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@BeamerCaro49738 @AlredThe A view backed by both the initial independent panel and the EFL League Arbitration Panel and ultimately admitted by your club and soon to be taken further by the FA. Only one party is guilty in this matter and it is Southampton. You played silly games and won silly prizes.

@AlredThe Unfortunately Boros mentality is they have been wronged. Blown out of all proportion and we beat you fair and square. You just had to find a clause.You had 3 chances,3 failures =losers in my book😂

Sick of seeing Southampton fans ripping into Boro like they are the bad guys in all of this, Your club is in the gutter, of your own doing. The least you can do as fans is show some humility to the clubs you cheated against (probably all). #SaintsFC #Boro #SWFC #Football #EFL

@ShonaSaintsB @SouthamptonFC Are you lot still wanging on? Your hierarchy decided to undertake a systematic policy of cheating. We didn't ask to be spied on nor did we ask to be dragged into your squalid mess. Saints need to own it, clean your house up and stop projecting your guilt onto innocent parties.

bbc.co.uk/sport/football… @SouthamptonFC not the first time Middlesbrough owner Steve Gibson has blamed another club they own failings! Perhaps it’s time to look inwards & see where you guys went wrong rather than blaming others! #SaintsFC #Boro #Championship #PlayOffs

@Laceysaints @SouthamptonFC That should sort out the embedded culture of dishonesty that pervades your club. You should absolutely make some hollow gestures first and foremost.

One thing I would like to happen is for @SouthamptonFC to ban everyone of the Boro board from coming to st Mary's... Also the media personnel that were rampant for us to be boiyed including Troy Deeney and the like!

@UTFB97 You are no better than the Saints fans with shite lack that. Give your head a wobble.

Hope Brynn has a terrible, terrible night.

@BogsAlfx Enjoy you day

@OnceAFarmer Wow, didn’t know that, thanks mate

This might be the worst Wembley atmosphere I’ve ever witnessed. What a shit set of fans for both of these sides

@BogsAlfx I just realised you are a Baggies fan 🤣

@OnceAFarmer Keep crying!

@BogsAlfx Taken 20 mins before kick off There is a huge block of seats on the far side of the half way line (The Hull side) that either wasn't put up for sale or wasn't sold, but that is very clearly not in our allocation. Now run along, your mum has your Coco Pops ready

@BogsAlfx In fairness, it's probably quite hard to gauge the atmosphere from your mum's spare room.

@utb_smith @ClubHein I don't think Bellis is a particularly deep thinker

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@Jes_Squirrell It was one of those days. Our season in a nutshell to be honest. Dominate possession but fail to make it pay. Ho hum.

Gutted for #Boro. But no shots on target, didn’t take advantage of possession in 1st half. Credit to Hull. 😥

@talkSAINTS Are you on glue?

And justice is served #Boro! Congrats on being the first team to lose both the semi-final, and final.. Looking forward to another Kim Hellberg whimpering post-match interview 😂 #Saintsfc

@StuartJones7 Bless

Stick that in your pipe and smoke it #boro 🤣 What a waste of money and time eh? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Squinny cry babies never prosper. Scummers! #SaintsFC

@lifelongsaint83 Bless. I know it has been a long week for you.

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)

@Smithy_MFC84 Come on it was only 32 years ago - basically a legend

Ah yes, that famous ex Boro player Winnie, who played the sum total of one game for us. Honestly, you lot would be laughing your socks off if the boot was on the other foot. Get over it.

@PureLeeds @SaintsExtra Fair point. He seems like the type to fight it.

@OnceAFarmer @SaintsExtra Saints wouldn’t need to compensate him, he could be sacked for gross misconduct

🚨 #SaintsFC boss Tonda Eckert, who is battling to hold on to his job amid an FA investigation into the conduct of individuals at the club, argued he did not realise what he did was against the EFL’s statutes. Southampton gave a detailed briefing in pre-season to Eckert’s predecessor, Will Still, explaining the competition’s rules. They did not do the same for Eckert after he replaced Still in early November. [via @guardian]

@lucyjaynewhite1 Get in the sea, you smelly bigot.

Harry Maguire, who is English and Northern Irish… … has been demographically replaced in the England World Cup team by an African named ‘Addji Keaninkin Marc-Israel Guéh’ born in Ivory Coast. What’s the point in a ‘national’ football team if someone who is NOT from that nation can join? Maguire should play for England. Guéh should play for Ivory Coast. Common sense. I’m sure Maguire isn’t even allowed to contest this decision because, as his shirt says in the photo below, ‘no room for racism’.

@robbieHCAFC The vast majority of Boro fans, given the binary option of Saints taking their place in the final versus Hull being given a bye to the Premier League would have chosen the latter. However, now the inquiry has concluded, that theoretical situation no longer exists.

Was Boro fans originally saying “we don’t deserve to be in the final, send hull up” by the way… I aren’t arsed anyway just think the WHOLE situation is a joke. All because of that saints manager cheating

@IamBalhamMatt Trying to get in the Premier League by hook or by crook? That was Southampton. Easy mistake to make, you have had a long week.

You lost 2-1 on the pitch in a match which took place fair and square, and are the sole beneficiary of Southampton’s punishment. The timing of the evidence presented was calculated to ensure Boro were reinstated rather than Hull City, and you’ve been awarded your place in the final not on sporting merit, but on the stroke of a lawyers pen. Fine, by all means try and get to the Premier League by hook or by crook, but footballers who spent their lives on the pitch are bound to dislike that. #HullCity #SaintsFC

@IamBalhamMatt I can't imagine what it feels like to be a Saints fan right now. You will need time to grieve, but time is a great healer. You need a clean sweep through the club and start again. You will get there.

@IamBalhamMatt Boro fan, in peace. My thoughts are twofold 1) fouling is in plain sight. Spying isn't (unless you are Will Salt). You can be the victim without knowing it 2) if the argument is for equivalence then maybe the punishment for coordinated in game stuff should have a higher penalty

I still haven’t had an answer to the question of why spying is worse than, for instance, intentionally fouling high up the pitch to prevent counterattacks as a premeditated tactic. I’ve heard variants of: 1) Rarara I hate Southampton hahaha you’re out. (Fine, but not an argument) 2) Shouldn’t have cheated then! (Doesn’t address proportionality) 3) Fouls, diving etc. are dealt with in-game (obviously not enough to discourage it which was the main argument for the prosecution in the Saints FC case). 4) How can you compare it to a dive or a foul? (I’m talking about a premeditated strategy involving intentional rule-breaking). 5) Spying gives you a huge advantage, bigger than coordinated, intentional fouling or injuring opponents. (The likes of Shearer, Murphy, O’Hara and Cundy who have played the game at the highest level have come out and said it would have made a minimal difference). I’ve accepted that Saints fucked around and found out, and all associated within the club need to go, but until I get an answer which lies outside one of those 5 listed above, I’ll be of the opinion we’ve been treated very harshly with a completely disproportionate punishment. This *is* the footballing equivalent of the death penalty for shoplifting - and if you’re a Saints fan reading this, bottle that sense of injustice inside, make an absolute racket at Saint Mary’s next season - and you watch, teams will crumble against us as they’ve always done, and just like #Boro and even #Arsenal did on the pitch. #SaintsFC #Spygate