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@FootballAgro @EFL_Comms In fairness though the rule carries a range of penalties - it will depend on the nature of the alleged breach.

@EFL_Comms The EFL have caused this by not saying what the punishment is if that rule was broken. If they had and it was expulsion (which it should be) then clear guidance could be given to fans of all 3 clubs involved.

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@TMccartnry @henrywinter Southampton have either broken rule 127 or not, depending on the evidence. Gaining an advantage is irrelevant in my view, it's the alleged attempt to do it.

@henrywinter You are supposed to be a top sports journalist, can you tell me what advantage Southampton gained that would have affected the result over 2 legs

Southampton have always been a club that did things the right way. Attractive football, long history, loyal and vocal support, important community department, good atmosphere at the Dell and St Mary’s, develop talent, even a great cat at the training ground. A sound club. A touch of class. So as they head to Wembley, and deservedly so as they were better than Boro on the night, perhaps those who run the club and run the football side consider how to restore the club’s reputation.  Because a club who many neutrals had a soft spot for risk becoming hard to like. Some Southampton fans will not worry about what others think of them. But they should. They are currently associated with cheating - Spygate - and for allegations of discriminatory language on the pitch (which have yet to be proven). That’s not what Southampton are about.  Their head coach, Tonda Eckert, rightly earned plenty of praise for his inspirational work this season but risks coming across as charmless at times. Interesting that Boro’s coach, Kim Hellberg, in his Sky Sports interview, congratulated Southampton players and supporters but not their coach. Southampton have gained a shot at the Premier League - any Spygate sanctions permitting - but lost some respect. Saints’ board and Eckert now have to work out how to restore that good reputation. And pray that the independent disciplinary commission does not punish them severely and swiftly for Spygate. As many people want them to. #SaintsFC #SOUMID

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What an incredible end for all City fans for York to win our first title since 1984. I think the main feeling after that is sheer relief after the chaotic end! Well done to the players who've stuck at it for two years, all the club staff and the loyal support.

@YorkCityFC Unbelievable. Just relief but what a result. To the players and supporters of Rochdale, just full respect. It should have been the title to play for - both teams should be up.

WE ARE CHAMPIONSSSSSSSSSS #YCFC 🔴🔵

A long weekend in Nidderdale.

Good luck to @YorkRLFC tonight. I remember the last Challenge Cup tie my old man took me to here - and he'll be looking down with pride. Started out reporting on York for and then later his 'office' was next door in this iconic stadium.

@SteveyJohnH @Channel4News @GHWTowler Consider the alternative options over the last few decades. Along with healthcare and financial services it probably is an industry, correct - but its replaced huge deindustrialisation.

@Channel4News @GHWTowler The trouble is that we have developed an industry of educating too many people to degree level, with degrees that are of little practical use in the real world.

Emma Greenwood, who’s in her final year of university, has spent nine months looking for a job. She tells us the process of looking for graduate employment is 'demoralising' and says there doesn't seem to be 'any point of change or hope at the moment'. It comes as unemployment for those aged 16-24 is at its highest for a decade.

Good to be among the City supporters this evening! Travelling fans a super turnout.

@sumsECFC @jm_bell95 We had a similar situation at York before a cup tie with Fulham. We were in dire straits, but Fulham initiated it and even then the donation was made to our Trust and not the club directly, given how it could have looked.

@jm_bell95 Trust me, we’re just as embarrassed. It just stinks of entitlement and doesn’t sit right with me whatsoever. Whoever thought putting this in the public domain was a good idea needs to give their head a wobble.

Not a fan of this. Irrelevant of what I think of Exeter City. My main issue is you do this privately. Don’t try and publicly back them into a corner. Find this very poor taste. Being fan owned these days is admirable but you can’t plead poverty like this 👎🏼

Happy New Year 🎉 Many blessings for the year ahead, from all of us at York Minster.

@M_H_Tweets @RupertLowe10 There are key differences between ourselves and Singapore it should be said Mark. The EU is still a very significant, geographic centric trading partner. It's not to Singapore.

Unemployment rising. What on earth could have caused that? Who could have possibly predicted it?! Oh. All of us. This is not a mystery. It’s the inevitable result of a government that keeps taxing work and punishing the people who actually create jobs and generate wealth. OBVIOUSLY. Treating business as a lemon to squeeze, not a tree to grow. Employers’ National Insurance - an actual tax on employing people - has risen again and again. You tax employment, unemployment goes up. This is so painfully obvious. How can these useless gnomes not see it?! Then there’s corporation tax - hiked as well. Business rates that crush high streets. VAT thresholds that trap small firms and discourage growth. Brutal dividend thresholds that mean earning more is often simply not worth it. Every single one of these is a tax on productivity, a tax on success. And when you tax something, you get less of it. Ask any small business owner. They’ll all say the same. The system DOES NOT work. I’ve built businesses, run businesses. One of the few MPs to do so… If more of us were in Westminster, we may actually get somewhere. We now have a country where it’s easier and cheaper not to work than to employ or be employed. Easier to sit on your arse doing sod all than actually contributing. If you’re fit to work, you must work. It’s that simple. You can’t build a vibrant economy on higher taxes, higher regulation, and higher energy costs. You just can’t. Certainly not with Reeves in charge. She may be a pleasant woman, I don’t know, but she is utterly incompetent. Weak, inept, failing. She must go. The Treasury’s addiction to taxation is killing the very people it relies on to fund the state. What can we do to fix it? - Cut Corporation Tax to the lowest in Europe - send a clear signal that Britain is open for business. - Undercut our neighbours. Go for their business. Compete against the Europeans. Win. - Abolish Business Rates entirely for small companies. - Double the VAT threshold, so small firms aren’t punished for growing. - Ditch IR35. Immediately. - Slash NI. Stop taxing jobs. - Overhaul dividend tax rates. REWARD success! - Ditch all inheritance tax on businesses/farms, so parents can pass successful firms down to their children. - Burn red tape - a full review of every employment, HR and health-and-safety regulation that throttles small employers. Look at every single one. If there’s no good reason for it, scrap it. - Get HMRC to PICK UP THE PHONE. - Crucially - end the HRification of Britain. Reward work and remember that real growth comes when government gets out of the way. This is all possible. Very possible. It can be done and it must be done. It just takes balls.

Our club. ❤️💙#ycfc

@kenton1206 @HoodedClaw1974 I'd be wary of assuming state pension ages differ. Most European countries are facing the same issue and have equalized, rising ages.

@HoodedClaw1974 And yet the rest of Europe can somehow pay their pensioners more and at an earlier age! Go figure. We are the poor man of Europe when it comes down to looking after pensioners.

Labour man says pensioners are not entitled to their pension, just because theyhave paid tax their whole life. Surely thats the whole idea of a pension?

@TiztheS @LewisDReynolds @jmbainbridge @JuliaHB1 You can use a provisional license purely for ID purposes without intending to get driving proficiency. This is cheaper than a passport (which can I admit be a big cost for a family).

@LewisDReynolds @jmbainbridge @JuliaHB1 You have to have a decent income to own a car or travel abroad.

I have a driving licence to prove that I have passed a test to drive. I have a passport to prove my identity and nationality when I travel abroad. I don't need to prove who I am to anyone in my own country unless I choose to. I refuse to have a compulsory digital ID card.

@CathTaylor1 @narindertweets Your point is not invalid, but it's longevity which is causing the pension age to go up as well.

@narindertweets my friend's sons will likely be in their 70s before they can claim a state pension, because they work, any old fighting age man rocking up in a dinghy gets free housing and benefits for life, tax free. No waiting for a pension

If foreign nationals can’t claim benefits, maybe they should also stop paying taxes and NI. Fair’s fair, right? Good luck with paying out the BILLIONS in pensions with no working age population and a dwindling birth rate. Brown and black ppl in the UK need to put down tools and STRIKE. This country would COLLAPSE.

@bennyt100 Yes, people negatively reference out of town parks and complexes, but that's where the the cheaper available land is.

@bennyt100 Scunthorpe and Walsall could not afford to replace wooden stands that were shut down after the Bradford fire and had no option but to move in order to raise funds.

There's not a soul in the land that can convince me an empty bowl in an industrial estate will ever beat a proper ground in the heart of a community. #ENGAND #villapark