Sports Report: Southampton and Stoke win late
Football Daily
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4.3 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Steve Crossman is joined by Charlie Adam, Cameron Jerome, and Mark Clemmit for reaction to the opening Saturday of the Championship season.
We hear from Will Still after Southampton came from behind late on beat Wrexham 2-1, Phil Parkinson also has his say on Wrexham being denied an opening win on their return to the second tier.
Nathan Jones reflects on a 94th minute winner for Charlton on their return to the Championship.
Stoke manager Mark Robins and West Bromwich Albion's Ryan Mason join us to discuss opening wins for their sides.
Plus, Dave Challinor joins the pod after Stockport beat Wycombe made it two wins from two in League One.
Timecodes: 05:10 - Will Still interview 06:17 - Phil Parkinson interview 09:06 - Mark Robins interview 13:05 - Ryan Mason interview 20:39 - Nathan Jones interview 23:15 - Dave Challinor interview
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.5 | The Football Daily podcast with Steve Crosman. |
| 0:13.4 | Hello there, welcome to The Football Daily. |
| 0:15.8 | Loads of reaction on the way for you from across the football league. |
| 0:19.7 | We will start Sports Report with what feels like the big story of the first Saturday of the new championship season. Southampton's dramatic late comeback to beat Rexham. We've got Charlie Adam, Mark Clement and Cameron Jerome with us on Sports Report. Mark, we were watching that game. |
| 0:42.6 | What great drama at the end and a massive win for Will Still, the perfect start. |
| 0:49.4 | Yeah, and I think it probably encapsulated a little bit like last night with another one of the promoted clubs against another one of the ones that came down. |
| 0:52.9 | I think it probably encapsulated the |
| 0:54.3 | championship, didn't it? You know, great stories all around. Rexham with a really strong |
| 1:00.2 | first half looking as though they were just going to have yet another fairy tale part of their |
| 1:07.6 | fairy tale and then paid back by an extraordinary free kick |
| 1:12.0 | and just a Southampton team that kept going. |
| 1:15.2 | In fact, you said to me at half time, |
| 1:16.9 | it's time for Will still to instill his magic, so to speak. |
| 1:22.2 | Won't your exact words, but it was something like that. |
| 1:24.0 | I wouldn't make a joke like that, Clem. |
| 1:25.5 | Well, you know, it wasn't. |
| 1:26.9 | Yeah, that was just me. But listen, complete turnaround. Quite magical atmosphere. Again, I think that's been one of the constituents all day. Wherever we've gone, just to hear the throb of crowds, you know, back has just been, it's just been a really uplifting experience. |
| 1:46.8 | It's been an interesting journey for Will still, isn't it, |
| 1:50.9 | in terms of being in France and assistant coach in Belgium and stuff like. |
| 1:52.9 | He's actually only been a manager for a hundred games, |
| 1:54.0 | or just over a hundred games. |
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