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Super Kelvin Davis ! The Book

As part of the build up to his testimonial game Kelvin Davis has brought out a book "Super" is described as Kelvin Davis - A celebration.

This is not a biography of the Saints keeper in the true sense, although it does contain certain aspects of how his career has progressed over the years especially concentrating on the past decade which he has of course spent at St Mary's, but a collection of anecdotes and stories alongside tributes from team mates both past and present, journalists and fans.

In this respect it does its job and at only £10 is a good read for Saints supporters and it cannot be doubted how good a service Kelvin has done for this club and hopefully a job will be found for him when he finally calls time on his playing career.

Kelvin has of course played 301 times for Saints since making his debut on 6th August 2006 away to Derby County, although only 20 of those games have been in the Premier League.

Sadly it seems that although Kelvin played a big part in Saints back to back promotions, the jump to the Premier League has been a step too far, although age was a factor as he was about to turn 36 when he played the opening four games of our first season back in the Premier League.

Whether he makes 302 games is yet to be seen and it could be that come the end of the season he will make a big announcement of his retirement, that being the case then hopefully the stadium will be packed out for his testimonial game when a Saints side made up from the promotion winning teams of 2010/11 and 2011/12 will take on the current side.

This book is the perfect accompaniment to that game and gives Saints supporters an insight to Kelvin's career and life outside of the game.

He does not try to hide the fact that his first couple of seasons were not the greatest and seems to be honest in that assessment and that is the feeling that you get about him as a man, that he is honest and steadfast as a man.

Hopefully Saints will find a role for Kelvin behind the scenes if he does retire at the end of the season, he remained loyal to us and we should now repay that favour and help him stay in the game going forward.

I have to say that i don't think he is the best keeper that we have ever had, but he deserves his place in the record books as a Saints legend, no on plays 300 or so games for a club without having something about them.

It is easy to pick out his best game for the club as it was shown live on TV when he seemed to almost single handedly defy Leeds United in a game where he did as much as anyone in a single game to influence where we would end up that season in the table.

Buy it now from Saints megastores for only £10

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