January 30th 1951, Bobby Stokes was born and a little later, he scored the winner when Second Division Saints, beat Top Flight, Manchester United 1-0 in the 1976 FA Cup Final. Bobby won a car for being the first scorer in the match and rumour has it that he started taking driving lessons BEFORE the Final, fully expecting to score first to win the prize.
Staying with Southampton, Saints' manager in 1999, was Glen Hoddle who made comments to a journalist about disabled people, which was published in "The Times". Hoddle said: "You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and a half-decent brain. SOME people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime." You may need to research that but you will get the drift. Hoddle was sacked four days later.
Hoddle has been manager of Swindon Town (earning promotion to the Premier League-"hard to imagine!"), Chelsea (taking them to the FA Cup Final), Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur (reaching aFootball League Cup Final) and Wolverhampton Wanderers. He managed England to the second round of the 1998 FIFA World Cup, where they lost to Argentina on penalties (remember it?). He was dismissed from the England job in 1999 off the back of an interview with Matt Dickenson, in which he was widely interpreted as saying that people with disabilities and others are affected by karma from past lives, He said that his words were "misconstrued, misunderstood and misinterpreted" and that disabled people had his "overwhelming support, care, consideration and dedication".
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