As Saints prepare to travel to Cardiff City Stadium, desperate for a win to keep up the pressure on the top three, the Echo looks back at a previous triumph against the Welsh side on home soil.
Ted MacDougall kicked off the scoring in the Division Two clash back on April 11, 1977, with a brilliant header in the 30th minute, courtesy of an assist from Peter Osgood.
In a quick succession of events at the Dell, Mick Channon found the back of the net twice within a span of ten minutes.
His first goal, a header off a precise MacDougall delivery, marked his 150th out of 228 goals for the Saints.
He applied the icing to the cake that day, when he nodded in another MacDougall assist shortly after the sixty-minute mark.
Shortly after, Cardiff managed to get one back, and then clinched another in injury time.
But it wasn't enough and Saints held on to clinch a 3-2 win, before going on to finish 9th in Division 2.
Saints' starting XI consisted of Wells, Sharp, Peach, Holmes, Blyth, Phillipson-Masters Ball, Channon, Osgood, Williams, MacDougall.
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