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Crocs on Tour > 2009-10 > Southampton

Southampton - Sunday 15/11/09

It was all change at the Albion this week, as the club announced the appointment of Gus Poyet as first team manager, with Mauricio Taricco as his assistant. The new charges first game in charge couldn't have been any bigger - a trip along the coast to resurgent Southampton, who would leapfrog the Seagulls and dump them into the relegation zone with victory, in a south coast derby that was to be beamed across the nations via the medium of Sky television

 

"A quiet few" in Burgess Hill on Saturday night results in Kane being horrendously sick in McCarthy's neighbours garden

This vegetarian sausage supplied with a Wetherspoons breakfast does resemble the sort of thing somebody produces with their bottom

Baby Potts was back on Crocs on Tour duty

Potter had found two ludicrous hats. Unfortunately, the one modeled by Newington would be missing before we even arrive in Southampton

Cutting does not look impressed with Newington bringing a bottle of red WKD for the train journey

Baby Potts soon becomes jammed in the train door

Potter looking like a total mug with the hat on

Baby P broke all licensing laws by consuming a Jack Daniels and Coke

Rumble, Jenkins and Cutting relax in a Southampton pub

McCarthy and Kane had both taken the "priority seat for disabled" sticker from the train and were wearing them as badges

This shed lock was best described as not very effective

Baby Potts sits on the Kronenbourg tap

Newington stores him in his hood

Cutting gives a nuturing tap to the babies head

We stand outside the pub waiting for taxi's

Kane begins devouring a bottle of Smirnoff Ice

Baby Potts is smuggled into another football ground, this time under the hat of McCarthy

Baby Potts inside St Mary's

The main stand of the stadium

Despite the empty seats, the stadium contained over 22,000 people

The side from which the Sky cameras would be producing their photos

The teams line up ahead of kick off

Gus Poyet was looking delightful in his Mark McGhee-esque suit

The players line up for a minutes silence in memory of all Saints fans who have died in the last year

The minutes silence is respected impeccably except for what can only be described as an internal goat noise made by Rumble

The Albion go 2-0 up and the celebrations see Kane end up on the floor

McCarthy celebrates the goal with Baby P

The big screen offers a sight that before kick off seemed incredibly unlikely

The referee awards a penalty against Andrew Whing

Rickie Lambert slots the penalty home to make it 2-1

The second half kicks off

Kelvin Davis was looking particularly good between the sticks for Southampton

Dean Cox is replaced with Gary Hart

Dan Harding got a less than flattering reception from the Albion support

No, this is not some sort of photoshop trickery, Gustavo is making a double substitution defending a 2-1 lead

It only bloody works, as captain Crofts nets

The Albion lead 3-1 with a mere four minutes of normal time to be played

Baby Potts celebrates as the Seagulls head towards victory

The Seagulls have one final attack with a corner The stewards line up at the front in order to prevent a possible pitch invasion
The Seagulls players celebrate the 3-1 win that keepts them out of the drop zone This Saints fan was so distraught he just couldn't bring himself to go home
Another cannon from which to photograph Baby P with Kane had managed to acquire some plastic flowers from the Upper Crust at Southampton station
McCarthy places one of the flowers in his ear Kane and Jenkins get in on the floral decoration
Cutting was soon asleep which naturally resulted in attempts to wake him up involving the fake flowers We give Baby Potts a priority sticker
The news filters through that Jedward have survived another week on X Factor, which results in mass celebrations culminating in an entire can of Strongbow going flying over McCarthy's leg Newington enjoys the journey home in the worlds first triple disabled priority seat as created by the Crocs
   

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