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Great time to score. 1-1

Boro trying to wind up the ref here. This could get ugly unless the officials get a grip.

Ref under instructions to give Boro everything and Saints nothing.

Apparently a tiny shirt pull isn't cheating according to the commentators.

Their runners being left to do as they please. Not quite as bad as Saturday but we're not stringing anything together much in attack at all.

Stewart terrible miss.

There's a big hole where Downes should be.

Saints shapeless. Boro could be out of sight inside 15 minutes.

Dreadful start. 0-1.

Have they turned that pitch into a swamp again?

Charles instead of Downes. Brave.

Aren't Boro doing the equivalent of surrounding the ref and demanding he shows their opponent a red card? Certainly unsporting and worth a punishment.

That would have happened more than 72 hours before the game where penalties would be a factor. This lot are idiots.

Brexit and Nigel Fagash supporters. Says it all really.

Good question but I'd say Saints acted in good faith by putting up our alleged spy in Gibson's own hotel. Can't say better than that really.

Allow me to be the first that I really couldn't give a monkey's if the boot was on the other foot.

Good job I didn't then.

It is but "They left their back gate ajar so actually it's their fault that I stood outside and took a picture of it through the gap" would be closer to what happened.

If the spy had been watching penalties in the event that they were needed then that places them outside the 72 hours window. No problem. 😎

Did they? There was no evidence of that in the first half.

So they were spying on him then?

So does VAR.

There's a lot of those on the Guardian these days.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/may/10/southampton-spygate-middlesbrough-championship-playoffs They're all at it now. Any chance that Saints could join in and accuse others of lurking in trees at Staplewood?

I'd hate to be facing a jury of some on here. 😇