Darren Potter

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[Darren Potter @DarrenP15]

@RShortOfficial9 @puffpuff65 What a combo. Dreamy

[Darren Potter @DarrenP15]

#whatoddspaddy Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo not to score a single goal at the 2026 World Cup?

[Darren Potter @DarrenP15]

Their punishment was soft in hindsight.

Good grief the clubs a mess 🤣

[Craig Hope @CraigHope_DM]

🚨 Southampton guilty of “DEPLORABLE APPROACH” in putting “PRESSURE” on junior staff to spy on opposition teams

🔍 “AUTHORISED” by head coach Tonda Eckert

❌ Club LIED about spying after allegations

💣 Bombshell written reasons into Spygate scandal…

https://t.co/MkbnUOSNWP

[Darren Potter @DarrenP15]

@RShortOfficial9 @AFCWimbledon He can do it all

[Dominic Shaw @DomShawEcho]

Today's pathetic statements sum Southampton up - classless until the very end. They never did understand the seriousness of the matter.

✍️👇 | #Boro
https://t.co/NzK8YcuYE7

[Darren Potter @DarrenP15]

FIT AND PROPER

[Middlesbrough FC @Boro]

A statement from the EFL ⤵️

[Darren Potter @DarrenP15]

Fit and proper. Integrity isn’t for everyone.

[Boropolis @Boropolis]

Afternoon.

[Darren Potter @DarrenP15]

This is absolute madness from Southampton. Their fans must be so embarrassed.

[Boropolis @Boropolis]

🚨💣🧵

Some staggering details taken from @TeleFootball’s piece on Southampton’s alleged Middlesbrough spying mission…

• The ‘spy’ had professional surveillance equipment, complete with a microphone to record voices and technology to livestream the footage back to someone watching remotely. It is claimed the man filming the session had professional filming equipment, complete with a microphone powerful enough to pick up the voice of manager Kim Hellberg and his coaching staff as they issued training instructions.

• Middlesbrough have since been told by whistleblowers that this is not the first time a member of Southampton’s analyst team has been sent to record opposition training sessions this season.

• Middlesbrough have informed the English Football League that they view this as a clear and obvious case of cheating and are seeking the *harshest possible punishment*. A wide range of action is possible when dealing with cases such as these, including points deductions, fines and *potential expulsion from the play-offs*.

• With that in mind, the club feel they are already at a big disadvantage heading into the two-legged tie and *they believe their opponents are already aware of their starting XI for the first leg*. If they change it, they would not be picking the manager’s first-choice side.

• The deadline for those observations to be returned to the EFL was set at 1pm on Friday but *Southampton are accused of missing it.* Middlesbrough suspect their Championship rivals are playing for time and hope to avoid admitting any wrongdoing until after the game on Saturday.

• Middlesbrough privately believe a fine would not be much of a deterrent in this case given the benefits of gaining an unfair advantage ahead of a game of this magnitude.

• They will push for the harshest possible sanction with owner *Steve Gibson probably set to raise the matter directly with his Southampton counterparts in the Riverside boardroom on Saturday*.

#Boro | #UTB | #SaintsFC

[Darren Potter @DarrenP15]

Just about sums up that first half. Absolutely woeful AGAIN

[Darren Potter @DarrenP15]

Depressing club

[Chris @Chris_BoroUTB]

The league table after we beat Sheffield United on 9 February.

If we don’t miraculously get through the play-offs, how we bottled this through incompetence and ineptitude both on and off the pitch (*cough* January) will be talked about for decades as a sliding doors moment.

[Darren Potter @DarrenP15]

@craighudson10 Ermm he definitely did🤣

[Darren Potter @DarrenP15]

@cdurant92 We’ve had good moments which we can all celebrate but that many years of failure is unacceptable. Stop putting us all in the same bracket, we’re not a collective

[Darren Potter @DarrenP15]

@cdurant92 As I said, Gibson is accountable. Scott takes the blame too but Gibson is the one who employed him and ‘let’ him find the players.

We’ve one year out of the Championship since our first relegation in 2009.. if not Gibson, then who??

[Darren Potter @DarrenP15]

@BadderGull @_TY_97 He’s dived over the second one for me…

[Darren Potter @DarrenP15]

Coburn scoring twice and whilst we’re desperate for a striker sums it up.

If Gibson run us well, we wouldn’t constantly be splurging money with no reward but here we are, another year in the championship

[Darren Potter @DarrenP15]

@Official_BHTFC Absolute madness! Surely a late April fools?!

Thanks for the memories Jay!!

[Darren Potter @DarrenP15]

Nothing angers me more in this world than this shite football club

[Middlesbrough FC @Boro]

Charlton take the points.

[Darren Potter @DarrenP15]

Absolutely ridiculous. Pure money grab

[EFL @EFL]

From the 26/27 season, the #SkyBetChampionship Play-Offs will be expanded to six teams.

Read more: https://t.co/E8Njme9iOL

#EFL

[Darren Potter @DarrenP15]

@plinketyplink2 @RonnieGeddes