The second Championship play-off semi-final second leg sees Southampton host Middlesbrough at St. Mary's. The first leg on Saturday ended 0-0 despite Boro dominating the first half of the match.Kick-off is at 8:00pm with coverage on Sky Sports Football from 7:30pm.SOU: Peretz; Bree, Harwood-Bellis (c), Wood, Manning; Charles, Jander; Matsuki, Azaz, Scienza; Stewart.>Subs: Long, Stephens, Welington, Downes, Bragg, Fellows, Edozie, Archer, Larin.MID: Brynn; Ayling, Fry (c), Malanda; Brittain, Morris, McGree, Targett; Whittaker, Strelec; Conway.>Subs: Wildsmith, Gilbert, Munroe, Browne, Silvera, Castledine, Edmundson, Hansen, Sarmiento.
>Southampton have confirmed they have launched an internal review into allegations that one of their analysts spied on a Middlesbrough training session. Southampton, who host Boro in their playoff semi-final second leg on Tuesday, have asked for “the full context to be established before conclusions are drawn” after the English Football League charged the club with misconduct on the eve of their first-leg draw.>An independent disciplinary commission will determine any punishment, with potential sanctions ranging from a fine to expulsion from the playoffs. Boro, who believe they caught a member of Southampton’s backroom staff on their premises last Thursday, 48 hours before the first leg that finished 0-0, are adamant Saints should not receive a financial penalty in the event they are found guilty.Potential hilarity if Saints win
should be a good game this
Hope Hull get promoted. They've already KOd the strongest play off opponent.
Every Southampton fan I know is very smug all the time, hoping for a comfy 'Boro win
>>154639517Southampton's full of southern jessies who think they're specialTheir culture consists of going to strip clubs to insult places they're too scared to visit
>Michael Skubala apparently joining Bristol CityWell that's Lincoln relegated
good afternoon sunderchadsnot sure who to pull for here
>>154639629Got to be 'Boro3 north east clubs in the PL is infinitely better than 3 south coast clubs
Boro usually do well playing away so I'm hoping for a win, but I have a Typical Boro mindset so I don't think they'll win
>>154639663fair, also 12 points off them?
Anyone got a stream? freestreams is kill AGAIN.
>>154639728>12 pointsIt's 6 but I don't care. I just hate the south.I would be just as happy for Hull to go up
>>154639752i meant them and newcastle
Come on Boro. Fuck these soft Southern bastards
Oh what a night.Hope Boro win tbqh. Two reasons. Yorkshire derby at Wembley for a place in the PL, and because I think City have a better chance against them.
i am spying this thread
>>154639818*sues your club*
I'm hoping the EFL have paid off the ref for a Boro penalty to get us through so they don't have to deal with Southampton if they win
You aren't ready for playoffs Scienza
There's people dressed a trees here
Evens on a Boro player to score and do a binoculars gesture
>>154639957You must be joaking
Woop woop>>154639517>>154639567Your gay
>>154639955how do pro defenders get fucking worked like this so often?
This fucking PPV stream site keeps letting me down
Hello you cunts
Accidentally said to my missus about going to Wembley and now she's planning a long weekend and will probably stop me drinking 10+ pints fucks sake
BORO BORO BOROembarrassing from souf lmao
BASED
oh no no
BORO
>shithampton
>their stadium is named after some thot
Didn't even have time to get a beer out the fridge ffs
The EFL will be happy with that goal.
NORF boys taking the piss
SouthKWABton
what is it with the Japs and cheating?
>>154640239they're a very sneaky people
Based Ayling killing one of their main players
These fools were spying on teams for half a year and were winning games. Now that they can't cheat anymore they're losing. Total karmic justice
basedno more stinkers like southampton in the PL please
>championship teams can't defend home field
>>154639383>The second B-League play-off semi-final second leg >After the first leg ended 0(ZERO) - 0(ZERO)This shit really excites you "people"?
what are they moaning about?
just punch the ref you daft cunt
IT'S WAR
>>154640387Dont worry 0-0's also get fans frustrated aswell.
>>154640429
about six fouls by those boro nogs there, and it's a Southampton foul somehow
Who are we rooting for here lads?
Southampton GOAL
>>154640387yes i don't need ads and fireworks every 2 minutes
ROSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
>>154640482just want all the lads to have a good time and get home safe x
stadium of cunts
That was never a FK in the first place... Same old Scummers always cheating
loch ness drogba
>>154640494>>154640496ah yes the duality of /sp/
rod stewart!
Players worth looking out for are?
Not a foul and the goalkeeper being a tart
Anyone got a link for the second half. Sick of these PPV TWATS
Kek based fat cunt
Jamie Vardy manages Boro?
Come on Boro you better win. Either them or Hull to go up I don't mind, just not fucking Southampton again
>>154640536Fawanews.sc
but what did he say?
LET'S GO BORO!
are Coventry a good team?
>>154640715Southampton player taking the piss out of Ayling's stammer apparently
>>154640745the best
This really shows how much prem refs rely on VAR
Did they say why they were getting shitty first half? Someone say a naughty word?
Southampton a bunch of diving faggots
kekfuck southampton
KWABjust fucking shoot bro
Something creepy about Soton's gaffer.
>>154640745They are but that doesn't matter, Coventry is a miserable city so having the small joy of a season in the prem is fairUS terms its like detroit without any of the revival and brown asians rather than blacks
>>154640906he is more concerned with the drone LCD screens. Give him abreak while he multitasks.
>>154640954Cov gave birth to 2 Tone and a SOVL mid 80s FA Cup Final. Your opinion is irrelevant.
>>154640557who do you support lad?
>>154640967yes, I'm talking about what the city is like today rather than 50 years ago. It was also a fantastic place when the british car industry was booming
Southampton out of all places in the UK is the nicest I've been too. You go down to Chapel Arms pub pre game meet the Southampton fans and then if you're lucky in a derby you'd go mash up the 6:57 boys from Portsmouth. Good old times in The Dell desu
Would much rather have a fair Yorkshire scrap with Boro than these diving niggly spying Souf pricks.
>>154641012It was OK. I preferred Brighton and Portsmouth. Southampton as a seaside in the south just lacked a bit of character for me.
>>154641021Yorkshire for mehttps://youtu.be/Rm6VC5gdaFA?si=x4RgMl08iK6hKP1v
stupid mutt ballboy
Taylor Harwood Bellis verbally abused Luke Ayling in a discriminatory way and has been reported. @SkyFootball confirming at half time.Something about Ayling having a stammer????
>>154639810Boro and Hull are barely Yorkshire
>>154641066Not sure calling Ayling "f-f-f-fucking sh-sh-sh-shit" can be counted as abuse
>>154641066>Something about Ayling having a stammer????no, he said you must support starmer
>>154641074>Hull are barely YorkshireBehave you absolute cretin
>>154641066I heard he called Ayling a gyppo
No one, and I mean nobody, are rooting for this off-brand Sunderland.
>>154641066
>>154641066Thats Roy Keane's son in law btw
>>154640969Toon fan mate. if the mackems have to be in the prem fuck it why not all 3 north east clubs.
>>154641088Lies. I want to See Boro/Newcastle/Sunderland next season
>dragging the left legdiving soton bastards
That's gonna be painful in the morning
>>154641088Yes I am. Saints are pure shitball villains who have stunk up the Prem too many times
>same old boro always cheatingdo these southern mongs not realize that their club is embroiled in a major cheating scandal?
>>154641132another north east team to take 6 points off uslush
I'd genuinely rather have a team that's been promoted for the time in years and give it 100% in the PL than a yoyo clubs like Southampton and Burnley
here's hogg....deeeeeeeeeenneeeeeeeyyyyyyy do not scratch your eyes
Soufhampton turned proper heel for playoffs
Jo Tessem talking absolute shit on BBC Radio Solent if the livetext page is anything to go by
That Whittaker for Boro needs to pull his finger out. Just saunters around like a ressie match.
>>154641165really hope burnley stay away for a good few years
Cov, Ipswich and Soton would be the most disliked promoted trio for some time>>154640906he looks dangerously autistic
all commentators saying southampton will win so i guess this means middy gets a cheeky one
>>154641216All dependent if the Boro players (especially Morgan Whittaker) give it 100%. They actually do look fatigued and Whittaker is doing fuck all
>>154641175
>>154641208Love Coventry me
did my goat léo science simply ghost??
I’m going to miss you cunts over summer
>Southampton have had more shots since Middlesbroughs last shotFascinating stat
>>154641230HERE'S HOGG.... RATTLED!
>>154641262not here for the world cup?
>>154641230Rattled
>Oh when the saints go marching in for the 80th timeDo they not have anything else?
>>154641285It’s not the same
>>154641305This
>>154641285Fuck that tournament, going to be an absolute shitfest
Lads in total off topic to the game. Whats the craic with Scott Parker. He'll join a Championship club get them promoted with exciting football and then when they relegated in the PL he resigns. He's such an odd character
We're knackered. I don't think we're going win this one lads
>>154641132I'm a hull fan but tbf I just wanted anyone but southampton to go up. nothing against southampton but I just like seeing a turnover of clubs between the top 2 tiers and ipswich have already gone straight back up ffs.
live near saint marys and havent heard a peep, you can usually hear chanting, goal celebrations. all the part timers back in for the Prem playoffs I see
>>154641365see i do have something against southampton, that being ben brereton diaz being a diving little cunt getting schar sent off in our first game last season. still beat the shitters and i hope they rot in the championship
>>154641357He can't cope with top flight football anywhere. Absolute fraud. Says everything that all of Fulham, Bournemouth and Burnley fans got tired of him in the PL. And he was barely in the PL with Bournemouth.
I think Hull is actually going to get promoted
>>154641393>still butthurt about that even though you wonkwab he doesn't even play for us anymore
>>154641426you say that like it's a bad thing
>>154641357I always expect his teams to put up a fight then they just do nothing all seasonwill know better next time
got work to morrow lads, let's crack on eh
>>154641430this is my freshest memory of playing you boys so it's all i'm going off rignt now
>>154641455just pull an all nighter they wont know the difference
>>154641426holy kino
>>154641442You've never been molested by the tigers
>>154641455I basically stopped working at work in January, done the absolute bare bones since, and no one has noticed and I got my usual pay rise lel
In 2008, Hull City were promoted to the Premier League after winning the play-off final 1-0 with a wonder goalhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7ghb4J_yOoIn 2016, Hull City were promoted to the Premier League after winning the play-off final 1-0 with a wonder goalhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBcqlQ9-TzMWhat does 2026 hold for the MIGHTY TIGERS, I wonder...
>>154641496https://youtu.be/5Hi2eJfxxc4
>>154641357He's just a younger Neil Warnock
>I must le pass at the last possible momentWhy is this so fucking common in football
Just remembered I haven't had dinner yet so I'm off to preheat the oven
Laran is useless kek
Only here for the penals
up the boro
SCAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRR
SOUTHAMPTON 2-1 MIDDLESBROUGH>SOUTHAMPTON 2-1 MIDDLESBROUGHSOUTHAMPTON 2-1 MIDDLESBROUGH>SOUTHAMPTON 2-1 MIDDLESBROUGHSOUTHAMPTON 2-1 MIDDLESBROUGH>SOUTHAMPTON 2-1 MIDDLESBROUGHSOUTHAMPTON 2-1 MIDDLESBROUGH>SOUTHAMPTON 2-1 MIDDLESBROUGHSHEA CHARLES SCORES
>>154641542about that...
cringe
ogre
Devastation
GET FUCKED SUNDERLAND MACKEMS
>Celtic win SPL>Spurs stay up>Spyhampton go upI'm done with footy gaiz
>>154641542Fucks sake right as I posted this
>>154641546fuck sake
fuck
>>154641533Typical
JAMMY ARSE BASTARDS
>>154640496
>music out of speakers when goalfucking cringeget this american bullshit outtahere
All Hull now aren't we?
>>154641561Man City are winning the PL and FA Cup too. A fucking treble when they've been shite for half the season
>>154641572terrible isn't it
come on you tigers i guess
there is still time Borobros!
Worst one of these last minute ET winners was Tranmere v Newport about 7 years agoMatch was absolute dogshit then Tranmere won in the 119th minute with the only goal of the game
BOOOO
>>154641575up the tigers
HAHAHA HAHAHAHA GET FUCKED STEVE GIBSONGOT DERBY DEDUCTED 21PTS AND RELEGATED, AND YOU CUNTS ARE STILL IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP YOU RAMS
>>154641575We beat Southampton twice this season, so they'll probably rape us at Wembley. That'd be just our luck.
>>154641589Cunt Gibson is going to be getting the fax machine up and running
NO FUN ALLOWED
I didn't know callum brittain was black
as an enjoyer of chaos, southampton winning will just add to the spygate urgency and scrutiny for maximum drama
>>154641628>Southampton win>EFL investigation gets them expelled from the play-offsIMAGINE
>your face when you crashed out of the top 2 and now wont even make Wembley
>>154641634SKY commentators said this could still happen
>>154641592Love ar Lucy. My uncle used to leave Nuts magazines lying around his flat so I would sneak them in my bag when visiting.
we need HULL in the top flight and that's the end of it. proper night on the old town for everyone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyLjbMBpGDA
>>154641635Genuinely embarrassing for Hellberg. But to be honest, that squad is shite. Not sure what the fuck's happened to Sarmiento given he got back-to-back Championship promotions, I expected a lot more from him.
FULL TIMESOUTHAMPTON 2-1 MIDDLESBROUGH>SOUTHAMPTON 2-1 MIDDLESBROUGHSOUTHAMPTON 2-1 MIDDLESBROUGH>SOUTHAMPTON 2-1 MIDDLESBROUGHSOUTHAMPTON 2-1 MIDDLESBROUGH>SOUTHAMPTON 2-1 MIDDLESBROUGH
grim
RIGGED CHEATS
Hope Hull smashes this perpetual yo-yo selling club.
SPYGATE
>waaaaah why didn boro win
why are you all so butthurt by a Saints?
Can anyone tell me one (1) singular interesting thing about Southampton FC
>turned /sp/s heel the villain you love to hate
Don't worry lads the cheats will be getting dumped out before the final gets played
Am fuming
>>154641690Their average PL position is 20th, they don't win anything, but they do hold a lot of unwanted PL records. They don't add anything. Basically Everton except they get regularly flushed.
>>154641695Le Tiss, and uh...
>>154641690cheating bastards and yoyo club who contribute nothing to the prem
>>154641685>>154641690here's your (You) now drop dead
>>154641695>makes /efl/ seethe>cucked arsenal>makes pompey scum seethe>won an FA cup
>>154641710
Hold still Southampton, this is going to hurt. A lot.
Southampton seems like a shallow bland team but Léo Scienza deserved it so it's fine
lol celebrating when they're getting chucked out in a few days
>>154641695Matthew Le Tissier, good player. Remember the guy from my youth. Interesting? Up for debate I guess.
>>154641712>won an FA CupSo did Pompey, twice in fact. They've won the league twice as well. Southampton haven't. And they never will.
>>154641514had a few beers with this legend in willerby snooker club. what a hero
>>154641755based and true
>>154641755speak up lad, cant hear you all the way down there
>>154641695the Arsenal of the EFL
>>154641736>>154641709>>154641755What fetal alcohol syndrome does to a nigga
>>154641765Bizarre flex from a foreign plastic. Don't cry if Southampton win at Wembley again like you did two years ago. That's assuming they actually play there, of course.
>>154641779>plastic>for a yo yo club that you cant stop bitching about winning nothinginteresting
>>154641788>thinking plastic only applies to successful teamsYou chose Southampton at random. You don't have a genuine connection to them.
>>154641801sure I do. Its the comfiest british city I visited
Lack of Hackney hurt us so much
>looked up "southampton vs middlesbrough prediction" just to get an idea of how good each team was>AI bullshit from google says it'll likely end 2-1 for southampton, whatever, AI is retarded, scroll down and read up a little>fast forward to now, check game >2-1 for southamptonbros... what the fuck
>>154642075steaks tonight bro!
>>154641813I would hate to hear about the others and your impressions of them if you thought Southampton was comfy
>>154642104london>big>lots of cool historical stuff>hard to explain but didnt feel like a bargain bin big city. I never felt like I was seeing the same kind of landmarks you can see in any city(see pic)>people werent that rude, evne being an american>south london is a shithole. Elephant and castle had black israelites rapping outside the tube station and I had to fight back laughterBristol>quaint. Nothing really interesting there but it felt homely. Like its a city and doesnt boast about it, but feels welcoming>lots of beautiful green nature all around it>comfy townhouses on the outskirt, and indian owned pizza joints?>liverpool>pretty ugly residential areas unless youre by abbey road>happening downtown, unironically the liveliest city I saw out of my trip. Lots of people out at night and bars were packed>absolute fucking cunt popualce, I largely believe all stories about scousers are at least 75% true>fatties and trailor trash people everywhere>museum and the cavern club were neatI almost went to birmingham or norwhich but bongs convinced me there wasnt anything to see or do there
>>154642177fug
>>154641736boro vs millwall play for the final i guess?
>>154642219what if West Ham sue and Southampton are banned but then sue? CAS? PGMOL? Wil Starmer resign and further complicate this?
>>154641426Is that bad? Post another Pepe.
>>154643157
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c9v3g92kvxyoHow would you fix this, /efl/?I would bring back the League 3 idea BUT keep the 24 teams per tier, then make the top 12 of each of National League North/South the new National League. Would making each league 4 up 4 down instead of 3 up 3 down be better?And while I'm at it, I'd also make every league below have 24 teams. Instead of 22, 21, 20, 19, 18 etc.
>>154646488Top two of National League get automatically promoted.3rd, 4th, 5th and the 22nd team in League Two enter play-offs.I do believe there has to be some barrier so if you really want to be in League Two you have to beat them or beat a team that knocked them out.
>>154649472The barrier should be where at the point where the divisions go from mostly professional to mostly not, which used to be tiers 4/5, but is probably 5/6 now, I'm guessing I haven't checked
