Match Day Thread Play Off Final. Hull City v Boro

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Not sure if anyone's interested given the release of more tickets but due to a drop-out I've got 2 spare going now at face value. They're coffin dodger tickets (over 65) so may limit who can use them on the assumption someone at Wembley may check?
 
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Chazz Rheinhold said:

Millwall and Wrexham consider legal options over Southampton spying scandal​

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Millwall and Wrexham are considering their legal options after confirmation that Southampton have been expelled from Saturday’s Championship playoff final and replaced by the beaten semi-finalists Middlesbrough.

The aggrieved clubs will await publication of the written reasons for the decisions taken by the English Football League’s independent disciplinary panel, which were upheld by an appeal panel on Wednesday night, but are understood to believe they could have grounds to make a claim for compensation.

Millwall and Wrexham could seek to test whether the EFL rulebook has been correctly applied or whether the disciplinary process was flawed, and could argue that because Southampton’s spying on Middlesbrough took place before the playoffs, they should have been replayed without Southampton’s involvement.

Millwall were beaten by Hull in the playoff semi-finals after finishing third and Wrexham missed out after finishing seventh.

There has been speculation in legal circles that one of the parties could seek an injunction at the high court to force the EFL to postpone Saturday’s final between Southampton and Hull but that is regarded as a non-starter owing to the timescale. Any claim would therefore be retrospective for damages.

Hull’s owner, Acun Ilicali, said on Wednesday that his club had received legal advice that they should be automatically promoted to the Premier League as a result of Southampton’s expulsion rather than playing Middlesbrough.

There appears little prospect of Hull pursuing that case in the next 48 hours but they could also pursue a claim for damages if beaten at Wembley in a game worth a minimum of £200m to the winners.

Publication of the written reasons will be key because there has been little explanation from the EFL as to how it arrived at its decisions and the process involved.

By giving Southampton two sanctions – expulsion from the final and a four-point penalty in next season’s Championship – after the club admitted to spying Middlesbrough, Oxford and Ipswich, it appears the panel treated the playoffs as a separate competition.

The EFL’s rulebook contains no reference to the process for replacing an expelled team, although its guidance notes state that the playoff final should be contested between two semifinal winners, which will not be the case on Saturday.

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Wrexham and Millwall declined to comment.

The FA is expected to bring charges against individuals after confirming it is investigating Southampton’s conduct. The position of the club’s manager, Tonda Eckert, is regarded as untenable by the squad.

One of the players, Leo Scienza, has described expulsion from the playoffs as “heartbreaking” and said the fans “definitely deserved better”.
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What possible claim have Millwall got?
 
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originallambrettaman said:
Southampton statement on play-off final refunds:

"Southampton Football Club has today begun the process of issuing full refunds for all tickets and official travel bought by fans for the Championship Play-Off Final, as well as all booking fees.

"Refunds will be returned to the original method of payment. Due to the volume and following advice from our ticket provider, we understand that refunds should be in fans’ accounts within 10-14 working days."



Under the circumstances, the refunds should be in peoples accounts within 10-14 minutes.
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And what about refunds for the two semi-finals which were meaningless thanks to their cheating.
 
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Does anybody know what the souvenir ticket is and has anybody ordered one and what it will look like. I’m going to get Print at Home so is it worth me having it or not?
 
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Does anybody know what the souvenir ticket is and has anybody ordered one and what it will look like. I’m going to get Print at Home so is it worth me having it or not?
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it will be either

a) a cardboard ticket for the match that you can put with the rest of your Hull City at Wembley collection - or

b] a Hull City v Southampton ticket because they printed loads and are trying to get rid of them
 
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DJBlackandamberarmy(No4) said:
Probably that Wrexham would have gone 6th and us 5th if Saints kicked out
so Millwall wouldnt have had to face the Mighty Tigers, they will get nowhere, you could get silly and restart whole season
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But Saints weren't kicked out of the league. The play offs are a separate competition, for which Wrexham failed to qualify.
 
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originallambrettaman said:
Southampton statement on play-off final refunds:

"Southampton Football Club has today begun the process of issuing full refunds for all tickets and official travel bought by fans for the Championship Play-Off Final, as well as all booking fees.

"Refunds will be returned to the original method of payment. Due to the volume and following advice from our ticket provider, we understand that refunds should be in fans’ accounts within 10-14 working days."



Under the circumstances, the refunds should be in peoples accounts within 10-14 minutes.
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They need the interest on that money to pay their legal team <laugh>
 
I assume Millwall would be seeking legal action for missing out on the automatic spots from the systematic spying I assume?
 
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