Match Day Thread Southampton v Middlesbrough, Tuesday, 12th May 2026, 20:00 KO - Live on Sky TV
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Spygate: Will Southampton-Middlesbrough be decided by panel rather than players?
Despite a 2-1 win for Southampton, allegations of spying means the outcome of their play-off with Middlesbrough is still not decided.
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Well, this BBC reporter clearly needs to up his game ...
"That drama has played out against events on the pitch. It meant the post-match celebrations on Tuesday were more muted than might usually have been expected for such a significant win. There was no mass pitch invasion at the final whistle, while home fans did not linger."
I was in the ground ages after the final whistle.Spygate: Will Southampton-Middlesbrough be decided by panel rather than players?
Despite a 2-1 win for Southampton, allegations of spying means the outcome of their play-off with Middlesbrough is still not decided.
Well, this BBC reporter clearly needs to up his game ...
"That drama has played out against events on the pitch. It meant the post-match celebrations on Tuesday were more muted than might usually have been expected for such a significant win. There was no mass pitch invasion at the final whistle, while home fans did not linger."
Glad there wasn't a pitch invasion, think it's a bit much for winning a play off semi.
Yeah me too - I literally pulled him over by his shirt. I was responding to Libby who asked about those two.
I thought you didn’t ask as it was up your end. Manning cross (I think) and as Ross stepped away from goal to get it, Ayling grabbed his shirt and pulled him over.
Spygate: Will Southampton-Middlesbrough be decided by panel rather than players?
Despite a 2-1 win for Southampton, allegations of spying means the outcome of their play-off with Middlesbrough is still not decided.
Well, this BBC reporter clearly needs to up his game ...
"That drama has played out against events on the pitch. It meant the post-match celebrations on Tuesday were more muted than might usually have been expected for such a significant win. There was no mass pitch invasion at the final whistle, while home fans did not linger."
EH. What the **** is that guy on, get in the bin. Didn't linger... Here was me thinking most of the Saints fans were still in the ground for 10 minutes after the final whistle celebrating through several songs and only started leaving en masse when the players had left the pitch. But I was only there in the crowd so what do I know.
Funny that given all the allegations of everything we do being cheating at the moment, that not going on the pitch at the end which is errr against the rules, is now being called out too.
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TBF I was expecting 4. The injury to Edozie took up at least 2 mins and so did the goal celebrations so it wasn't unreasonable IMO.
We were there for ages afterwards too! Multiple celebrations with the team and individual players coming to the Northam end for the plaudits.
Journalists ... why let the truth get in the way of a good story eh!
Middlesbrough fan on talk sport.
Spygate right, you said they can only pick up on only one or two things, so if my girlfriend goes out at the weekend and kisses one or two men, it's OK it's not cheating?
No matter what happens, their complete headloss on every aspect of media is ****ing joyous. Never seen anything like it.
*Edit* The plot thickens. His Mrs was cheating with his brother!!!
I don't know about you lads but I'm absolutely here for the Jeremy Kyle/football crossover. This might be the best time I've ever been online in the history of the Internet
Spygate right, you said they can only pick up on only one or two things, so if my girlfriend goes out at the weekend and kisses one or two men, it's OK it's not cheating?
No matter what happens, their complete headloss on every aspect of media is ****ing joyous. Never seen anything like it.
*Edit* The plot thickens. His Mrs was cheating with his brother!!!
I don't know about you lads but I'm absolutely here for the Jeremy Kyle/football crossover. This might be the best time I've ever been online in the history of the Internet
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First Southampton match was away to Milwall in League 1. Hospitable!
Pretty sure that some of our fans would be the same under similar situation. As the song goes (to paraphrase) : lost all the sense he had when he became a fan of that terrible football club.
Don't get me wrong we have some utter melts on our fan base, but not to this level. This is sheer, unbridled dummy spitting.
In an age of football where everyone has an outlet for their opinion, where people make a whole persona out of their online football presence and record themselves at the football on "vlogs" for all to see, I've never seen a collective head loss like it. There's no way our fan base would be this mental.
If our spy had been caught spying during match 3, would the noise and outrage be the same, and would they be talking about throwing us out of promotion contention by banning us from the play offs?
Its all part of the same competition - the play offs are the conclusion to the league so if they do it now it seems like a massive overreaction because they sure as hell wouldn't be thinking about the same punishment if the offence occurred during the normal part of the league.
As there's no fixed penalty for the offence currently, it's setting a hell of a precedent to ramp it up to banning us from promotion contention, and it implies that spying is more serious than financial doping as it's never happened to any of the teams who've been charged and convicted under ffp.
I reckon it'll be a fine personally, because any alternative would be fought in the courts and won't be resolved until long after the playoff final.
Its all part of the same competition - the play offs are the conclusion to the league so if they do it now it seems like a massive overreaction because they sure as hell wouldn't be thinking about the same punishment if the offence occurred during the normal part of the league.
As there's no fixed penalty for the offence currently, it's setting a hell of a precedent to ramp it up to banning us from promotion contention, and it implies that spying is more serious than financial doping as it's never happened to any of the teams who've been charged and convicted under ffp.
I reckon it'll be a fine personally, because any alternative would be fought in the courts and won't be resolved until long after the playoff final.