Well, the picture says it all. The highlight of today was, indeed, the unveiling of the new statue to honour the memory of the late Ted Bates, MBE, who had spent 66 years of his life serving Southampton Football Club. And what a huge improvement the new statue is over the original Krankie-esque effort featured in my earlier rant. So well done to Saints Chairman, Leon Crouch, for once again putting his hand in his pocket and helping to fund the new statue and well done also to the working group of fans who were behind the project. I feel some dignity has been restored - at least off the pitch.

Events on the field of play today are best passed over - a drab 0-0 draw against fellow strugglers Coventry City, left me wondering whether I was watching a game that was either frantically aimless or aimlessly frantic. I sensed that even Nige is getting frustrated with the inability of his charges to pass the ball to one another and I fear that today`s `performance` has only heightened the real prospect of relegation. It just won`t do.

So, to finish off, here`s another photo of the new Ted Bates statue, the only slightly worrying aspect being the presence of Sean out of EastEnders to the left of the photo.