Saints march to salvation

THIS might have been the most dramatic game on the most dramatic day of the most dramatic Championship season in living memory, but Nigel Pearson showed no sign of being perturbed.

The Southampton manager was the calmest man inside St Mary’s after his side completed a remarkable final-day escape from relegation, condemning Leicester to League One in their stead.

Stern John cracked a second-half double to add to Marek Saganowski’s header as Saints came from behind to beat Sheffield United, who had begun the day still harbouring faint hopes of the play-offs.