Whitey Grandad

Keep the gang together and go again.

Maybe. But he's our psychopath.

Yep.

Indeed. Despite the forensic exhumations.

The EFL have no control over what happens on the field of play. These events are a matter for the FA.

It's just occurred to me that the way he's holding his phone means that the camera lenses are up against the tree which is blocking his field of view. It looks more posed than real.

Indeed. If Winnie is not smart enough to appreciate that he shouldn't have got involved then he's not smart enough to take part in decisions of such importance.

Or maybe they didn't think it was serious.

It most certainly is not irrelevant. He would, at one time, have felt some affinity with Middlesbrough.

What? Don't you understand? It's enough that he at one time was employed by Middlesbrough. Any connection, no matter how tenuous, is enough that he should have turned down the appointment.

Eh? What are you smoking? They are completely different situations. Virtually in a separate universe. A closer parallel would be where a loan player cannot play against his own club.

It affected the punishment, which are large part of the football community consider to have been very harsh.

The 35 years is irrelevant. Equally as irrelevant as whether or not we gained a sporting advantage. The "one game" argument is equally pathetic. Even if he had played no games he had been paid by Middlesbrough FC over a substantial period. He should have recused himself from the start.

At what stage was the composition of the panel revealed?

That's a very bold unsubstantiated statement. There may well have been bias even if it was subconscious.