The Kraken

De Zeeuw got sent off for them at our place when we did them 2-0 in the league cup. Seem to remember Beattie scored a penalty from the foul.

Quite enjoyed the Liverpool banner, “All of your stars are fading away”

Assume he means Matelot, it’s an old term for a sailor.

Seems so, that’s what BBC are saying. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/live/ckr5ym1lv6qmt Southampton battled to beat Portsmouth in the Championship and win their first league match against the Blues in nearly 22 years. Google AI says: Southampton defeated Portsmouth 1–0 in the EFL Championship at St Mary's Stadium on October 11, 2026, marking Southampton's first league win over Portsmouth in 22 years and the first league victory for either side in the fixture in 21 years.

Yes, VAR can intervene after a yellow card is given, but only under specific circumstances. [1] When VAR Can Intervene After a Yellow Card Mistaken Identity: If the referee cautions or sends off the wrong player of the offending team, VAR can step in to correct the identity of the player. [1, 2] Second Yellow Cards (Leading to a Red Card): VAR can review a second yellow card if there is clear, factual evidence that it was wrongly awarded and resulted in a player's dismissal. [1, 2] Upgrading to a Direct Red Card: If a challenge initially punished with a yellow card is actually a serious foul play or violent conduct offense that warrants a straight red card, VAR can recommend an on-field review. [1, 2]

Yes it can, especially if the officials deem it to be serious foul play.

I think his time in the Championship with us will be seen as his greatest achievement. Im going to stand by my opinion of him. He didn’t do a bad job with us in that division. I think he probably underachieved a little bit, but ultimately he got us promoted which was the goal. I’ve said before, the last ten minutes away at Sheff Wed where we didn’t allow them a single touch was something I’d never seen before with Saints. But our defensive capability for conceding was really quite something. Pretty much everyone said after we went up “if we carry on playing like that we’ll get murdered”. And so it came to pass. That’s his main weakness, he’s 100% wedded to the process and incapable of changing it. I don’t particularly dislike the bloke, and I feel a bit sorry for Leicester fans. He’d be better off moving into the media and talking about football for a living, because to be fair he’s pretty good at talking waffle.

Nonsense. When you look at it this way then, really, they’re comfortably winning.

I would suggest that the ambivalence on here was not indicative of opinion on other media. Yes, the Boro media machine was in full flow, but reading some other forums there was, in my experience, more of an expectation for a serious rebuke.

I think it still would be. The EFL 72 hour rule was brought in specifically, but the original rule is still considered to cover good faith behaviour. True, it’s not explicit in the wording (or what a potential punishment might be), but I don’t think it’s reasonable to say that any observing/spying outside of the 72 hour window is automatically permissible. Because it doesn’t breach the 72 hour rule you’d perhaps expect punishment to be less. Either way, I don’t think many teams are going to risk it in future.

Fair enough, I hadn’t read that part.

This is where I see the EFL ruling was a bit inconsistent (without going into whether it was proportionate or not). The precedent now seems to be: Get caught spying before a cup game, the result is void and you are ejected from the completion, with other team advancing Get caught spying before a league game, the result stands, you are deducted 3 points which may be argued down to 2 Seems to me that consistency would be retained by keeping the cup rule, but in the league nulling the result and enforcing a 0-3 instead (unless the actual result was worse than that).

Not sure I understand the logic. The FA wanted a longer punishment for Tonda. They were reigned in on that by their independent commission. Why would the commission act different if we were in the Premier League?

I’ll add it to the list.