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TBF, that does explain why his first priority was changing his clothes.

Not really a fan of Dire Straits but they did do a song called "Private Investigations" which would be quite apt. Also, "Watching the Detectives", Elvis Costello. "Spy (in the house of love", Was Not Was. Although my favourite, if 'Boro lose, would be "Sucker's Prayer" by Decemberists which contains the line "I wanna throw my body in the river(side) and drown".

Yvette Cooper would be my choice. Streeting would be OK, never really rated Raynor and Burnham has spent so long banging on about the North and how badly off they are that he can f*ck off.

Have saints done a “Pitchside Unseen” video for the game.yet?

The more I think about this, the more I doubt this is an isolated incident. I mean, 'Boro have failed to win in 8 of their last 10 games - I bet all those other 8 clubs were spying too.

Yeah, I agree. We've (apparently) been caught cheating. Doesn't really matter if 'Boro made the job of spying easier or not. Time to wheel out the whataboutery excuses is when we know what the punishment is and whether it fits the crime.

Hope we get a decision on what kind of punishment we get as soon as possible, that way everyone know where they stand and we can all move on. Totally daft decision by the club to engage in this kind of thing for what appears to be fairly marginal gains, counter argument to that though is that if the advantage is so minimal then why bother spying in the first place? My concern is who sanctioned it and how long has it been going on for? You can argue for a bit of leniency in the case of a rogue employee or a one off but if we've been doing this for a while and it's club sanctioned then that's more serious. Fucking stupid situation we've allowed ourselves to get caught up in.

Imagine a club statement will be imminent now. Blackmore and Alfie House have broke cover. They won’t want to send Tonda out to answer for them

If they like dealing with fucking toddlers then I think their crimes are worse than ours.

One of the potential penalties they could impose on us is a loan embargo meaning we'd have to keep Damion Downs next season. That seems excessively harsh to me.

No idea if it's true or not but spying on the opposition after a 46 game season seems a bit unnecessary. I guess we could get a glimpse into any new set pieces and fitness of Hackney but still don't think it would give us much of an advantage. I don't pay much attention to 'Boro but they've never really struck me as a sensationalist, dirty tricks kind of club. If you met 'Boro at a school reunion they'd be the one you had absolutely no recollection of.

Hard one to call and there's at least 4 or 5 that I wouldn't complain about if they won. I'm leaning towards Scienza, however, if I had to pick a player I'd least like to see missing from the starting 11 then it would be Peretz.

I stopped watching Bill Maher before his cosy little dinner with Trump and Kid Rock but it definitely didn't do him any favours. Jon Stewart probably the best of them although I wish he would tone some of the clownish stuff down a bit, I've heard he's a bit more restrained on his podcast so I should probably listen to more of that. I will say that, although I find John Oliver the most irritating of the three, his programme is generally the most informative and interesting.

I get your point to an extent and it's true, winning is more fun. However you can also make the case that the Championship is a far more competitive league regardless of the amount of money spent by individual teams. Look at Coventry, Millwall, 'Boro, and up to a few weeks ago, Hull. None of them have been big spenders. Leicester, on paper, have a far better squad than 90% of the league and they've been dreadful even without the points deduction. Plus, there's no VAR in the championship.

Pah! Pretentious middle class crap. And most of it is probably foreign. Wouldn't even make my top 10.