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This. The poor lads death is a result of a psychopathic scumbag and bad policing from the officers involved. If any of the officers are still on the force it's a disgrace.

Agree. I thought they should sack him but Dragan's got a better idea of what's going on behind the scenes, if he thinks it's best he stays I'm in. The important thing is how the players feel about Tonda and how they react and I'm in no position to gauge that.

This, it must be so easy to get away with. If we hadn’t been so stupid as to stick his picture up on the website we would probably be in the Prem now.

Obviously three but how can anyone, except for the person himself, know wether it would affect his judgement? If you were putting together an independent panel why choose a former Middlesbrough player when there must be thousands of legal experts out there with no links at all.

This. It’s mind boggling how anyone can put together an independent panel of three and include two people with links to Middlesbrough one being a former fucking player. What percentage of legal experts in this country are former Middlesbrough FC players? The whole think stinks, especially as the Middlesbrough chairman is in the EFL board.

I would get rid of everyone involved and try and draw a line under this. We were obviously cheating all season.

But even if clubs make their facilities more private there are ways of spying so it’s right that there is a rule.

Brexit made the debt much worse.

We were caught cheating red-handed, I’m not sure whatever he said to Gibbo would make any difference whatsoever.

I’m surprised he’s left out Luke Shaw but apart from that I don’t have a problem with Tuchel’s squad. I think it’s refreshing to have a manager with the balls to leave out big names and planning a squad around a cohesive team rather than compiling a dream team of stars. As for the competition as a whole, it’s going to be one pointless game after another played in half empty stadiums. Will be boring as fuck until the later stages.

So you have the Boro chairman on the EFL board, an ex Boro player on the 3 person panel plus one of the others: "It has also been raised that the law firm of another panellist, Lydia Banerjee, Littleton Chambers, was in 2018 contracted by Middlesbrough to represent them in cases relating to Garry Monk's dismissal and a contractual claim."

Not sure why the FA will ban him - did they punish Marcelo Bielsa in any way?

This. All the moaning about the punishment is pathetic. The club are a bunch of cheating cunts and deserve what they get.

Surely the later they leave it the more of a ball-ache re-arranging the final will be? I think no news is good news.

Which is why I think it won't happen. Can't see moving the game as a feasible option, especially with the World Cup call ups etc.

The ironic thing is, the longer the EFL drag this out the more of an advantage we or Boro have over Hull because they still don't know for sure who to prepare for.

So they pass that next month, THEN they charge Man City.

Of course they are. Not sure how they would have the slightest clue unless they are privy to the inner workings of SFC.

Was a shocking decision but the sort that would happen way more often without VAR. The VAR obviously thought it was a handball, it was the guy on the pitch surrounded by 70,000 Man U fans that decided it wasn’t.

The media always hype it up, it's their job to make stuff sound more exciting than it really is. I would pay little attention to what those muppets say.

I read somewhere that it was the club photographer who was taking pics of the training session. Like anything read online it could be made up though.

I expect every club does it, it must pretty easy to get away with if you have any sense. Even if someone spots you, you just leg it and no one will be able to prove a thing. Our idiot just stands there filming in full view even though he could presumably see the fucking club photographer out there with the players. Boro probably couldn’t believe their luck, especially as the idiot’s face was up on the club website. Anyone involved in the whole shit show needs sacking, I don’t care who they are.

He’s a fucking intern, we’ve had interns before and you generally don’t give them anything important to do. We don’t know what their setup is, he might have been tasked with giving his take on how they will line up and thought fuck it, I will go and do my own research and look like a genius when I get it right.

I would image his job is not one where you just turn up at an office and clock in from 9-5.

No but it’s not impossible to imagine an intern, desperate to impress his boss, taking it upon himself to do something that stupid. Given how amateurish it looked that seems entirely plausible to me.