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< Maybe find another sport because the shark infested waters of football are clearly not to your taste.

They can use the word integrity in football as many times as they like but most of us agree there is none these days. Just because they use the word doesn't make it so. We can either be an outlier and play to the rules (and that means all of them so no diving, feigning injury, stealing yards at throw-ins etc) or we can stand up for ourselves and play the game that everyone else does. There are too many people getting on their high horses and taking the moral high ground. They act as though football is a clean sport. It's not, it's one of the dirtiest cesspits so those who don't like the fact might be better off finding another sport. We were shat on by the punishment and I don't buy the suggestion it had to fit the crime - few if any punishments in football have ever fitted the crime so why are we treated differently.

There is no integrity in football. It's dog eat dog.

Agree. Football is corrupt as fuck. The higher you delve the more corruption you'll uncover. The sheer hypocricy of the journos and pundits who have slaughtered us yet will stick their tongues as far as possible up the arses of the big sides who cheat as a matter of habit but that's ok.

Why is it that, of all the cases of mischief in football, our spying is the only one where journos and pundits keep banging on about the punishment fitting the crime? This attitude has not been prevalent in any other cases. For an easy example Leicester cheated in FFP and still managed to win the Championship title. Yet nobody says the punishment didn't fit the crime. Stop beating this ridiculous drum and admit our punishment was well in excess of our crime.

Yeah but we can take the moral high ground and say that at least we did the right thing in line with Troy Deeney's erudite views.

A sprinkling of all of the above.

Agree. Not often that Steve speaks the most sense but he did here whilst the other three towed the line that Tonda is the devil incarnate.

If the cap fits prick.

Yeah, let's hope they find 30 more charges and kick us back down to non-league football. It wouldn't be nearly enough but there is no punishment that could be.

Glenn is not some kind of all seeing guru on football. He has his opinions to which he is entitled and I agree with a lot of what he says but not in this case. There's too much following of the herd going on.

Sensible guy and he's possibly a little bit closer to the inside than all the melts on here who've rushed in because the punishment didn't fit the crime.

What the same FA who did nothing to Bielsa. Worth waiting for their unbiased take on it isn't it...not.

Makes you wonder how Liverpool Man City, Man Utd, Chelsea and the rest manage to get a single sponsor interested. I mean football is the one sport in the whole world that is full of integrity so sponsors have so many upstanding clubs to pick from...well apart from those whose players go down as though shot, roll around clutching their face when nobody has been anywhere close to touching it, diving for penalties etc etc etc. It's probably the most corrupt sport in the world and now we're facing a pile on for a minor misdemeanour. There's some serious over reaction on here. It's not an honest sport. If you grasp that the rest follows very easily so if you don't like it maybe find a different sport like golf where they call their own penalties even when not spotted. Stand up for your club and stop joining in the pile on because there's enough of them doing it from their high horses.

Pretty much. Nothing there that doesn't make sense.