Chris Dunlavy
A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL

RUSSELL Martin’s promising start to life as manager of Southampton has swiftly subsided into something approaching crisis following a sequence of embarrassing defeats.
Cricket scores are nothing new to beleaguered Saints fans. Their long, slow death in the Premier League was accompanied by 9-0 butcherings at the hands of Manchester United and Leicester.
Theoretically, the Championship offered the opportunity for Southampton to once again play the big fish but they have so far been devoured like plankton, Sunderland administering a 5-0 humiliation at...