Britrock

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[Paddy Power @paddypower]

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@AdamBlackmore Thanks again for the sterling work you (and your team including Big Joe) put in week in week out for us fans. Particularly those of us overseas, you help us understand and interpret what’s going on. Tough end to the season. Can’t imagine what lies ahead but now is not the time.

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@henrywinter Probably time to move on from repeatedly thrashing a club that has taken responsibility. Before you start frothing over Guardiola’s era at City perhaps apply the same derision for cheating and unfair advantages given the 115 charges STILL not dealt with.

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🚨🎙️Thierry Henry on Southampton expelled for spying drama against Middlesbrough:

“I have to be honest, this is a difficult one. Spying on another team’s training is wrong. Full stop. It crosses a line, it undermines the trust that should exist between clubs, and I understand why Middlesbrough are furious and why the EFL felt they had to act strongly. Integrity matters in this game.

At the same time, I find myself questioning whether expulsion from the play-offs is the right punishment. It feels… heavy. Almost like using a sledgehammer when a precise scalpel was needed.

Let’s be clear: this wasn’t match-fixing or doping. It was analysts pushing boundaries for tactical information, something that, sadly, has happened in different forms across the game for years.

Marcelo Bielsa did it openly at Derby and Leeds, admitted it, and people called him a genius, not a criminal. Drones, analysts in trees, whatever, in the modern game with data and marginal gains everywhere, clubs push boundaries.

Southampton admitted it, yes, and they deserve punishment. A heavy fine, points deduction, maybe even a ban for the staff involved. But kicking the entire club out after they earned their place on the pitch? That punishes players, coaches, and fans who had nothing to do with one or two analysts doing something stupid.

What troubles me most is the collateral damage. The players who battled through a tough Championship season after relegation, who went to extra time and scored that late goal to beat Middlesbrough on the pitch, they earned their place in the final through merit.

Now that achievement is being erased because of actions taken by a small number of staff members. That feels disproportionate to me. A significant fine, a points deduction for next season, and sanctions against the individuals responsible, those would be strong, meaningful punishments that address the breach without nullifying an entire season’s competitive work.

Sport has to balance two things: protecting fairness and recognising that human error and ambition sometimes lead people astray. If every rules breach in high-stakes moments leads to rewriting results, we risk turning the disciplinary process into something more powerful than the football itself. I’ve sat in dressing rooms where we prepared meticulously for opponents. Everyone does. The difference is getting caught.

I hope Southampton appeal and that the final decision finds a better equilibrium. Middlesbrough deserve respect, they were wronged but the players of Southampton also deserve not to have their legitimate efforts wiped away. Football is emotional, passionate, and imperfect.

The response to this should reflect wisdom as much as outrage. We need clearer rules going forward so incidents like this become rare, but we must be careful not to let one mistake destroy what was built legitimately on the grass.

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@VirgilHilts01 @Happy_Hussar2 @SaintsExtra @GaryLineker @alanshearer @RestIsFootball Again, I respect what you're suggesting, we're not going to solve it here sadly, football punishes different forms of cheating wildly differently depending on optics and politics. Either way the fans of all clubs suffer. Good luck to Villa tonight.

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@VirgilHilts01 @Happy_Hussar2 @SaintsExtra @GaryLineker @alanshearer @RestIsFootball Diving happens every game still... perhaps the punishment doesn't work... there was no punishment of expulsion laid out before the playoff game. If we'd lost to Boro what would be a comparable financial or points penalty instead of a game that would arguable net 200m GBP?

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@VirgilHilts01 @Happy_Hussar2 @SaintsExtra @GaryLineker @alanshearer @RestIsFootball Agreed, and that's likely the delay. And it needs addressing. Cheating is cheating, from financial manipulation, spying, diving for pens... where to draw the line, and how to create an enforecable template of sanctions suitable to the offense...

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@VirgilHilts01 @Happy_Hussar2 @SaintsExtra @GaryLineker @alanshearer @RestIsFootball You don't believe being prevented from competing for a place in the Premier league is a fine? Good for you. Now back to question. What punishment should City now comparatively face for rigging the Premier League? Banished from all games in the Premier League?

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@VirgilHilts01 @Happy_Hussar2 @SaintsExtra @GaryLineker @alanshearer @RestIsFootball Saints deserved the fine. Naivety at best. Now Man City's 115 charges that helped build their dominance of the Premier League for a range of financial rule breaches between 2009 and 2018... ?

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

Team suspected of spying on training sessions - EFL conducts an investigation within a week and kicks the team out of a competition immediately

115 financial charges - PL will get back to you on that in a few years

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@L1minus10 …you could always kill time and ask if there’s been any update to the 115 or whatever it was charges for Man City from 2024…

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[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Hope Southampton return to Wembley next month. Fearless, gave everything, good to watch, Jander superb, simply up against a machine & beaten by a worldie. Saints did themselves proud, did the FA Cup proud. Play-off focus now, even chance of automatic. Ipswich next #FACup #MCISOU

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@whosknave @FortuneMagazine @jeffjohnroberts @bdanweiss Great stuff man.. Good to see the progression.

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[Brunoh🧃 @BrodiiKDB]

estoy viendo un partido de la segunda división argentina (llevo apuesta) y el narrador tiene AUTOTUNE. No puedo más.

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Did the Duffer Brothers just create the perfect happy ending that wasn’t trite? While there’s discomfort it’s satisfying, each character’s narrative arc is traced out appropriately. I don’t need or want to unpick this. #StrangerThings5