Hello everyone,
First off, I would like to thank everyone who has sent me birthday wishes. I’ll be spending the day with my family and enjoying the weekend after our win at Southampton.
The atmosphere created by our 3,400 fans at St Mary’s was fantastic and my boys have shown me some brilliant videos on social media of our supporters really enjoying themselves.
I thought it was a great TEAM performance, with no one player outstanding, just a great team performance.
We were very professional and we took our chances when we created them.
I’m sure you will all remember that Southampton beat us 3-0 at home earlier in the season, which shows how much our form has improved, compared with how we were playing at the start of the season, when we lost five of our first six Premier League games.
While it was a win that was achieved because everybody played well, I thought Mark Noble was man of the match and he thoroughly deserved his goal to top it off.
I was also pleased for Pedro Obiang, who waited patiently for his chance to become a first-team regular and has done well for us this season. It was great to see him score his first goal for us.
Like Southampton, our next two Premier League games are against teams that bashed us in the first half of the season – West Brom beat us 4-2 at The Hawthorns and Watford won by the same score at London Stadium.
We’ve won six out of our previous nine league matches, though, so bring them on!
We’ve been bashed very badly three times this season – by Arsenal and twice by Manchester City – and on all three occasions we’ve bounced back in the next game, which shows the manager’s skills and the spirit and ability within the team.
I would like to wish Angelo Ogbonna the best with his recovery and rehabilitation after he underwent surgery on his injured knee in Paris this week. We look forward to welcoming him back into the squad.
We have just two more games this month and both of them are winnable. Tickets for our home game with West Brom are available now on the Ticket Exchange, and I am sure London Stadium will be full of noise and colour again next Saturday.
Our new supporter-led flags initiative has been a big success and we hope to see plenty more Claret and Blue flags proudly displayed when we face West Brom.
After that, we have our Free Family Fun Day on Wednesday 15 February, when we will welcome hundreds, if not thousands of you to our home for a host of half-term holiday events for all the family.
Enjoy your Sunday!
David Sullivan
Joint-Chairman