The reaction, players leaping into each others' arms, the manager disappearing into a crowd of bodies, says it all.
So is there no possibility that a crowd of bodies can be "smart," in the sense that a crowd of minds can be?
But Birmingham hit back with 12 minutes left when Davis shot through a crowd of bodies and past Bartosz Bialkowski to set up a tense finish.
It seemed to take an age to get there, through the crowd of bodies but when it did, he and Southampton could celebrate.
He watched how his other half ran onto the cracked cement, saw how the girls swarmed around him like honeybees, enfolding him in their crowd of bodies until he disappeared from sight.
Robbie Weir levelled just before half-time through a crowd of bodies before Symes's second-half winner.
Gardner, 28, capitalised on a scramble inside the area and fired through a crowd of bodies after Stephane Sessegnon's shot had been blocked.
Goalkeeper Carl Ikeme denied Kusunga a second goal of the afternoon, keeping out a low drive that travelled through a crowd of bodies, while Golbourne was unable to convert another Henry cross.
A Toni Kroos corner thumped against the chest of Ramos and Ribery was the first to react, steering a low shot through a crowd of bodies and past visiting goalkeeper Iker Casillas.
The Seasiders, who have signed Stephen Dobbie on loan, slip to third on goal difference but they looked set to maintain their fine recent form when Thomas Ince thumped through a crowd of bodies for his third goal of the season.
Garner was introduced four minutes later and he did not take long to make an impact, the former Blackburn youth player heading Paul Gallagher's corner through a crowd of bodies in the 68th minute.
