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Or not!

Ooof... Palace are not a team you want to go behind early in the game. Be interesting to see if Leeds c... oh... guess they can lol

And now I can safely set Match of the Day up to record!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_five_live Go back to 14.27 and listen for a minute

We’re top! And not just because we played early on the Friday now!

That’s probably the reason they were able to prise their current manager, with his excellent track record and managerial reputation, from his previous job.

Depends how much a manager believes expectation exceeds ability at Man Utd now. That job has been a poisoned chalice ever since Fergie left.

United 2-1 up now. Unless Everton score twice we’ll be top on Match of the Day

Haha! Just occasionally, my cursed posts can be weaponised

Well, at least we’re a more attractive team for a manager at the moment than Man Utd. Utter shambles there at the moment, have to say I’ll be gutted if we end up finishing below them the way things are going.

Just think, all those years of hoping for a big result on the opening day of the season so we could get to see Saints top of the Premier League, and we've finally managed it in a season where we lost the first two games

We’re top of the league... We’re top of the league.... We are Southampton... We’re top of the league!

Not sure how Leeds' goal snuck in, but it's completely changed the game now.

Have to admit I thought it'd be a bit longer than this, and I guess it could just be an off day, but it's looking like a combination of the step up to the Premier League and Bielsa's tactics are starting to take a toll on Leeds' squad already. They look pretty much done in this game at least.

Top of any league would be the Championship promotion season. For top flight, it was before the Premier League era. Might have hit top in 1984 when we finished 2nd maybe?

Could be tricky, especially depending on the injuries, but beating Chelsea without Ings springs to mind. Newcastle don’t tend to travel to St Mary’s well, and we’ve got the incentive of top spot if we manage to win.

Feels a bit odd to be interested in Man Utd v Arsenal for league position but we’re almost a quarter of the way through the season and above both of them. At the moment at least, we’re competing at the top end of the table, I’m personally hoping for draw here.

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/18838514.hasenhuttl-issues-injury-updates-bednarek-bertrand/ Hamstring issue for Bertrand, headache (so possible concussion) for Bednarek. Nothing on severity/timescale yet.

Indeed, that is a positive, but unfortunately ‘tis not a guarantee that it’s not serious.

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/18838446.hasenhuttl-left-sweating-ings-knee-injury/ Hasenhuttl’s full quotes not quite as bleak, but obviously we’re going to be waiting on the scan to see how it is.

Everton currently 1-0 down, and we play before everyone else next Friday...

Newcastle 1-0 up. If Everton don’t win we can go top on Friday!

Oh no

Up to third! Obviously biggest worry right now is Ings, hope that was just a knock... Now if Everton could fail to win and we win next Friday we’ll go top!