Saints expelled from Play Offs by EFL
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This is by far the most absurd thing for me. I may be wrong but I assume it would have been borderline impossible to spy on them.
So we can beat the champions of England fair and square but need to spy on ****ing Oxford? **** off mush.
Have to say, from an outside perspective it does feel a bit death sentence for shoplifting.
I honestly think Hull should just get promoted. We've been severely punished yes, but Boro getting a bye when it was evident they were unabale to win over two games feels wrong. Wonder if Hull will question that?
Yes for me it's a bit like speeding on the motorway to get the advantage of getting somewhere quicker.
You know the speed limit is 70mph and you are taking a risk doing 80.
Most of the time you will get away with it but if you are caught you can expect a fine and points on your licence.
In our case, they have taken our car away to be crushed.
As I said yesterday though, can anyone provide an example in English knock out football where a team was kicked out and the team they drew next got a bye instead of the team they beat?
I think it's right that Boro go through personally based on precedent, the timing is dogshit though.
I think this is different now as the EFL have specifically legislated against it so there's no excuse for people to not know.
Irrelevant to our case but I do find it odd that there's no equivalent rule in the PL.
What pisses me off is if we hadn't made the play off final the worst case senario would have been a points deduction for next season and a fine. Thinking about it we wouldn't have even got that because no one would've known unless we got caught doing it next season.
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Not just the PL, there's no law against it in any league in the world other than the EFL.
I blame Leeds for getting caught in the first place...
The precedent is set now at least.
League game is 3 point deduction, knockout game is expulsion.
Its really not. Its like getting caught speeding after getting away from robbing a bank of £200m.
You all should direct your anger at the utter idiots who sanctioned cheating.
More information will come out in the next few days. But the mess caused by people at your club will roll on. Just hope evidence from more clubs isnt found and the other clubs don't sue.
Complete feckin morons at your club and that means everyone who knew have effectively ruined your season and for what a very minor advantage.
Forget other clubs maybe the fans of Southampton should sue to get their money back from those who have destroyed a season.
I know this is me being stupid but I can’t work out the 3 point punishment precedent from the 4 points we were given equates? Please educate me!
I hope we conduct an investigation and find many clubs have done the same thing.
And pass it all over to our lawyers. There’s no way others haven’t done this, so it’s funny the pearl clutching of other clubs testing us like we had just eaten their children.
And pass it all over to our lawyers. There’s no way others haven’t done this, so it’s funny the pearl clutching of other clubs testing us like we had just eaten their children.
Knowing our luck with the amount of backlash from former pro's saying it was way too harsh they won't do it again.
I'm pretty sure I read that 2 were taken off for cooperation.
Think it was -3 x two games, less 1 point reduction for each game for admitting and helping with the enquiry.