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Saints the heroes, Red Devil a villain

With another round of the 2015-16 Premier League season done and dusted, Nick Ames runs the rule over the Boxing Day Heroes and Villains.

HEROES

You feared there may just be a week to go for Ronald Koeman. Southampton had just gone down limply to a 2-0 defeat to Tottenham and the way in which he admonished his team afterwards, muttering darkly that they needed to "change [their] mentality" made you wonder whether a Garry Monk-style scenario was on the cards. In the event, Koeman demonstrated perfectly that he knows his players far better than we do.