The Southampton Courier
Squad28 Sep 2026
Nathan Wood damages knee ligaments — 47 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 47 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match26 Sep 2026
Southampton cannot stop winning
7 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Shea Charles 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A late step up for Daniel Peretz
At 26 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Match26 Sep 2026
Southampton find a way past Sheffield United
Sheffield United made Southampton work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
Southampton supporters have found a favourite in Tom Fellows
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Tom Fellows has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
One of those days for Léo Scienza
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.63, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Tom Fellows in the eights
A performance of 8.53 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Nathan Wood
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- Player ratings Finn Azaz runs at them all day
- Market The Caspar Jander question follows Southampton around
- Market The shop window has Cam Bragg in it