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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ben Fisher

Nathan Jones his own worst enemy with time running out at Southampton

Nathan Jones
Nathan Jones appears to be repeating the pattern that doomed him to failure at Stoke. Photograph: Matt Watson/Southampton FC/Getty Images

It was a post-match interview that inevitably was widely shared, ridiculed and heightened the scrutiny on an already under-pressure Nathan Jones. “They had three crosses and scored three goals,” he said. “Three errors from us but that’s been symptomatic [of the season] … We do good work.

“Before I came here I won not far off 60% of my games when people just do their jobs. We were the highest scorers apart from Man City in Europe and I didn’t do much different work than I do now. I’m actually working with, in theory, better players. Results haven’t been good enough.”

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