Saido Berahino returns as sub as West Brom and Southampton draw
Saturday 12 September 2015 17:14, UK
Saido Berahino was a 55th-minute substitute for West Brom against Southampton on Saturday afternoon.
The England U21 striker replaced Rickie Lambert to a mixed reception from the Hawthorns crowd with the score still goalless.
It marked the first time Berahino took the field for Tony Pulis' side since the draw with Watford on August 15 after a number of failed bids for him from Tottenham.
The 22-year-old's future at the club had looked in doubt after his infamous transfer deadline day tweet.
Angered by West Brom's deadline day rejection of his hoped-for move to Tottenham, Berahino tweeted his displeasure including the line "I can officially say I will never play Jeremy Peace."
Pulis said of the decision: "Saido has made a mistake and everyone makes mistakes. We all regret things we do.
"Having made that mistake, and there'll be 25 or 26,000 people in the crowd today, who have all made mistakes. And everyone looks at things and says: 'I should have done that better'. He's no different than anyone else.
"What he's got to do is get his head on it, work hard at what he's very good at - which is playing football - and we need to give him as much support as we can."
And Pulis looks to have worked quickly to put the issue in the past by bringing on the player in the hope of a snatching a second win of the season.
