But amidst all of this, there's one guy who just seems to have fallen by the wayside - Alain Perrin. A lot of the praise went to the players on the pitch, and very rightly so. Not only that, but a lot of the post-match focus has been over the plight of Redknapp and Southampton, not to mention our glee over it. Perrin has had the odd word or two of congratulation, but not a lot else.
WHY!
I'm not saying he's the best manager ever, as it's still far too early to judge. The time to see what he's really made of is when we've just lost five on the bounce without scoring a goal and there's mumblings of discontent, that's when a manager proves himself.
But this is a guy who was new to the Premier League, not to mention new to England full stop. When his appointment was announced a fair few people threw a strop about this random foreigner. How can this man be worthy of managing Portsmouth Football Club when he was such an unknown to so many? What could he possibly have up his sleeve that would make him worthy over the likes of Gordon Strachan, or indeed any better known British candidate? What's more, this is a guy who had to put up with the media telling him from the moment he got here why he was wrong, why the club he was now in charge of was heading for relegation and why one of the "old boy's club" like John Gregory or Peter Reid would've been better suited to the job.
His reply? A scintilating 4-2 win over Charlton.
And after Sunday's match I would happily build a statue in his honour after a brilliant Pompey performance. And it's not just on the pitch, it's the way he is as a character too. Who in the crowd didn't have a giggle to themselves after the chant of "Perrin, give us a wave" and Joe Jordan having to tell him what we meant? When his first timid attempt was greeted with a roar of approval he started flinging his hands about like a loon, the biggest smile in Portsmouth across his face.
And what's far more important is his tactics and his approach to matters on the pitch. Despite being in England for less than a month he clearly grasped just what this derby means to us. He had the players raring to go and picked on every weakness of Southampton, exploiting their lack of pace and causing carnage in their back line. Oh yes, Southampton were bad, but we milked it so well. And then in the second half we just shut up shop and didn't give them a sniff. Whereas against Charlton he threw on a couple of strikers to get the win, this time he took off a striker for a defensive midfielder - game over. No need to go overboard. Just play out time.
It's too early to say he's a good manager or that he's the right man for us. But what I do know is that for his job so far he deserves all the credit in the world for coming in to a tough situation. What's more, he's reassured a lot of Portsmouth fans who perhaps thought that our days of flowing attacking football were over. There's a lot of work to be done, but Alain Perrin deserves a lot more praise than he's getting - the national media aren't going to give it to him, so let's make sure he knows what WE think of him.