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Ha... That was another one of my 'conspiracy theories' at the time...

Yep, you've pretty much summed up my (and others') theory at the outset as to how Middlesbrough effectively engineered and scripted how it would play out, once they knew we were likely to be 'spying' on their training session (along with the general public). And, yep, totally agree with the bit in bold... How this part of the whole saga hasn't received greater media attention is beyond me... Yes, we were wrong... banged to rights guv and all that... But the 'subterfuge' that Middlesbrough seemingly deployed appears to warrant zero scrutiny by the world at large.... Hey ho...

Here we go... The "bigger clubs" getting away with resting players... Oops, sorry... Recalling 'injured' players... Whilst the likes of Saints have no choice but to risk their better players getting injured on international duty (in the build up to a "must win" match)...

Ah... The classic "I'm not person" denial... The plot thickens...

It's almost inevitable they'll promote from within, isn't it? After all, that approach turned out alight last time...

Ha! That needs to be on a Saintsweb t-shirt... Make it so @stevegrant

Yeah, I'm almost praying this happens (if they throw the book at Tonda).

Good morning Phil 👋🏻 😉

Have I left my webcam on again FFS...?

I admire your optimism, but having been on the planet for 58 years, the FA and "double standards" have always been synonyms as far as I recall... I'm not convinced they're suddenly going to turn into a reasonable / rational / logical organisation overnight...

Looking on the bright side, if that's true, then Tonda should still be at the helm for the derby game (assuming we invoke the appeal process, which we have 7 days to do after the verdict, I believe)

Yeah... Fancy people speculating what might happen on an internet football forum... Whatever next...?

Which the FA won't give a stuff about...?