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Would’ve been ok I reckon, Big fine and likely suspended points penalty possibly bigger than the one we got. 6 maybe. It’s fact we were caught doing it whilst in a k.o competition. There’s precedent for getting chucked out of those as the punishment. It’s why - whilst my gut instinct told me we wouldn’t get thrown out because of the disproportionate ultra punitive effect - I always had a nagging worry that we would. On another note, I think we should’ve played the final, with the investigation/hearing being conducted in the usual timescales ,us being retrospectively denied promotion if we won it, and Hull being awarded promotion instead. Oh well, water under the fucking bridge now but still got a weird numb feeling about this whole embarrassing, tawdry episode. Bring on the head rolling.

Plus 1. I’ll add that I really wish I wasn’t associated with this club right now and it’s gonna take a looong time for that feeling to fully dissipate assuming it ever does.

If in doubt about anything regarding this Football Club, always go with the incompetence option.

That would be my exact reading of the situation. Tonda did it not knowing it was a problem, the club was too stupid to set him right or too ignorant to know he was doing it.

How thoroughly, thoroughly embarrassing this is. I’m not THAT bothered we don’t get to potentially have a crack at beating our own low points record next season (FWIW I don’t think we would beat it, although equally would expect us to probably not stay up). I fucking well AM THAT BOTHERED about now being damned by association with this wincingly embarrassing scandal.

Agreed HK my old pal. Which Middlesbrough fan are you specifically referencing here though?

It’s been a looong week.

Sorry but that implies that I would be happy if we had our day at Wembley and then got retrospectively expelled from the competition as a result of an appeal against the original decision to allow us to play in said final and did not lose it. I want my day at Wembley, us to win it, and not get expelled afterwards if we do. All this without taking into consideration that when you say ‘everyone’ that could literally refer to everyone alive on earth today, which would clearly be ridiculous as the vast majority of people alive on earth today have no interest in and to a lesser extent have never heard of Southampton Football Club. Yours, MLG. I’ll do it for you - SHUT UP YOU TWAT.

Whatever the outcome of this, whether we are guilty or not and to what extent if we are, I have to say I fucking hate it and it has badly tainted what should be an enjoyable time following this club.

I don’t see any way that any sane rational person could not see that was a very clear handball. So he either isn’t that and shouldn’t be in his job or he has cheated. Fucking ridiculous.

Having just seen Utd’s second goal against Forest I have to say that it is yet another fine example of how the whole VAR/reffing process is absolutely not biased towards big sides whatsoever. So that’s reassuring.

Amen to that. I still can’t stop fucking reading it though!

I don’t know but I can more or less guarantee whatever the outcome is it will be dismissed as a load of old pony by at least one poster on here.

Agreed. In the highly unlikely event we get to play in the finaI I hope they beat us, SHIT no that’s gone too far 😇

Hmmm it’s a toughie. As I’m 6 pints in I’ll go with PERIPATETIC.