Time To Break Out The Yellow & Blue And Hit The Road

Southampton Football Club stand on the brink of a return to the Premier League that they last played in seven years ago, its time to make a corner of the North East Yellow & Blue.

Middlebrough play in red & white as we all know and they have a stadium that like St Mary's has primarily a red seated colour scheme, so with the television cameras present Saints fans need to revert to their away colours to turn the Riverside into a sea of Yellow & Blue.

Whilst younger fans might not have as much love for the colours as the older generations, the fact remains that our yellow away kits and variations on them have been synonymous with succesful times at the Club.

Saints originally chose these colours as the change kit as a nod towards the Hampshire regiment whose regimental colours they were, so the colour scheme has great historical significance.

But think of big games in Saints history and more often than not its been the Yellow that has featured.

In 75/76 as everyone knows Saints wore Yellow & Blue at Wembley and two years later at Orient, it was again the colour as Brisbane Road was taken over and Saints got the point needed to virtually guarantee promotion back to the top flight.

The following season it was again to the fore, this time in the League Cup, firstly in the semi final first leg as Saints came back from 2-0 down to draw and take a big step to the final and then at Wembley itself where although we lost 3-2 the old stadium was a sea of Yellow & Blue.

n the eighties it took a break for a while re-emerging sporadically in nthe 90's but when Saints got to Cardiff for the 2003 FA Cup final it was "Come on you yellow's" that rang around Cardiff

When Saints got relegated the away strip was a pale blue which makes it even more fitting that in the season we could return to the top flight, that it could be done in a yellow strip as it was in 1978.

So Saints fans making the trip to Teeside need to break out the colours and not only give the kind of backing that we gave the team at Peterborough, but show a blaze of colour that will dazzle the opposition, impress the watching millions on telly and inspire Saints back to the pinnacle of English football

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