At The Final Whistle

After a gap of just over a year, we finally notched up another new entry in our long line of football away day experiences. And this one delivered the most entertaining game that we've seen so far in this series. Our venue was the St Mary's Stadium, and the fixture was Southampton against Watford in mid April. Whilst there wasn't a lot riding on it for The Hornets, the same certainly couldn't be said for a Saints team still pushing for an unlikely automatic promotion spot, and already nailed on for a Championship play-off place. Despite the fact that this season has seen Southampton in the second tier of English football for the first time since 2012, it was refreshingly easy to buy tickets through their website. Obviously, a lot of this is down to demand, but I had expected there to be more difficulty in finding five seats together than there was, and I ended up opting for the Itchen Stand, relatively close to the away supporters that I had been amongst for my footba