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'I knew I should've just installed that fence'

Cheer up Stevie G Oh what can it mean To a sad Boro bastard and your Shite football teeeeaaammm

Never have two teams looked more ready for the Premier League

Yes and it shouldn't stop with Tonda. The club needs to tidy up its reputation, firstly with its own fans and secondly within football, and that can't happen if there's a culture of just letting all of the amateurish stuff continue on with a shrug

The written reasons don't reflect well on him. He's the CEO, regardless of the club's guilt it's his job to defend the club in the best way and mount a professional and well-composed response. He was caught off-guard from the outset and fumbled the whole thing, based on what we can read in that report Then you have the stupidity of confessing guilt to Gibson in the Riverside boardroom with witnesses in the room. Absolute ineptitude and arrogance when the margins for error were so thin

Parsons should be clearing his desk too. Totally failed to defend the club adequately and kept stepping on rakes while we were under investigation

Pannick was on the appeal for us. He wasn’t in the original hearing and ruling (when we were busy pissing around with this other stupid approach)

Well the spy was an intern so the legal team being interns too would stack up

EFL publish full written reasons: https://www.efl.com/news/2026/may/21/efl-statement--written-reasons-relating-to-southampton-fc/

Pretty damning line for Saints on the compliance/admin front in the newest Guardian article: Eckert, who is battling to hold on to his job amid a Football Association investigation into the conduct of individuals at the club, has argued he did not realise what he did was against the EFL’s statutes. Southampton gave a detailed briefing in pre-season to Eckert’s predecessor, Will Still, explaining the competition’s rules. They did not do the same for Eckert after he replaced Still in early November. -- How is a club secretary/compliance manager/other admin staff member not taking a rookie manager through the requirements of his role and the requirements of the competitions he will be leading the team in?

Club announcement on Wembley refunds: https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/news/article/ticket-refund-process Fans will be returned the price of their ticket, travel packages and any/all booking fees associated with their bookings, with money arriving in bank accounts in the next 10-14 days.

I am assuming both the players and Eckert are likely to have had other meetings going on earlier in the morning...

Sky: Players have a meeting with Eckert at 11am

Yeah, he is out of contract at end of June

Club statement: https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/news/article/club-statement-20th-may-2026

Can Katharina buy the club back, even just on an interim basis of a year or so to restore some normality and decency to the way the club is run? She was never perpetually embarrassing the fanbase like we have done under SR's lead

The game’s terrible. I’ve tried 3/4 times but it’s just not good and lost a tonne of its immersiveness which was its charm. I’ll give FM27 another try but 26 was barely worth releasing, I’ve spent the whole season carrying on my FM24 saves

Crazy really. He sued Derby for £40m-£45m in 2019 and settled three years later in 2022 for £3m but you'd think he'd won them some sort of king's ransom by the way they bleat on about it

Latest update in the Northern Echo In ordinary circumstances, it could take an independent commission up to a fortnight to publish their judgement along with the written explanations for their findings. Given that the Championship play-off final is due to take place on Saturday, though, the hope is that the verdict in this case will be issued within 24 hours of the hearing taking place. Written conclusions will then be published later in the summer. The judgement will initially be delivered to the two legal teams involved in the case, before being more widely released. Both the EFL, who are effectively mounting a case on Middlesbrough’s behalf, and Southampton, as the defending party, have a right of appeal against the judgement. An appeal would almost certainly mean that Saturday's final would have to be rescheduled.

Squad Cost Rules (SCR) are calculated as... Clubs are allowed to spend 85% of their total revenue on football costs: - Head Coach and Players salaries - Agent fees - Transfer fees (amortised) Excluded from the calculation is: - Women's squad costs - Academy squad costs - Infrastructure costs Club owners are allowed to inject £10m over and above the 85% as an annual equity injection, should they wish.