TheAlehouseBrawlers

Hands up, we broke the rules. Punish us. Proportionately. But as others have said, we’re being charged with breaking EFL regulations, Middlesbrough really shouldn't be competing in the Play-Off final because some mush with an iPhone tried to watch them training for a few minutes in an open area. I understand it doesn’t matter for how long but the brief 'spying' was done specifically for their first leg's likely tactics. They mullered us for 45 mins at the Riverside but failed to score and then run out of steam. They then lead at St Mary's but again, run out of steam. They blew automatic promotion. Nothing to do with 'spying' they just weren't good enough. They don't deserve another go. And I really can't believe they were stupid enough to do secretive tactical training in an area so open to every Tom, Dick and...Will. If it was a set-up through tip-offs from the ex-boro fella and they knew our man was there, they could have just sent the players round to those exposed pitches for a bit of keepy-uppy for half an hour and let him incriminate himself. Then called them back to a more secure area for the real stuff. They had a media campaign and their man at the EFL waiting to be exploited, everything just feels too convenient and murky.

I would assume as soon as our appeal is thrown out. SWT will also be cancelling all those ‘extra’ trains to Waterloo on Saturday, probably good news for a refund if specifically booked on one of those.

At the least he'd have tipped them off that we were almost certainly going to send someone up to 'spy'. They would have been well prepared, ready and waiting. What a shitshow - would think the fairest thing to do is delay the final now and, and the least, set up a MIllwall v boro game to see who plays Hull in the final. Millwall have as much, if not more, right as them to be there.

Come on feel the noise Gibbo’s thrown his toys He cried wah-wah-wah He cried wah-wah-wah So come on………

Bit concerning really that as we're playing in our home kit this weekend it's halved our repertoire that everyone joins in with and the prospect of 90mins of just OWTS ain't appealing. Bit tongue-in-cheek but need some new ones "Eye Spy Wherever you may be Tonda got us to Wem-b-ley And we don’t give a fuck The Death Stare it will be Tonda got us to Wem-b-ley"

Well, their band of supporters at St Mary's last week were singing "You'll do as you're told" so it must be true. £200m for some young mush with an iPhone that had absolutely no bearing on the first leg that it was all over seems absolutely fair to me tbh..........

But smoggies “do it better” apparently

I could get onboard with this notion of a stitch-up. That ex boro/ex SFC analyst link is murky. Gobby-Gibbo has got history, probably didn't rate their chances of beating us over two legs and had a sniff of £millions in compo. Be a nice twist if anything in it and there's evidence in the background yet to come out.

He is in Grizzlebrough

Looks a bit like a syrup to me tbh

LIttle known fact...the toothbrush was invented in middlesbrough. If it had been invented anywhere else it would have been known as a teethbrush.

"Romsey lad" 🤣 "Cheer up grizzling-Gibbo Oh what can it mean to a sad smoggie bastard and a shit football team"

That's gonna cause some angst up on Teeside...36,000 tickets, west as expected. "Cheer up grizzling-Gibbo Oh what can it mean to a sad smoggie bastard and a shit football team"

I can only think that Gibbo's-Grizzlers must be sitting on some more dynamite stuff and keeping their powder dry. They'd look right mugs if it really is just some scamp standing by a tree with an iPhone. I'm sure we'll hear how the boro coach was savagely attacked arriving at the stadium, about ballboy thugs and hurty words from Saints players and supporters. There was one fella towards the front of block 20 Tuesday night who lit a flare straight after the final whistle, a photographer (probably boro as in that corner) turned round smiled at the fan and encouraged him to wave it around for his lens. The flare was then handed to some young mush to have a go who was also papped. Wonder where those pics ended up? They must have something more juicy to back up their hysterics, surely?

I thought that was the case but in this year’s League Cup Final City had the west, Arsenal east. No doubt we’ll get the west…if all goes to plan - a niggling doubt remains that a decision could be made to wipe the first leg as #spygate and the subsequent manufactured outrage was over that game and they do this ‘3-0 home win’ bullshit which would put #crygate back into the final. Can of worms though so hopefully unlikely, lawsuits all over the place if that or similar were to happen.