By Nick Mabey. It’s very rare I can find no entry point for these articles. Normally, as you may have noticed, when I have nothing to write then I write nothing. But now is not one of those times. There’s so much to say and yet I’m speechless –...
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View from the Kingsland: momentum or distraction?
By Nick Mabey. The super Saints made it through to the quarter final of the FA Cup with a fine win away to Premier League Fulham. Tonde Eckhert could have been forgiven for deprioritising the cup fixture in favour of the final push for a play-off place in the...
Suburban Safari: All roads lead to Clausentum
By Katie Isham. Sometimes it’s staggering to think of the lives and stories that evolved right where we now live: where we get our petrol, walk our dogs or trudge over Northam Bridge on match days. Time for a wander along and across the river on the ground of...
Suburban Safari: Lepe into the New Year
By Katie Isham. Starting a new year is never for the fainthearted and 2026 has toed the line admirably. Sure, the blinding sunshine has helped raise spirits and recharge deleted energy reserves, but what the sunshine giveth, the Baltic temperatures taketh away. For those of us resolving to be...
View from the Kingsland – Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year?
By Nick Mabey. As we approach the halfway mark, it’s difficult to know what to make of Saints’ season so far. Hope followed by despair followed by hope has left us fans a little confused about how to agree a narrative to frame our support around. Should we be...
Suburban Safari: Hiltingbury Lakes
By Katie Isham. The days are growing darker by the moment, sometimes in many different ways. So it seems like the perfect time to search for the brightness. Light may be rarer as autumn shuffles along, but there are dazzling flashes to behold, if you know where to look. ...
View from the Kingsland: Does the league table ever lie?
By Nick Mabey. It’s a cliché – that the league table never lies – but is it a truth or a myth? This season, Southampton have already occupied a range of places from 1st (briefly) to 19th in the Championship so what does that tell us? After nine games...
Suburban Safari: Marlhill Mushrooms
By Katie Isham. The calendar has clicked into October and the Harvest Moon is about to wax to the max. The time is right for wandering through some local woodland to fawn over the blushing branches and squeal at magnificent formations of fungi on display. Marlhill Copse is a...
View from the Kingsland: It’s derby time again
By Nick Mabey. Despite the recent rise of AFC Bournemouth and Brighton & Hove Albion, there is only one proper South Coast Derby. Every club thinks their local derby is the most intense, important, historical, bitter, whatever. Most football pundits agree that Southampton v Portsmouth is right up there...
View from the Kingsland – Reasons to Be Cheerful (part 3)
By Nick Mabey. Football is back…and back with a bang. If that’s not a reason to be cheerful then stop reading this article. And for those of you already searching for parts 1 and 2, they don’t exist; it’s the title for a song I would highly recommend…. The...