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Snap, hadn't read this before I posted after 🙂

Very good comment, particularly the word 'nearly' 🙂 Sums up the nonsense ott punishment quite succinctly.

We still have 5 days remaining of the 14 granted to lodge an appeal. Just saying 🙂

Yes he's now added his thoughts on the ex Boro player being part of the 3 person panel.

Plus, imagine a scenario where replays clearly show that a player dived to win a match-winning penalty in the last seconds of a play-off semi final. There is no VAR to check the incident. Everybody just shrugs their shoulders and says 'that's football'. There is no nation wide recrimination of the player or his club. Nobody calls for them to be removed from the final and replaced by the club they defeated. Nobody calls for the player to face a lengthy ban. This whole saga has been blown up out of all proportion by pundits and journos who think nothing of blowing smoke up the arses of Man City with their 115 charges.

You talk a lot of sense until one considers the total lack of integrity in football. Every team cheats in every match they play.

Agree with this. Diving to win a penalty in a play-off semi-final gains you far more than spying.

Boro at St Marys would be good.

If you believe that bullshit.

Probably not.

I could list a lot of things he did very well along with his one mistake. On balance I'd certainly let him carry on provided the FA don't ban him.

Not that I can see. There's a thread about Steve Grant suggesting that another team may have cheated - this stems from something he said on the latest Total Saints Podcast but nowhere is there any mention of West Brom. I think it's a wind up.

Have you made this up? I've searched and can find nothing about West Brom being huge cheats.

A large pinch of salt needed 🙂 Firstly, the guy's friend is not much of a security worker if he is blabbing confidential information. Second, who leaves car keys on a desk? Come on.

Unfortunately, in the harsh world of professional football support staff and analysts are expendable and easily replaced. A quality manager is viewed entirely differently. If he stays and some support staff and analysts aren't comfortable they are quite free to leave - a shame for them but that's probably how these things pan out.