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@Keir_Starmer Are you still here.

I welcome the progress towards an agreement between the US and Iran. We need to see an agreement that brings the conflict to an end and reopens the Strait of Hormuz, with unconditional and unrestricted freedom of navigation. It’s vital that Iran must never be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon. My government will continue to do everything we can to protect British people from the impact of this conflict. We will work with our international partners to seize this moment and achieve a long-term diplomatic settlement.

@JamesNewman76 @SouthamptonFC Jesus Christ 🤦🏼‍♂️

I just want Tonda to stay and fix the mess. Am I the only one !? #saintsfc @SouthamptonFC

@SaintsExtra Sack the cnut.

A topic that seems to be dividing the #SaintsFC fanbase. Pending the findings of the FA's investigation, where do you stand on Tonda Eckert's future?

@JohnHammett3 @AlfieHouseEcho What an absolute 🔔 🔚

@AlfieHouseEcho Alfie as a a journalist i have to say you have been absolutely abhorrent... everything that is wrong with society you have nailed.. you must be proud to be an upstanding pillar off the ( false ) truth.. you deserve to absolutely rot in the duldrums of british society

Saints fans singing: "Same old Boro, always cheating." Which you'd have to say is quite funny. #SaintsFC

@educationgovuk @bphillipsonMP What an absolute joke. To think you're in charge of the education. Gemma Collins probably doesn't know her left from her right. 🤦🏼‍♂️

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@SwearingSport Lads night out. So what.

Jack Grealish and Jordan Pickford were spotted stumbling out of a strip club late last night. 👀

Come on The Tigers 👊🏻 #hcafc

@LdKjCj It would be just like Saints to wait until the F.A. give him a ban before we sack him. It's the Southampton Way 🤦🏼‍♂️

1 little German rat has ruined most people's day today & he's still at the club

@JasCattell @joemichalczuk I seem to remember that they stole from charities and local businesses in their area?

@joemichalczuk Pipe down chunks….Still obsessed I see

Southampton, we’ll be seeing you at Fratton Park in a few months. It’s a busy summer ahead - finding a new manager, being sued by half the Championship, and conducting a fire sale of your best players while your reputation sits in the absolute gutter. A cheating club that, even after being found out, still didn’t seem to understand what it had done wrong. It’s a long way back when you’re this arrogant and entitled 😘

@craigthesaint @SouthamptonFC 🎣

Come on @SouthamptonFC when are season ticket prices out?

@LdKjCj @AdamBlackmore I can't believe they still haven't shown him the door. What's the hold up.. 🤯

@AdamBlackmore And yet im seeing some fans say that they would like it if he stays,send him on his way

#SaintsFc EFL ruling: Tonda Eckert accepted that he had specifically authorised the observations to obtain information about formation in the case of Oxford United and about player availability in the case of Boro Terrible indictment of him and the use of junior member of staff too …

Cue the exit door for Tonda and all who colluded in the whole unsavory situation. #SaintsFC

@SaintsExtra @CraigHope_DM They're just not reading the room are they.

🚨 For now, Tonda Eckert 'retains the support' of the Southampton hierarchy & would take charge of the play-off final, if Saints get there — beyond that, his future is less certain #saintsfc @CraigHope_DM

@NathanielWhitto @Rikarnold0

#saintsfc #hcafc #boro oh

@AdamBlackmore It reads like, "Don't look over here. Look over there."

Statement from #SaintsFc chief exec Phil Parsons 👇

@AlfieHouseEcho Meanwhile, Tonda Eckert is still in post.

🚨 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

@craigthesaint We won't get reinstated to the final. Maybe a deduction in the pts sanction.

@lake_wayne Tonda gone today imo to help our argument to have the ruling overturned

I wouldn't be surprised if Tonda (and others) were gone by the weekend. #saintsfc

@brandanpoole Wow 🤯

I can’t be the only one that thinks this is a bad idea? He’s a good manager, made a mistake. Sure a big one, fine him and crack on. #SaintsFC

@SaintsExtra @TeleFootball Does he think we all came down in the last shower.

🚨 BREAKING: Southampton manager Tonda Eckert admitted he was responsible for the decision to spy on opponents — his key defence was that, since the practice is widespread on the continent, he had no idea he was breaking English football rules #saintsfc @TeleFootball