It's official Tottenham Hotspur are now Saints bogey team after they came and again won at St Mary's in controversial circumstances.
Saints could not have got off to a better start with Virgil Van Dijk heading home after only 2 minutes and they could have added a second, however after a great first 19 minutes, Spurs scored and Saints retreated too deep and allowed Spurs to dominate the rest of the half.
The goal had an element of luck about it the cross taking a deflection and keeping it low enough to wrong foot VVW and allow Alli to ghost in and head home.
This perhaps set the tone for the night ad you sensed that Saints would not get the rub of the green.
When Spurs took the lead shortly after the break it was another header and questions have to be asked why Harry Kane was allowed a free header from a dead ball situation.
The controversial moment came just before the hour when Nathan Redmond was sent off, Alli had got free and Redmond was chasing him, having watched the replays by view is that the initial contact was outside the area so a penalty was the wrong decision and the fact that Alli carried on and got a shot in also suggested that he had not been prevented from having a clear cut shot on goal.
Wrong decision from Mike Dean, but one that provided the only smile for Saints fans in the second half when Harry Kane almost brought down a plane on the flightpath into Southampton Airport with the resulting spot kick.
The incident seemed to spur Saints on and for a while it looked like they might get back into the game and they seemed to play with a passion lacking earlier, but as they pushed the visitors back the danger was being caught on the break and that was the case with 5 minutes left when Spurs added a third and it got worse two minutes later when perhaps the most obnoxious player in the Premier League added a fourth.
In truth it made the result seem a lot worse than it actually was, Saints had put up a decent fight especially having to play with ten men for so long and it could easily have been a great night it it had been Saints snatched a goal in the final five minutes, sadly it was Spurs and so ended another poor result at home to the North London Yobbos.
So Spurs can now lay claim to being our bogey side, we have lost four times at home to them since our return to the top flight with only a single point to our name in the five games played.
Our away record is only slightly better with last seasons win alongside three straight defeats.
It just seems that we never get any luck against Spurs !
That being said I have to say that they did dominate a large chunk of the game and were worth their win, they looked a good side and ready to kick on to get another top four finish (gritted teeth lol)
We have to march on though and there is nothing wrong with Saints that a good win over West Brom wont put right.