Matthew Brook

@Craigyrobbo81 @StuartJones7 Oh come on lad, you hit the bar, cut us open several times. Bree in the right place at the right time, you were wasteful. You lost it on the pitch, not the training ground.

@BrookMatthew @StuartJones7 Anything but organised?? Did you see how many blocks you got in? We only had one chance where we took you apart and that was Conway hitting the post. You were well drilled and without our pressure excellently. Yes, Conway should have scored.

The disciplinary is on Tuesday. The match is on Saturday. This leaves no time to hear an appeal. The decision will have to be final. That’s why there’s little to no chance of EFL booting #SaintsFC out & risking Saints lawyers going after them for £200m losses #boro

@Craigyrobbo81 @StuartJones7 You allegedly changed the formation due to our ‘spying’ and we were anything but organised 😂 if Conway didn’t have 2 left feet you’d be organising a trip to Wembley.

@StuartJones7 You’re honestly thick as fuck if you think this is equivalent to stealing a mars bar. We had a lot of possession & shots 1st leg, but you were remarkably well organised to play against a formation/man-marking system we’d never played before & won most set pieces. How was that?

@CathodeGhosts @Boropolis @LukeEdwardsTele I would be embarrassed at that statement from last night, I’d also be embarrassed at the lack of accuracy of the same rags I mentioned previously. It all comes back to the same thing- the desperation to get back in to the POs

@BrookMatthew @Boropolis @LukeEdwardsTele It has. The Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph. The Guardian too. And so what if it is just Northern press. Your local paper is hardly going to label you cheats, are they? They are not desperate, they have been wrong. YOU have cheated. How would you react if it was reversed?

🚨💣 | MAJOR BREAKING: It is understood the EFL has ‘strong written evidence’ from Middlesbrough to support the accusation that Southampton had an analyst watch at least one other team train this season. [@LukeEdwardsTele] #Boro | #UTB | #SaintsFC

@CathodeGhosts @Boropolis @LukeEdwardsTele Because the only media reporting it are northern local media, if it was coming from our sources too then I’d be more assured about the facts- boro are just desperate, no more, no less.

@BrookMatthew @Boropolis @LukeEdwardsTele If you're happy basing stuff on evidence then why mock the process? How do you know what evidence has been submitted? What makes you so sure Boro don't have written evidence from another club? Like the majority of Southampton fans you blame everybody but yourselves.

@CathodeGhosts @Boropolis @LukeEdwardsTele Quick way to end a tirade there. 😂

@BrookMatthew @Boropolis @LukeEdwardsTele I don"t support Boro.

@CathodeGhosts @Boropolis @LukeEdwardsTele Are quite frankly, embarassing. The statements are nothing to do with sporting integrity, more about influencing something you aren’t a part of in real terms and hoping you’ll get in the back door. It’s embarassing that you would accept a bye to Wembley.

@CathodeGhosts @Boropolis @LukeEdwardsTele As an attempt to be rewarded for failure from going from 2nd to 5th, to out of the playoffs. You lost the game on a pitch, not in the training ground and you should’ve beat us at home but your poor finishing was the issue. Your attempts to influence an independent commission..

@Teessideracko @Yate5y You’re clutching.

@BrookMatthew @Yate5y You’re appealing.

So I’ve been told Final will be postponed EFL has evidence of other clubs spied on Southampton removed but EFL want further punishment Saints bosses are furious with Tonda and the other coaching staff and looking at a ban from football Whistleblower is ex saints employee

@Yate5y @Teessideracko You wouldn’t need to postpone it if we are removed, if we appealed being removed then that’s different but this guy is suggesting the EFL want to impose more sanctions… after giving out the harshest of sanctions. Hes a joker.

@BrookMatthew @Teessideracko Not that I believe it but if you get removed then the game is postponed and pushed back? Maybe better to say rearranged. Not that it's Gona happen

@aaronjamesf1 @userds5050 @Bullmeistersfc Worth noting it’s Pompey supporting Sam Matterface

@userds5050 @Bullmeistersfc Oh come off it. Every journalist has inside sources. But even one with a basic brain will ask "WHY are they telling me this?" If you parrot what you're told, you're a megaphone/poorly paid PR parrot.

Sam Matterface "We're not speculating. We've got inside sources". Yeah inside sources with a vested interest towards Middlesbrough. Here's the dictionary definition of speculation "Forming theories, opinions or guesses without knowing the facts" Sounds about right to me #SaintsFC

@BoroMundo @CraigHope_DM You do realise that he’s taking generic info and ramping it up to try and put pressure on something spectacular for him to report and make money from? Right?

@BrookMatthew @CraigHope_DM Reporting the issue is not sensationalising it

🚨 Middlesbrough want Southampton kicked out of Championship play-off final over ‘Spygate’ scandal & threaten legal action if this does not happen 👇 More on bombshell escalation... dailymail.com/sport/football…

@AlfieHouseEcho Any belief that the spying is systemic, Alfie?

🚨 Middlesbrough statement on disciplinary hearing: “Middlesbrough FC notes the decision of the Disciplinary Commission not to permit the club to intervene in the proceedings brought by the EFL against Southampton FC. “The club regrets that outcome, given we are directly affected by the matters under consideration and hold relevant factual evidence as to the events in question and their competitive impact. “The conduct at issue, namely the observation and recording of our training session ahead of a fixture of such significance, goes to the heart of sporting integrity and fair competition. In these circumstances, the only appropriate response is a sporting sanction which would prevent Southampton FC from participating in the EFL Championship play-off final. “We remain hopeful that the EFL, as regulator, will pursue such a sanction before the Disciplinary Commission in order to protect the integrity of the game, safeguard all member clubs, and deter any attempt in the future to obtain an unfair and unlawful advantage in pursuit of promotion to the Premier League. “The club reserves all its legal rights.” #SaintsFC

@secondtierpod That Boro statement.

What’s been the cringiest moment of the football season? 😬👀

@robbopalmer You appear to have incorrectly spelt ‘desperate’ and ‘embarrassing’

A well worded and very fair statement.

@AlfieHouseEcho Still trying to influence from the outside eh….

@Samwinton99 @yeahokayluke @DanW2Capital @SaintsExtra @CrossyDailyStar Then you need to have that as a written punishment and administer it immediately- truth is if that was the punishment, effectively a first leg forefeit, Saints would’ve played the second leg differently.

@BrookMatthew @yeahokayluke @DanW2Capital @SaintsExtra @CrossyDailyStar As it stands that is well within the rules but feels extreme to you because it wasn't clear before you cheated. You can't reasonably argue with that punishment in principle though IMO if you take the specific circumstance out of it

🚨 Any decision to expel Southampton from the Championship play-offs would result in a legal challenge from the club’s owners Sport Republic #saintsfc @CrossyDailyStar