NIGE MUST STAY!!

No question about it - Nigel Pearson must be given a new contract to stay at Southampton....or we run the real risk of losing one of the brightest, most passionate young managers in the country.

Now, any `normal` football club - and especially one which has just escaped relegation thanks to the tactics, selections, man management, discipline and belief installed in its players by the manager - would sit down at the end of the season and give thanks to the man who has secured at least something of a future for them. But Saints are not a `normal` football club.

As things stand, I think Nige`s contract was only to the end of the season; the Chairman and Board of Directors face dismissal at an extraordinary general meeting scheduled for 16th May, the players have gone off on holiday without knowing who will stay and who will go....and the fans, oh yes, the fans, are simply left in limbo once again. SNAFU time once more.

If Rupert Lowe comes back to haunt us as Chairman, he has already stated that, because he was unhappy at the process by which Nige was appointed, then Nige will not be reappointed . Nose, spite and face come to mind yet again. If there is another God besides Matthew Le Tissier, then surely he will see to it that Rupert does not get his wish and that Nige can stay with us for the long haul. At the end of the day, I just hope it won`t be too late, to be fair.