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Football, Boxing and Cricket correspondent from Hampshire, covering southern sport. Editor and Head of Boxing at Prost International. Accreditated EFL & EPL journalist.
Ralph Hasenhuttl has got a distinctive approach to set-pieces. A sign of the ever-changing times in modern football, the way in which they defend and attack dead ball situations would defy traditional opinions. Jacob Tanswell breaks it down.
Sapped of energy, ideas and now enthusiasm, Southampton’s latest defeat showed the end to this season can’t come quick enough. Jacob Tanswell writes from St Mary’s.
Ralph Hasenhuttl’s decision to move Ryan Bertrand to right-back for the game against Manchester City further underlined how priceless Kyle Walker-Peters is to this Southampton side and the lengths they go to protect him at all costs. Jacob Tanswell writes
In one of the most precarious, strangest periods in Southampton’s history, Mark Wotte was tasked with implementing some sort of stability. With the club on the brink and tension upstairs, that proved difficult to do. Jacob Tanswell talks with Wotte in an exclusive interview
With Southampton very much living off a hand-to-mouth existence, they need to buy to sell. But what if their current crop of under-23 talent shows signs of coming back to life? Jacob Tanswell writes.
Steve Evans coming to Portsmouth was always going to go one way wasn’t it? Jacob Tanswell writes from Fratton Park
Southampton have collected just one point in their last eight games. Confidence is low, any form has vanished and discernible problems at both ends of the pitch. How can it all be solved? Jacob Tanswell writes
Moussa Djenepo is a player you can’t quite put your finger on. Flashes of brilliance are marred by confusion, are marred by glorious contradiction. And against Chelsea he showed it all. Jacob Tanswell writes from St Mary’s.
After four clean sheets in his last four games, there are ever-increasing calls from supporters for Ralph Hasenhuttl to install Fraser Forster as Southampton’s number one. Are those calls substantiated on evidence or a simple case of recency bias? Jacob Tanswell writes
Against Wolves, Southampton lost for the sixth successive time. VAR was again the hub of controversy. But Saints’ displays cannot able be portioned all to the door of VAR – it’s now time they took stock of their own shortcomings. Jacob Tanswell writes.
With injuries mounting and luck being rued, Southampton had started to become introverts. But there was a shift in the midlands. Jacob Tanswell writes from Molineux.
Last Saturday, Takumi Minamino scored Southampton’s first goal from open play in 2021. It’s now the strikers stepped up, took responsibility and wrestled the burden away from James Ward-Prowse’s mercurial set-piece deliveries.
On Saturday, Shrewsbury went away to Swindon and won 1-0 to claim their first points of 2021. It was a crucial result in their season. And despite all of the significance encompassing the game, what some figures at the club have gone through in recent months, means any talk of football becomes rather inconsequential. Jacob Tanswell writes.
9-0 again. But Southampton’s supporters remain unrelenting in their support for Ralph Hasenhuttl. And the Saints boss is eternally grateful. Two days after the defeat, Hasenhuttl hit back – in the most emotive, inspiring way possible.
In the literal embers of the January transfer window, Southampton have completed the loan signing of Takumi Minamino until the end of the season. He may not be the full back Saints needed, but could provide the energy a wilting attack needs. Jacob Tanswell writes.
In an exclusive interview with our Southampton correspondent Jacob Tanswell, former Saints captain Dean Hammond reveals how his time at the club came to an end and the harsh, hard-hitting significant struggles he faced during life after football.
After weeks of injury and bad luck, Ralph Hasenhuttl cut a happier figure in his pre-match press conference before the Aston Villa game. With days left of the January window, the Saints boss is confident of making one loan acquisition. Jacob Tanswell writes.
On Tuesday night, Ralph Hasenhuttl and Mikel Arteta engaged in a tactical masquerade. Arsenal wanted to lead the dance so played Southampton at their own game. And all the little subplots made for an intriguing systematic battle – with Arsenal having the more powerful weaponry. Jacob Tanswell writes from Southampton.
The full back position was threadbare as it is. Now with Ryan Bertrand suspended and Kyle Walker-Peters injured, the damage has only worsened. Ralph Hasenhuttl remains “hopeful” the club can bring someone in before the January window slams shut. Jacob Tanswell writes.
Ibrahima Diallo is becoming Southampton’s multi-faceted midfielder. He adds incision to compliment aggression and has displayed a precocious talent at just 21 years of age. He may just be the leading light within Southampton’s new streamline recruitment strategy. Jacob Tanswell writes from St Mary’s.
Progression has stalled for Yan Valery and doubts have emerged over glaring vulnerabilities. But the Frenchman’s palate for attacking may mean a change in the player he is perceived to be. Jacob Tanswell writes.
COVID-19 restrictions has meant players at Southampton do not have access to all the facilities available at Staplewood. Ralph Hasenhuttl believes this may have proved significant in the team’s mounting injury woes. Jacob Tanswell reports from Hasenhuttl’s pre-match press conference against Shrewsbury Town.
Josh King scored two against Oldham and booked Bournemouth’s ticket into the next round. But neither party can deny the relationship between club and player has ran its course. Jacob Tanswell writes from the Vitality Stadium.
Only a victory like the one on Monday night could extract that type of emotion. It was a game where 90 minutes perfectly reflected the journey Southampton have been on under Ralph Hasenhuttl – all of which led to their crowning moment. Jacob Tanswell writes from St Mary’s.