Southampton and the lowest point record of unwanted Premier: “It would be a stain”

There was not much to encourage supporters of the Southampton Football Club this season.

Southampton was promoted to the Premier League last summer during the first victory request on Leeds United in the championship qualifiers, but this is not a happy first campaign when they returned to the English elite.

They won only two championship victories in 29 games, dismissed the manager who raised them, Russell Martin, in December, is on a sequence of nine home defeats and conceded 70 goals, which, without surprise, is more than any other high -flying team.

It was obvious a few weeks after 2024-25 years that this season was going to be a difficult race for club fans. Although their team has lacked quality and combat, the opposite can be said for supporters who always flock to St Mary stadium in their thousands of people and go to outdoor matches.

Not once in the league, this season has not been down from St Mary below 30,000. The stadium may be half empty by the final whistle of another demoralizing defeat, but it is still wrapped before a ball is kicked.

There are still nine games for Southampton to make sure they do not finish the worst Premier League team of the 34th anniversary of the competition of the competition.

The Derby County has held this record since 2007-08, where they scored a pitiful total of only 11 points, winning once and pulling eight times in 38 games. Southampton, however, seems capable all season to withdraw this unwanted distinction from their hands.

They are currently on nine points. Beating the Derby total 17 years ago requires only one victory, or three draws, of these last nine games.

And in a campaign that was a marathon of misery, which is surely the last breadcrumbs of motivation that Ivan Juric – the replacement of Martin as a manager – can offer his besieged players and at the club’s discounted fans.

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For Juric, the goal from now on until the last Southampton match of the season, at Arsenal’s home on May 25, is simple: he does not want the club to remember him as the most abject premier League team that has ever been.

“I told them (the players) that I do not want to live this experience, to be the worst team in the history of the Premier League,” said Joric. “This is a goal at the moment.

“We had a very bad season, but we have a match against Crystal Palace (in St Mary’s on Wednesday) and we can win the match and then we can think of other things. They must be really motivated by this goal at the moment.”

The count of derby points is something that Southampton players have discussed behind the scenes and it is considered the main objective of the series of nine games which will determine when – and not if – they are relegated.

“We have just been s ** t,” explains Tim Bisantz, who appears on the Southampton podcast in this issue, explains Athletics. “I think the realistic expectations were that we would be able to go to a place around 15th.

“We saw in the championship several calamities for goals which were given, then which resulted in the Premier League, where everyone is simply better. We looked at our mind completely, we were completely out of the limits of what should have been done and finally Russell Martin lost his job.

“I think that once we have reached at the end of September, there was a realization that we are likely to finish last and that we will most likely be relegated unless we had a rebound of the new manager as Everton had done with David Moyes.”

Despite a lack of quality in the field – and with the fact that it was perfectly reasonable for Southampton supporters to stop presenting themselves by the thousands – Juric was only the printing by the club’s fans base.

“It’s a real surprise to have fans like this with us in what is a very bad time for the club,” said former manager Rom. “I can’t just say thank you. Players must really appreciate what they are doing for us. ”

“Honestly, it was really difficult,” said supporter Jamie Cozens when he was asked to describe what the club looked like this season. “It just gives you a free time every time you see your team lose.

“I think we played a worse football with Juric that with Russell Martin. I don’t think we will have stayed with Russell, but at least there was an identity there, although I disagreed with the way we played. It is undoubtedly the worst football that we have seen for a very long time.”

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For Lynn Hemsworth, president of the County Supporters’ Club derby, who has been watching the Midlands team for 50 years, the pain of having a first row seat for the poorest season that a Premier League team has never disappeared.

“You try to forget it,” said Hemsworth Athletics, “But then you go to a match and the other fans are starting to sing,” Worse team in history “, so it is impossible to forget it correctly.

“He is still there, who always drags above us, and it comes back every year every time there is a team with a small number of points (Sheffield United has succeeded 16 years last season, for example). This is when you start to think:” Maybe it may be someone will remove the file. “”

This was the pain – or even embarrassment – of the miserable season of Derby, a fan called Stewart Smith wrote a book entitled Bad Pury on this subject, and did not even put his real name on the cover, choosing to use the nickname Edgar Smith instead.

As with Southampton replacing Martin by Juric, during this 2007-08 season, Billy Davies, the manager who had promoted them, was dismissed and replaced by Paul Jewell halfway.

Before Jewell accepts the work, he spoke to Moyes, then during his first spell, the management of Everton, who offered his opinion on the question of whether it was a role to play.

“He (Moyes) said,” Are you going to Derby? “I told him I was on the way to talk to them and he said,” If I were you, I wouldn’t. We played them a few weeks ago – they will not win another game this season “”, recalled Jewell, as the BBC reported.

“I just laugh, not making a second, he would be right. I knew we were in trouble after the first training session. ”

Hemsworth remembers: “We continued to think:” We are forced to scratch a draw at a given time, maybe even winning a game that we do not deserve to win “, because that’s what’s going on in football. This is what I did not expect anyway. And then suddenly, that’s fine. “Oh yes, we are not going to do it, then”.

“It was a strange feeling just to continue losing and losing. The performance was not always horrible, but we just couldn’t get any results.”

According to Opta, Derby spent 247 days in 20th (AKA, last) during what was their last year in the Premier League. In the current state of things, Southampton Langui at the foot of the table for 152 days, with Wolverhampton Wanderers this next team closest to 41 days.

You can forgive Derby supporters to want their unwanted record to be broken.

“Probably more than they leave it,” said Hemsworth, when asked if fans of the Cash Championship Club followed Southampton’s results. “But you don’t dare your hopes too much. It sounds horrible, right?

“This does not mean that we were unhealthy in Southampton. I went to Southampton several times, in their old field and their current land, and I know what he is going through. It’s just that we want someone – anyone – withdraw us from us.

The view of the other end of the spectrum is that Southampton supporters absolutely want the lowest point record to be in possession of a derby, especially since the South Sud club already bears the burden of the biggest defeat-9-0, towards Leicester City in 2019-20 and against Manchester United in the history of the following league.

“It’s sad to say, but beat the record will be a highlight for the season,” adds Cozens. “It goes badly anyway, but I have the impression that it is really important that we do not yet have another record against our name.”

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Instead of trying desperately to reconstruct three points between now and the final whistle of this arsenal match in May, it could have been so different for Southampton. Staying this season was always going to be difficult, but they too often got into the foot.

No team from the division has lost more points in the victory than its counting of 23. It is a big Si, obviously, but if Southampton could have seen these victories, they would have 34 points today, which would have comfortably above the Wolves in 17th.

Ipswich (22), Fulham (22) and Tottenham Hotspur (21) are the only other high -flying teams to throw more than 20 winning positions.

It was only once this season – against Leicester on October 19 – that Southampton led by two goals, and they nevertheless ended up losing this match, 3-2.

“Sometimes you have a very bad season and everyone is making a lot of mistakes, and that is the result of these errors,” said Juric, when he asked him to explain his reflections on Southampton by throwing so many points. “Now we can analyze everything, but we have nine games to do it better and try to win more points.”

“It’s a completely different story if you continue to be pumped every week and continue at 2-0 and never get off in the game,” said Cozens about the abandoned points, “but that was not the case. It is disappointing, because even if we were to take 10 or 12 points of these 23, then it would be very different.”

For Bisantz, based in Chicago, find a new subject, or even something positive remotely to discuss his podcast in this issue, turned out to be impossible.

“It becomes a festival of pity and you are almost like:” Can we just spend the season? ” “, He said.

And what about beating the derby points record? Will this give them a subject of positive discussion?

“It is necessary to go beyond the total derby points,” said Bying forcefully. “This is the only goal in the season. Not get 12 points is a task that will sit with you.”

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