SOUTHAMPTON, England, (Reuters) - Not every week will there be an eight-goal fiesta for Southampton on the south coast. Some days there will be ugly 1-0 affairs, ground out on a physical battleground.
And so it was on Saturday against an obdurate Stoke City side full of long balls and flicked headers, robust shoulder barges and full-blooded tackles.
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