Dom Hanrahan

@PED7 Tarkowski has been awful all season Ped, he’s been a liability, how is he playing every week, O’Brien and Branthwaite has to be the 1st choice pairing next season, new RB, maybe a new LB or give Aznou game time, this has to change.

Absolutely pathetic to keep that back 4 together, its been horrendous since Branthwaite got injured

@prodnose 100% correct Danny, they make it up as they go along, and always in favour of the usual select clubs. VAR is just another way the establishment control the narrative, the game has gone.

Its insane, enraging, that the Mbeumo handball is ruled as legitimate play. It's crazy. Idiotic. 100% wrong. Football has fallen into the hands of a small, distant elite who inform us what we have witnessed. We, supporters, apparently just accept this because we are helpless.

@JamesAHogg2 Brilliant James, not seen this in years, laughed my head off, thank you 😊

The great Paul Whitehouse is 68 years old today, which means I am obliged to post this (again!) - arguably the most majestically random but brilliant comedy sketch committed to celluloid for at least the last, what, forty, forty five years? Yes, forty, forty five years. Happy birthday Paul 🤘

@henrywinter Sometimes Henry less is more, e.g. just don’t comment on it at all, or have the backbone to call it what it is. VAR gave Celtic this title on Wednesday night, and everyone knows it.

Martin O’Neill made Brendan Rodgers’ Honda Civic drive like a Ferrari. O’Neill is a master motivator, a player whisperer, makes them believe. Congratulations to O'Neill and Celtic on winning the Scottish title. But shame on those fans who attacked Shankland & other Hearts players

@Birchy_Steve Indeed, and without the corruption of VAR, Hearts deservedly win the title, but the establishment just wouldn’t allow it, worrying times mate.

@domh73 It was the first time since I was a teenager obsessed with any and all football that I've actually stopped and watched a Scottish league game. It would have been so much better for their league to have a different winner. Circumstances around it stink.

As an Everton fan I fully feel for Hearts there. We know how that script goes. Horrible way for it to be decided.

@chris_sutton73 You’re embarrassing Chris, but then you always are. Defending that penalty decision on Wednesday was just cringe worthy. You know full well how Celtic did it and they absolutely weren’t the best team and didn’t deserve it. Keep living in your Celtic bubble though. Very sad.

Have to feel for Hearts and Derek McInnes they have been brilliant all season 👏👏…but Celtic’s mentality monsters found a way. How this Celtic team did it I couldn’t tell you but in the end the best team wins and deserves it. All this” just another title “talk is bollocks 🍀👏

@hyperruby @daviddownie17 It wasn’t a pen on Wednesday though was it, your own club even released footage confirming it wasn’t, no fairy tale, just want fairness and sporting integrity, sadly that went out the window long ago, Dave is right, there absolutely is an agenda, old firm must always win league.

@daviddownie17 It was a penalty today, and it was a penalty on wednesday. The english just want their fairy tale

They’re just desperate for Celtic to win it up there aren’t they?

@SenditLew Well said, and exactly right. It’s sad that Boro seem to be being tarnished with this debacle as much as Saints, which is crazy, as we’ve done nothing wrong, but it needs dealing with and putting to bed asap. We roll on to next season and go again.

Not that anyone gives a fuck but as a Life long sufferer / Boro fan I wasn't going to comment on the spy gate saga, I'm more of an observer and reserve my opinion always but here is how I see it in my eyes after seeing so many others views. I've had a blast this season watching my club under KH with the football we have played and the moments we have had we have a gem of a coach as well as a top class human being at the helm of my football club. But to put it as Honest as I can we have fell short, at one point I thought we would win the league and were the best team in the division, it was in our hands & thats on us. I don't want no pity playoff final position handed to us on a plate because of another teams lack of sportsmanship, nor do I think most Boro fans do either. Southampton were the better team over 2 Legs and 10 times out of 10 the prize is a spot in the play off final. Wether they deserve it or not is another Question, I think the most important outcome is that the integrity of the game we all love needs protecting and those who abuse / disrupt it see harsh punishment and sanctions, a 200K fine just wont cut it giving how enormous the final pot of prize money is (£200M+) I'm personally looking forward to seeing us back in action next season in the championship under KH with the team he deserves and giving it another crack, Trust me back this guy he will take us up - UTB🔴⚪️ #Boro

@PED7 @ClatterbridgeCC @NHS I’m wishing your dad the best Ped, he’s in good hands, been through this with my dad, I know what you’re going through, I hope you’re doing ok, I’m here mate if you want to talk or need a friendly ear to listen 🫶

My dad started chemo today after discovering not one but two different cancers after literally being illness free his entire life. All I can say is thank you to the wonderful staff @ClatterbridgeCC and thank our stars we have the @NHS 💙

@charles_stevo I’d give it to KDH, a born captain in the making. Tarkowski shouldn’t even be in the team next season, he’s been woeful all of this season. Branthwaite and O’Brien should be our starting CB pairing next season, new RB and LB in the summer (Moyes won’t play Pato, might play Aznou)

Seamus leaving. BOLD call, but I’m not handing the captaincy to Tarkwoski by default. Who would you give it to?

@slbsn 6 points isn’t a deterrent, a team like Southampton should and would overcome that in a few matches, 12 points can still be overcome, but sends out a message and a warning. They’ve cheated, tried to gain some kind of sporting advantage & flouted the rules, 6 points is laughable

@slbsn Sensible view, however, I think point 2, if proven, coujd / should significantly impact the sanction administered, & point 8, sadly I think you’re right but it’s hardly a punishment, the fine is pocket change if they get promoted and point deduction should be at least 12.

🚨🤓 Southampton Spygate personal view: 1. Expect the breaches will be straightforward to establish (ie liability) and almost certainly admitted to try and get some sanction credit/discount 2. Expect aggravating factors such as other examples of Soton spying this year to be raised 3. Fundamental question of how serious a breach of rule 127 and good faith is will be key. We know good faith alone was £200k in the Leeds case. The new rule makes it worse and spying obviously seeks a sporting advantage - why else do it? So that does point to sporting sanction of some sort 4. Being thrown out of the Play Offs appears excessive especially given Southampton finished 7 points clear of 6th and 9 clear of 7th 5. A 3-0 in the first leg would have been an option again excessive retrospectively unless 2nd leg re-playable (not feasible) 6. More likely sanction is points deduction next season in the Championship as much as that won't help Middlesboro 7. Unlikely that the PL will take a points deduction recommendation from the EFL (no fixed rule) - doubt EFL will push for it, so would apply in first season back in Championship (when and if) 8. My best guess is SIX EFL points in first season in EFL and £500k-£1m fine 9. Boro compensation claim can be dealt with separately subject to any claim brought by Boro - difficult claim to establish due to causation issues

@SamD_dappy @Scottwilsonecho Embarrassing yourself here Sam.

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@OllieHolt22 I’d prefer Arsenal to win it, but not like this. It wasn’t clear & obvious, took VAR 5 mins to review, multiple fouls on West Ham players before the one on Raya, Arsenal have done the exact same all season & got away with it, but all of a sudden it’s a foul. NO CONSISTENCY!!!!

Forget VAR. The truth is there are simply an awful lot of people out there who cannot handle the idea that Arsenal might just win this thing. dailymail.com/sport/football…

@OllieHolt22 Rubbish Oliver, VAR didn’t make the correct decision, West Ham players clearly being fouled before Raya was, if it’s a foul then you have to look at the whole passage of play and award West Ham a penalty. Arsenal have done this all season and got away with it, PGMOL are a joke.

It was a foul on David Raya. VAR made the correct decision. VAR is a terrible way to decide a game of this magnitude for both teams. All these things can be true at the same time.

@JamesCarr02 Well said, embarrassing sums it up (and pathetic) although you’ll likely get a light fine, I don’t think Steve Gibson will let this lie, you’ve crossed the wrong bloke unfortunately.

After travelling up and down the country to every away game this season, I should be waking up today full of excitement but I just feel nothing. Yeh we've not paid the refs or bribed the league but it just feels embarrassing that we've had to resort to doing this #saintsfc

@henrywinter Glad the LFC fan protest was successful, shame the blue half of Merseyside can’t get the same response from @Everton regarding the appalling ST price hikes & blatant money grab that they are undertaking, with many of us facing 10% increases on our tickets, silence from the club

Liverpool fans’ success in getting the club to re-think elements of their ticketing strategy will resonate across football. Most clubs have done their ticketing announcements but will note Liverpool’s climbdown. Fans of other clubs will see that well-organised protests work, especially those designed for maximum exposure and embarrassment. Others already have: West Ham fans conducted a successful campaign over the club’s attack on concessions. Some boards’ behaviour, treating crowds as cash cows, is offensive and counter-productive. It’s wrong for boards to ignore that many fans are hurting given the cost-of-living crisis. It’s wrong to go for multi-year increases. It’s morally wrong and commercially naïve to alienate your most loyal fans. Respect them and they will spend more in the store. Think. It’s hypocritical when clubs emerged from lockdown, and the soulless, soundless games behind closed doors, promising to appreciate fans more. They did - for a while. It’s also stupid of boards to price out fans who generate the backdrop in sound and vision that TV pays fortunes for. Fans are part of the Premier League spectacle. Tourists are good for the club shop but not for atmosphere. Fans should lobby broadcasters to make clubs see sense. Clubs brief that hikes are required to cover fees and wages of the stars that fans crave, to improve facilities in the stadium and to guard against PSR breaches. It’s spin. Liverpool would be generating only a reported £1.5m to £2m extra a year from the original planned increases at a club which spent £33m on agents’ fees in a year. That raked in £174.9m from Premier League prize money. That had revenue of £703m last year. Liverpool fans, ably organised and mobilised by Spirit of Shankly, firmly made their point to club owners Fenway Sports Group with banners “FSG GR££D” and “NO TO TICKET PRICE INCREASES” along the bottom of the Kop during the recent Crystal Palace game. Fans held up yellow cards (75,000 were printed apparently) carrying messages about Fenway. Pictures were immediately posted on social media and beamed by TV around the world. Messaging is instant nowadays. The campaign was sophisticated. Organisers also targeted club coffers with their “not a pound in the ground” campaign to encourage fans to spend their match-day money away from Anfield. During games, they chanted “you greedy b*st*rds, enough is enough”. It was a PR disaster for FSG and the club. And probably expensive financially given fans’ snubbing of in-stadium outlets. A club historically celebrated for its bond with fans looked unthinking and unfeeling. It needs acknowledging that, overall, John W Henry and FSG have proved good owners – they’ve redeveloped Anfield, added to the squad and to the trophy cabinet. But they occasionally fail to read the room. They fail to listen to good advice. They have made this mistake fairly spectacularly before – on the high ticket prices in the redeveloped Main Stand in 2016, seeing 12,000 fans walk out during a game in protest, and backing the European Super League in 2021, bringing a backlash from fans (and players). They backtracked on both. Now they have spoken to fans, heard the concerns and made a U-turn. GA prices will rise 3% for 26/27, but are frozen for 27/28, instead of three seasons fixed to inflation. Clubs have to understand that many fans are feeling the pinch, that even the movement of a kick-off time has a knock-on effect to travel plans and costs, that even geo-politics affects those driving to games with petrol more expensive. Fans are also having to pay for more subscription channels. A club’s own costs would be slightly more manageable if they were collectively more sensible in resisting wage inflation – make salaries even more performance-related - and more clubs made the pathway easier from academy to first team. And listen to fans’ groups before risking own goals. You’re on the same side. #LFC

@PED7 Shame that our fans haven’t mobilised the same way Ped to try and stop @Everton from doing the same to us, & we’re facing a 10% increase just for next season, never mind over 3 seasons which the LFC fans were protesting about. Worst of all is the silence & no explanation from EFC

Congratulations, fan power can work 👏👏👏

@daviddownie17 Shame that @Everton won’t listen to our fans Dave, mine and my daughter’s tickets have both risen by 10% each, most rising in average between 7-10%, family enclosure reduced with some fans facing £300-£400 increases, and not a word from the club, just silence. Shameful.

This is a big win for fans and an encouraging example. Well done to all who pushed for it. I know the LFC piss take will already be in full swing, but maybe have some perspective and see what this actually is? 👍