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@AdamBlackmore Most spectacular & unnecessary own goal since Jamie Pollock.

EFL statement #SaintsFc Decision on spy probe by Tuesday Play-off final still scheduled for 4:30pm Sat May 23rd BUT a change to that not ruled out ….

@sportingintel @DaveMacca83 The kid with an iPhone doesn’t change the fact we have cheated. Deliberately. Only possibly in the mitigation that is wasn’t far off amateur hour & the perception. EFL will be praying Hull beat us.

@DaveMacca83 Corden is a football illiterate buffoon. I'd say, based on precedent, that a big fine and perhaps a points deduction of Saints are in the EFL next season (3-6 points) would be about right. Getting kicked out the play-off final IMO would be extreme.

I'm a Saints fan, and remain embarrassed & mortified that a Saints intern spied on Boro. Pointless. Self-defeating. Cringe. But today's "bombshell" utterly subverts the totally fake news narrative of sophisticated spyware tech, live feeds to HQ etc. It's a kid. With an iphone.

@TheSaintCentre I know an iPhone is genuinely hi-tech, but really not the image that “hi-tech filming equipment” conjured up. Like his footage, not so much to see here.

🚨BREAKING: This is the image that allegedly shows a member of Southampton’s analysis staff concealed behind trees while filming or observing a training session involving Middlesbrough ahead of their play-off clash with Southampton #saintsfc

@AdamBlackmore 3/6 point deduction next Championship season. No ticket allocation for Wembley?!? Think the EFL were praying for Boro to win; just to take playoff expulsion out of the equation.

If I had to guess how this #SaintsFc spy mess is going to turn out if found guilty, I’d go: 500k fine 3pts docked at the start of next season And if an individual turns out to be responsible for authorising it, a possible 6 month ban That’s my nearest the pin currently⛳️

@GavinBarwell And yet, by no means the least qualified, most dangerously incompetent, nor most dislikable person in the administration.

This is the White House Director of Communications ladies and gentlemen

@henrywinter As a Southampton fan, we’re disgusted by the alleged actions (presumably of the coaching staff & one would assume sanctioned by the club). It’s neither the players’ nor the fans’ fault; that’s a separation needing to be made.

Southampton have always been a club that did things the right way. Attractive football, long history, loyal and vocal support, important community department, good atmosphere at the Dell and St Mary’s, develop talent, even a great cat at the training ground. A sound club. A touch of class. So as they head to Wembley, and deservedly so as they were better than Boro on the night, perhaps those who run the club and run the football side consider how to restore the club’s reputation.  Because a club who many neutrals had a soft spot for risk becoming hard to like. Some Southampton fans will not worry about what others think of them. But they should. They are currently associated with cheating - Spygate - and for allegations of discriminatory language on the pitch (which have yet to be proven). That’s not what Southampton are about.  Their head coach, Tonda Eckert, rightly earned plenty of praise for his inspirational work this season but risks coming across as charmless at times. Interesting that Boro’s coach, Kim Hellberg, in his Sky Sports interview, congratulated Southampton players and supporters but not their coach. Southampton have gained a shot at the Premier League - any Spygate sanctions permitting - but lost some respect. Saints’ board and Eckert now have to work out how to restore that good reputation. And pray that the independent disciplinary commission does not punish them severely and swiftly for Spygate. As many people want them to. #SaintsFC #SOUMID

@JeremyVineOn5 Yes. It goes the heart of his & Reform’s integrity (or lack thereof). Probably just coincidence he wants to deregulate Crypto & publicly invest £200k in a startup. If the money was for security, show us the receipts & company invoices.

Nigel Farage's £5 million row - does it matter to you? The Reform UK leader is facing questions after it emerged he accepted £5 million from a wealthy businessman before standing as an MP. Should he have declared it?

@dave43law @Nigel_Farage @Keir_Starmer If the £5m has been used for his security, let’s see the receipts company invoices & alike. Should be easy to demonstrate, if true.

Looking forward to your Standards investigation Indeed 5 million reasons to and that I assume i just the start. And to think you harped on for weeks about a few pairs of glasses. Anybody and everywhere journalists, individuals and organisations will be after every penny Reform and it's associates have 'gained' - likely involve th Brexit Party too.

I tried to warn you, @Keir_Starmer.

@ITVNewsPolitics Genuine question @itvnews @itv @ITVNewsPolitics Why have you deliberately chosen to sanitise the abhorrent quote? To protect the public from Reform’s views?

@GavinBarwell @DavidGauke It’s not just a left-of-centre coalition. I possibly share similar conservative values as you both. I would vote for any party I thought had the best chance of keeping Reform out. General elections are not local ones, “where it doesn’t really matter”

Gorton & Denton called and reminded you what happens if a majority of the electorate really don't want a particular party to win and are therefore motivated to vote tactically to stop it happening

@dave43law In some ways, many Brexit backers will have got the incompetent local council they voted for. Will just reinforce their impression that the “UK is shit”; but still without the understanding of why.

And yet they are falling for the same grift and spin funded from elsewhere that they did the first time NEVER AGAIN - send Farage back to his empty pub corner

@Number10cat @JoeyMannarino Don’t tell Joey about the US wanting to check the social media history of anyone wanting to visit, before issuing a visa. It would blow his little mind.

@JoeyMannarino Cat check: You cannot appeal this decision.

I will NOT be attending the rally on May 16th in London that @TRobinsonNewEra is organizing and I likely won’t be attending CPAC UK either because the United Kingdom has decided, randomly, that I am unable to travel there any longer because my prescence is “not conducive to the public good”. I have had this ETA travel permission since last May and have been to the United Kingdom about four or five times since then. I didn’t reapply or anything. Today, I just woke up to this notice in my email. They have banned an American citizen from their country for no apparent reason whatsoever. I assume for matters of freedom of speech, but they haven’t clarified. I will most certainly be appealing that decision and applying for a visa through the formal process to see exactly why they’ve deemed me ineligible to come over. Free speech is DEAD in the United Kingdom. Absolutely dead. The Labour government has taken whatever was left of it and destroyed it.

@Alonso_GD Publicly invests £200k of “his own money” into a Crypto scheme run by a man who famously crashed the UK economy…. Make it make sense (without the whopping £5m “gift with no strings attached”)

Here are the facts as laid down by Derbyshire: 1) Farage says he won’t run 2) crypto billionaire pays him £5mill 3) Farage U-turns and runs 4) Farage hides the donation 5) Farage announces if he wins the election he will slash capital gains tax for crypto firms Same old same old

@AdamBlackmore Just got to get promoted then

I think Peretz is in the same boat from what I’ve been told #SaintsFc

@michaelwhite Anti-Semitic attacks in the UK are more prevalent & violent since Israel launched multiple genocidal campaigns. Both things are utterly abhorrent & both need to be condemned by all parties.

Not sure we need lessons on civic values from Bibi Netanyahu or the Daily Mail

@StuartofLeeds @Helen_Whately @SuellaBraverman You beat me to the punch. “I have plenty of experience of floundering, completely out of my depth, trying to defend the indefensible; so I should know”

@Helen_Whately @SuellaBraverman The day you get shamed by Helen Whately is the day you should give up politics, Suella Braverman

I hate to break it to you @SuellaBraverman but that’s not the way the rules work. You have been sent out to defend the indefensible.

@Channel4News Your colleagues at @BBCNews have chosen to bury this deep in the politics section as if it’s trivial. Make it make sense. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Nigel Farage reported to watchdog over £5m crypto billionaire ‘gift’ channel4.com/news/nigel-far…

@tommyjusa @ak_mack @bresreports If Ukraine had wanted to surrender, they wouldn’t have needed Trump’s help.

@ak_mack @bresreports Trump, 2024: “Mark my words, I will end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. It might not even take that long.”

Scoop: Julie Davis, the acting US Ambassador in Kyiv, is leaving the State Department having grown frustrated with Trump's dwindling support for Ukraine. Davis's resignation follows that of her predecessor, Bridget Brink, who resigned for similar reasons early last year. W/@christopherjm  as.ft.com/r/1781e555-fad…

@PippaCrerar @Annaisaac If he had any moral decency, he’d resign…

EXCL: Nigel Farage was given an undisclosed £5m by crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne shortly before announcing he would stand in general election @Annaisaac reveals theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

@JPMillwall2 Your confidence is so high, you seem to suggest you’re going to lose to Oxford & end up 4th 🤯