
How Nathan Jones Turned Southampton’s Collapse into Charlton’s Championship Surge—The Untold Story
That intensity alone draws critics his way, but in the harsh spotlight of the Premier League, managing Southampton, he also talked himself into trouble. When Saints lost to 10-man Wolves, it was because the red card “made it a free hit for them and added more pressure for us”. Self-promotion was common. He became a living meme. But as Jonathan Liew put it in The Guardian, “Jones’ quips and gaffes were taken as a symbol of irrepressible self-confidence; perhaps even arrogance. In fact, like all the best sitcom characters, Jones always struck me as a man wracked with self-doubt.”
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