CB Fry

I would think there are a small percentage of casual buyers waiting to know for certain the game is on. We will absolutely sell out

I think it is incredibly safe to assume it has started. This isn’t a 17 year old panic writing an A level essay on a few cans of Relentless. Writing and proofing the bloody judgement will take half a day in itself. I did genuinely think they were under promising and would get it done by Monday evening.

they said it would complete on or before then, never said it would start then.

I think Alfie House reported it starting on Friday, I don't think that is in doubt. I feel pretty certain that by the back end of today - 4 or 5pm they will announce whatever they have decided I think.

This was not my experience at the magistrates court.

I think I speak for everyone when I say that we just want our day at Wembley.

Shut up you twat

Same as Boro releasing news stories about players being not fit for the final. The kids call it manifesting. We and they are willing want we/they want to happen.

Well, we are going to be found guilty and to be honest you can pretty much write the statement now. Apologies to league, Middlesborough, our fans / we have fallen below our own high standards / we've done a comprehensive review of our processes and procedures / reassurances this won't happen again / acknowledgement that this has tarnished our achievements this season / we remain committed to the high standards and integrity of the competitions we participate in and so on.

I quite enjoyed Eurovision, mainly because it was heartening to see millions of people from nearly 30 different and disparate nations all united together to collectively vote for the singer with the biggest tits.

It's in one of his Echo write ups as well. https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/26097931.southampton-fc-ceo-parsons-issues-new-statement-addressing-spy-charges/?ref=twtrec

Please for the love of God give up with these fucking moronic analogies

Stop pretending that we are denying or contesting the charge. We are not. We have accepted it. There's no "allegedly" here for fucks sake. Get over it.

100%. There are people on here who hate Billy Davies because he - get this - disgracefully celebrated his team winning a football match against us.

Show me where we have denied anything.

"Trying to obtain a sporting advantage" is the only thing. It not working or not seen to work is irrelevant.

Great post. Also, as a principle, pretty much all sporting punishments are thrown forwards, not retrospectively. In genral it's the future that gets changed not the past. The AFCON final thing is an exception. And I suppose ineligible players results in forfeit of a past match. But not sure this situation is analogous to either of those. As long as we are successful in making it an isolated case that we can argue had a negligible impact vs other transgressions (financial irregularities impacting the entire league over an entire season). We need to make feel like a single game infringement worthy of a fine. Hopefully we can do that

Nope.

Whatever. You are cherry picking.

Probably because they haven't "caught us spying before" but maybe they reviewed CCTV subsequently since this came out. If my next door neighbour got broken into yesterday I'd be checking things in my house/garden to a greater extent today than I was last week. Anyone would. It's easier to find something if you are looking for it.

Aren't you taking the rules out of context by twatting on with whataboutety around if it happened on Southampton Common?

Not really no, being that it is known that we have accepted and are not contesting the charge. We are just offering mitigation or "context" in the clubs words.

Why on earth would we be doing that? It's not about feeling good about yourself because the club are mouthing off on Facebook or in the papers. It's about getting the hearing out of the way and the punishment as low as possible. Keeping our head down and cooperating professionally is literally how to do that.

It's the letter equivalent of surrounding the referee waving imaginary red cards. Which, wouldn't you know, is against the rules.

Lead story on BBC Breakfast sports news this morning. Still going with the "....could it be Hull vs Middlesbrough in the final" stuff.