Simon

Relegate Southampton to the National League North…..

@EiFSoccer They spied on Boro not the others. I don’t see the problem

Wrexham and Millwall were absolutely screwed by the Southampton spy decision. The logical decision would have been to replay the playoffs with 4 teams. If Southampton cheated, you play with 4 fresh teams. Plain and simple.

All great suggestions. I would add that for 2) the player needs to wait until the doctor arrives. Could be hours…

@ExtremeFootbal4 You can still buy league ladders. Fifty odd years since my last one I have a National League ladder this season

Kids today have Live Score and FotMob. In my day we had Ceefax and League Ladders.

@MarineAFC Brilliant news. Fin is irreplaceable

✍️ We’re delighted to announce that winger Fin Sinclair-Smith has signed a new deal to remain with the club. Fin has been a star player for Marine in the National League North, having previously starred for the club in the Northern Premier League. He began his career at Blackpool and had a spell at Marine in 2018, scoring twice in a memorable FA Cup win at National North side Brackley Town, before returning ahead of the the 2023/24 season. On signing his new deal, Fin said: “It was a no brainer when the gaffer contacted me and wanted to offer me a new deal, what a season we’ve just had. Everybody knows how happy I am here and the love I have for the club and the fans. Roll on next season, Mariners.” Manager Bobby Grant said: “We are delighted that Fin has signed a new deal with the club. He has played a key role in the success we have achieved over the past few years and continues to be an important player for us.” #WeAreMarine

Wow

@FootyScran @FCUnitedMcr Wow

Bombay sandwich - Balti pie and a samosa with mint and chilli sauce in a roll at FC United of Manchester (@FCUnitedMcr) 💷 £5

@MarineAFC @Carra23 Hopefully bringing with him disillusioned PL fans

🤝 Marine Football Club is proud to announce that Jamie Carragher, @Carra23, will be supporting the club in an advisory capacity. Read more at marinefc.com #WeAreMarine

@_StephenKillen @JeffreyGriff @MarineAFC Trouble is he might be looking for another full time pro contract

Former @MarineAFC forward Sol Solomon has been released by Tranmere Rovers.

@alfiecamk Right next to the old ground Cold Blow Lane end. All part of the charm and atmosphere of the old place. Irrelevant to tonight though

anyone know quickest way to station around the tunnel? #hcafc #mfc #millwall

What Var and sky don't show u !!!

@_theawayends Yes. ‘New Wembley’ is a crap ground. Wembley was demolished a long time ago

Not having a go at Non League football, but... Should the National League Play Off Final be played at a smaller venue??

@jamesbenge You mean red smoke ?

Been privileged to cover this club for over a decade, to live in the area for a decent wedge of that time. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like that pre-match.

#OnThisDay in 1997 Brighton needed a point away at Hereford to stay in the football league 1-0 down, with no ground & no future, Brighton were staring into the abyss Step forward Robbie Reinelt #BHAFC

The ‘what’s happened’ guy turning out to be a secret #YCFC fan is just the icing on the cake of this utterly unbelievable series of events. What legends are made of.

@CrosenderWay That’s a mischievous post 😗.No thanks. Football days out are partly about the lunchtime build up. 12.30 kick offs would be bad for local businesses and the clubs themselves in terms of bar takings

Can we all talk about 12:30 kicks offs and can we have them for every away please? Delightful that yesterday 😎

@BarryLenton @MarineAFC @resolve_legal We didn’t need an out and out goalscorer today. Two moments in the 2nd half the ball should have been put through to Fin 1 on 1 on goal. The first we lost the ball and they scored their second. It was a bewildering result after a very good first half

@MarineAFC @resolve_legal How on earth did we lose that? We gave them 3 goals and should have scored 6 ourselves. They needed a win to stay up and must have thought it was Christmas Day. Such a disappointing way in which to end an otherwise very good season. 1,456 there, too.

Defeat at the MTA. Full time sponsored by @resolve_legal

It’s a great programme Dave. Appreciate the effort. I look forward to buying my copy on Saturday

@thebmstand Protests are futile. You are still paying the ticket prices therefore there is no reason they will be reduced. I am a legacy fan of a club I no longer recognise so now have a ST at Marine. Do that

As someone on Spirit of Shankly pointed out, this is just the original concept for the Premier League being delivered. The vision was to move football up a couple of social classes, which to me means price out the less wealthy and encourage a "better" class of clientele with more disposable income. They focused only on the vast riches the PL would bring and they were right. However that model only works long term with regeneration of new fans. It works if you are never gonna get relegated because the group of die hards whose loyalty and love for the club could not be quantified on a balance sheet, have already left and they are now doing something else with their match days. Most of them likely realise that it's quite useful getting the time back and similar to when you break up with an ex, there is rarely any going back. Without the diehards, who indoctrinated the next generation into being obsessed with the team, where does the next generation of fans come from? Good luck convincing a young person to spend what little they have left after paying their rent and other increasing costs, to allocate a big chunk of what's left for an overpriced season ticket. Not happening, football is not high on the importance scale when you can watch every game on telly. As for the "better" clientele they attracted, they will abandon ship as quickly as they arrived come any form of hard times. What the clubs are doing right now with ticket price rises is simply ensuring that they have no loyal die hard fanbase left in 10-15 years. These changes will be forever. No more capacity crowds for just playing in the PL, owners will be forced to try and actually win stuff. If they don't, goodbye fans. If they do, those fans will demand they do it again. I'm from an era that did not place expectation on clubs, we just handed over our money and went to football, because that is the way it was. I'm still clinging on but with next year being my 50th watching West Ham and having been banned this season for breaching health and safety, I'm pretty sure it will be my last one. Unless the owners who fucked my club up completely, finally get the message and fuck off back to their mansions. The people who own clubs know the square root of fuck all about the generations of fans who helped build that club to be the thing it was before they demolished everything they inherited. They do not comprehend love or loyalty because in their world, those things are cash transactions. Football as we knew it is on life support, but the owners won't realise until one day they look around that vast stadium and see a handful of fans watching the latest pile of average they decided to serve up. #BSOUT

@CrosenderWay Played some lovely football down at Telford after a rocky start. That was also counter attacking football so yesterday may have been similar but on a worse surface

We went there with a game plan to be defensively solid but counter attack when we had the opportunity to do so which we did brilliantly, we could of won more convincingly as well if we took a couple of good chances we had. So called bigger clubs don't like it when they play us cause they expect it to be an easy win for them but we are no mugs and will give anyone a game if we are on it!

Massive win that for Marine, could of scored 4 or 5 today on the break, we was under pressure second half but we saw it out really well. Unbelievable what these lads are giving us at the moment, volume of games with the small squad we have and they keep churning out performances!