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🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - most games played while only scoring 1 goal 🔴🔝🔴

#10: Mohamed Salisu (1 goal in 80 games)

Athletic defender who signed from
Real Valladolid, but could be error prone at times. Scored his only goal vs Sheff Utd in the League Cup in 2021. Moved on to Monaco.

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November 11, 2025 at 8:15 AM
🔴🔵 Southampton 3-1 Sheff Wed stats review 🔵🔴

(3/3)

- Adam Armstrong has now scored in each of our last 3 games vs Sheff Wed.

- Barnaby Williams became the 11th Williams to play for us, making that our most common player surname, ahead of Brown and Smith (both 10 players).

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November 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
🔴🔵 Southampton 3-1 Sheff Wed stats review 🔵🔴

(2/3)

- The 1st time we’ve scored 3 goals in a home league game since vs Preston in April 2024 - 27 games ago.

- Armstrong scored his 37th goal for the club, putting him tied with Shane Long in 50th place in our top goalscorers list.

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November 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
🔴🔵 Southampton 3-1 Sheff Wed stats review 🔵🔴

(1/3)

- This was our 5th consecutive league win vs the Owls, a run stretching back to 2010.

- We are unbeaten in our last 11 home league and cup games vs Wednesday, winning 8 and drawing 3.

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November 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - most goalkeeper clean sheets 🔴🔝🔴

#1: Tommy Allen (128, in 322 games)

Signed on for our first season in the Football League in 1920, and was a key member of the team that won Div 3 South in 1922. Remained our first choice stopper until 1928, when he moved to Coventry.

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November 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - most goalkeeper clean sheets 🔴🔝🔴

#2: Kelvin Davis (93, in 301 games)

Stayed with us despite relegation to League 1, and missed only 1 game during the seasons where we won consecutive promotions to the Premier League. Thereafter played understudy to Boruc and Forster.

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November 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - most goalkeeper clean sheets 🔴🔝🔴

#3: Peter Shilton (86, in 242 games)

Sensational keeper who won 49 of his England caps while playing for Saints. Actually scored against us at The Dell in 1967 while playing for Leicester.

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November 7, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Welcome home Oriol! Please get yourself match fit ASAP, because fucking hell do we need you out on the pitch.
November 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - most goalkeeper clean sheets 🔴🔝🔴

#4: Eric Martin (74, in 290 games)

Signed in 1967 from Dunfermline, where he played alongside Sir Alex Ferguson, he was our reliable onion bag custodian through to 1975. Surprisingly never capped by Scotland.

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November 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - most goalkeeper clean sheets 🔴🔝🔴

#5: George Clawley (63, in 191 games)

Had two spells at the club, one in the 1890s and another in the 1900s, earning three Southern League winners medals. Also played for Crewe, Stoke and Tottenham. Sported a cap with style.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:44 AM
🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - most goalkeeper clean sheets 🔴🔝🔴

#6: Paul Jones (62, in 223 games)

Welsh international who was our first choice keeper for 5 seasons. In 2003, he became the first keeper to make a substitute appearance in an FA Cup final after Antti Niemi got injured.

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November 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
If the rumours about Oriol returning are correct, that would be absolutely fantastic. We have never recovered from letting him leave before. And immediately make him club captain.
November 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - most goalkeeper clean sheets 🔴🔝🔴

#7: Tim Flowers (58, in 242 games)

Began his Saints career as understudy to Peter Shilton before becoming the #1. Left for Blackburn, for a British record fee for a goalkeeper, where he won the Premier League.

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November 3, 2025 at 7:46 AM
🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - most goalkeeper clean sheets 🔴🔝🔴

#8: Fraser Forster (54, in 162 games)

A real confidence player. Brilliant and international standard at his best; shaky and error-prone at his worst. Left for Spurs, where he won a Europa League winners medal.

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November 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - most goalkeeper clean sheets 🔴🔝🔴

#9: Bert Scriven (53, in 233 games)

Scriven was our first choice between the sticks for most of the 1930s. Spent his entire professional career at the Dell.

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November 1, 2025 at 8:50 AM
🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - most goalkeeper clean sheets 🔴🔝🔴

#10: Jack Robinson (49, in 137 games)

The 1st Saint to be capped for England, and was our keeper in the 1900 and 1902 FA Cup finals. Reported to the FA for allegedly trying to persuade legendary striker Steve Bloomer to move to the Dell.

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October 31, 2025 at 1:53 PM
🔴🔴 Bristol City 3-1 Southampton stats review 🔴🔴

(2/2)

- Was Alex McCarthy’s 163rd game for Saints - puts him ahead of Fraser Forster into 10th place for most games played by goalkeepers.

- Adam Armstrong’s last 3 goals have all opened the scoring in games - and we’ve won none of them.

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October 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
🔴🔴 Bristol City 3-1 Southampton stats review 🔴🔴

(1/2)

- Was our 5th straight league defeat at Ashton Gate. Last time we beat them away in the league was in 1979 through a goal from Mick Channon.

- We’ve now lost 6 of our last 7 league games vs Bristol City.

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October 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
🔴⚪️ Southampton 0-0 Swansea stats review ⚪️🔴

(2/2)

- This is the 4th time in our history that we’ve drawn 6 of our first 10 league games in a season (previously: 1934-35, 2005-06, 2009-10). We’ve never drawn >=7 of the first 10.

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October 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
🔴⚪️ Southampton 0-0 Swansea stats review ⚪️🔴

(1/2)

- Have now lost only 1 of our last 11 league and cup games against the Swans.

- Shea Charles is now the only player to play in all 13 of our matches this season.

- Our last 3 draws with Swansea have all been 0-0.

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October 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM
🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - most league goals in a season 🔴🔝🔴

#1: 112 (Div 3 South, 1957-58)

112 goals scored and a goal difference of +40 wasn’t enough to secure promotion, as we finished only 6th. Don Roper and John Hoskins scored 18 goals each, but top scorer was Derek Reeves with 31.

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October 16, 2025 at 7:54 AM
🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - most league goals in a season 🔴🔝🔴

#2: 106 (Division 3, 1959-60)

We edged out Norwich in the title race thanks to our attacking prowess. Derek Reeves hit an incredible 39 goals in 46 league games. We have still not won our division since.

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October 15, 2025 at 6:36 AM
🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - most league goals in a season 🔴🔝🔴

#3: 100 (Division 2, 1963-64)

The last time we scored 100 league goals in a season. Opposing defences had no answer to George Kirby, Martin Chivers, Terry Paine and George O’Brien, who between them scored 73 goals.

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October 14, 2025 at 7:34 AM
🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - most league goals in a season 🔴🔝🔴

#4: 91 (Div 3 South, 1955-56)

Long-serving forward Eric Day top-scored with 28 league goals for a free-scoring Saints side. But a leaky defence meant we lost 20 games and could only finish 14th in the table.

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October 13, 2025 at 6:55 AM
🔴🔝🔴 SFC Top 10 - most league goals in a season 🔴🔝🔴

#5: 88 (Division 3, 1958-59)

Goals flowed at either end all season. We scored 88, but also conceded 80 and finished 14th in the table. Derek Reeves scored 16 goals and Charlie Livesey bagged 14.

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October 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM