Egg on the face of whoever at @BBCSport gambled on an Ealing win today……
Wonder how long it’ll be until it’s updated to @BedfordBluesRFC v @WorcsWarriors ????
@SouthamptonFC We handed ourselves in to the FA to investigate our corrupt owners and were punished. The FAs aim was to erase the club from existence…and they nearly did.
You cheated, end of. Keep us out of your dirty business.
Anyone with any knowledge of English football history will know that it is ridiculous for Southampton’s chief executive, Phil Parsons, to claim that their expulsion from the Championship play-offs is a bigger punishment than the 30-point deduction imposed on Luton Town in 2008 which led to relegation and almost throttled the life out of the club. Absolutely no comparison and completely weakens Southampton’s attempted argument that being thrown out of the play-offs is “manifestly disproportionate to every previous sanction in the history of the English game”.
There is some good stuff in Parsons’ statement: accepting culpability for Spygate, apologising to those clubs they spied on and apologising to their fans “whose extraordinary loyalty and support this season deserved better from the club”. Well said. But… the rules changed since Leeds United’s “similar offence” in 2019, there is no right to the £200m (it’s not a fine), and to play the whataboutery game and make the comparison with the Hatters is, fittingly, mad. Southampton’s reputation is certainly damaged but at least their very existence is not at risk. #SaintsFC #LTFC
When we got promoted to the premier league the buzz in Luton was massive and the feeling around the town was incredible.
Seeing your hometown/local club be successful has no other feeling.
If you don’t support your local you will never understand and just won’t get it.
24/04/1988:
Arsenal, the Littlewoods Cup holders, defend their “crown” against Luton at Wembley.
What unfolded was one of the greatest games at Wembley of the 80s.
Ray Harford’s men came away victorious in the year of the “minnows” winning the domestic cups.
@TLRailUK any chance the 17.14pm from Flitwick to Brighton can stop at West Hampstead so that all the England fans who’s train has just been cancelled (the 16.58pm train) do not have to go into central London to then get to Wembley???
@theawayfans Went to a league cup game there with Luton that got postponed in AUGUST 🤣
Ended up in Skeggy for the evening 🎠
We even drove back for the rearranged game which we lost in after extra time.