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Tiss true. FA will wait until the international break is over. Which is evil by them. More publicity because of no football. Tonda unable to prepare, etc

I follow football to get away from the nonsense of politics & religion. I suggest Gavin concentrates on improving as a goalkeeper.......

Oh no!!!! That osvaldorama idiot will be gutted

Matsuki not in the match day squad for today's game. Hopefully that's by design.

Not any more, the last 5 are in Police custody.

Even if you ignore everything else, how is this fair on the fans who let's not forget are an innocent party in all this. It's pretty disgraceful to leave this ha going for so long. No reason at all this process couldn't have been fair but also quicker.

Are there any UK nationals left in London?

All 5 men arrested outside RAF Fairford are UK nationals from London, according to the Police.

Bazunu's stance is fine up to a point. He talks about innocent people being killed and most people would applaud his action. He declined to mention, however, the innocent people who were killed when Hamas launched their October 7th attack. Stand up for your principles,by all means, but don't ignore both sides of the argument.

It'll be TWENTY weeks tomorrow since we beat Boro in the second leg of the semi-final. The FA are sitting on millions in cash according to their latest accounts yet clearly still have a disciplinary process that wouldn't be fit for purpose at Sunday league level, let alone professional football. A shambles all round.

If he didn't contest the charge (which surely he didn't) then guilt will have been established long before last week's hearing.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cvgy802y2n9o

He seemed completely thrown when asked what he thought about playing Nazi Germany in 1936 and 1939. The Germans even performed the Nazi salute during the national anthem. He didn't have an answer for that.

I know governing bodies are generally inept but Christ the FA take ineptitude to a whole new level.

These sorts of players will be worth their weights in gold next season if we don't go up and we have to rely on our youth prospects to some extent at least.

100%. If he deserves a long term ban because he's such a disgrace and an ongoing risk then why has he been allowed to manage so much of this season already? What is the purpose of a lengthy ban if he's already been allowed to manage?

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Being charged is not ascertaining guilt. That was done at the hearing last week. Sanctions determined separately. Sanctions will be determined and announced when the commission meets, maybe today maybe later. Exactly the same happened with the EFL back in May, but the timescales were.comoressed with the agreement of Saints because of the urgency in getting it sorted. Same is happening with Man City. Punishments are not decided by the same people who determine guilt,.they make their decisions based on the advice of the board, it's all to try and preserve independence, whether it does of course is a different matter.

They’ve already asserted guilt, he was charged on the 22nd July. There’s been no appeal from our side over that assertion of guilt, we’ve accepted the charges. We’re just waiting the punishment. its an absolute farce, the fact we’re nearly in October, that Eckert has managed 10 football matches since his charge, yet there’s still talk that his actions were so severe that he deserves a complete football ban for 6 months+ yet not severe enough that it’s not been expedited to prevent him taking part in football after his charge on July 22nd!! Fucking pathetic from the FA

Can't decide between thinking the Man City stuff will make them come down on us like a tonne of bricks on this in order to flex their little muscles too or be more lenient given that a bloke in a tree with an iPhone 24 hours early is hardly mass fraud that has disrupted the entire game of football in this country for the last decade. Ho hum. Perhaps the Prem is now dead and a superleague is that much closer...

You can Google it if you need a reminder

Maximum disruption. It can't be anything else at this stage.

The way I see it, there are two possibilities here. One is that the hearing on Thursday was just to ascertain guilt of the charges and that a separate hearing will be convened in order to decide the punishment (much as would be the case in a criminal trial). However, I would assume that the verdict would have been announced immediately in that instance (certainly if he was found not guilty it would have been), which leads me to lean more towards the other possibility - that the sanction was already dished out at the hearing and we/Tonda launched an immediate appeal against it. And if that's the case then it can't be good news, because it suggests to me that the sanction involves a lengthy ban rather than a slap on the wrist and a fine.

He does look really good - hopefully this is his season he shines on loan and then does well for Saints next. Their goalkeeper looks horrific though ...

I was invested in this last week but it's dragging on too long again. Just announce the ban you fuckers and we will know what we are dealing with.