An emotional Pender adds: "I get a little choked up when I talk about that... because I lost a couple of men and young boys [in Vietnam]." "To step away when we think the next few years could have been exciting, that could be difficult to live with. If this contract is the last, I will only be 53 at the end of it and I hope there'll be a lot of my life at the end of it!" "I know what he is as a player and he has played in some real big games for Tonga and been one of our best players. The 2017 World Cup beating New Zealand is an example, he really stood up in that game as he did against Great Britain and Australia in 2019." ● Southampton have dropped more points from winning positions than any other Premier League side since Hasenhüttl took over the club back in December 2018 (67).