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Middlesborough reinstated btw
>its realhttps://www.efl.com/news/2026/may/19/efl-statement-southampton-football-club/KEKSo its middlesborough vs hull
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cwy2pnpqjl7o
my fucking sidesI'm amazed they actually been punished, and not just given a slap on the wrist and a fine
KWABOTY
KWABOTY contenders
I am astounded they actually did something
>>154751733bet he feels like a fucking retard now lmao
probably should have toned it down a bit lads lmao
Copied from the other thread:>Southampton admitted breaches of Regulations requiring Clubs to act with the utmost good faith and prohibiting the observation of another Club’s training session within 72 hours of a scheduled match. The admitted breaches concern fixtures against Oxford United in December 2025, Ipswich Town in April 2026 and Middlesbrough in May 2026.Funniest part is the spying on the Oxford & Ipswich matches resulted in Southampton winning neither of them.Tonda Eckert confirmed for one of the biggest managerial frauds of all time.
YOU'RE STAYING DOOOOOOWNYOU'RE STAYING DOOOOOOWNYOU'RE STAYING DOWNYOU'RE STAYING DOWNYOU'RE STAYING DOOOOOOWN
>After being approached by a member of Boro staff, the spy reportedly ran to a nearby golf club, changed his clothes and left the sitehahahhaahahaa
>Nothing ever hap-Oh shit it actually happened
hilarious
They'd been doing it all season LMAO
>>154751826no refunds
>spying on Oxfordfor what purpose, they're shite
>>154751791Why would you even send the boot boy rather than hiring a professional?
>>154751826imagine if the club is like>HAHA NO REFUNDS!
I feel bad for Hull, how's it fair they have no idea who they're playing until 4 days before the game
>>154751839AND THEY LOST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBoicPHGYF4
i mean realistically speaking how much can you gain from knowing how a team trains?
AHAHAHAHAHAHA RETARDS
>Southampton captain Taylor Harwood-Bellis appearing to mock a Middlesbrough player with a binoculars celebration amid allegations that Saints had spied on Boro's training session before their play-off clash.KWAB
>>154751669One of the funniest things they done with Willy Salt the intern was the idiot bought a cup of coffee at a golf course owned by the owner of Boro WITH CARD not even cash so there wouldn't be a paper trail
>>154751843Professionals have standards Probably wouldn't have agreed to it>>154751839They probably did it for a ton of games they didn't get caught at too, just these 3 are the ones they can prove
genuinely cant believe they went with this punishment lmao
>>154751726why does a chilean give a fuck about the 2nd division football team of a country thats 7000 miles away lol
>>154751854
lol based
>>154751854Knowing your opponents Set Piece routines in advance can be highly advantageous
What the fuck, every team out there does this
chances this gets overturned on appeal?
>Aidan Morris might be in the PL next yearFucking kek
>Southampton have also received a four-point deduction in the Championship for next season.They're going to focus their appeal on this right?
>>154751854Quite a lot.You can see what formation and style they will play.If they are doing drills to target for example your right side, you know to prepare for that.You can see any special set piece routines or how they plan to defend against specific players on corners etc>>154751886Based Kris dropping trvthnvkes from Basingstoke
>>154751895someone should clip every time during the match the Southampton players 'predicted' what the boro players would do during a corner or something. would be interesting
>>154751825This week has been a kicker! First Mourinho joining Real, then Pep quitting City and now this
BASEDFUCK SAINTS
KWABOTW
>>154751741Still Vince
They've taken Saintsweb forum offline KWABhttps://www.saintsweb.co.uk/
actually fucking hilarious, hope theybget nowhere near playoffs next season
kek KEK KLENKfuck off saintsthe souf coast is >ours
LGTSS>TOMBOLA ECKSHART>TARDA ECKTARDHis career is pretty fucked now because everybody knows he was part of it
>>154751827They cheated 115 times?Ohno, wait.It's the EFL, not the 3 wise monkeys Prem. And the EFL actually Do Shit, it would appear.
>Southampton have immediately appealed against the decision to expel the club from the Championship play-off final, according to the Southern Daily Echo, the city's local newspaper.The final is in 4 days, will there be time?
just promote hull and be done with it
>>154751976No, at best they'd just be able to overturn the 4 points deduction for next season, or have grounds to sue the EFL for lost revenue
Absolute disgrace when tens of thousands of innocent fans have already told their kids they’re going to Wembley. Fuck sake.
>>154751976>they accept their appeal and return to the finalnothing ever happens final boss
>>154751976>Admit to all three spying charges>appealNot too bright are they
>4 daysHas Middlesbrough been training and preparing to play?
What a week NORF chads>Cheating souf poofs kicked out Playoffs, guaranteeing another NORF team in PL>Posh Souf cunt being kicked out as PM to be replaced by a NORFchad
>>154751990>Southampton fans>'innocent'Fly with crows?Get shot with crows
>>154752010Yes
>>154752010yeah they kept trainingthey trained and prepared to face hull, hull trained and prepared to face saints....
>>154752022>implicitComplicit you illiterate boomer fuck
>Giving Middlesboro a biThis is unfair they should make Middlesboro play Millwall for an eliminator for the final spot
Setting aside the dishonesty of spying, if a team can not discern information about their opponents based on hours of match data then what chance will they have in the Prem? Zero.
>>154752044Its worse than that, Southampton should actually be deducted points this season and not be in the playoffs at all let alone the final.
>>154752034implicit sounds better tholike a sudden outbreak of 'cheating bastardness' just happened to him by accident.
Genuinely surprised that Boro are there. Is Hackney fit enough for the match do we think?
>>154751669This is just the club punishment btw.Anybody involved in it could get personal bans from FA, e.g. manager has to have known about it, can get banned for years
>>154752044semms unfair to boro to play an extra game
YOU'RE GETTING MAULED BY THE TIGERSYOU'RE GETTING MAULED BY THE TIGERSMAULED BY THE TIIIIIIGERSYOU'RE GETTING MAULED BY THE TIGERS
WHAT THE FUCK I WENT ALL INAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>154751899Ah the resident brown has arrived with his brown takes.
>spying on Oxford UnitedKWABOTY
Hullanon here my head is on Mars
Hopefully Hull still prevail. Boro are dogshite.
>>154752128So are 'ull, didn't they go 7 without a win until the last game of the season or something?
Hull will be a welcome addition to the EPL. Guaranteed 6-points all round for every club
Genuinely impressed and astounded that a football authority hasn't taken the path of least resistance for once
>>154751669
>>154752157YeahIt'll never catch on.
Seems pretty heavy handed.I live near Millwall's training ground, and it's literally next to the road, you could stand outside and watch them if you wanted. https://maps.app.goo.gl/dfQEPc8z3ktoXGZ86Charlton are the same as well, their training ground is next to a park.
CHEATERS NEVER PROSPERFOR ONCE THE FA DID THE RIGHT THING
>>154752147Eh maybe. I've just seen Boro a few times this year and some of their players look League One level.
Splendid. Fucking hate the When the Saints Go Marching In, it's the worst chant in football. Fuck off with that shit.
Taylor Harwood-Bellend will never live this down
THEY DID IT BECAUSE I EXPOSED GROK'S GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA ABOUT CHEM TRAILS
https://twitter.com/Pompey/status/2056799878349574621hehehehehehehehehe
>>154751669jajajajajajajajajajaja
>>154752173>Seems pretty heavy handed.Not really. The dates make interesting reading as well because Le Meme Manager was sacked in November and the first stated offence was December. There's a possibility they were doing this through the entirety of Eckert's tenure.
based, the premier league would never have the balls
>>154752173I don't think he wandered past the pitch in Middlesbrough on his way home from work in Southampton.All they had to do was get someone not employed by the club to do it. Surely this is what PIs are for.
kek
>>154752173I don't see why that matters
Oh well lolWhatever will be will be
>>154751669>>154752203This unironically could be catostrophic for southampton. Can see Harwood-Bellis, Shea Charles, Azaz, Wood and Fellows all leaving and getting poached by Premier League clubs.
>>154751957surely this mega autist is going to be banned/sacked for this
>>154752260lol
>>154752309If Southampton keep him on they are genuinely fucking retarded.>>154752074 makes a good point as well, Eckert's career in England is probably finished.
Steve Gibson is such a twat.Any other owner nothing would have been done. He's proper in with Rick Parry
>>154752309He will probably get a personal ban for bringing game into dispute for couple years
>>154752329Gibson is a fucking petty cunt but he's a broken clock. In this instance, it was actually the right thing to do. The fact Eckert's lads spied not just on 2nd place but the team that eventually finished 22nd shows it didn't matter where their opponents were in the table.
https://www.espn.co.uk/football/match/_/gameId/744871/southampton-oxford-united>they still lostkek
>>154751899of course
>>154752309It's Over.
Hull are going to feel like shit if they lose this
>>154752418kek what an idiot
>After an inquiry carried out by the FA, the club was subsequently hit with a £200,000 penalty by the English Football LeagueSo the real question is which kikes did Southampton upset
>>154752437The rules changed after Leeds got caught spying
>>154752361They won none of the admitted matches:>Oxford (A): L 1-2>Ipswich (H): D 2-2>Boro (A): D 0-0
aaaaaaaaand NEWWWWWWWWW
>>154751961Southampton haven't spent tens of millions on an army of lawyers to fight it.
>>154752471ahahahahahaha kicked out and manager banned for nothing
>>154751884Because its kino, just like the prem and league one/two and the national leagueI dont give a shit about our league full of shitters, i only care about my beloved charlton athletic and yeovil town
>>154752497>my beloved charlton athletic and yeovil townbased Chilean Glory Hunter with a bad sense of direction
>>154752487>banned for nothingThose are only the matches they admitted. Convenient they were all failures to win. Who's to say they weren't spying on every game of Eckert's tenure?
>>154752471They probably admitted games they lost so it doesn't look too bad, they deffo did it for more
>>154752534yeah pointtheir form is suspiciously overpowered from december onwards
>>154751733Why did he do it? There's like 45-50 fully filmed Middlesbrough games they could have watched instead of doing this for a fucking training session where there was no guarantee they would have done anything new. Considering they clamped down on this with harsher punishments it's a retarded level of risk.
>>154752547Especially in relation to Coventry. They lost just a single game after the January transfer window closed. Have a guess who beat them.
>>154751957>everybody knows he was part of itall the staff were in on it they dropped him from their photos because they knew he might get caught and didn't want him to be recognised
>>154752603What a weirdo
This is nutso
Why is spying during training even banned? How is it 'unfair' when all clubs can do it if they wanted to? If you're going to call it unsportsmanlike, then what about analysing opposing teams past matches and playing styles? Why does it only become unsportsmanlike if it falls within an arbitrary 72 hour match window?
>>154752680If the teams didn't want it to be a rule they would change it
>>154752680past matches are open to everyone, one team spying creates asymmetry and unfairness in preparation
>>154752680Why not just not be brown?
>>154751726Why did they admit to it
soton bros not like this
>>154752205underrated post
>>154751669>Southampton have admitted to multiple breaches of filming other clubs’ training.It's amazing how quickly cheaters are punished when they are not owned by an oil sheikh
>>154752713The Southamptom spy is white.
>>154752792That makes it WORSE.
>>154752471>>They won none of the admitted matches:what about the unadmitted matches?
why send a person to stand behind a tree? Why not use drones?Just Ask Le Tissier I'm sure he'll have given them some connections or at least point them in the right direction.
Should've invested in some meta glasses to better cheat than casually stroll in with a regular camera and hide behind a tree.
>>154752866If they were that fucking stupid to admit the wins they'd be getting more than a 4 point deduction.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH SO MANY NEWS HITTING THESE PAST FEW HOURS
>>154751990They can watch from home with their new binoculars
should be kicked out of the league not just the playoff
>>154752603basedi love weird rivalries like this that will traverse many seasons and rile up the fans
>>154751892>Nobody here but us trees
HVLL are still the protagonists of the final, right?
>>154753388of course, we are all hull here
>>154752479Why does the Premier League give a fuck about Man Shitty's lawyers? Why would they have to abide to English laws to relegate teams?
>>154753473Unlimited fundsCity are backed by a state which prints its own money
>>154751669Completely pathetic and disgusting. Meanwhile Man. City can break every financial rule in the book and be completely fine. Modern UK is a third world country, corruption absolutely everywhere.
Meanwhile our owner is fucking about on a boat in Istanbul with Gabriel Agbonlahor lel
That's a pretty dodgy decision. These clubs with expenses over $100 million can't do some exercises indoors in a secret place or do some counterintelligence? Now everyone can pretend being spied on by one of their own fans
Based Oli
>>154753510Shane Gillis owns your club?
Southamptonsisters this can't be happening
>>154751669So who was in the wrong here? Were the EFL right to kick Southampton out?
>>154753990EFL have shocked everyone by actually showing some bollocks
>>154753990See >>154753588
>>154751827Hilariously, they lost that game against Oxford.
>>154751733This kid needs to go into witness protection for his own safety
>>154751733fucking zoomers can’t do anything right
Does this mean Wrexham still have a chance?
>>154751990They had an fa cup semi final mate at wembley already. Doubt their fans care
>>154751733same energy as the guy with the binoculars grabbing his crotch
>>154751733Has he got one of those ghey earlobe plugs?
>>154751669wtf this is some april fools bullshit
>>154755005Eckert probably tried spying on Man City as well
all my fucking lelzyet more pain sent to Wrectum Hollywood FCkekerino
>>154751733>The spy, Southampton analyst intern William Salt, is said to have parked at the golf club, then walked a couple of hundred yards down a road which leads to a raised area of ground.Willy Salt
>>154755903what
>Southampton finally get a good manager>Beat Leicester 4-3 from 3-0 down, the 9-0 shame is healing>Actually look competitive against PL teams after the embarrassment of last season>Eckert gets exposed as a fraud and completely fucks the entire club upIt truly is suffering being raised to support this shit team.
>>154756033Don't appoint shit managers then.
>Southampton thrown out for gaining an unfair advantage in preparing for their opponent>Hull haven't known who they were going to face since they went through, Middlesbrough knew if they got back in they'd be playing Hull
Who's the biggest Southampton fraud of all time: Ali Dia or Tonda Eckert?
>>154756231Not to mention that Boro have been in shit form for a while and probably would have lost regardless of spying
>>154756231southampton don't exist in a bubble, there were always going to be side effects to punishing them
>>154751669>>154751733This is unbelievably retarded.
>>154751733
Lel
>>154756950Why are english foitball fans so vile
NEW @TheAthleticFC Southampton players exploring their options regarding legal action against the club if the English Football League’s verdict to expel them from the Championship play-off final is upheld. Potential loss of earnings etc etc.
>>154756950Mad how these two teams will hate each other forever now over something so dumb
>>154756981Honestly that pic just sums up soccer fans: either pathetic retarded losers or mouth breathing scum.
>>154756998>Southampton players sue Southampton >Southampton sue EFL>Southampton fans sue EFL for travel costs etc >Hull fans sue if the final date or time changes>Millwall sue because they also got knocked out the play offs and want a second chance>Wrexham sue because they should be in the play offs in Southampton are expelledLawyers across the country rubbing their hands right now.
>>154757136the americanisation of england marches on
>Southampton manager Tonda Eckert admitted he was responsible for the decision to spy on opponents — his key defence was that, since the practice is widespread on the continent, he had no idea he was breaking English football rulesThis is profoundly retarded
>>154757262He was assistant at Barnsley from 2020 to 22 as well lmao
>>154751669Good riddance, they never add anything of value to the EPL
>>154757315That makes it even worse, fucking hell. The sooner Sport Republic tell him to fuck off, the better.>The Southampton squad had largely been kept away from the Spygate affair & only had the basic details communicated to them by the club — the players were furious at the EFL verdict, having only found out at the same time as everyone elseThis could unironically send them back to League One.
>>154757262"spying" is not controversial outside England, but maybe someone in the club should have told him it was banned in England?
>>154757262>that's how we do it IN GERMANY
>>154756981>My autistic sonGuy brought it on himself. Is there a culture that is gonna be like "how sad your child is retarded and having a fit over exposure to reality let me give you positive energy"Nah, you say "My autistic child is crying because a cheating cunt got exposed" and you're gonna get "lemme see it!"
>>154756950why does it seem like everyone in the UK has autistic children?
>>154757136>Wrexham sueI don't trust their legal team
>>154757641Benefit Fraud
>>154757641Gf is a teacher, basically half of kids are autistic or ADHD now.It's probably more prevalent because of various reasons, but also kids growing up before 2000 were just seen as "naughty" without needing a diagnosis
>>154757829>basically half of kids are autistic or ADHD nowIt's multifaceted. Firstly, the systems to diagnose are more established, so more get diagnosed. Secondly, the criteria has been changed, it is much easier to get diagnosed. Thirdly and probably the worst part, is parents WANT their kids to have ADHD or autism, because it gives them a blank cheque for their kid to be shit and for them not to parent. Oh my kid knocked off a priceless vase and got sad you told him off? Well he's autistic, he doesn't understand :(. Oh my kid is behaving inappropriately? He has ADHD he can't help it. And if your kid gets too much to handle? Well you give his his meds, he becomes sleepy and you can go have a bottle of wine while he is sedated. Easy shit.Ask your GF about how many kids are coming into school with near to zero verbal communication, zero or little reading ability or who aren't toileted trained (and or wearing nappies).
>>154755025
>>154757688Celebs are cringe ya boomer
>>154757641Government pays for individual taxis to take each diagnosed spazz children to school, thus bankrupting every council in the land, and enriching every ethnic that registers their free motability car as a taxi and then drives their own kids to school.
>>154757638yep this.sick of people oversharing on social media.
>>154757262hes gonna get fucked
>>154756981english lower classes are just vile and yes, they were like this before mass immigration
>>154756981social media was a mistake.it's a 'no winners here' screenshot tho.
>>154751733How much money did they spent in the worst spy ever compared to what they would have gotten?Jesus even a drone would have done a better job.
>>154761654Alri Keir
Right I've slept on it and I'm still absolutely gobsmackedLet's see what today's appeal brings
who the fuck even bother spying the oxford team....
>>154762929They were spying likely every game since Tonda took over, I think they just admitted to the three cases with evidence hoping it would limit the punishment.
>>154762948make sense, mental to see this play outall the tickets sold and everything
>>154762988Indeed lad I'm a Hull City fan with three nights in a hotel booked lel. Got family down there anyway so it wouldn't be a wasted trip but still, hope the new fixture goes ahead
>>154762998what's the sentiment from hull fans vs the opponent switch?they might be a better team but at least your team prep for them, now has to switch gears vs boro
>>154763027I'm quite serene about it, more bothered that the game goes ahead on Saturday for the 38,000 of us to have a big party.Sergej is the boss, he'd been planning for either eventuality. Boro looked pretty hopeless across their semi but this might/will give them a huge boost. Before all this I would have rather played Boro, Soton are a niggly diving ex-PL team and especially with VAR at Wembley I didn't really want to face them
>>154763086either way, i hope hull win so we can see the tiger come back to the prem
>>154763086>>154763027Also City have so many injuries that our team would be identical anyway
>>154751669Keir Starmers fault
>wag finger at analyst's hobby of going to other clubs and analysing them in his own time like other train/plane/bird-spotting anoraks do>fire him, give him a nice generous severance package, and make him sign an N.D.A. EFL can't force a civilian to participate in their inquiries or hand over devices and recordings, because they aren't the police and he hasn't broken any real laws (unless he trespassed at other training grounds)>manager can say he never saw any recordings or changed his tactics based on analyst's advice. Ballache to prove otherwise>club statement - they apologise for their former employee's enthusiastic off-the-books activities, but it had no impact on the management of Southampton FC. They have handled the matter internally and are completely willing to cooperate with whatever inquiries the EFL may haveOr just admit to everything that was suspected, and then more, throw away MILLIONS of pounds of Premier League revenue, and then have the gall to appeal the punishment for the slam dunk you've given the EFL because you foolishly expected them to reward your newfound honesty.EFL should send them down and let Oxford stay up for the fucking audacity.
>>154763086Boro looked like PSG in the first 20 minutes of both games
>When #SaintsFC spied on Ipswich, the operation involved dressing in Eastleigh kit as a disguise>Ipswich were training at Eastleigh's training groundI'm sorry but what the fuck is the appeal going to be, other than humiliating?
>>154763172Ah yes the Michigan defence
So who orchestrated spygate? Was it the manager or did it come from the top, the bigwigs sat in saints tower?
>>154763518Looking like the manager and the director of footballother staff admitted remorse and said they were forced into spying
>>154753631I miss that Blades team lads
>ynr Soton fans singing "he's in your hedge" to the tune of Zombieadmittedly made me topkek
>>154763570>I ALWAYS FEEL LIKE>SOUTHAMPTON'S WATCHING ME
>>154763604fucking kekcan't wait to play them next season
>>154751669The voyeur
>>154763645>this is a genuine EFL post: https://twitter.com/EFL_Comms/status/2057031074593771818And back to normality with them. Why the fuck is there an hour's difference depending on the opponent?
what is this woke nonsense? spying is based and every team can/should do it
>>154751733>>154755025>>154756944>>154758029
>>154763664Probably to help people to get back up north after the game?I wonder how many North Yorkshire coaches have already been taken by City, we've been given extra tickets by the EFL it's going to be class
>>154763684>Probably to help people to get back up north after the game?Hull fans would have to go back up north regardless of the opposition.
>>154763690Yeah but now there'll be a similar amount of Boro fans doing the same thing, so the game ending an hour earlier frees up more trains for this
he’s temporarily disgraced now, but at least he has such a great CV to fall back on
this shit is going to follow southampton around like a bad smell for decades
>>154763671
>>154763543>manager and the director of footballBitcon guy or the other guy (Spors), doesn't seem clear who DoF actually is. If its Bitcoin dude, he has zero excuse. Tonda is also screwed - 'I no spreche de Lingo' - ignorance is no defence. But it would be a surprise if most club weren't at it.
>Southampton are preparing to sack head coach Tonda Eckert following the Spygate scandal — sources have confirmed that his position is now viewed internally as increasingly 'untenable'nofuckingway
>>154751669Lol this cunts career is fucked I hope he goes scorched earth and explains how it was all the owner and directors plan
>>154763712>just about younger than meFuck bros I'm a "chopped" "unc"
>>154763768>>154763769he's facing a ban of a year or more and they need a new manager to for new seasonmaybe he can still get a job in a BROWN country where people react to this mess with "uhhh we browns don't see a problem with this"
>#SaintsFC sources felt the Spygate hearing should have taken place after the play-off final, rather than being expedited by the EFL. They thought there were too many rules that had no defined sanctions, which left too much open to interpretation, and if the rules had been clearer, the incident would have been resolved more speedily.>They also pointed out that Southampton put in one of their worst performances in recent months against Middlesbrough in the first leg, which suggested that no sporting advantage had been gained.This is absolute delusion
>>154763768if you are DoF and the firestorm is heading in your direction, obviously you chop down anything on its path first and build a firewall. Tonda was screwed anyway, he doesn't even have the grace to be apologetic.
>>154763794>we cheated and STILL never wonthey aren't winning PR Hearts and Minds here, for sure.
>>154763809>Tonda was screwed anyway, he doesn't even have the grace to be apologetic.Says to me he knew all about it.
>>154763794>>They also pointed out that Southampton put in one of their worst performances in recent months against Middlesbrough in the first leg, which suggested that no sporting advantage had been gained.Kek, they definitely spied on loads of other teams then.They genuinely thought that honesty and selective truth-telling is how to damage-control.
>>154756950
>>154763791Expect to see something like>Disgraced ex-Southampton boss Tonda Eckert has been appointed manager of second division UAE side Arabian Falconswithin the next year
>>154757641Vaccines/benefit fraud/immigrants
>>154764007Digits of Bond.
>Championship playoffs should restart with Wrexham replacing Southampton, says Windasshate Wrexham but he's right.>Southampton may face legal challenge from own players after being kicked out of playoff finalKWAB
>>154757641Bong is on track to be Full Autist within 100 years. California is way ahead tho. Way, way ahead.
I hope they find these 2 lolcows and interview them
>>154764139that fucking joke blew up in their faces didn't it kek
>>154751854Next time you play a high profile football match, let's see if you want to see the opponents likely tactics in advance
>>154756981Just bantz mateI thought it was funny
>>154751733I’m not gonna explain it but there’s more than one way for a hundred percent deniable and untraceable way to spy on the other team training, and it’s not some retarded zoomer hiding behind a tree
>>154764272>I’m not gonna explain itoh go on please
>>154764272Shagging the oppo's manager, Russian honeypot-style?That was Willy Salt's plan B. He ran off into the golf clubhouse to change into his dress and fancy knickers and shave his legs.
Understand that today's appeal is pretty final as the independent panel sits outside the arbitration of CAS
>>154764352>SSN saying Wrexham now weighing up their optionsHow about fuck off
>Arsenal gifted a title by the refs>now the Prem feels it needs control over who gets promoted tooutterly sold out to Americans league
>>154764360my solution:20 TEAM PLAY-OFF KNOCKOUTS!all teams apart from coventry, ipswich (automatic promotion), southampton (punished), and wrexham all take part in a replacement competition to satisfy all legal actions relating to spygate.
>>154764374The EFL and PL are different organisations and the latter have zero involvement in this, you spastic
>>154764395enjoy your sports entertainment
>>154754332Because Southampton supporters like rishi sunak are 'ard
>>154757262Is he muslim? He might just get away with it...
>>154763645It's in three days. This is so confusing. Do Wembley have to resell the tickets before the match? What if some ticket-holders don't care who plays, and want to come anyway just because it's Wembley? How will anyone figure out if that's what happening, or if it's a load of Southampton fans coming to boo and protest? This whole thing is guaranteed to be an absolutely gargantuan shitshow.
>>154764506As someone with a ticket booked, they haven't been issued yet anyway.>What if some ticket-holders don't care who plays, and want to come anyway just because it's Wembley?Tickets were only on sale to each club's members anyway, other than the Club Wembley seats some (rich) people might "own" for every event at the stadium
>>154751733Really has the same energy as this.
>>154764454You have egg on your face Hans
>>154755025>>154756944>>154764554>>154751733For me, it's
>>154764531hope for your sake this isn't delayed or worse, hull got there fair and square.
>>154751738Wouldnt happen in the Premier league
>>154753588As a different user who shares the same flag as you I have to say this. You're making some good points
>>154756950>>154757641>>154763857
>>154764585exactly mate, going to be 28c in London on Saturday, get a few Buzzballs in me and have a cracking day hopefully
>>154753060Kek
Spyhampton finally speak: https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/news/article/club-statement-20th-may-2026>We have appealed yesterday's decision by the Independent Disciplinary Commission to expel Southampton Football Club from the Sky Bet Championship Play-Offs, and to impose a four-point deduction for the 2026/27 season. Before turning to that appeal, I want to address our supporters, our players, and the wider football community directly and without equivocation.>What happened was wrong. The club has admitted breaches of EFL Regulations 3.4 and 127. We are sorry to the other clubs involved, and most of all to the Southampton supporters whose extraordinary loyalty and support this season deserved better from the club.>We have provided our full co-operation to the EFL's investigation and disciplinary process. Following the appeal, we will also be writing to the EFL to volunteer our participation in a working group on the practical application and enforcement of Regulation 127 across the Championship. Contrition without change is hollow, and we intend to demonstrate change.
>>154764779>On the appeal itself: we accept that there should be a sanction. What we cannot accept is a sanction which bears no proportion to the offence. Whereas Leeds United was fined £200,000 for a similar offence, Southampton has been denied the opportunity to compete in a game worth more than £200 million and one which means so much to our staff, players and supporters.>We believe the financial consequence of yesterday's ruling makes it, by a very considerable distance, the largest penalty ever imposed on an English football club. Luton Town's 30-point deduction in 2008/09 — to date the most severe sporting sanction in the English game — was levied against a club already in League Two, with no comparable revenue at stake. Derby County's 21-point deduction in 2021 cost them their Championship status. Everton's eventual six-point deduction in 2023/24 followed losses of £124.5 million, a figure dwarfed by what has been taken from Southampton in a single afternoon. The largest financial penalty ever levied by the Premier League, against Chelsea in March of this year, was £10.75 million, and was accompanied by no sporting sanction whatsoever despite involving £47.5 million in undisclosed payments over seven years.>We say this not to minimise what occurred at this club, which we have accepted was wrong. We say it because proportionality is itself a principle of natural justice. The Commission was entitled to impose a sanction. It was not, we will argue, entitled to impose one that is manifestly disproportionate to every previous sanction in the history of the English game.>Our appeal will be heard today, and we will provide a further update in due course.This is absolutely hilarious. Especially the points deduction paragraph.
>>154764779>>154764787They have absolutely nothing lol. It;s joever.
>>154764787those citations just make their playoff exclusion and 4 points deduction seem really small.
>>154764802>>154764806Imagine being caught for spying on multiple teams and your only apparent issue is>we lost out on potentially getting £200m!!!EFL should have given them a 40 point deduction.
>>154764817Exactly, huge assumption they would even win
Waking up to this has really helped deal with the sour taste of arsenal winning the pl
>>154764851Also very funny about Luton, whose 30 point deduction cost them Football League status yet he completely ignores that to go on about>muh revenue.
>>154764787> a figure dwarfed by what has been taken from Southampton in a single afternoonAlri lads hull arent that shit
>>154751733The spy who kwabbed me
apparently an appeal decision will be made at 6pm tonight
>>154764787>cheat consistently to reach the Final>'ok yes we cheated and that's bad, but stopping us from playing in the Final and winning £200m is unfair!'what is this logic lmaothe whole statement is bafflingly bad, a complete ignorance of how it is Eckert & his co-conspirators that have massively let their fanbase down and tainted their season, not the EFL.
>>154765216>a complete ignorance of how it is Eckert & his co-conspirators that have massively let their fanbase down and tainted their season, not the EFLThat in itself is worryingly telling. Gives the impression it was endorsed by those above Eckert.
>>154765190Because of the short lenght of your ban, you may not appeal it
>>154765340jannie'd
>>154765340kek'd
>Leeds caught spying - £250k fine>Southampton caught spying - Kick out from £250 million gameHow the fuck is this fair?
>>154765496EFL had no rules in place at the time for Bielsagate.Alternatively Southampton shouldn't have appointed a complete fraud.
>>154765340hehe
>>154765496There were no rules against it when Leeds did it because the idea that anyone would be foreign enough to do it was completely unthinkable to the English mind.
>The appeal hearing to decide whether to overturn Southampton's punishment is set to start at 18:00 BST, the BBC understands.
>Hull City owner Acun Ilicali has confirmed the club are examining whether the Championship play-off final can be cancelled over Southampton's spying, with a view to earning automatic promotion to the Premier League.kek based Acun
>>154764307A disguise for starters
>>154765340
>>154766204They did that >>154763349
>>154766141>start at 18:00 BST,Wtf, how short is it?
>>154766404Video call with Rick Parry laughing for 5 minutes and then turned off
>>154766429she's risking a ban from football there
>>154763086Well they have to get the match on soon right? Are any of the players on any World Cup rosters?
>saints appealing>saints players considering loss of earnings legal action>hull considering legal action>kick off time varies depending on who plays hull for some reason>game only days awaykino
>>154766429Can you set me up with the video of this screenshot?
>>154765534>Bielsa rule>Dibu ruleWe shape the world with our unruly behaviour.
>>154766762https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football
>>154765340:)
>>154753136lmaooo
>scouting is LE HECKKN BAD UR BROWN!!!!Englel is a joke
>>154767094This wasn't scouting you silly cunt.
Wonder if there's now going to be a bloke with 2000 HULL V SAINTS half-and-half scarves in his garage
>>154766141>18:00 BSTWell ... that was an hour ago. Anything new yet?
>>154767154i keep checking, not seen anything yethttps://x.com/EFL
>>154767154I heard that there's going to be an announcement at 10pm our time, but something will get out before then
>>154767657>at 10pm our timeOh, thank you for the info. I'll have to read about it tomorrow, then. (That's 23:00 mainland time.)
>>154766762https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c392pmk9lx9t?post=asset%3A432d5377-5a46-4071-adeb-5442eef78290#post
>>154767731lmao, bbc has a live section like it is war coverage
Appeal result will be discovered around 10pm
>>154768255loving it, it's like waiting for Christmas 2
The @DailyEcho have been told that an outcome in Southampton's Spygate appeal hearing could come even later than the reported 10pm #saintsfc @rees_julian
comfy
>>154768706lmao
>"It feels like you've been put on trial for murder when all you've done is stolen a mars bar!" - Matt Le Tissier is not happy with Southampton's removal from the Championship playoff final
>>154768981i can't tell if he's joking or if he's on one of his grok-induced benders again
I feel like this is wasted on what is a relatively boring, middle of the road club. In an ideal world it would have happened to a club with a mental, delusional fanbase or a history of being a banter club. It’s one of the funniest things to happen in English football for years
>Southampton's appeal didn't go throughlmao get fucked
https://www.efl.com/news/2026/may/20/efl-statement--southampton-football-club/>A League Arbitration Panel has today dismissed Southampton Football Club’s appeal against the Independent Disciplinary Commission’s decision in respect of breaches of EFL Regulations.>As a result, the original sanction remains in force. Southampton’s expulsion from the Sky Bet Championship Play-Offs stands, alongside the four-point deduction to be applied to the Club’s 2026/27 Championship record and the reprimand in respect of all charges. In accordance with EFL Regulations, the decision of the League Arbitration Panel is final.>Following the conclusion of the proceedings, the Sky Bet Championship Play-Off Final between Hull City and Middlesbrough is confirmed as taking place at Wembley Stadium on Saturday 23 May, kicking off at 3.30pm.LOL
OGRE
>>154769243nah, these have wasted an EPL place for two seasons in a row. we get a proper derby in the final, and whoever goes up will actually try to stay up
>>154769243Imagine if this was Sunderland or something lmao people would have been killed
ngl, would have preferred them to reverse it just for maximum seethe
>>154769369>Hull v Boro>"proper derby"
>same guy city used failednot looking good 115bros lmao
GAME ON UP THE BASTARD TIGERS
>>154769432>Squire Patton Boggs>Blackstone ChambersAren't these American college basketball players
SaintsWeb forum has fallen over again
https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/news/article/club-statement-league-arbitration-panel-appeal>Southampton Football Club has this evening been informed that the EFL’s League Arbitration Panel has upheld the sanctions imposed earlier this week. As a result, the club will not participate in Saturday’s Championship Play-Off Final.>This is an extremely disappointing outcome for everybody connected with Southampton Football Club. We know how painful this moment will be for our supporters, players, staff, commercial partners and the wider community who have given so much backing to the team throughout the season and we apologise once again to everyone impacted by this.>While we fully acknowledge the seriousness of this matter and the scrutiny that has followed, the club has consistently believed the original sporting sanction was disproportionate, a view that has been widely shared by many in the football community over the last 24 hours.>We would like to place on record our sincere thanks to our supporters for the support, patience and loyalty they have shown throughout an incredibly difficult period. We will share information as soon as possible in relation to ticket refunds for those who bought tickets to Wembley.>Southampton Football Club has a proud history and strong foundations, but it is clear that trust now needs to be rebuilt. That work begins immediately. The club will reflect carefully on the events that have led to this point, learn from them and take the necessary steps to move forward responsibly.>While tonight is a painful moment, this football club will respond with humility, accountability and determination to put things right.Big tone change from>MUH £200MILLIONthis afternoon.
>>154769504Yeah sounds like they're not going to throw a wobbler to CAS (not that they can without risking literally being kicked out of the EFL)
>>154769570They weren't able to go to CAS. What Sport Republic need to do now is give Tonda Eckert some concrete boots and throw him in the Solent.Also>Pompey retweeting their post from yesterday >>154752212kek
It just all starts to make sense
>>154769832At this point you have to wonder if they were spying on Arsenal & Man City as well.
Jesus
Not wanting to tempt fate, but if Boro went up I don't think anyone could say they didn't deserve it after being in the top 2 most of the season. They just imploded after January.
assuming they did it near enough every match AND it was an in-joke amongst pretty much everyone at the club, a 4 point deduction and being removed from an individual play-off tie is fucking nothing.they should count themselves lucky. compare with Juventus.
>>154770037Indeed. So it seems like they would have got 6 points for the Ipswich and Oxford spying they admitted to, reduced to 4 on admission of guilt. Southampton might have also admitted these two particularly as they won neither game.But they must have been spying for more games, so why isn't the investigation continuing?
>>154770037Yeah, the expulsion is one thing, but the points deduction is pathetic.>>154770056>But they must have been spying for more games, so why isn't the investigation continuing?My guess is lack of time to get the season completed.
>>154770037>>154770056It's still fishy because Man City could buy themselves out after cheating
>>154752205Kek
>>154769947kek... also based image
All of this means Derby and Everton should get a points deduction
>>154756950Howling
this is what happens when the owners are smug moneyball wankers who appoint 33 year old PE teachers to run the team
>>154770171>33 year old PE teachers to run the teamSpeaking of 33 year old PE teachers, Will Still is apparently taking the Auxerre job.
>>154765496Didn't they also change the administration rules because of Leeds going to administration during the final match of the season?Dirty Leeds finding innovative ways to cheat
funny thing is if Bournemouth make the Champions League they'll have to play their home games at St Marys
>>154770400Well remembered:>With relegation virtually assured, Leeds entered administration on 4 May 2007, thus incurring a league-imposed 10-point deduction that officially relegated the club to the third tier of English football; the club had previously never played any lower than the second tier.>On 3 July 2007, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) lodged a legal challenge to Leeds' Creditors' Voluntary Agreement (CVA). Under league rules, if the club were still in administration at the start of the following season, Leeds would have been prevented from starting their season by the Football League. Following the challenge by HMRC, the club was put up for sale by KPMG, and again Ken Bates' bid was accepted. The League eventually sanctioned this under the "exceptional circumstances rule" but imposed a 15-point deduction due to the club failing to exit administration with a CVA, as the Football League rules required. On 31 August 2007, HMRC decided not to pursue its legal challenge any further.
>>154769947Absolutely elite stuff
>>154756950>https://www.saintsweb.co.uk/
Do Wrexhamchads stand a chance in all of this?If Soton spied all season, surely their final position in the table should be voided. There is a whistleblower at Soton now releasing internal chats suggesting they were doing it all season.#ridingwithreynolds
>>154770494lmao no
>>154770494inb4 this is all fixed just to get redditham in the prem
the stars align for the tigers
literally nobody supports Southampton and nobody cares about shitter leaguesyou are laughing at walls
Who Runs this club FFS?
Canada here. Bev Priestman would like a word.
>>154775845>absolutely SEETHING plastic
https://twitter.com/BalhamMatt/status/2057311587766083728Incredible meltdown here
>>154776749good meltdown from the lad but I do not have it in me to mock a fellow architect
>>154769855i just assumed that they spied on everybody and only reported the ones they lost
>>154776995Yeah, that's what I was saying. They've only admitted breaches where they didn't benefit from it. Maybe they should have kept William Stilliam and got relegated instead.
>The Football Association has confirmed it has launched an investigation into Southampton's conduct after the club admitted to spying on three clubs in the Championship season.LOL
>>154777079kek this is delicious>>154775845actually there was a "tigers or saints?" thread last week which had a lot of people saying southampton are going to win, some of them evidently supporters of the club.
>>154777121>kek this is deliciousThe FA could genuinely fuck them. Will be interesting if they recommend a higher points deduction. Imagine if they implement an immediate relegation and Oxford get reprieved.
the binoculars and camouflage memes will be used against them by opposing fans and players for generations.
>>154770430That would be hilarious.
>Chelsea and Man City (known to be satanic clubs) blatantly cheat and only get handed financial fines>Southampton (saints) pull something cheeky and get heemed out of the playoffsReally makes you think
>>154778045>prolonged period of spying on opposing clubs>"pull something cheeky"You're a fucking dumb cunt.
>>154778086>getting this emotional over a shitpost
They could have literally hid a dude in a van and fly a silent drone close to the training ground and film the session. Who the fuck green lit this decision to hide behind a tree?
>>154777292I'm pretty autistic but what did Southampton fans mean by that? Were they mocking the allegations thinking they weren't true, or were they leaning in to them while arrogantly assuming the club wouldn't be punished?
>>154778130>shitpostBackpedalling now. This isn't "cheeky banter".>>154778278The latter. Entire attitude about the club has been "we did this shit and we know we did it, you lost, suck it up Northern cunts".
>>154778309>backpedalingNah, the principle stands. punishment doesn't fit the crime especially when other clubs are getting away with way worse, could have just replayed the game or something
>>154778373NTAYRTThis very season, Swindon won 2-1 and were thrown out of the EFL Trophy for fielding two ineligible players against Luton Town, and Luton were reinstated (and actually ended up winning it at Wembley lel)The EFL playoffs is a different competition to the regular season. Southampton broke the rules in it, and their opponents were reinstated.>other clubs are getting away with way worseMan City are governed by the PL, the EFL is a different organisation. And so is the FA which will deal with punishing individuals soon.
>>154778373>punishment doesn't fit the crime especially when other clubs are getting away with way worse, could have just replayed the game or somethingYou're clueless, you don't know what you're talking about at all. They've been spying on opposition teams for pretty much the entirety of Tonda Eckert's tenure. Being expelled from the play-offs is more than substantial. However, to only be deducted four points for next season is lightweight as fuck.
>>154778429Completely.For a start, I wonder how many regular season games the EFL have evidence of spying in already.Southampton clearly chose to admit to two where>there already was some evidence>they didn't win to make the spying look less severeBut now, surely evidence from the internal chats will show they spied on every game so it should be 3pts deducted per game on top for every game they investigate now.
>>154778452If we go off the 4 point deductions for Oxford away and Ipswich at home, they should deduct 2 points off every game Eckert managed in the regular season (33). So that would be 66 points. Imagine seeing them start next season on -66.
>>154778469See I'm imagining it would have been 6pts deducted to 4 for admitting guilt.But they've not admitted guilt to the rest of the games so should be 3pts for each.
>>154778496So therefore minus 97. Lol.
And here comes Mi'waw: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/may/21/southampton-spying-scandal-millwall-wrexham-legal-options>Millwall and Wrexham are considering their legal options after confirmation that Southampton have been expelled from Saturday’s Championship playoff final and replaced by the beaten semi-finalists Middlesbrough.>The aggrieved clubs will await publication of the written reasons for the decisions taken by the English Football League’s independent disciplinary panel, which were upheld by an appeal panel on Wednesday night, but are understood to believe they could have grounds to make a claim for compensation.>Millwall and Wrexham could seek to test whether the EFL rulebook has been correctly applied or whether the disciplinary process was flawed, and could argue that because Southampton’s spying on Middlesbrough took place before the playoffs, they should have been replayed without Southampton’s involvement.
>>154778537top kekthis is getting better and better
>>154778541This is how I imagine every single football league committee in the world. Old men in blazers who refuse to change or adapt and get caught out.
>>154756950The walking saint won this exchange btw
They spied and cheated. They Can't complain. It was just never going to be accepted that paying a small fine is appropriate punishment for entering the richest game in world football. A £10 million fine for a shot at £250 million? All Championship clubs would gladly take that risk. Anything beyond being booted out would mean a free for all of rampant cheating in the Championship. The punishment had to be extremely severe.
is kind of funny
>players could sue their own club for loss of promotion bonuses>FA investigating extent of the spyingThe club can't tell the players they only got as far as they did because of spying, and then tell the FA they only spied in three games.
>>154778668If the truth is they spied in every single game under Eckert's management, this could genuinely kill Southampton as a football club.
>>154778668>>players could sue their own club for loss of promotion bonusesHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>154778613it didn't make me laugh
>Southampton's Eckert authorised spying, panel says>Southampton's spying on rival clubs was authorised by head coach Tonda Eckert and was a "contrived and determined plan from the top down to gain a competitive advantage", an independent disciplinary panel says.CHEATING SCUM
>>154781262Southampton have to sack him immediately. What a fucking fraud.Written reasons are here: https://www.efl.com/news/2026/may/21/efl-statement--written-reasons-relating-to-southampton-fc/
>>154778613This happened to me on Fifa 13 once
>>154781310Aye just read it. Fair fucking play to the panel.
If spying is really as widespread overseas as Eckert says it is its probably not just Southampton at it, points deductions for every team with a foreign manager, just to be sure.
>>154781445>In relation to the OU Incident, the Respondent played OUFC on 26 December 2025 in an EFL Championship Fixture. The same individual [William Salt] was in the vicinity of OUFC’s training ground on 23 and 24 December 2025 and observed training sessions, sharing information and footage with the Respondent.Imagine how that poor fucker felt on Christmas Day.>25. [Southampton] put forward a number of mitigating factors, including its co-operation with the EFL in the investigation in providing information and volunteering the facts which led to Charges 3 and 4, and 5 and 6. It acknowledged that in its initial response to the EFL on 8 May 2026 it provided inaccurate information, suggesting that the conduct was not part of the SFC’s culture and that no video footage was captured, transmitted, shared or analysed, when in fact the opposite was the case.>The Commission accepts the Respondent’s expressions of remorse, although this is tempered by the initial misleading response to the EFL (see paragraph 25 above). We were unimpressed by suggestions on the part of some of the Respondent’s witnesses that they were unaware that these actions were in breach of the Rules. The Respondent is a member of the EFL and has agreed to be bound by the Rules.Genuinely pathetic behaviour from Spyhampton. The entirety of the footballing staff should be given the chop.
I just want my beloved Tigers to be promoted
>Harwood-Bellis crying on Instagram
