{"id":638029,"date":"2026-10-06T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/638029\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T12:00:09","slug":"southampton-under-extra-pressure-before-south-coast-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/638029\/","title":{"rendered":"Southampton under ‘extra pressure’ before South Coast derby"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nerves are buzzing around Southampton as they await to hear the outcome of boss Tonda Eckert’s Spygate hearing amid a looming South Coast derby.<\/p>\n

Saints play local rivals Portsmouth on Sunday (12:00 BST) and are already facing injury doubts for striker Cyle Larin<\/a> and number one keeper Daniel Peretz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The question on everyone’s lips, however, will be whether Eckert will be in the dugout, with a decision on a possible punishment still to be announced.<\/p>\n

Though some more hopeful Saints fans feel the FA will show the side some mercy in their timing.<\/p>\n

“Surely in the eyes of the FA you cannot get rid of your manager the day before one of our biggest games,” Southampton fan Yasmin said.<\/p>\n

“It’s the timing of it. Of all the games that we don’t need this extra pressure, it had to be Pompey.<\/p>\n

“You have to ignore all the noise and you have to treat this as a cup final – no matter what, it’s this game that matters.”<\/p>\n

Listen to the full discussion above or listen on BBC Sounds here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nerves are buzzing around Southampton as they await to hear the outcome of boss Tonda Eckert’s Spygate hearing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-638029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}