Plenty of clubs will sit up and take notice if Midtylland win

FC Midtylland, Southampton’s Europa League opponents tonight, are challenging long-held and accepted ways of doing things in football by gradually replacing traditional scouting with a mix of statistics and video analysis...

From live televised games to lunchtime kick-offs, from fixtures on Sundays to goal-line technology, and from directors of football to false nines; English football has been a reluctant and nervous embracer of innovation over the years - and yet it has always got there in the end.

So will the arrival of innovative Danish club FC Midtylland at Southampton in a Europa League tie this evening (kick-off 8pm) be the initial spark that inspires a new way of doing things?