adrian lord

Because some of us don't accept low standards and know that punditry could be at once both enlightening and entertaining.

Bell is a humourless tosser 👆

One of the best aspects of the England performance was the demonstration of the strength in depth of the squad. All the players looked fired up for the tournament whereas in the Wokegate era and prior, there were significant star players who looked like sullen passengers, clearly resenting missing the summer hols.

Massive statement of: Line drawn, we are going again together. He is the bedrock of our success, the foundation stone of our superb run last season.

Prig.

The halo -wearing ball 'head' in the badge could acquire a pair of field glasses in silhouette, other than that no changes.

Why sack our best manager since at least Koeman? Self-harm is not a recommended strategy.

A degree of natural justice has prevailed.

Agreed. Moreover why ditch our best manager since at least Koeman? An act of deliberate self harm if ever there was, and cementing-in a bad situation. Extremely unlikely to recruit anyone approaching his talent so we would almost certainly be back to employing duds and donkeys similar to those we have suffered since Ralph departed.

Never apologise, never explain. We should keep Tonda, circle the wagons, increase the players' wages and get promoted automatically next season.

Praying for Hull to thrash the Boro.

Indeed, but I wouldn't trust their deliberations to be conducted in a perfect vacuum, absent of such influences and interests, conscious or unconscious.

if Boro don't beat Hull the Saints v Boro games next season will be spicy to say the least.

We are, I presume, appealing the sentence, not the conviction. The panel for the hearing yesterday would have been chaired by a KC, and so I presume the appeal today will be heard by another panel, chaired by another KC. Given that, I jolly well hope that we have instructed a heavyweight KC to represent us, nothing else will do. It is our only hope but it is very slim. The problem being, there's no halfway house compromise sanction vis a vis the playoffs that could be conceivably imposed as far as I can see. It is binary: either reinstatement or not, and to reverse that would cause far more trouble for the EFL than you could ever imagine. I think the best we can hope for is the point deduction being waived. Big deal...whoopy dos..

I wish we could keep him because he is our best team manager since Koeman and has potential to be a great manager in the future - Champions League level. He is masterful at deploying lineups and substitutions, as well as motivating the players. However I fear his position is untenable and furthermore he may get a FA ban. Then, we need to start worrying about parachute payments ebbing away. This is a galactic, monumental screw up. We have trashed ourselves at the threshold of a great new era for the club.