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This saga had me wondering whether it's also even against the rules for an opponent to check which players are boarding a bus or aircraft when setting off to play a game. I suppose it must so be careful out there.

Or to erect a fence.

That would be totally out of all proportion to the relatively minor offence. Mind you it wouldn't surprise me from the jumped-up blazers at the FA. I'd hope anything like that would be appealed the hell out of.

Well, Mr Harris has been up on a charge at the FA so many times that other managers probably look at him as an excellent example of the sort of behaviour that can get a ban. Tonda's alleged offences pale in comparison to the sort of things that Harris gets up to.

Indeed we have. And the proverbial book has been chucked at us in return as if it's the crime of the century.

Why did they want it? Who called for it? Hands up those who knew it even existed.

And yet no other league has such a bonkers rule. Is the reason for it to save on fencing costs?

Isn't this the equivalent of a player caller for an opponent to be shown a yellow or red card? Surely a case of bringing the game into disrepute.

It is legal. It's fine to do it on Wednesday but not on a Thursday. It's a bonkers rule and Championship teams should be told to put up a fence if they think their routines are worth keeping secret.

Yes, the rules exist. They're the equivalent of having a 70 mph speed limit on a Thursday but not on a Wednesday. The rules are looked on as a joke elsewhere in the football world and I can pretty much guarantee that almost nobody commenting here knew about them before "Gibbo" brought them to our attention when it suited him and his cry-babies.

I doubt they'd have been taken in by "Gibbo" and his mates. More likely they'd come down on the side of someone standing in a public area watching some blokes have a kick -about in the open.

A handy reminder that the alleged serious crime of standing in a public place watching footballers have a kick about is allowed on one day but not the next. Makes the whole saga even more baffling to the outside world.

That would be sensible but we're in the hands of the General Melchett type blazers of the FA here where Tonda is the sort of sacrifice they're likely to want to pillory. That some Saints supporters seem to be looking forward to a lengthy sentence rather than a fight back totally baffles me.

Well at least the Roan piece has allowed us to have another squabble. Just the thing for a Monday morning.

No it isn't.