Ant B

I'm an Assistant Headteacher and EYFS/Y1 teacher at a local Primary School. Leeds fan and music lover.

[Ant B @AnthonyB1985]

@LoisMcLatch What? Seriously, what in the sweaty honulooloo of ignorance is this tweet? You might as well have written "So it's OK to kill flies but not people - HYPOCRITS." Infact, that would have made a tad more sense than this garbage.

[Ant B @AnthonyB1985]

@HLTCO Honestly, I'm a neutral and it's been pathetic watching him tweet! Football is about glory! Fairnlkay to Palace! Let him enjoy moaning to anybody that will listen to him down at The Den each week. I feel sorry for the guys in the seats either side of him.

[Ant B @AnthonyB1985]

@prodnose You should have kept some of that Daz washing powder to wash out that horrible shade of green you're becoming! Enjoy your big day out at West Ham next season and then continue to wallow in complete irrelevance as a football club. Leave the trophies to everyone else.

[Lewis Deighton @LewisDeighton17]

That’s now TWELVE of this season’s Premier League teams playing abroad next season. 🤯

Arsenal, City, Manu, Villa and Liverpool in the UCL.

Bournemouth, Sunderland and Palace in the UEL.

Brighton in the conference.

West Ham, Burnley and Wolves all have three trips to Wales.

[Ant B @AnthonyB1985]

@ABridgen Nothing to do with net zero and everything to do with privatisation and the reliance on world markets.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The Supreme Court has ruled that under UK law, trans people never had the rights people like you insisted they had. You misrepresented the law and cheered on the removal of women’s rights. Trans people have lost nothing except the mistaken belief you fostered.

[Ant B @AnthonyB1985]

@AvaLovelaceX @jk_rowling She doesn't need to convince herself, there are millions of people on hand to remind her daily.

[Ant B @AnthonyB1985]

@DebsHLUFC I notice the ability to reply has Brentford turned off...they don't want any conversation around this do they.

[Adonis Storr @theadelites]

"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"

The difference between these two incidents couldn't be more stark - yet they keep being incongruously conflated.

It was Southampton denied Middlesbrough "the opportunity to compete in a game worth more than £200 million" - that is why the punishment fits the crime.

When #LUFC was fined £200,000, that was due to breaking ONLY regulation 3.4 - 127 did not exist then.

Leeds also didn't spy during the play-offs.

The play-offs are considered a separate competition.

The integrity of that competition has been called into question.

A sporting sanction was deemed the only possible penalty that would restore fairness and act as a deterrent - no fine would be large enough to dissuade espionage during the play-offs.

The only sporting sanction in the play-offs is expulsion.

The relevant precedent is not the fine for #LUFC, the relevant precedent is Swindon in the EFL Trophy.

The gravity of what Southampton has done doesn't seem to have hit home and while words of contrition sound nice - only acceptance of the punishment would show that they have really understood what they have done:

namely - cheating Middlesbrough out of a *fair shot* at winning the play-offs.

The integrity of the competition is central to the decision - nothing in this statement has contradicted that.

This statement is effectively saying: it was ok for us to take this £200 million game away from Boro through cheating; but it's not OK for it to be taken away from us by sanction.

This statement is saying - we thought because Leeds got fined £200,000 - that would be the price for our actions too. The implication being that was a factor in deciding whether to cheat or not in the first place.

This statement also comes across as laying the ground work for future litigation should the decision be upheld - by citing other teams punishments erroneously in an ill advised few paragraphs of whataboutism.

Which I do not believe helps Southampton's cause whatsoever as the panel deliberates the appeal.

Incidentally, if further evidence of spying comes to light, then that should also be investigated and - I assume - further points be deducted (as those incident would have occurred during the league, not playoffs.)

I find it very difficult to believe that there was no espionage committed between the admitted incidents that occurred in December and in April.

There are no shortage of clubs who have will feel aggrieved by Southampton's actions, many of whom, I imagine, will feel like they are owed some form of compensation.

And I doubt this statement will have been any comfort to them.

[Ant B @AnthonyB1985]

@SouthamptonFC What other punishment would have been appropriate in a knock out competition? Oh you cheated, but carry on as you were just a few quid lighter?

Remember, when Leeds did it they had to find a rule that sort of fitted for them to fine us and then made a specific rule.

[Ant B @AnthonyB1985]

@SkySportsPL Would @OptaSTATS like to buy my old @SEGA Dreamcast? It'd do a better job at making league predictions.

[Sky Sports Premier League @SkySportsPL]

The Opta supercomputer is back and has predicted the 2025/26 Premier League table... 👀🏆

Do you agree? 👇

[Ant B @AnthonyB1985]

@CalvertLewin14 Back at ya! Thanks for an amazing season! Onwards and upwards in 2026 - 27. I just hope you're on that plan and get chance to go and win us a World Cup! Come on Tuchel - open your eyes! MOT

[Ant B @AnthonyB1985]

These interviews during matches really need to get put in the bin at the end of this season @SkySportsPL - really distracts from the game and I'm sure the players hate them as well. Trippier probably just wanted a minute to soak that goodbye up and take it in.

[Ant B @AnthonyB1985]

@elonmusk So you want to just let men harass their ex/current partners online or threaten women and girls with impunity! Men must be protected...sod the women, isn't that right Elon?

[Ant B @AnthonyB1985]

If Sociedad were Leeds, I'd still be a nervous wreck right now! Thankfully Leeds are safe as houses and able to enjoy all this other drama with one foot on the beach and a beer in our hands.

[Ant B @AnthonyB1985]

@marshyleeds I'd sell Dan James before Gnonto - the problem is Gnonto would be more profit for the PSR rules. Willy is only 22, gove him another season or 2!

[Ant B @AnthonyB1985]

@LeedsZone_ @yorkshirepost Who's building a small town in the West Stand car park? What are we calling it? Strachan City? Macallister Maisonettes? The Brolin Brothels?

[Ant B @AnthonyB1985]

@PeoplesPortalUK @afneil Hes capturing carbon on behalf of Ed Milliband.

[Ant B @AnthonyB1985]

@suefreelance @MrsEmmaWebber @Telegraph @NHSNotts Completely impractical, what a ludicrous suggestion.