Chris Elliott

@Matt0481 🤣🤣🤣 enjoy your keyboard warrior efforts. You’re clearly clueless as to what Southampton are actually guilty of here.

@Matt0481 Selective memory here, you’ve been caught cheating throughout the season, why do you keep going on about the semi final? And as many point out, you’d be so affronted if you’d been on the receiving end.

Anyone else bored of the fake moral outrage! Im convinced that if any other team did this, their fans would have acted just like ours. Its not that big of a deal and the fact that its accepted in most other countries should tell you that maybe we are the odd ones out #saintsfc

@Matt0481 Be interesting to see how he performs without cheating

Now the dust has settled, just keep him and embrace the hate. At the end of the day he’s a quality manager & we’ll be unable to attract a better one. #saintsfc

@JustPayTheMoney Not got a clue about player valuation. ‘Realistic’

My realistic #WHUFC summer window: IN Scienza £3.5m Hackney £11m Kpakio £1.5m Conway £7m Lloyd Jones £200k Azeez £15m Rushworth £9m Mane £6m Neco Williams £25m OUT Fernandes £100m Diouf £55m Todibo £40m Cry £60m #Boro #SaintsFC #WWFC #Bluebirds #cafc #MillwallFC #pusb #NFFC

@charliehawk93 Wasn’t for just the Boro incident though, was it? It was your teams multiple accounts of cheating, that they’ve admitted to. I’d confidently stake that they’ve been doing it to every team. Move away from Boro, that’s where they got found out, it wasn’t isolated to this.

I promise to drop Spygate finally at some point this week, but when Karen Brady phrases it like this, it does still make me realise how disproportionate our punishment was 🤦🏻‍♂️ We would’ve battered Hull yesterday too! #saintsfc

@dkaustin87 You must be trying to bait people with a o tap the ad money on X because it’s the only reason for the utter waffle you’re spouting. The football community felt bad for Southampton fans, your tripe makes people feel like you’re as bad as the cheats.

@dkaustin87 Why do you keep going? It’s done, your team cheated, you’re out. No going back. The more you fight this the more it demonstrates your complete lack of understanding of the situation. Southampton impacted so many clubs with its behaviour.

@DuncanHolley Enjoy that fight. It’s going to be a bit lonely

When news broke on Tuesday I was embarrassed about my club, but in the intervening days, listening to the whole world enjoying giving us a kicking, I am more inclined to fight back and say keep TE, tell the rest of the football world to fuck off and let’s get behind our club.

@lifelongsaint83 Boro should be embarrassed!? What are you then?

If Boro win they should be embarrassed, lost the game that counted (That wasn't spied on) and have had many more days to prepare for Hull than Hull have had to prepare for them! Don't deserve to be in the final and have an unfair advantage (not that they care about that)

@AllSaintsnews98 You see a classy response, we see an awful bloke desperately trying to justify his awful behaviour and cashing in on his employer’s catastrophic actions to try and get himself some moral high ground. Plus there’s no way they didn’t know about the spying, they all knew!

🚨 Another classy response released. Say what you will, at least all of these statements feel 100% genuine and I completely believe that the players were unaware of the scheming. THB has been absolutely outstanding this season, and a rock in our defence. I don’t begrudge him a move at ALL in the summer and wish him all the best for the future! #SaintsFC

@redrob24 @henrywinter Sponsors should stick by them?! Guessing you don’t run a business! Why would anyone want their reputation associated with this debacle?!

@henrywinter 95% of the public don't care or find it all pretty funny. Sponsors should all stick by the club and help them move on. Eckhert is wrong but in other countries, including Germany, there are no rules against it. Hard to miss a tiny sentence in a massive rule book!

Southampton have to go into full Mea Culpa mode. Written reasons into Spygate are so damning. “Junior members of staff were put under pressure to carry out activities which they felt were, at the least, morally wrong.” Shameful. No more arrogance, no more passive-aggressive statements. Just front up. Club rightly and widely vilified for the conduct of some within over Spygate and for the inept handling of the fall-out. Only when Tonda Eckert goes can the rebuilding of a damaged reputation begin. Only when the owner Dragan Solak addresses a fans’ forum, takes fans’ questions, and also address widespread external criticism can any trust or respect begin to return. Club cannot put CEO Phil Parsons up for interview following his misguided statement on the day of the appeal. He’s damaged. Solak has to talk: to restore some faith amongst shocked staff; to persuade those fans thinking of not renewing season tickets or memberships to give them another chance; to give angry fans hope that their club has someone competent at the helm of a listing ship; and perhaps to dissuade some players from jumping ship. Also, from a commercial perspective, Solak has to reassure sponsors: 19 partners, including a bank, law company and GPS-tracking company and 13 regional partners who may, understandably, worry about the damage to the club and to themselves by association. It's a long road back for Saints and it has to start with Solak leading the way. #SaintsFC

@LucyVHolland ‘Everyone else is wrong’, yeah ok…

I am so over #spygate now. If anyone thinks watching training is anywhere near the levels of cheating and corruption that goes on inside the football business then you’re very naive. It’s pathetic it’s been given this much attention. #saintsfc

@lauren_parker01 So weird… yeah that’s the weird bit.

Just find this whole thing weird. Middlesbrough was calling for the punishment two weeks ago yet it’s never happened before in the history of English football and then they even get their players back into training before any hearing had even taken place 🙄 #SaintsFC

@Saints_Mike7167 @SouthamptonFC Which would be what? Putting analysts in disguises to spy and gain an unfair sporting advantage… because the bigger boys told me to do it?

@ChrisElliott2 @SouthamptonFC My point is an expert KC/lawyer can still offer mitigation which may have swayed the panel not to expel them in the first place

Maybe if @SouthamptonFC had paid out for Lord Bannock at the original hearing we wouldn't have got expelled in the 1st place. Bringing him for the appeal only just goes to show how amateur these fuckers running our club are When you need to win, you play the best team possible

@Saints_Mike7167 @SouthamptonFC Think you missed the bit where I mentioned you admitted fault. Therefore paying for the best solicitor in the first instance still wouldn’t have helped. You admitted guilt, so there was no job to pay someone to do.

@ChrisElliott2 @SouthamptonFC I agree, I did say why are we bothering? I wouldn't have, but once that decision to appeal was made, you have to use the best people available to win it.

@JOHNRP13 @talkSPORT Totally agree. Lucky to not be relegated.

@ChrisElliott2 @talkSPORT Exactly Leeds exploited a rule that wasn’t there, So after Leeds spying on Direby, the EFL brought in the rule. Southampton broke said rule on 3 occasions they have admitted to, and in the knock out part of the season, expulsion is correct.

😤 "It is over the top... it is a disproportionate penalty!" 🤦‍♂️ "We've lost a sense of perspective on the impact spying can have!" Football finance expert Stefan Borson explains why the EFL are wrong to expel #SaintsFC from the play-offs!"

@David_E_SFC All of what you’re saying is wrong. Southampton admitted fault for cheating numerous times. Where’s the trial by public opinion? No trial required!

@dkaustin87 You’re great at making unsubstantiated statements.