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I'm not sure they would, given how that may affect any appeal. Personally feeling a bit worried now, but hoping for fine and points.

We should hope for a Chelsea and City win tonight, not just because Spurs going down will be funny and the title race needs to go the distance but because it keeps the media interested elsewhere. Meanwhile the EFL can sneak out the announcement about us staying in the final but getting a fine and points. Please God.

I think Hull will be thrown out and it will be a Middlesbrough v Saints final. They have seen incriminating pictures of McBurnie’s beard. It deserves a sporting sanction.

Has anyone else bought a ticket but not had any email confirmation? Starting to see conspiracy everywhere at the moment! 🙂 I reckon we'll hear tomorrow and hunch says points and fine. In other news my daughter got a new iPhone today and showed me the Zoom on it. 'You should get a job with Saints', I quipped. Too soon.

If there was something at 1230, Talkshite would be trailing it, for sure. I'm supposed to be buying tickets at 1.30 so I hope there's nout in it!

How about if you're standing at a window waving your Willy Salt about? *gets coat*

Hedge fund i thank you. 😊

1. If Will Salt deleted all his stuff, how did we gain advantage, since we wouldn’t have anything to look at? 2. Why didn’t he just use his eyes if it was just about whether certain players were training? 3. Or just get Meta glasses. we can’t even do spying well.

They hired new lawyers overnight 😉 Fair point. My bad. Was fuming so much... !

I've never texted a channel before but listening to the morons on Talksport I couldn't resist. No answer so far. What a bunch of twats. My texts: One charge without any evidence and midway through an investigation and most pundits including yours acting as judge and jury. I look forward to your similar forensic assessments of Manchester City's 130 charges. Why no consistency? PS the 'technology' you mentioned that is able to transmit recordings... an iPhone? Get a grip What is Scott Minto's evidence that Tonda Eckert is 'guilty', as he said just now? And why is everyone leaping to conclusions while the hearing is on, without hearing any of the evidence given? You're being spun, boys. Could we also have some views on how guilty Man City is over their 115 charges, while you're at it? 😉 We've not denied it or commented because it is going to a hearing you absolute muppets Crook saying 'don't come on and defend the indefensible' is tantamount to him saying Southampton are guilty, which he denied saying 20 seconds earlier. It IS defensible, because that is what is going on right now. My estimation of you as journalists has gone down considerably. Ask yourselves this: what could a bloke with an iPhone possibly learn that will somehow change everything in football?

Really hate all this. And I can't help but feel that the onset of VAR and its effects on football - the need for instant punishment and re-refereeing of the game - has resonances in the confected uproar around Spygate. Subsitute the ref at the monitor for the EFL meeting today and the stadium crowd for the baying mob on social media and pundits judging guilty before being proved innocent. It's all so shit and the beautiful game it ain't. Personally I hope we get anything other than being chucked out of the final, and suspect that might be the case. And once the verdict has been given, the whole carnival can move on. Not that it will to the lawyer-protected Man Citys or Chelseas of this world, who pop a gag on everything connected to the media ever (or until Pep judges it's time to move on, else his managerial talents be tainted).

No chance Southampton will be kicked out of the final, says Simon Jordan on Talksport just now. Crook saying he expects a heavy fine and points deduction if still in EFL next season. Tickets getting announced tomorrow apparently Have to say that whenever Crook reports on this he does seem heavily biased, like he really doesn't like us at all. Ho hum.

Rod Jane and Freddy DEFINITELY had something going on

Saw something about ticket details being taken down from our site. Gulp. Suspect this will blow over as footie journo resources are taken up with the Prem championship games this weekend and the VAR Scottish championship saga. Hope so. Some of the morons on Talksport yesterday were just a joke, outdoing themselves with their indignation and suggesting that the manager was 'omniscient' and therefore should go too. All while everyone says absolutely nothing about Man City. And to add to that conspiracy story, I was watching City yesterday. Palace had a goal ruled out for offside early on. No lines, no replays, pundits said nothing. Most odd. Think there is a battalion of lawyers in charge of football these days. Hope we have some lined up for this joke of a SpyGate, as am worried about the EFL just bowing to the wailers.

But that wouldn't apply if the Prem as different organisation, no?