EFL Playoffs 25/26 (Saints booted out of final and given 4 point deduction - pg34)

mendonca

They didn't need to, but I wonder if they spied on how to dismantle Apter and Hernandez playing as wing-backs! Something about those first 25 minutes was just too supremely drilled and executed.

cabbles

Harwood Bellis 😂😂😂 deserves it the twat after mocking Ayling’s stammer 

Croydon

I think Middlesbrough have only had one full training session since last week, so it's made a mockery of the final with a lack kf fairness on both teams playing. 

valleynick66

So they had an advantage over Oxford and Ipswich but no compensation for those teams? 

(I know they lost one game which only proves the crime is a difficult one to really say has a material effect). 

Absolute mine field. 

ValleyGary

Yeah Oxford can ask serious questions.

Lincsaddick

Briston_Addick said:

Laddick01 said:

Oh my god I can’t believe they’ve shown some backbone.

Well done EFL. Cheating should always be punished.

All eyes now turn to 115 charges sitting with the Premier League ...

And a warrant issued for Pep's arrest, now a fugitive from football justice lol

Elthamaddick

cabbles said:

Harwood Bellis 😂😂😂 deserves it the twat after mocking Ayling’s stammer 

Was my first thought, haha - hopefully Roy Keane has given him a decent dressing down.

fair play to the EFL, showing some bollocks for once - although I think it should also been a -15 point deduction for the start of next season, make it even harder for them 

Laddick01

I hope Hull go up as they deserve it. 

However I’d love to see Boro score and pull out the binocular celebration.

Fortune 82nd Minute

fenaddick said:

Thoughts and prayers with the Boro ticket office 

How on earth do you sell 40,000 tickets, and arrange travel for many of those people, in 3 days?

Afternoon Delight

It's not fair on the fans who might have sorted out train travel, hotels etc, but I suggest they take it up with the club.

usetobunkin

I have met the fella we use to spy on other teams, He is called Magoo.

AberystwythAddick

Oxford beat them as well

moutuakilla

Both sets of fans surely got to fill Wembley with spy fancy dress

Holdkneebomb

ValleyGary said:

Yeah Oxford can ask serious questions.

Guessing their case not strong as they got relegated by 4pts

siblers

Theres no real way of knowing but I wonder how much of an advantage Southampton gained by spying on 'Boro. Guess every % counts but just seems like such a risk. Especially when they did such a poor job of it

ValleyGary

Fortune 82nd Minute said:

fenaddick said:

Thoughts and prayers with the Boro ticket office 

How on earth do you sell 40,000 tickets, and arrange travel for many of those people, in 3 days?

It’s been delayed hasn’t it?

MillwallFan

sam3110 said:

Also, thank fuck that semi final was Boro Vs Saints and not Millwall

And @oohaahmortimer seems to think we’re a lucky club ! 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤣

PragueAddick

Henry Irving said:

That sound you can hear in the distance is Nathan Jones pissing himself laughing

The almost volcanic rumble you can hear is the sound of the entire global Pompey diaspora pissing themselves laughing

sam3110

swords_alive said:

That's what i don't get- why admit to it??
Morons

Probably an even harsher punishment coming to them if they didn't and got found out 

siblers

ValleyGary said:

Fortune 82nd Minute said:

fenaddick said:

Thoughts and prayers with the Boro ticket office 

How on earth do you sell 40,000 tickets, and arrange travel for many of those people, in 3 days?

It’s been delayed hasn’t it?

Still scheduled for Saturday according to BBC 

blackpool72

Laddick01 said:

I hope Hull go up as they deserve it. 

However I’d love to see Boro score and pull out the binocular celebration.

That would be histerical 

Chunes

If Boro get promoted, gotta build it...

Er_Be_Ab_Pl_Wo_Wo_Ch

Must be soul crushing for the Southampton fans and players, this would take some getting over.

For the players, a season of graft for nothing, no promotion bonus, no premier league wages coming their way. No doubt players' agents will see that unravel.

If Southampton's appeal is successful, Boro fans and players will go through the agony of disappointment, all be it just for 24 hours of thinking they were in the final.

Redvalleyeast

siblers said:

Theres no real way of knowing but I wonder how much of an advantage Southampton gained by spying on 'Boro. Guess every % counts but just seems like such a risk. Especially when they did such a poor job of it

Exactly. Its not like they havent played each other twice already this season. Idiots.

jose

I am glad it wasn't a direct financial penalty, and think it is right that Boro play the final.
Four points isn't that much, but I suppose it has been a tightrope for the EFL.

siblers

ValleyGary said:

Yeah Oxford can ask serious questions.

Say they were relegated by a point or on GD, the problem is you can't allow them stay up and then relegate someone else/block someone being promoted from L1. 

You'd need to relegate Southampton or have a 25 team league

PrincessFiona

ForeverAddickted said:

Surely Southampton will now be allowed to appeal though, how does this get resolved before Saturday? - Still doesnt change that Hull are f**ked as they've been training in prep to face the wrong team now... Feel like Hull should have just been given promotion, and the Final cancelled

It's better than a big fine and them being able to play in the final though

siblers

Also wonder if Eckert will now leave

pettgra

Pompey fans will show empathy I am sure. 

North Lower Neil

fenaddick said:

Presumably admitted those two as Oxford are down anyway and beat Southampton, and Ipswich won't care as they went up.

Guarantee they weren't the only instances.