00:00After a five-match suspension, which might make for comparisons with Southampton's top scorer Neil Shipperley,
00:06their joint record signing at £1.2 million and one of three former Chelsea players who face their old club today.
00:13The others are goalkeeper Dave Besant and defender Ken Monkow, who's shaken off a dose of flu.
00:19Mark Walters was also past fit, he returns on the left, but Barry Venison's back injury keeps him on the subs bench
00:25and Tommy Widrington gets another chance to press his case for regular first-team football.
00:32Hughes for Paul Furlong is one of two Chelsea changes from the team that drew at Grimsby.
00:36Nigel Spackman, who came on there for John Spencer, gets his first start since November as the holding player in midfield.
00:43Eddie Newton having been ruled out for the season.
00:47Heavy conditions at the Dell, they've been forking the pitch most of the morning, we've had hours of rain here to take it.
00:55Short, in fact, to Jim Magilton and out to Jason Dodd.
01:05Shipperley's in there, little turn past Clarke, not the second time.
01:11Here's Simon Charlton.
01:14Richard Hall had stayed forward from the original free kick.
01:17Walters, here's Hall.
01:22Shipperley's coming in on there, still Watson was there!
01:24Well, Chelsea found themselves with one defender against two strikers there.
01:34Thielen again.
01:36And again, and again!
01:44Nyes was barged in the back and misplaced his...
01:47...getting away to Southampton here, Shipperley's gone to the right, there's nobody else forward at the moment.
01:53Waddington goes a low, he's in tight...
01:55It's come out to Waddington.
02:03It's in!
02:04Well, this fella didn't score many goals, but Tommy Waddington will be mighty pleased with that one.
02:14Nigel Spackman fell in front of him as he shot, could have deceived the keeper.
02:18And as Letizia's corner is initially cleared, watch Spackman come to meet Waddington.
02:26Does that touch Spackman's foot?
02:28That's what I think it does, and spoons away into the corner, giving Hitchcock no chance.
02:35That's a deflection there, isn't there?
02:36But Waddington will claim it.
02:39And ironically, one of his only two previous goals for Southampton, Tommy Waddington, was against Chelsea.
02:45Well, that's a strong challenge from behind, and even if you get to the ball and you take the man like that, Richard Hall knows that's going to be deemed a foul on Gavin Peacock.
03:09Chelsea pushing Dewberry forward.
03:11And that was Dewberry, didn't quite look at the contact on that.
03:20Clark to Dan Petrescu.
03:34Which is wise.
03:35Oh, what a shot by the little man who began his career here at the Dell.
03:43Dennis Wise scores for Chelsea.
03:46And today, on old territory, the Chelsea captain cuts inside and delivers a right foot flyer.
03:52That must have moved in the air, I reckon.
03:55And it beat Dave Besant.
03:56Over and wide of him, really.
03:59To level things for Chelsea with 21 minutes gone from the far side for Chelsea.
04:05Hullet plays the nearer ball to Wise.
04:07And that's going to be a penalty.
04:10Well, when defenders lunge like that, Ken Moncow can have no complaints.
04:15That is a clear-cut penalty if ever I saw one.
04:17Rude Hullet, who picked up a lovely ball from Hughes in the first place, pushes it in there for Wise.
04:25And just look at that.
04:28Didn't need the cup final referee to make that decision.
04:32But it does mean that Wise, courtesy of Moncow, now has a chance to score his second goal of the game.
04:38Well, this goalkeeper knows him well.
04:48But the force of the shot carries it.
04:52A word from Wise to Besant, who perhaps thinks he might have saved that.
04:56But it's 2-1 to Chelsea.
04:58The ex-Chelsea keeper shakes his head.
05:01Because Wise here just strikes it more or less down the middle.
05:08Chelsea able to play out.
05:17But for how long?
05:17This is Widrington.
05:18Back again to Charlton.
05:20Hullet's challenge is going to be a foul.
05:31And here's an opportunity for Southampton.
05:35Letizia is expert at getting these in.
05:38Oh, and it squeezed it at the foul post.
05:47It's 2-2.
05:48Neil Shipley seemed to get half a touch.
05:51But there were two defenders on the line.
05:55And Chelsea would wonder how that got in.
06:00There were two Chelsea players in there as well.
06:03But what an eventful first half we have here.
06:09Somebody went over to start with.
06:11Chipotle gets a touch of a sort.
06:14But goodness me.
06:15Mark Hughes is in there.
06:17Kevin Hitchcock's in there.
06:19And Steve Clarke's in there.
06:21And off that forest of legs, the ball squeezes in.
06:26And we've had four goals in the first half here.
06:28It's 2-all.
06:29Well, never mind 2-2.
06:33It should have been 3-2 straight away.
06:35What a good chance.
06:40The first shot by Magillotan.
06:42Oh, Watson just couldn't get it round the post.
06:45And now Hullet.
06:51He's got Mark Hughes ahead of him.
06:53And one to the right and one to the left.
06:54And this is Hughes.
06:55And this is Hullet again for Chelsea.
06:57And that is a fine goal.
07:01They're 3-2 up.
07:04And it's rude Hullet.
07:06Once again.
07:07Implanting his special skills on the game.
07:12Starting it here.
07:13With the ball to Hughes.
07:14This defender just couldn't cut it out.
07:17Back it goes from Hughes.
07:18Out comes the goalkeeper.
07:20Over him goes the ball.
07:22And rude Hullet makes it 3-2 for Chelsea.
07:27Richard Hall struggling to intercept.
07:29Mark Hughes gets the return ball right.
07:32And there's no question that Hullet does that with the finish.
07:41Schiphol has made a run in from the left.
07:43It's still Walters.
07:44And it's still Walters.
07:47Southampton needed it to happen again.
07:49It's now.
07:51He's found Watson.
07:55And he only found the head of Lee.
07:57The Jilton to knock it back in for Southampton.
08:00Southampton.
08:01Chelsea.
08:01Chelsea.
08:02Benison.
08:05Feels for hands.
08:06No question of that.
08:08Adele.
08:09Rude Hullet.
08:10Able to impose his multilingual skills on this match.
08:14And score the winning goal.
08:16Outshining Letizia on the day.
08:18And for Southampton.
08:20A worrying home defeat.
08:22Just when they wanted to get three points to steer them further up the table.
08:27They stumble to an old player in a sense.
08:30Dennis Wise scoring twice.
08:31And the lead changing hands.
08:35But in the end it stayed with Chelsea.
08:38Who take the points and put themselves in good heart for their cup replay on Wednesday.
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