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The actual coolest sports picture ever taken. #SaintsFC

@GianTomkins That is, of course, a very good point too and something to be considered.

@Spindacre I disagree, mostly because I don’t know what players we will still have and which ones that are left will still want him. I’d rather start with a clean slate so I’m Tonda out.

While I respect all opinions, I'm Tonda in unless the players don't want to play for him. #SaintsFC

🚨Hull City 1 Middlesbrough 0 Southampton fans:

That’s my weekend made. 🤣🤣🤣#SaintsFC #Boro

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Insane Stat of the Day Which team lost both in the semi finals and the final of the championship playoffs in 25/26? Boro 😂

🚨🐯 Official: Middlesbrough become the first club to lose both the Championship play-off semi-final AND final. History makers.

@Boro It looks like "super Stevie Gibson" won't be getting your pathetic excuse for a football club into the top flight after all. Shame that.

Full-time at Wembley.

In many ways, Moret-sur-Loing was for Impressionist painter Alfred Sisley what Auvers was for Van Gogh. This rediscovered painting from 1889, coincides with the year he settled permanently in the bucolic medieval town: t.ly/j9dRF (free) @BeaussantL

@SaintsExtra @talkSPORT As they should. Boro deserve absolutely nothing.

🚨 Hull City 'remain steadfast' in their belief they should go up automatically in the wake of Southampton being thrown out #saintsfc @talkSPORT

🚨🎙️Thierry Henry on Southampton expelled for spying drama against Middlesbrough: “I have to be honest, this is a difficult one. Spying on another team’s training is wrong. Full stop. It crosses a line, it undermines the trust that should exist between clubs, and I understand why Middlesbrough are furious and why the EFL felt they had to act strongly. Integrity matters in this game. At the same time, I find myself questioning whether expulsion from the play-offs is the right punishment. It feels… heavy. Almost like using a sledgehammer when a precise scalpel was needed. Let’s be clear: this wasn’t match-fixing or doping. It was analysts pushing boundaries for tactical information, something that, sadly, has happened in different forms across the game for years. Marcelo Bielsa did it openly at Derby and Leeds, admitted it, and people called him a genius, not a criminal. Drones, analysts in trees, whatever, in the modern game with data and marginal gains everywhere, clubs push boundaries. Southampton admitted it, yes, and they deserve punishment. A heavy fine, points deduction, maybe even a ban for the staff involved. But kicking the entire club out after they earned their place on the pitch? That punishes players, coaches, and fans who had nothing to do with one or two analysts doing something stupid. What troubles me most is the collateral damage. The players who battled through a tough Championship season after relegation, who went to extra time and scored that late goal to beat Middlesbrough on the pitch, they earned their place in the final through merit. Now that achievement is being erased because of actions taken by a small number of staff members. That feels disproportionate to me. A significant fine, a points deduction for next season, and sanctions against the individuals responsible, those would be strong, meaningful punishments that address the breach without nullifying an entire season’s competitive work. Sport has to balance two things: protecting fairness and recognising that human error and ambition sometimes lead people astray. If every rules breach in high-stakes moments leads to rewriting results, we risk turning the disciplinary process into something more powerful than the football itself. I’ve sat in dressing rooms where we prepared meticulously for opponents. Everyone does. The difference is getting caught. I hope Southampton appeal and that the final decision finds a better equilibrium. Middlesbrough deserve respect, they were wronged but the players of Southampton also deserve not to have their legitimate efforts wiped away. Football is emotional, passionate, and imperfect. The response to this should reflect wisdom as much as outrage. We need clearer rules going forward so incidents like this become rare, but we must be careful not to let one mistake destroy what was built legitimately on the grass.

When you study history you realise that people have been this stupid for thousands of years.

Funny how Southampton can be punished in days but it’s 18 months since the hearing into City’s 116 cases of cheating finished.

Today in 1535, French explorer Jacques Cartier leaves France on his second voyage of discovery to Newfoundland with three ships. A die-hard Habs fan from his first trip, he did not want to miss the playoffs.

My thoughts - feels like there's an unwritten gentleman's agreement, on the assumption all teams do it to some extent, so you don't complain about it & nobody complains about you. Boro only went crying about it after blowing top 2 & in poor form up against #saintsfc #spygate

Absolute disgrace, it’s almost as if @boro have a representative on the EFL Board 🤔 vile Club who tried to kill Derby off as they approached extinction. Boro didn’t fail because of a kid with an iPhone videoing but because they only won 2 of their final 11 league games. 🤮

May the best team win. (And may that team be Montréal.) 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

At this rate I would be happy to never hear of “Middlesbrough FC” ever again. #SaintsFC

If this was Jamie Vardy Sky Sports would give him his own documentary and he would be lauded as the ‘king of shithousery’.