The fan with the giant cardboard P45 got there ahead of the board, but only by about 17 hours. Nathan Jones was duly sacked by Southampton after even the people who employed him accepted that he was hideously miscast as their manager.
Jones bowed out with one last ludicrous statement, insisting it was to Saints’ detriment that they found themselves facing 10 men for an hour at home, and a final terrible result, giving up a lead at St Mary’s to a Wolves side featuring fewer players and who, a few weeks ago, were bottom of the table. Now Southampton are.
