Keith McKay

Marketing man. Millwall fan. Married to a crazy Finn. Famous for cutting shapes. 🇬🇧🇫🇮🇪🇦

[Keith McKay @ElMacca]

Farage calling for pure rage, when a family is suffering with unbearable grief - and when they have *explicitly asked* for this not to be politicised

Just disgusting.

[Keith McKay @ElMacca]

@bensaint @SouthamptonFC Gutted for you mate, fans don't deserve this.

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Southampton kicked out of Championship play-off final for spying. Correct decision, especially as it transpires they spied on three clubs in total. This is about more than a bloke standing behind a tree with an iPhone. It’s about how seriously the game should take cheating. EFL independent disciplinary commission have struck a blow for fair play, for integrity, for the need for respect between clubs, for coaches to have an expectation of privacy in training. 25% of goals scored in the Championship this season were from set-pieces. Clubs practised them. Understandably, coaches don’t want their plans revealed. EFL sending a strong message with this punishment. 

Spygate 2 different from Spygate 1. Rules tightened and punishments introduced since Leeds United’s offence. Appeals, of course. It’s tough for Southampton fans to be denied the trip to Wembley and the chance of a return to the Premier League. It’s particularly tough that many have forked out for tickets, travel and accommodation. Their frustration and anger should be directed at their club. Southampton should recompense fans. It’s not the fans’ fault. 

The stupidity in all this is that Southampton would probably have beaten Boro anyway. Better team, stronger bench. But this is so damning… “Southampton admitted breaches of Regulations requiring Clubs to act with the utmost good faith and prohibiting the observation of another Club’s training session within 72 hours of a scheduled match,” says EFL. “The admitted breaches concern fixtures against Oxford United in December 2025, Ipswich Town in April 2026 and Middlesbrough in May 2026.” So the punishment is proportionate. It should act as a deterrent. Honesty matters.

[Keith McKay @ElMacca]

Chucking Southampton out of the play offs was the only option. Any other sanction, be it financial or points deduction next season (irrelevant if they got promoted) would simply not have worked.

Big sympathy for the genuine fans. No sympathy for the club

[Keith McKay @ElMacca]

@JamiePinner Mate give it a rest 😂. I guess you didn't see the deliberate elbow in the face on Ivanovic earlier? Much more of a red than this

[Keith McKay @ElMacca]

@JamiePinner @JPMillwall2 Matters a lot in the final few games. If a team knows they only need a draw for example, that's an advantage. That's not just my view, loads of managers have said the same over the years. But yes it can definitely work both ways

[Keith McKay @ElMacca]

@JamiePinner @JPMillwall2 We've both had awful decisions against us, I saw a lot of moaning from Ipswich at the time and rightly so. I don't think it's right tho, does give an advantage when we play before every team in the run in. On the flip side if like today we win, puts more pressure on teams.

[Keith McKay @ElMacca]

The icing on the cake with that win was seeing Ayling on the floor, as Coburn slotted the ball into the far corner.

[Keith McKay @ElMacca]

@JamiePinner @JPMillwall2 We're never usually this far up the table @JamiePinner so aren't used to all this

[Millwall FC @MillwallFC]

INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!! 🤯

🔴 1-2 🦁

[Keith McKay @ElMacca]

@AchtungMillwall I can confirm that being 6ft 1 is the secret to my success

[Keith McKay @ElMacca]

@tom13084 @MillwallFC Congratulations on not being able to beat a team, despite having €100m in parachute payments

[Keith McKay @ElMacca]

What a performance against a team with £100m parachute payments. Ipswich financially are in a different league to us but that 2nd half before was something else.

[Keith McKay @ElMacca]

@JamiePinner 1-0 up and referee dishes out a red. Player wasn't the last man (2 defenders back) and wasn't a clear goalscoring opportunity. Missed a blatant pen as well. One of those refs who wanted to prove a point and not be intimidated

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Sheffield Wednesday are one of the oldest football clubs in the world, their famous name woven into the tapestry of the game. Formed in 1867, elected to the Football League in 1892, founder members of the Premier League, four times champions of England, three times winners of the FA Cup, and the League Cup once. Such honours may be far back in history but Wednesday remain a powerful force in many lives, in families, communities, in Sheffield and beyond.

It would be devastating to Wednesday supporters and deeply damaging to the reputation of English football if Wednesday lost their membership of the EFL because of the behaviour of an owner in Dejphon Chansiri who passed initial EFL ownership tests, was welcomed (let’s not forget), but turned out to be shamelessly irresponsible. Wednesday fans fear the club's existence might be at risk if the EFL imposes further punishments and restrictions that deter potential buyers.

Stronger oversight of owners is clearly required and the EFL and PL did tighten their rules in 2023. The new Independent Football Regulator will introduce a proper licensing system for clubs and better oversight of owners. Unfortunately, the IFR did not come into force early enough to prevent Wednesday's downward slide under Chansiri.

Wednesday are currently in administration and threatened with further EFL sanctions – a 15-point deduction for next season. This season's 18-point deduction all but guaranteed relegation from the Championship (confirmed on Feb 22). The League applies sanctions as punishment for debts and also as a deterrent to other clubs/owners.

The EFL emphasises it is working with all parties to “try and find a solution that can see Sheffield Wednesday continue as a member of the League....but ultimately we have to also apply the terms of the League’s insolvency policy…which seeks to balance the interests, not only of Sheffield Wednesday, but also of the other 71 clubs”.

Sheffield Wednesday Supporters' Trust, fighting hard for their club’s survival, has now released a copy of the EFL’s insolvency policy and argues that it gives the League, in the Trust’s words, “absolute discretion when determining how to deal with clubs experiencing an insolvency event”.

The Trust argues that “…further punitive sanctions risk undermining the very factors the EFL states it must consider - including the effect on supporters, the impact on the local community and the wider credibility of the league itself.

“Sheffield Wednesday supporters are not seeking advantage over other clubs. It is entirely right that all EFL clubs should be treated fairly and consistently. That principle must include Sheffield Wednesday that has already suffered enormously during a decade in which the EFL’s own regulatory oversight failed to prevent the damage that unfolded.

“We urge the EFL to apply its own guidance responsibly and ensure that the focus now is on allowing the club to recover, stabilise and move forward under new ownership. Sheffield Wednesday supporters have suffered enough.” #SWFC #EFL @SWFCTrust

[Keith McKay @ElMacca]

@JJNobby @TheMillwallFans Nice one

I don't want sanctions handed out to the club I've supported all my life. Do you?

[Keith McKay @ElMacca]

@FredTheLion1885 @TheMillwallFans The FA are a spineless, inept governing body. We all know that. We can say f@ck 'em but they have powers to dish out ground closures, massive fines or worse.

[Keith McKay @ElMacca]

@whitcher_j38836 @TheMillwallFans I don't know who you hang around with ....mate ...but not a single Millwall supporting friend of mine wants a ground closure,points deduction or worse. But keep living in your little bubble

[Keith McKay @ElMacca]

@whitcher_j38836 @TheMillwallFans Correct. I do care. For my club I have supported all of my life.