Football Daily | Southampton stay in the hunt for a Premier League title no one wants

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Last Saturday, Southampton conceded four goals without reply in a game where Aaron Ramsdale was also forced to make eight saves. On Tuesday night, they let in another four, while only creating one chance of note in a game where their goalkeeper performed more heroics and Cole Palmer spurned at least three chances the cold-eyed Chelsea assassin would normally dispatch in his sleep. And while Football Daily has no wish to riff, bebop and scat all over the ongoing pain of a Saints fanbase who probably had a fair idea the Premier League jig was up for their promoted side before a ball had even been shanked into the St James? Park stands on the opening weekend, it is a measure of just how routinely awful and uncompetitive they are now that 4-0 scorelines actually flatter them. The only thing they have left to play for this season is the acquisition of three points that, notwithstanding a potentially record-breaking points deduction for Manchester City, will ensure they aren?t saddled with the ignominy of failing to overtake 2007-08?s Derby County and becoming feted for being the Premier League?s worst-ever team.
Tottenham Hotspur wanting to be called by their full name (yesterday?s Football Daily letters) makes me wonder what if other teams start getting into a similar trend; for example: Ballvereinborussiadortmundneunzehnhundertundneun (BVB09 Dortmund)? ? Krishna Moorthy.
A humorous, if somewhat long winded, Asterix-related pun by Adrian Irving in yesterday?s letters. However, it does rely on the fallacy that away goals have ever ?counted as double? in European away fixtures. For example, two away goals does not really mean you have four on the scoresheet and that your opponents have to score five goals to win the match. Three would be fine. It?s a *****statistix which ultimately dooms his Asterix joke? ? Lee Richardson.
Thank you for the use of ?et al? in yesterday?s Football Daily. Being an American I?m unaccustomed to such highbrow word choice in our press, much less a sport-oriented newsletter. But in our defence, we are barbarians? ? Mark Alfson.
Re: yesterday?s Football Daily: ?Beyond wars, what story from the 20th century was bigger than the sinking of the Titanic?? Just the development of aviation, cars, radio, television, computers and the internet, the atomic bomb, global warming, space travel and the moon landing, the spread of communism, worldwide economic depression, advancements in medicine including vaccines, the development and popularity of film, jazz, rock, and hip-hop music, and the widespread popularity of sports, including the Olympics, the World Cup, and the Premier League, to name just a couple? ? Dan Davis.
The photo of George Burley in his Ipswich Town-themed motor (yesterday?s Memory Lane, full email edition) got me wondering if said car could ever safely be driven to and parked up outside of Ipswich, let?s say on a trip to Norwich for instance? I recall my experience some years ago of foolishly parking my VW Beetle in Burnley, forgetting it was displaying a Blackburn Rovers sticker in the back window. Perhaps inevitably, when I returned I had been relieved of both the sticker and my back window? ? John Myles.
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