David Renouf

[David Renouf @LTCwolf]

@NathanJudah That team was unbelievable 🥲

[David Renouf @LTCwolf]

Fantastic kit and video @Wolves
Finally getting a few things right after a horrendous few years.. hope this is the turning point. #wwfc

[Wolves @Wolves]

Dear Wolverhampton… 💛🖤

A love letter. 150 years in the making.

The new Wolves home kit featuring our city crest is available tomorrow:

🖥️ Online: Friday 5th June, 9am
🏪 In-store: Friday 5th June, 10am

[David Renouf @LTCwolf]

That new kit is top class. #wwfc

[David Renouf @LTCwolf]

Pathetic statement. Still trying to act the victim. Just own up, accept full responsibility, apologise to fans and move on.

[Southampton FC @SouthamptonFC]

Club statement: 1st June 2026

[David Renouf @LTCwolf]

@MikeyBurrows I think of that penalty miss often. Really makes me wonder where we would be now had that gone in.

[David Renouf @LTCwolf]

@saintsfcreport "EFL regulations are the only body that recognise this as a breach."

So it is cheating then, as Saints play under the EFL...

[David Renouf @LTCwolf]

@roryisconfused Blows my mind how much they achieved in so little time.

[David Renouf @LTCwolf]

@DavidComlay You are aware you cheated multiple times, not just Boro? Check the news.

[Kris Wigfield @kr62209]

The flaw in this argument is comparing an in-game football offence with an off-field integrity offence.

Professional fouls, tactical fouls and even diving are part of the match itself. They are anticipated within the Laws of the Game and carry prescribed sporting sanctions: free kicks, yellow cards, red cards, suspensions.

Spying on opponents is fundamentally different, it’s:-

• premeditated
• covert
• conducted outside the match
• impossible for the opposition to counter within the game
• outside the normal sporting framework

That is why governing bodies treat integrity breaches differently from tactical fouls.

The important question is not “Did spying provide more advantage than a cynical foul?”

It is “Can football allow clubs to secretly gather prohibited competitive intelligence without severe deterrent sanctions?”

Because once that line moves, where does it stop?

Drone footage?

Intercepted communications?

Accessing tactical data?

Hidden recording devices?

Sport depends on participants believing the competition itself is honest.

That is why integrity breaches should always be punished more severely than tactical fouls committed within the accepted framework of the game.

[David Renouf @LTCwolf]

@StuartJones7 So you're saying you should get a yellow card for deliberately trying to get an illegal advantage in a game worth that much money?

[David Renouf @LTCwolf]

@saintspins It's not £200m though. Such a strange argument to make.

[David Renouf @LTCwolf]

@oursouthcoast You did cheat though...

[David Renouf @LTCwolf]

Poorly written statement this.

Basically saying although they cheated to try and gain the £200 million reward, we shouldn't be punished by losing that opportunity...

And offering to tackle future cheating 🤣

Own it, apologise profusely to your fans and move on.

#saintsfc

[Southampton FC @SouthamptonFC]

A statement from Phil Parsons, Chief Executive, Southampton Football Club.

[Ben Connelly @bconnelly55]

In summary: We Southampton have been very naughty boys but these were only vanilla offences & we thought we could get away with it

We accepted the charges because we thought you'd give us a slap on the wrists, it's not fair gov, we are really sorry 🥹

#EFL #SaintsFC #Boro #UTB

[David Renouf @LTCwolf]

@mattletiss7 What would your punishment have been for what seems to be systemic cheating to gain an advantage to get promoted for huge reward?

[David Renouf @LTCwolf]

@BigChermiti9 @EFL_Comms Why? Kicked out of a football match for cheating multiple times. What's the problem?

Hardly a life sentence.

[David Renouf @LTCwolf]

@BenPalmer78 Just don't cheat then. Simple 👍

[David Renouf @LTCwolf]

@IamBalhamMatt This really does seem like a stretch.

Bottom line is Southampton cheated. Anger should be at the club, not the punishment they were given.