>they're doubling downHAHA WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH SOUTHAMPTONhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cq6pn58pmn4oI mean Eckert might/will get banned by the FA, but at this rate the EFL should be investigating *every* game Southampton played under him, and not just the spying at Oxford and Ipswich they admitted to and took 4 points deduction for (6 reduced to 4), and they should be docked 3 points for every game with evidence.
>Saints
>the city of ShithamptonHENRYS IN A BOX IN A BOX
>>154973002Based
>>154973002Football needs more villains like this
>>154973002They believe they can avoid any legal action from Eckert if they sack him after he has been banned by the FA.They are probably right, but it looks silly because they are obviously going to need a new manager before next season starts.
>>154973075>you calling?Rosenoir to the rescue
Internbros…our response…?
Just posted about it in /epl/. Absolute lunacy from Solak and Eckert to come out with the shite they've said. And the best part is many of the gullible fans have eaten it all up and are claiming they'll be able to cope with being universally despised like Leeds and Millwall are. Even the Southampton players are apparently behind Eckert.Saw this exceptional stupidity from one Saints fan who thinks it'll all be forgotten by August. He is genuinely thick as fuck if he thinks this will EVER be forgotten.The FA will ban Eckert and Solak will be shitting himself.
kek spyhampton is done, enjoy league 1 cunts
As a (Premier League) Hull City supporter, what rankled me was in their initial statement after expulsion about "the harshest penalty in football history" was the assumption that they'd have won the play-off final and the £200m we'll get minimum for being there.They were talking like it was a £200m fine for Southampton Football Club when actually they'd just had their lottery ticket taken off them before the numbers came out. Fuck 'em. 4 points isn't enough, should be like 10.
>>154973161Reminded me a lot of the Mel Morris saga that involved Middlesbrough where they said they would have definitely been promoted without Mel being a dodgy cunt and stealing a play-off spot from them. Loved it when that dour fucker Gibson had to watch the Hull City players parade the trophy in front of him.
>>154973103Why are Leeds and Millwall so hated? I’m a curious man is all, sir.
>>154973179>LeedsNotorious for being dirty in the 1960s/70s under Don Revie which coincided with their most successful period.>MillwallFamous for hooliganism in that same period (and on into the 80s culminating in the 1985 Kenilworth Road riot) which is why so many people wanted them promoted to the PL.So the soppy cunt in that image thinking Southampton's spy reputation will be forgotten in two months is completely fucking retarded.
>>154973196That’s fair. I don’t have a favorite club team even though I’ve been following and watching quite a bit of sokkkerball for almost 4 years now but that’s sad to hear since in the English pyramid I’ve come to really like both Leeds and crewe Alex, so I was happy to see Leeds stay up admittedly. Thanks for the knowledge though, man
>>154973002>diving worse than spyingObjectively correct.
There are rumours that Eastleigh are going to get investigated as well for their part in the Ipswich spying:>Southampton met Ipswich in the penultimate game of the season, with both teams going for second place. In preparation, Ipswich trained at Eastleigh Football Club.>One of the first-team coaches told another analyst that Eckert said at an earlier match preparation meeting that "someone should go to Eastleigh to look at Ipswich".>The assistant coach approached the junior analyst intern about travelling to Eastleigh "as the boss is adamant that someone needs to go". The junior analyst intern felt uncomfortable doing this and said "no" to the suggestion.>Another analyst said in his evidence that he grouped himself with the younger members of the analysis team who were being pressurised into carrying out the spying, and he felt pressurised himself.>This other analyst asked to be provided with an Eastleigh kit and a legend - an explanation of his supposed role at the National League club - and made the trip to observe the training sessions.>Someone present at Eastleigh that day video-recorded the whole session and it was sent to Southampton. From that footage, Southampton were able to predict the exact Ipswich team for the fixture.>Eckert claimed that he understood that someone from Eastleigh had sent CCTV footage of the Ipswich training session to someone at Southampton, the existence of which Eckert knew only a couple of hours before kick-off.
>>154973179Leeds have the most arrogant fans in English football, even though they've not won much compared to most of the bigger clubs.Millwall aren't really hated anymore, it's more of a joke about them being hated because they had a lot of hooligans following them forty years ago. As you'll have noticed from 'Match of the Day' and SKY's coverage of the Premier League, most English pundits are 60+ years old and stuck in the past
>>154973239>>This other analyst asked to be provided with an Eastleigh kit and a legend - an explanation of his supposed role at the National League club - and made the trip to observe the training sessions.
>>154973272https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/news/article/club-statement-1st-june-2026>The club is also concerned by the weight placed on assertions that junior staff were pressurised into involvement, when some of the most serious allegations appear not to have been supported by direct evidence. That said, junior employees should never have been placed in a position where they felt under pressure, and the club accepts responsibility for that failure of leadership and oversight.Funny that.
this is what happens when you give manager jobs to 33 year old PE teachers with laptops who have nothing other than the belief that they’re smarter than everyone else
>>154973002seriously what was that intern thinking?
>>154973455"Can't refuse, Tonda will rape me"
Is this a bigger disaster than what Portsmouth went through?
>>154973580That was bad financial affairs. This is cheating.
>Eastleigh FC gave CCTV footage to SouthamponWtf lmaoo
>>154974201>>Eastleigh FC gave CCTV footage to Southamponwtf is this level of incompetence
>>154973002NOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST WATCH THE OPPOSITION TRAIN BECAUSE...BECAUSE YOU JUST CAN'T, OKAYIT'S UNFAIR!!!
>>154974201>>154974251Definite bung been taken there by the Eastleigh staff
>>154974267yes that was essentially your fellow g*rman's response upon learning what he did was made illegal here several years ago.
>>154974311why didn't Klopp get a witch hunt?Liverpool were caught accessing City's scouting database
>>154974337>2013I don't think Klopp was at Liverpool at the time.Anyway these rules came in after 2019 when Leeds were caught spying.
>>154973002According to an anonymous source the intern is an avid photographer who loves to shoot urban objects from great heights, especially if it's related to his other passion, which is obviously football. As a compensation for his troubles Southampton will allegedly provide him top-tier equipment and a dedicated time frame to be able to practice his talent; moreover, they will organize the said trips for him and even take care of his transportation as well! The Saints manager Tonda Eckert and his staff, being a big supporter of the lad after having had the privilege of enjoying his previous works for long months will review the new materials before each game.
>>154974353so it's not the first time it happenedand a random 5th division club was happy to helpseems like a common thing in english football and the punishment wholly disproportionatefine them but let promotion be decided on the pitch
>>154974470>seems like a common thing in english football and the punishment wholly disproportionate>literally the 2nd time it has happenedHello Tonda.
>>154974470I don't know if you're incapable of reading or just retarded.
>>154974470t. Eckert on holiday
I know throwing the intern under the bus is a bit shitty but he did do a fucking terrible job of spying.
>>154973002>Intern should have spoken up "stronger"Lmao, if there's 1 thing that won't get them leniency it's blaming the culture and issues on low level people.
>>154974470>get exposed so hard you come to /sp/ to copeTonda please
>>154974545should have paid himjames bond wouldn't bother saving the world so many times if he was paid the same as the glorified photocopier
>>154974477two times more than the other leagues
>>154974545Maybe he did it deliberately so Saints would get fucked by it.>>154974611Stop trying to make excuses for his behaviour.
>>154973002>Diving worse than spyingcompletely agree with this
>>154974477>>literally the 2nd time it has happenedit has been noticed*
>>154973002Why would they fire him? He literally knows all the tricks of the rest of the teams. This is why he should have been given a football ban along with all his staff.
Brits will get riled up about a guy filming the opposition training but not about the rape gangs in their country
>>154976486>This is why he should have been given a football ban along with all his staff.He will, FA haven't concluded their process for bans yet
>>154976541I'm not sure the Football League's advisory committee are in charge of rape gang investigations mate
>>154976541lmaobased Bigeee
First Nowak now this, why Southampton authorities so ruthless?
>>154973002>noooo you can't just spy on people that's illegal I mean, England's second greatest fictional hero is a spy, some might see a little hypocrisy in the pearl-clutching
>>154977388James Bond is a good guy, in this case Southampton is more like the KGB, i.e. spies but always the baddies.
>>154976790I wonder if this comment is legit. We do have a lot of these barber shops
>>154977411Well Bulgaria had a lot of Turks from the Ottoman days.Here its not uncommon to find a closed down barbers with Turk references like "Istanbul" in the sign.
>>154977411Seems like a global phenomenon. My city is also infested with barber shops and the only people you see inside are the friends of the barber hanging out with him.
>>154977400James Bond is only the good guy because he's written for a British audience by a British author, a KGB spy written for a Russian audience would also be a good guy
>>154977411I don't think laundering 80 quid a day is going to cut it but yes it does seem to be a common theory, no idea if it's true personally, would've thought there would be more efficient ways
>>15497799280 haircuts
>>154977388Who's the first? Sherlock Holmes?
>By that time he had already worked for Germany's national team as an analyst at UEFA Euro 2012 and the 2014 FIFA World Cup, also studying the culture of the adversary nation and what it might mean for the DNA of their team.
>>154977411Of course it is, those shitty kebab shops or pizzerias as well
>>154977442Arabs run them here, Turks are not famous for these shops here at all>>154977453We have a street here in which youll find barber shop next to barber shop. A total of 30 shops within 500m. Even if there are customers, I can hardly imagine every single one to be running on profit>>154977992Here its all net profit tax wise since I've never seen them issue a receipt
>>154978283What trafficking though? Id rather believe its like laundering of terrorist money or baka
>>154974569kek
>>154978345Mostly drug dealing
>>154973002Didnt they lose every game they admitted to spying on
I think we need to cut Eckert a little slack. As evidenced by posts ITT and in recent days, Germans are too autistic to understand why certain behaviors are generally regarded as underhanded or antisocial. You could go to Germany on vacation, peep into some random frau's bedroom window while she was changing, and she'd just nod at you coldly and keep undressing.
>>154978404His excuse was like "we do this in Germany"
>>154973002Diving is worse than spying
