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Exactly this.

We accept that and have taken the ridiculous penalty handed out. No need to keep berating the club and everyone in it when, what we did was pretty insignificant but has been blown up out of all proportion. I'm sure Arsenal wouldn't be screening their final build up to the Champions League Final if it was any big deal. Yes, we could have handled things better and lessons need to be learned but let's not make out we're some massive cheats who gained a major advantage. Circle the wagons, adopt a siege mentality and go forward as one is the best way to get through this.

Wonder which players were in the minority camp that did not support him continuing.

I'm sure Alex Crook, Troy Deeney, James Corden, Andy Townsend etc etc will be absolutely horrified and even now will be preparing to form a panel to appear live on Talk Sport today to explain the absolute folly of such a move by Arsenal and pleading with them not to give such a huge advantage to PSG 🙂 It rather makes a complete mockery of the whole spying saga and our subsequent punishment.

Agree. Maybe he should change his handle to SaintsNonLoyal because he comes across as over eager to believe every bad word written about the club. One of the leaders of the pile on 🙂

But surely a club as big as Arsenal realise that PSG will be able to view this training session and glean so much critical information that the Gunners may as well not even bother turning up for the final. This is madness.

As you are perfectly entitled to do. The truth is there are things in this whole sage that only insiders at the football club know about so we can all be accused of 'jumping the gun'.

He's no longer known as that - he's had a promotion 🙂

Amen to that and it's a shame so many of our own fans are quite content to join the pile on. We have been very badly treated for minor offences that, in the grand scheme of things, have little or no bearing on the outcome of football matches. Things like diving for penalties and free kicks are cheating and likely to have far more impact on a match than what we did. There was a witch hunt and the enquiry was nothing more than a modern day kangaroo court influenced by the media lynch mob mentality.

Do you know information that is not yet in the public domain or are you speculating?

Ok, scrub that one then 🙂

Interesting.

Pierce Charles might be a decent option for what we need assuming Peretz won't be with us next season. Can't see him staying at Sheff Wednesday.

Can see your point re Larin but not Peretz. He's been exceptional for us and that won't have gone unnoticed both here and abroad. He's a great age for a keeper, confident and a brilliant lad to have in any dressing room. Convinced he'll receive significant offers to choose from.

There's also the, not insignificant, fact that Hull might have beaten us at Wembley.