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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #21090 on: May 20, 2026, 05:06:09 PM »
I'd imagine that if they're spying on Oxford they're spying on everyone.

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #21091 on: May 20, 2026, 05:12:03 PM »
Any news on when the appeal will be heard/decision announced?

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #21092 on: May 20, 2026, 05:22:35 PM »
Any news on when the appeal will be heard/decision announced?

Probably about 8pm to deflect attention away from our Final.

Offline Skipper_The_Eyechild

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #21093 on: May 20, 2026, 05:22:53 PM »
Apparently Middlesbrough also got hold of an image that was being shared at Southampton internally of a soldier in full camouflage but with the face being replaced with William Salt. Get it out there for the memes. Release the Southampton files.

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #21094 on: May 20, 2026, 05:27:23 PM »
Apparently Middlesbrough also got hold of an image that was being shared at Southampton internally of a soldier in full camouflage but with the face being replaced with William Salt. Get it out there for the memes. Release the Southampton files.

MTG has demanded the release of the unredacted Epsom files.

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #21095 on: May 20, 2026, 05:51:11 PM »
There are 3 games that there is proof of them cheating. Two were league games that they took 1 point from. They finished 9 points ahead of Wxm so there's not much of a case for Wrexham.

I am not sure I am comfortable with the punishment being judged on the outcome rather than a crime. This is like judging a studs high tackle on whether the recipient breaks their leg or not.

What a shambles.

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #21096 on: May 20, 2026, 06:17:45 PM »
Marcelo Bielsa's Leeds staff was spotted watching a Derby training session from a public footpath. The Whites were fined £200,000 with regards to rules over acting in 'good faith' towards other EFL clubs. We don't know whether the Derby 'reveal' was one of several instances ...
Southampton, whilst obviously more consequential, ain't that much different is it?

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #21097 on: May 20, 2026, 06:19:30 PM »
Marcelo Bielsa's Leeds staff was spotted watching a Derby training session from a public footpath. The Whites were fined £200,000 with regards to rules over acting in 'good faith' towards other EFL clubs. We don't know whether the Derby 'reveal' was one of several instances ...
Southampton, whilst obviously more consequential, ain't that much different is it?

There is now a specidic rule against it, which was introduced after Leeds, so it's very different.

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #21098 on: May 20, 2026, 06:22:04 PM »
Marcelo Bielsa's Leeds staff was spotted watching a Derby training session from a public footpath. The Whites were fined £200,000 with regards to rules over acting in 'good faith' towards other EFL clubs. We don't know whether the Derby 'reveal' was one of several instances ...
Southampton, whilst obviously more consequential, ain't that much different is it?

The act itself isn't. But because the Leeds thing was a big deal and there wasn't an adequate law in place to stop teams from doing it, they brought in a new law.

Which Southampton then decided to break, deliberately, multiple times.

So the outcome should be, and is, different.


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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #21099 on: May 20, 2026, 07:26:29 PM »
It was premeditated cheating before games have been played. I’ve heard Southampton fans try to justify saying it’s no worse than a playing taking a dive or that it clearly didn’t influence the outcome of the result as they didn’t win…but they fail to acknowledge that even though they didn’t score or win as a consequence of their cheating, they could have prevented the other team(s) from scoring.

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #21100 on: May 20, 2026, 07:49:29 PM »

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #21101 on: May 20, 2026, 08:00:47 PM »
Marcelo Bielsa's Leeds staff was spotted watching a Derby training session from a public footpath. The Whites were fined £200,000 with regards to rules over acting in 'good faith' towards other EFL clubs. We don't know whether the Derby 'reveal' was one of several instances ...
Southampton, whilst obviously more consequential, ain't that much different is it?

The act itself isn't. But because the Leeds thing was a big deal and there wasn't an adequate law in place to stop teams from doing it, they brought in a new law.

Which Southampton then decided to break, deliberately, multiple times.

So the outcome should be, and is, different.



Exactly.

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #21102 on: May 20, 2026, 09:34:20 PM »
Saints lose appeal.

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #21103 on: May 20, 2026, 09:34:24 PM »
Soton appeal dismissed.

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #21104 on: May 20, 2026, 11:38:58 PM »
Obviously it's a minor point in all the merriment of the night - but if Freiburg have got a guy taking videos of our set piece ideas, we don't score our first goal tonight because they know to stick a guy at the edge of the box to head Rogers' cross away.

 


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