On behalf of the people of Middlesbrough and Teesside, #Boro will donate our share of the gate receipts from tomorrow's @EmiratesFACup tie against @ChelseaFC to humanitarian aid in Ukraine ❤️🇺🇦 #UTB
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🚨 🕵🏻♂️ 🌳 BREAKING: Middlesbrough boss Kim Hellberg has accused Southampton of “cheating” by having a spy “hidden in the bushes” at a Boro training session:
🗣️ "I couldn’t believe my eyes or ears. I couldn’t believe it when I was told a second time, or third. It's quite clear that they - and I don't mean the players or fans of Southampton, I think they are brilliant and have nothing to do with it - but someone has made a decision to cheat.
🗣️ “I feel anger, but there has to be respect too between each other that they have totally failed in. I mean those who did it, not the club or anything like that.
So I think it’s disappointment because it’s a big game. They tried to get an advantage in an unfair way. Things can happen in the heat of the moment, like a dive to trick the referee. But this is something they’d planned — absolutely everything.”
🗣️ If the punishment is a a fine, who would get the fine? Should they pay it to the EFL?
Okay. So they see everything we do, and…what? We will see what happens, I don’t know.
🗣️”I just think it’s weird they try to cheat in this type of game. Didn’t Bielsa (at Leeds) pay £200,000 when it wasn’t a law? I think a lot of clubs would pay that amount to try and get the advantage two days before a game.”
🗣️ “Is there a suspicion they’ve done this to other clubs this season? I’m just thinking about now…and we found them in the bushes.”
🌳 🕵🏻♂️ #UTB
@boro_alex2@TomCanty05 Again… they were knackered. Can have the best player in the world on the outch but if he can’t run anymore you’ve got to change it. They brought Barry Bannan on ffs and he made a positive impact