Chris Hobbs

Miss this club 💔 #saintsfc

Fucking shit being a saints fan. One farce after another! Years and years of abuse on The fans with just the odd bit of light here and there. As harsh as the punishment is. This ruins us for a long time. Best players leave but board will stay. Always the fans who suffer #saintsfc

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@SouthamptonFC @JustSaints_ Absolute joke of a club. Didn't think we could sink so low. There needs to be a massive restructure from top to bottom. Massive slap to the face of the fans. If it was about justice Hull would go straight up so it feels a bit worse. #saintsfc #efl

We have this evening been informed that the EFL’s League Arbitration Panel has upheld the sanctions imposed earlier this week.

The losers go through to the final? The most ridiculous decision ever taken in football history. The football authorities in this country are a joke. #saintsfc

Millwall - "We're the most hated club in The Championship!" Ipswich - "Nope, WE'RE the most hated club in The Championship!" Southampton - "Hold my binoculars!"

Supporting #saintsfc the last decade

🚨 Saints CEO Phil Parsons full statement: "We have appealed yesterday's decision by the Independent Disciplinary Commission to expel Southampton Football Club from the Sky Bet Championship Play-Offs, and to impose a four-point deduction for the 2026/27 season. Before turning to that appeal, I want to address our supporters, our players, and the wider football community directly and without equivocation. What happened was wrong. The club has admitted breaches of EFL Regulations 3.4 and 127. We are sorry to the other clubs involved, and most of all to the Southampton supporters whose extraordinary loyalty and support this season deserved better from the club. We have provided our full co-operation to the EFL's investigation and disciplinary process. Following the appeal, we will also be writing to the EFL to volunteer our participation in a working group on the practical application and enforcement of Regulation 127 across the Championship. Contrition without change is hollow, and we intend to demonstrate change. On the appeal itself: we accept that there should be a sanction. What we cannot accept is a sanction which bears no proportion to the offence. Whereas Leeds United was fined £200,000 for a similar offence, Southampton has been denied the opportunity to compete in a game worth more than £200 million and one which means so much to our staff, players and supporters. We believe the financial consequence of yesterday's ruling makes it, by a very considerable distance, the largest penalty ever imposed on an English football club. Luton Town's 30-point deduction in 2008/09 — to date the most severe sporting sanction in the English game — was levied against a club already in League Two, with no comparable revenue at stake. Derby County's 21-point deduction in 2021 cost them their Championship status. Everton's eventual six-point deduction in 2023/24 followed losses of £124.5 million, a figure dwarfed by what has been taken from Southampton in a single afternoon. The largest financial penalty ever levied by the Premier League, against Chelsea in March of this year, was £10.75 million, and was accompanied by no sporting sanction whatsoever despite involving £47.5 million in undisclosed payments over seven years. We say this not to minimise what occurred at this club, which we have accepted was wrong. We say it because proportionality is itself a principle of natural justice. The Commission was entitled to impose a sanction. It was not, we will argue, entitled to impose one that is manifestly disproportionate to every previous sanction in the history of the English game. Our appeal will be heard today, and we will provide a further update in due course." #SaintsFC

Don’t suppose there is any chance they’d let us off with a cheating awareness course? #saintsfc

The life as a #saintsfc fan …. .Tonda the cheat .SpyGate . Record Breaking shit Prem Season . 2 relegations in 3 years. . Will Still and Nathan Jones .Sports Republic . Two 9-0s .Harry Redknapp .Rupert Lowe .Ali Dia .Ian Branfoot God no wonder I’m depressed

Don’t understand why Middlesbrough have been reinstated. How have they been wronged? Do you unrelegate Oxford as well?

There could be more coming from this for Southampton aswell Wrexham will want compo for finishing 7th Oxford will with proof and being relegated Hull will for lack of prep time So many clubs have a case

Don't think Middlesbrough should get to go to the play offs. They lost their chance on the pitch. If anything Hull should just go up but EFL don't want to miss out on revenue. #saintsfc #EFL

So tough being a Saints fan!

You can't simply stand in a bush and film your opponent's training sessions on an iPhone anymore. Game has gone.

Team suspected of spying on training sessions - EFL conducts an investigation within a week and kicks the team out of a competition immediately 115 financial charges - PL will get back to you on that in a few years

Anyone who signed off on the multiple spying operations should be immediately sacked. Following the hearing it’s clearly systemic. Utter embarrassment, what a waste of money for all the fans who travelled home and away. We deserve full transparency from the club. #SaintsFC

Absolute joke. Clubs embarrassing for it even happening. The EFL have massively over reacted. And I actually think Hull should go straight up if they go this route. This is shit for the Fans and the players. #saintsfc

No evidence Will Salt was Sent. No evidence Will Salt was Paid. No evidence anything (Salt), recorded was given back to anyone at the Club. No evidence it had any impact on the two legs. No evidence of prior spying by Salt. Verdict: Salt Guilty, Club misdemeanor #SaintsFC

I assume Sky will be apologising to the #SaintsFC ball boy?