Christopher Hart

@JustSaints_ They are weird.. they love satanist and cannibal spirit cooker Marina Abramovic.. They let her take over Sky Arts for the day with her ‘blood’ art and severed goats heads etc.. That is Sky TV for you and why I ditched them 2 years ago..

All very weird this from Sky. 🤨 #SaintsFC

@SaintsExtra Our board allowed this to happen due to being out of their depth and naive with their communications, maybe that’s why they say so little now. This club has been poorly run for years assuming eternal fan loyalty will always prevail so no need to do the right thing. Not anymore

📧 Full email to #SaintsFC CEO Phil Parsons from the club’s Fan Advisory Board in light of Spygate: "In our view, communications have been poor throughout this process, with much of the information gained by fans coming from sources other than the club. "Since the CEO note, immediately after the failed appeal, there has been no communication, other than a brief notice about refunds, which made no further apology or recognition of the fan impact. "In all honesty, the silence is deafening. Being on the front foot is important for our fans. This is not just about apology and internal rectification, even if those aspects are critical. "It is also about fighting our corner in a manner that maximises unity. Statements on the website should be more frequent, as above; media appearances similarly in the form of live interviews. "We believe that the club should also organise an urgent Fans Forum within the next week, where key figures from the club (namely Dragan and you [Parsons]) address the fans in a live Q&A format. "It won't be easy, but past experience suggests this helps a lot e.g. that carried out by Rasmus [Ankersen], Henrik [Kraft] and Martin [Semmens] towards the end of the Nathan Jones era. "Whilst developments on the recent issues will inevitably take some time to resolve, given legal and disciplinary matters, a more immediate concern is that of season tickets. "Over 19,000 fans had season tickets last year. They have been badly let down by the club and recent events, and effectively, the results of every game they attended has become irrelevant. "Season ticket holders are the lifeblood of the club, and we need to help them to want to renew and rejoin the process of rebuilding. "We feel that a freeze on renewal prices is the minimum such gesture, though a reduction would recognise recent events more accurately. "We believe that some form of refund should happen for the Middlesbrough games, home and away. "We absolutely recognise that club costs have risen, and that we need the income to make us competitive on the field. "However, we also need people to renew, despite being utterly disaffected, and the balance has to err on the side of incentive, in our view. "Pending a Fans Forum, we suggest holding an emergency FAB meeting with the club to discuss the above matters in more depth, with a group of fans who have shown their commitment and loyalty over many years, and can be trusted to be constructive in our work. "The club have decided to recruit a new FAB over the summer, but now may not be the best time to go out for candidates. "The current FAB are happy to continue to work as normal until such time as the new Board is appointed." [via @dailyecho] dailyecho.co.uk/sport/26134470…

@SaintsExtra What’s more to the point is how they allowed Bauson to walk all over them, flouting the EFL rules, rushing through the hearing and appeal, without the allowed 2 weeks in between, not objecting to this or the clear conflicts of interest of the EFL and ‘independent’ panel personnel

@TheSaintCentre The left looks like a better shade of red, more raspberry like the old days, the right looks too orangey and cheaper.,

🚨UPDATED: More images have been leaked of Southampton’s 26/27 shirt #saintsfc [Footy Headlines]

@charliewring1 Dirty rat, his plan failed, he and the maniac Bauson got what they deserved, Championship football. Horrible cheats, ten times worse than the stupid Saints misdemeanours.

Don’t mess with Steve Gibson tho 🤣 #SaintsFC

@SaintsExtra Keep him, not even against the rules in the PL.. The over reaction has been pathetic and shows how our society and opinions of the unintelligent are generally controlled by online extremism voiced by those desperate for attention and sensationalism. Boro saw this opportunity

A topic that seems to be dividing the #SaintsFC fanbase. Pending the findings of the FA's investigation, where do you stand on Tonda Eckert's future?

@Boro Southampton committed a misdemeanour but what Boro did was insane cheating. Expected to get to the PL with plan B.. So what’s your plan C then, claim a Hull player dived and kick them out? The football gods have spoken, great to see Gibson and Bausons sour miserable faces. FU

Full-time at Wembley.

@SkySportsNews Absolute moron. If you’re that draconian then the charge and punishment for Bauson’s raging attack on an old woman should mean ten years in prison and those Boro fans who wishes Saints car crashes on the way home, they should get the death penalty?

"I think Southampton have got off lightly!" The Northern Echo's Dom Shaw discusses Southampton's expulsion from the Championship play-off final.

@SkySportsNews That’s because he’s a biased hack, just like Sky Sports

@AdamBlackmore There should be very harsh individual punishments for those involved in what happened by the FA, the club. But anyone who thinks or suggests that a fair punishment is expulsion and ruination for those left behind has been swept away by those who sensationalise for personal gain

Good morning Today for me everything that’s happened this week at Southampton FC is hitting home The #SaintsFc fanbase and all associated should be buzzing and on the way to Wembley for a huge day - gutted 😞 Would be nice if the club actually said or did something and gave those amazing fans some hope ? Where is the leadership?!?

@AdamBlackmore There are 92 clubs, why is it that the board and commissions involved in charging and punishing SFC are so filled with ex Middlesbrough employees/paid to act on their behalf in a legal manner? How is this possible? Is anyone investigating these blatant conflicts of interest?

@AdamBlackmore Why do I feel like you are determined to hammer the stupid shoplifters but defend the armed bank robbers?

#SaintsFc It’s relevant that it wasn’t the EFL that chose the panel it was Sports Resolutions I believe

@AlfieHouseEcho I am sure that the spy lad, who is 27 by the way so a grown man actually Adam Blackmore, would have been advised to say he was pressured into this n that to save his own career and integrity. I am sorry but he had a choice and is a grown man, not a boy. Don’t use that against us

Member of independent commission that booted Saints out of Championship play-off final has denied accusations of bias. David Winnie, former footballer turned lawyer, spoke out after growing social media chatter. No objection to panel was made. #SaintsFC dailyecho.co.uk/sport/26132358…

@AlfieHouseEcho No objection was made because our board are out of their depth on a personal level and handled the situation, as they have with every situation, appallingly. They can go and find another job elsewhere and have their excuses but will leave our club and the fans in tatters.

@AlfieHouseEcho As an ex footballer it is even worse the decision he made as he will know about all of the innocent people who’s lives have been affected, a whole city, by this ridiculously over the top punishment. The dumb act played no part in the outcome of the semi and Winnie knew all this

@AlfieHouseEcho Winnie is not a robot, he is human and there is plenty of scientific research out there confirming subconscious biases of humans.. So his words are just bullshit and the same with Banerjee, she should never have accepted a place on the commission having represented Boro. Stinks!

@AlfieHouseEcho Does it surprise anyone that he has denied it? The whole affair stinks, Boro smelled blood and saw dumb Saints as gimps to achieve their evil plan. It was men vs boys at boardroom level and unfortunately our club is run by naive muppets, so we lost the battle very easily.

@AdamBlackmore Well Sports Resolutions didn’t do a very good job of due diligence then did they? When appointing so called independent people.. If you are a journalist then why not investigate and question these things properly? You’ve jump to bad conclusions with us but defend the ‘officials’

@MattPB_ Dodgy scamming shitweasel

I’m not gunna pretend he hasn’t made mistakes, and if we lose Saturday, they’ll still be discussions to be had around top 2, January etc. But my word, if there’s one thing you don’t do, it’s mess with Steve Gibson’s football club. There’s only one Stevie Gibson. 💪 #UTB

@solentsport @AdamBlackmore @robsills_ @BBCSounds So was Boro’s orchestration of the whole affair. When are you going to report on the Boro people on the EFL board and‘independent’ panel. Banerjee and the ex player? You keep hammering the Saints but what Boro did is far worse and has also ruined Hull.. you’re a poor journalist

Our #SaintsFC commentator @AdamBlackmore has the latest on the EFL statement citing Tonda Eckert at the centre of Spygate The operation was branded 'a contrived and determined plan from the top down' Adam spoke to @robsills_ on @BBCSounds 🔊⬇️ bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0n…