder.
DEDICATION:
This book is dedicated to the memory of Peter Osgood and to the magical feet of Matthew Le Tissier. And to the friendship of Dorian Holmes, who introduced me to the world of the Southampton supporter thirty years ago.
Best wishes, Adam Pearson
FOREWORD
I was flattered when Adam Pearson approached me to write the foreword for this book it was a great pleasure to have the opportunity to relive some fantastic memories and to be able to look back over the club’s great tradition and history.A history in which I am proud to have been a part of. This quiz book is the ultimate challenge for any Saints fan. I am thoroughly looking forward to further testing my own knowledge of my hometown club. I also hope to get a copy to be able to stump my family and friends. It is not just a run-of-the-mill quiz book, it’s layout is split into categories relating to specific players and eras and that therefore makes it a thoroughly enjoyable and testing selection of questions. It will also help to increase the reader’s knowledge of the club. Test not only your own knowledge but also that of others who claim to know a thing or two about this fantastic club. When I was a boy I was a Southampton supporter and an admirer of Liverpool. My first game as a spectator, was against West Bromwich Albion. The unbelievable atmosphere at the Dell overwhelmed me. I used to watch from the Archers Road terrace or under the West Stand on the terraces. I would gaze at the lush green carpet-like pitch and daydream of playing for the Saints.The same dream would occur when I used to walk past the Dell on the way to and from middle school.All those things inspired me to become a footballer. I was fourteen when I signed for Saints. It was a huge honour for me when Lawrie McMenemy turned up on the doorstep to persuade my mum that Southampton was the right club for me to sign for. I of course didn’t require any persuading. It was a dream come true! My debut for the first team was as a substitute against Derby County
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at the Dell. It was so amazingly different from playing in front of a handful of people. I had concentrated so hard to pick players out against the crowd, all in their replica shirts. I learnt something from all of the managers I played under. Dave Merrington was a great influence on all of the youth players, including myself. Chris Nichol is close to my heart because he was the man who gave me my debut. The one I enjoyed working for the most was ironically the one I played the least for and that was Gordon Strachan. His drive, passion and enthusiasm for the game was an inspiration to the whole squad and the illustration of that was our appearance in the FA Cup Final of 2003. Matt Le Tissier was obviously the best player I have ever played alongside. I have played alongside some great players and real characters, many of which are featured in this book. I am very proud of the fact that my entire Southampton career was in the top flight of English football. I used to love pitting my wits against the country’s best strikers. When we moved from the Dell it was a sad time but it had certainly run its course. The place had a unique atmosphere and it was a tremendous and unforgettable home but we needed to move to a new stadium to keep up with the needs of modern top level football.All the fans took away material souvenirs from the Dell, like seat and bits of turf but mine were all in my memories. My first impression of St Mary’s Stadium was what a magnificent stadium it was. It was a very exciting time for everyone concerned with the club.When we kicked off there on that sunny August afternoon in 2001 and even in the short time it has been our home, many fond memories have been formed, along with some sad ones, of course. Late in my career I had a short loan spell at Nottingham Forest. It was a huge decision for me at the time but it turned out to be a good experience and I learned a lot from my time there. Southampton Football Club is special because of the people at the
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club, the fans, the players, and the city. It’s a wonderful, truly family club and the day I played my last game was a sad day because I would have played forever if I could. But now I can look back with tremendous pride at the things I achieved by playing for what, in my opinion is the best football club in the country. Players used to swap shirts after games but I always felt attached to my shirts so I have a treasured collection of shirts with my name own and number on. Since my retirement from football, I try to keep in shape. I own a property company and I enjoy my work. It is something I have always been interested in but I am still a regular visitor to St Mary’s Stadium as a DJ on the Saint radio station and, of course in my continuing capacity as a fan, which is something that I always have been and always will be. I have a lot of treasured memories in my time at Southampton. My debut, my goal, playing at Wembley in the ZDS final, my testimonial, pulling on a Saints shirt for the last time in the friendly against Bayern Munich and of course all the friends I have made over the years, among the players, staff and supporters. My hopes for the future are for my family and myself to be happy and healthy and for the football club to be successful, to play entertaining football and to win trophies.
Francis Benali
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INTRODUCTION
In 1974 my interest in football was conceived by my uncle and grandfather's interest in the game. My grandfather, although born on the Isle of Wight, became affiliated to Newcastle United because of the time he spent there when he was dating my grandmother, who was a Geordie. My uncle, who was a teenager at the time, was a glory hunter and he supported the fashionable team of the early seventies, Leeds United.At that time, those were the only teams I had ever heard of and I didn't want to support either of them, because I was fed up with hearing about them. I had heard of one footballer and that was George Best. I had seen him on television and when I saw an item on the BBC’s Nationwideprogramme about a Manchester United fan who had painted his house red and white and named his baby son after the whole team, I became interested in them.Then I heard that they were in Division Two. I didn’t want to be someone who blindly supported a team from the top flight, so I decided to support Manchester United, once I had heard that George Best used to play for them. Manchester United won the Division Two Championship that season (1974-75) and the following year they made it to the FA Cup Semi-Final and beat Derby County. It was 3rd April 1976.That was the day I first heard of Southampton Football Club. I remember seeing an interview in the team bath on the television in which Mick Channon said, “…now we’re gonna have to go and win the bloody thing!”, and thinking, they have got no chance! They were a Second Division team! Four weeks later, my heart was broken by Bobby Stokes. It would be the last time I cried for Manchester United. I didn’t know it then, but Stokes’ goal sowed a seed in my heart. Over the next twenty years that seed grew and grew into a passion. On 11th October 1976, Southampton became the first League club that I had ever seen when I witnessed them parade the FA Cup at Church Litten, Newport’s (Isle of Wight) old ground. Saints won 4-1 that day with goals from Ted MacDougall (2), Pat Earles and Hughie Fisher. I remember being thrilled to have the chance to meet Lawrie McMenemy and Steve Williams. On 19th February 1977 I went to my first ever League game at the Dell and witnessed the Saints beat Burnley 2-0 with goals from David
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Peach and Ted MacDougall. I cheered the Saints on without realising how much I had enjoyed it. I continued following Manchester United from a distance, with blind loyalty, but watching the Saints live whenever I got the chance. Due to living in Wales for four years at the turn of the decade, I missed out on seeing Kevin Keegan play at the Dell. But football always evens things out, and I was privileged to witness the development of the best player, in my opinion, ever to pull on the red and white stripes of Southampton, Matthew Le Tissier. My experience as a football supporter shows that having millions of ignorant fans around the world, and being lucky enough to have the resources always to be in with a chance of winning something, is not the be-all-and-end-all. It is all about what is in your heart. Southampton is a wonderful football club; full of warmth and with a true family atmosphere. I think that any player that has been at the club is tainted with an affection for it. A lot of people have tried to explain what it is about the club that makes it special, with differing degrees of success. Perhaps we should just accept that the club is just a magnificent establishment and leave it at that. It is ironic that dropping into the Championship helped to show some people what the club and its supporters are all about.With clubs like Leeds United also in the division, with a larger stadium capacity, Southampton were the second-top supported side in the division, above clubs with similar or larger stadium capacity, and clubs with an allegedly larger fan base. I, having already written a novel for Saints fans,The Diary of an Unwilling Virgindelighted to get, with limited response from them, was this opportunity to research the questions for this book and I hope that Saints fans will enjoy the result.
Best wishes Adam Pearson
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