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Why is it Martin all of a sudden? Nixon article from yesterday?

All this moaning about Everton, blame Villa for not turning up a few weeks ago V Spurs.

Look at Sunderland, reverse Leicester

West Ham any other season would have stayed up by a mile.

Disastrous signing and any serious club would have moved him on years ago. Crazy to think we had offers (rumoured) from AC Milan and Bournemouth. Score bags at his next club mind.

Pilloried on here, but that winner at Southampton and pass for the Ipswich equalizer were glorious moments amidst total misery.

Standard bearer for our appalling decline of standards.

Outrageous we are even discussing anything with Begovic, why?

0-0 and penalties wasn't it? Was on a bank holiday Monday as well I think.

Inept

Rowett on pundit duty for the playoffs final.

Yep lost to Turkiye

He retired from international football last year.

(canned laughter)

Haaas anyone seen Matt Le Tissier, Rishi Sunak, Taylor Harwood-Bellis...

Let him go for nothing. Let that sink in. RUdkin tax.

Club statement: 20th May 2026 | Southampton FC Official Site A statement from Phil Parsons, Chief Executive, Southampton Football Club. We have appealed yesterday's decision by the Independent Disciplinary Commission to expel Southampton Football Club from the Sky Bet Championship Play-Offs, and to impose a four-point deduction for the 2026/27 season. Before turning to that appeal, I want to address our supporters, our players, and the wider football community directly and without equivocation. What happened was wrong. The club has admitted breaches of EFL Regulations 3.4 and 127. We are sorry to the other clubs involved, and most of all to the Southampton supporters whose extraordinary loyalty and support this season deserved better from the club. We have provided our full co-operation to the EFL's investigation and disciplinary process. Following the appeal, we will also be writing to the EFL to volunteer our participation in a working group on the practical application and enforcement of Regulation 127 across the Championship. Contrition without change is hollow, and we intend to demonstrate change. On the appeal itself: we accept that there should be a sanction. What we cannot accept is a sanction which bears no proportion to the offence. Whereas Leeds United was fined £200,000 for a similar offence, Southampton has been denied the opportunity to compete in a game worth more than £200 million and one which means so much to our staff, players and supporters. We believe the financial consequence of yesterday's ruling makes it, by a very considerable distance, the largest penalty ever imposed on an English football club. Luton Town's 30-point deduction in 2008/09 — to date the most severe sporting sanction in the English game — was levied against a club already in League Two, with no comparable revenue at stake. Derby County's 21-point deduction in 2021 cost them their Championship status. Everton's eventual six-point deduction in 2023/24 followed losses of £124.5 million, a figure dwarfed by what has been taken from Southampton in a single afternoon. The largest financial penalty ever levied by the Premier League, against Chelsea in March of this year, was £10.75 million, and was accompanied by no sporting sanction whatsoever despite involving £47.5 million in undisclosed payments over seven years. We say this not to minimise what occurred at this club, which we have accepted was wrong. We say it because proportionality is itself a principle of natural justice. The Commission was entitled to impose a sanction. It was not, we will argue, entitled to impose one that is manifestly disproportionate to every previous sanction in the history of the English game. Our appeal will be heard today, and we will provide a further update in due course.

Sad news, remember him signing for us on loan. Think he may have played in a televised game in midweek if I remember correctly. RIP.

The time wasting is truly embarrassing.

Enzo

VARsenal

Fair point, but that was in the championship, not League One.