LegalEagle

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I will have a pop as well

I agree Egg that in itself it is not a conflict but depending upon what that person says at any hearing it could give rise to a suggestion of bias. Best just avoid it in the first place and use someone else.

When he said it I thought the £10 mill was a bit heavy but otherwise made a lot of sense

Simon Jordan proposed yesterday a 6 point penalty, a £10 mill fine and a one off match between Boro and Saints at Boro as a decider with the final having to be adjourned for a week or 10 days.

Funny one that because the Wolves also have their version. Unusual for two rival clubs to sing the same song

I married a Black Country girl. Unfortunately her being a Baggies fan and me being Villa we don’t get on very well on a Saturday afternoon.

John McGinn. Now there’s a player who I would love us to have signed. I have some vague memory that about 4 or 5 years back we made an enquiry for him.

Yippee aye ay, Yippee aye oh

Always the Villa. Lived in Birmingham during the 80’s. Went to Villa Park reasonably often as a 16 to 18 year old and was there in the glory days. Some great memories but one or two bloody awful ones as well including the throwing of bananas at black players. Strange times in many respects but Villa Park was and still is in my view the best stadium in the land.

Nothing to stop him now just resigning and going back home. Saints are not going to make him serve his notice. I’d be sorely tempted to do that if I were him rather than being grilled by the FA for hours. To be honest, there aren’t going to be a queue of clubs in England going for him in the future. He can go back to the continent and cheat away until his heart is content.

My fear here is that the club are going to wait doing anything to Tonda until the FA enquiry is over and they ban him. They will then use that as an excuse to sack him with no more monies being paid. If they sack him now they might feel they have to pay him off. If that is the case it could delay things by weeks. The club might also be thinking that the FA won’t ban him and we keep him on. Either way I suspect this won’t happen quickly.

I believe that the FA’s jurisdiction is only England and Wales. So he could go to Scotland I believe. We could do a swap with Rangers.

If my son hadn’t supported Saints I would have disowned him. One of his Mum’s friends bought him a Man Utd shirt when he was about 4. When no one was looking I wiped my arse with it and stuck it in the bin.

Agreed. Surprised not to have seen something from our Club Captain, Cap’n Jack.

In relation to this issue or generally? This issue, 2 out of 10. Generally no better than a 5.

Nothing more fatal for a business than dithering and prevaricating. Shows a lack of leadership.

By the way, personally I think we should have sacked the fucker three days ago. Just giving an independent third party’s view on this.

Fair point. Just one thought on that though. Southampton have always been seen as a family friendly, nice, provincial club that looks after its people. We often get bracketed with clubs like Norwich and Ipswich. And that’s all good and other clubs and their fans like us and respect us save for that lot down the road. But now being 57 years old and having supported Saints for well over 50 years and my Dad, Grandad and Great Grandad before, it would be bloody nice to win something. If that means having to sacrifice even to a small degree some of that niceness then I’d take it. Just one trophy. It’s the hope that kills but also keeps you coming back for more.

Terrible analogy Alex.

My wife has an interesting angle on this. She knows a bit about football especially Saints, living in a family of Southampton supporters. Putting the FA enquiry to one side she simply doesn’t understand why we would sack Tonda. He has been our best manager since Ralph. Everyone in football is cheating to one degree or another. There are lots of bullies in football - see Sir Alex. Therefore why sack him?

The files on this case should be thrown at a top litigation team at a magic circle firm by the club and ask them to do their best and see what they can come up with. There are red flags everywhere.

The club would have seen the full reasoning earlier today and knew anyway what Tonda’s role was in this a few days ago. Why the hell is he still in our club?

Can I just pick up on one thing. There is talk of our first KC (the lady barrister) having no experience of sports law etc. I haven’t checked this out so don’t know if this is true but don’t forget she would have been recommended and instructed by the club’s lawyers, not by the club itself unless Parsons or someone else in authority recommended her from previous experience. Whatever the case, when we knew early on that we were up against Di Marco we should have gone big time in the shape of Pannick KC at that point. Someone in the club decided not to. I suspect down to complacency and arrogance. This has been handled badly from start to finish and continues to be. What a bunch of amateurs. Boro shat all over us. Credit to them. They must have been pissing themselves laughing and still are.

What the fuck did Parsons do as a job before Saints? Who interviewed him?