Pearson: Build for the future
05 May 2008 - 14:24:13
Manager Nigel Pearson has urged Southampton to build for the future, after a dramatic escape from relegation to League One on the final day of the season.
The Saints won 3-2 at home to Sheffield United to send Leicester City down to League One, with Pearson just relieved to see his side beat the drop.
He told the Daily Echo: "All in all I'm delighted, but I'm not going to kid myself because it's a situation we'd rather not be in as a club.
"If you'd have looked the start of the year you wouldn't have said it would be an achievement to stay up. That needs to be addressed, because it is now.
"When the dust settles after the game we have to look at how we move the club forward.
"The most difficult thing about the whole situation was going into the start of the day with it out of our hands, in that we were relying on others to slip up.
"We had to get a win first and it proved to be very difficult, but we have come away with the right result."