Will Smallbone

Defensive Midfielder - Southampton
29 Sep 2026
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7 Edition

The Southampton Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match12 Sep 2026

Southampton cannot stop winning

5 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Will Smallbone in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Southampton this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match12 Sep 2026

Southampton are at home on the road

3 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.

Match12 Sep 2026

Southampton see off Swansea City

Three points for Southampton, 1‑0 the final word against Swansea City in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad14 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Caspar Jander

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Caspar Jander, and the manager let it.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Léo Scienza was the difference for Southampton

Marked 7.86. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Ross Stewart is off the mark for Southampton

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Cameron Archer left out for tactical reasons at Southampton

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

Market14 Sep 2026

Matías Díaz brings the grey hairs Southampton lacked

At 39, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.

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Back issues
6 Edition

The Southampton Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match5 Sep 2026

Southampton make it 4 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Southampton have 4 straight wins of it.

Market7 Sep 2026

Southampton turn down Burton Albion for Jay Robinson

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market7 Sep 2026

Flynn Downes wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Southampton hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Southampton

Flynn Downes was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Southampton lose Ryan Manning

29 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Match5 Sep 2026

Southampton get the job done against West Bromwich Albion

A 1‑0 win over West Bromwich Albion, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Ninety minutes of Léo Scienza at his very best

Marked 8.50. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Southampton.

Squad7 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Will Smallbone

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Will Smallbone, and the manager let it.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Nothing got past Mads Roerslev

16 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

In brief