Graeme Le Saux celebrates his 46th birthday today.
Once the most expensive defender in the country – £5m when returning to Chelsea from Blackburn Rovers – he was nearing the end of his playing career when he joined Saints in 2003 as part of the deal which took Wayne Bridge to Stamford Bridge.
The former England star played 47 games for Saints, scoring twice in the process, and retired at the end of the club’s 2004/05 Premier League relegation season.
He now works as a pundit.
Scottish international Francis Burns celebrsates his 66th birthday today.
He joined Saints in 1972 for £50,000, passing a medical despite his three cartilage operations.
He racked up 23 games – and a fourth knee op – that season, but lost his place to an up-and-coming Steve Mills and left to join Preston in 1973.
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