Alan Shearer smashed home the 250th league goal of his career to clinch a precious first Premiership victory of the season for Newcastle.

Southampton 0 Middlesbrough 1

Southampton 1 Steaua Bucharest 1

Republic of Ireland international Rory Delap returns to Southampton’s squad as former manager Dave Jones brings his Wolves team to St Mary’s Stadium tomorrow.

MSK Zilina 0 Chelsea 2

Robert Pires fired Arsenal into a half-time lead in the FA Cup final but Southampton would have been relieved to have gone into the break only one goal down.

Holders Arsenal’s defensive worries were eased slightly when Martin Keown was deemed fit to play and took his place alongside Oleg Luzhny in the centre of the Gunners’ back four for today’s FA Cup final against Southampton at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

SOUTHAMPTON manager Gordon Strachan has hatched a special game plan in order to prevent favourites Arsenal running away with the FA Cup today.

It was meant to be the night on which Arsenal set up a final game title showdown with Manchester United.

Southampton 2

Southampton 2 Watford 1

Southampton 2

Dave Jones’ return to his former club ended in disappointment as a Chris Marsden strike and an own goal from Paul Butler ended Wolves’ FA Cup dream.

Blackburn Rovers 1 Southampton 0

MATT OAKLEY scored his first goals of the season to fire Southampton into the FA Cup fifth round with an extra-time replay win over Millwall in a cracking tie at the New Den.

Middlesbrough 2 Southampton 2

Sunderland manager Howard Wilkinson suffered more heartbreak when his team were beaten by a Jo Tessem goal in the fourth minute of injury time.

Bobby Robson backed recent calls for James Beattie to be rewarded for his recent resurgence with an England call-up.

West Ham 0 Southampton 1

Southampton 4 Fulham 2

Southampton manager Gordon Strachan praised striker Brett Ormerod after his three goals helped destroy Tranmere in the Worthington Cup second round match at St Mary’s Stadium.

Southampton 0 Charlton Athletic 0

New Tottenham striker Robbie Keane was paraded on the White Hart Lane pitch before this afternoon’s Premiership clash with Southampton, after manager Glenn Hoddle sealed his £7m transfer from Leeds this morning.

Southampton 1 Chelsea 1

El Hadji Diouf got his Anfield career off to a flying start with a deadly third-minute strike.

Southampton 0 Middlesbrough 0

Moroccan defender Tahar El Khalej grabbed a late equaliser to earn a point for Southampton at The Valley.

Chris Marsden has restored Southampton's two-goal advantage against Ipswich on 88 minutes.

Bolton drew 0-0 against Southampton, who had Rory Delap sent off in the 88th minute for two bookable offences.

Alan Shearer served up a timely double against his former club Southampton to keep Newcastle firmly in the race for the Premiership title.

Southampton were unlucky not to beat Liverpool at Anfield, but had to settle for a 1-1 draw.

Liverpool threw away the chance to clamber back towards the Premiership summit as a silly penalty and amazing own goal condemned them to a shock 2-0 defeat against Southampton at jubilant St Mary’s tonight.

Chelsea 2 Southampton 4

James Beattie's goal made it a miserable return to Southampton for Glenn Hoddle.

Arsenal took their away record this season to 13 points from a possible 15 as they coasted to a 2-0 victory at Southampton.

Romanian international Dan Petrescu is facing a battle to recover from injury in time for Southampton’s game at Aston Villa tomorrow.

Former Liverpool star John Aldridge has refused to let the prospect of an FA