@foreversaint__ Can I buy you a mirror to look at yourselves
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Mark Hanson
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Mark Hanson
@MarkoVanHanson
Feeling very Olympic Today!!! Boro fan since birth. Views expressed here are not superfluous, just anomalous... sometimes. Currently residing in Dubai.
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@AlishaW1709 I don’t know
I’m not the manager who has been studying legal footage obtained. But then said he had to change once cheated.
Your defence can’t be that
As for the second leg, would you not change a home performance and an away ??!
Stop trying to defend it! It’s wrong
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@MarkoVanHanson Then what would you have done differently? Would it have beaten us? Also show me a shred of evidence from Boro that we gained any advantage? You lost over 210 minutes of football fair and square. And if your “original” plan couldn’t be used in the 1st leg then why not the 2nd?
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With all due respect Middlesbrough, kindly do one now. You never would have been allowed in the hearing and you bottled promotion yourselves.
It’s giving pathetic now.
Middlesbrough FC@Boro
A statement from the club.
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@JackKnutsen_ If Saints hadn’t been caught….
Own it
You’d come out of this a lot better if your club owned it. It may not feel it but inf a few years you would be better for it
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@upthesaints We had to change from our original plan.
You couldn’t beat us over Four 90 minute games.
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@TigersXtra How can you tell… there was an advantage gained
Btw I’m all for you being given promotion,
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Might be on my own but I genuinely don’t see Boro being put in the final a reasonable sporting merit. They lost over two legs and how much those results were impacted by spygate can only be considered marginal. I feel for them but they are trying to blag a Wembley app #hcafc
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@AlishaW1709 We had to change our original plan
If you can’t see you did wrong to gain a sporting advantage. Then there’s no point in discussing
The integrity at the moment from Southampton is non existent, and some fans are showing the same. Let’s just give Hull the promotion
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@MarkoVanHanson What advantage did we get? Multiple missed chances in a first leg where you battered us and missing players in the second half. Shea Charles’ goal was a fluke 😅
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@FlynnJonas2 It’s just because we don’t want to be beaten twice in the same playoffs
Technically we were cheated with one of them
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Funny that when i suggested this Monday (before we beat Boro) I was a clueless clown….
Now apparently that’s what all Boro fans want ….
Go figure…. 🙂
#SaintsFC
CJ@FlynnJonas2
IF BIG IF the EFL do decide to kick us out…. Promote Hull to the Premier League straight away…. As they will be the team that deserves to go up …. 👍🏻 #SaintsFC
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@danamalt Don’t listen to them
I’m off to do some ironing 👀😂
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@AlishaW1709 Maybe your club shouldn’t be trying to cheat and gain an advantage
This all Southampton’s fault for getting caught..
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@MarkoVanHanson Maybe your manager should have had more faith in the tactics spying or not. Who knows it could have worked. And season is irrelevant it only came down to those two legs after all.
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@AlishaW1709 But us changing the tactics as our manager has said. Perhaps if you didn’t cheat, that wouldn’t have happened. We take a lead to your place. And the extra time is then obsolete…
You didn’t beat us over four 90 minute games this season.
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@MarkoVanHanson And you won’t. The punishment doesn’t fit the crime because where was that advantage. The fluke goal after almost 210 minutes wasn’t learnt on a training field was it?
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@Gurnery_ Fucksake…. That’s a good point. You forgot to mention it was with his daughters friend while the incumbent wife at the time was ill
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Richard Keys here is an expert on cheating, after all.
Richard Keys@richardajkeys
Are we really suggesting Spygate in any way affected the outcome of the s/f? Behave.
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@foreversaint__ I think we would have been in the wrong if that happened …. We have previous nightmares of that
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You shouldn't have played the first leg. Could have asked the efl to reschedule but you didn't. You played it. You dominated the first half, you failed to score from your three clear cut chances. We won the second leg fair and square. Stop crying and prepare for next season.
Middlesbrough FC@Boro
A statement from the club.
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@northamlights If they didn’t know what they are looking for, but now they do! It’s not hard to figure out.
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Another thing I don’t understand is that Middlesborough apparently has evidence from other clubs that we spied. So why didn’t these clubs come forward at the time of the offence? It’s almost like they are now trying to construct their own narrative to influence the panel.
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@SFCMikeKavs Have you seen the evidence?
What’s pathetic is Southamptons integrity. Own up, give the promotion to Hull
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0 evidence whatsoever to suggest it's been multiple clubs. This is getting pathetic now. #SaintsFC
Telegraph Football@TeleFootball
🔴 Exclusive: Southampton ‘spied’ on multiple Championship clubs Middlesbrough want Eckert’s side kicked out of play-off final 👇 telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/…
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@crablungs @NathanielWhitto If you take a little bit of a drug to cheat or go the full cycle, you get caught with it in your system. There’s no, ‘oh you only did a bit, keep your 4th place finish’ there’s a ban you cheated. You tried to gain an unfair advantage !
Promote Hull, you shouldn’t be near !
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@NathanielWhitto Sorry, but I’ve made my personal feelings clear.
I’m happy with proportional punishment aligned to the crime. At the moment, all we have is a bloke with an iPhone next to a tree. If it’s systemic, throw the book at us.
You’ll be tired of them soon enough.
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Is the outrage over Spygate understandable? An act of crass stupidity, I’ll grant you. But this is less Philby and Burgess and more Laurel and Hardy. Some hapless intern is sent to film from 400M on his smart phone the Middlesbrough team kicking footballs. What searing insights would the Southampton side have got? ‘Ok boss they’re kicking the ball with both their left and right feet. Sometimes they’re heading it.’ It’s all so silly. Southampton look like a right bunch of Charlies. But in the pantheon of great sporting scandals, this is pimple sized
Henry Winter@henrywinter
The outrage about Spygate is understandable. If proven, it’s cheating. It’s seeking to gain a sporting advantage over an opponent. Let’s hope this ire is also now focused on other varieties of cheating in football, namely the amount of deceit that can stain games... 1/2
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@FlynnJonas2 Who’s begging to be reinstated.
Just you shouldn’t be there, but this was highlighted before the first game where we had to change it up last minute.
EFL still want there showpiece…
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@MarkoVanHanson No one is saying it’s not wrong….
Begging to be reinstated to a competition you completely bottled is also very wrong … 🙂👍🏻
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@southampton_fc You tried to cheat and it was known before the games, which we had to change. Be better at espionage and cheating
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You caught a kid on an iPhone chill out lads.
Get better at football.
Middlesbrough FC@Boro
A statement from the club.
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The lack of integrity or respect (see what I did there) coming from Southampton is astounding.
Send Hull up, just own your mistake and root the cheats out of your club., unless it goes all the way to the top.👀
#utb
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