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She came over as a complete lunatic. Sunderland fan uses her job at The Guardian to make lame attempts to wind up Newcastle/Boro fans. she visited Qatar and gave the World Cup bid a glowing report and failed to mention Qatari government paid for her all expenses trip. Shame Tonda didn’t know that . She should have been sacked surely ?

The opposing view: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/cw073gnez9gdt?post=asset%3A32a6d64a-d344-471d-bad5-a52d2a2c1082#post Nothing particularly revelatory – a boring and professional interview. He says they're the underdogs. They seem to have a ton of injuries to key players. No digs.

It's mad that these comments are considered controversial. Braverman is right that just because you're born in England, it doesn't make you English. My mum was born in Zimbabwe to English parents, but she's not Zimbabwean! It's nonsense.

Was just about to post something similar. Hadn't seen the Peretz/Azaz/Manning angle referenced anywhere during the games, so I thought it was very insightful.

This was a really interesting interview - The woman in the middle was awful and got cut off, silly questions, but the questions from Alfie House were spot on. You can see Tonda reacted well to a decent set of questions with the right tone. Also interesting with the Irish reporter from the Times at the end asking about Peretz and Azaz with Tonda saying they'd chatted BEFORE international duty.

God bless America. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmy0r96xygx6o

Subtle difference that he's always used, when he gets a good result he'll say "us" and "we".

I seriously doubt it. I'm fairly sure that they would not have released the commission findings if they had intended to appeal. They probably consider the commission has got them off the hook.

Less than 30 tickets left of the 2,542 allocation. Good going.

The idea that if Saints had handled it differently they wouldn’t have been kicked out the play-offs is just nonsense IMO. We were caught red handed, the EFL would have made the same decision regardless of how we acted afterwards.

I can agree that we didn't help ourselves but that might be because nobody took it seriously at the start, not even Gibbo and his mates. It's perfectly possible to believe both that our approach was amateurish and that we were stitched up while also thinking that the whole saga was a mountain built from a molehill. The FA panel even agreed that the EFL were played.

"Saints were desperate for a win to save Wigley from the axe." Erm…. I don’t think we were.

Ha!! Far from it. I was baffled by the confusion, not so much from you, but form others, so used the lazy way to give some detail. You're free to do your own research if you remain confused. As above, it's academic anyway, and the EFL may well have expelled us however we approached it, but we approached it badly.

I couldn't be arsed to type out a long explanation. The simple point is that in a sports disciplinary panel or tribunal an option needs setting out, and we didn't offer one. If people want to believe that our approach was correct, and that we were stitched up by an iffy panel, that's a matter for them, but the reality is that we didn't help ourselves. It's academic anyway, and fortunately we got our ducks in a row for the FA process.

The club got turned over, the players backed Tonda, Tonda got off lightly, We March On.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_prem/3988125.stm Sunday this URL never needs to appear again.

That 70s dude from the echo said 7 days from yesterday, but it is unlikely they'd appeal as the grounds to do so aren't really relevant.

Secured one today, however only a few left in end block at 13:00 and now showing as unavailable.

Given the pressure that he has been under, Eckert comes across as one tough cookie. Many lesser people would have cracked. Can see us kicking on from here now that this is all over.

They just don’t get it. Just like rangers fans just like most of our fans. Creating a dynasty takes years measured in decades. Every manager manages but not every manager leads.

If they went by the EFL dodgy process they'd already be out of time.

I guess a more pertinent question is... If the FA did want to appeal, what's the deadline for them doing so...?

Glorious.

Seriously, offering up AI as definitive proof of anything is a mis-step.