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Why do people always talk about some nonsense 'pay per play' deal? Never in a million years would he accept that.

Matt Taylor red card in the game at Upton Park?

Well I highly doubt it's the only thing on the FA's list of things to deal with and it's a very busy period for them in general. Might be that they've not actively started the investigation yet or it might be that they're digging deeper into the context where they're not bound by time constraints. Either way I don't think we'll hear anything until the point he is charged/not chatged, and if it's the former we'll then get more details on timelines I reckon. Re Bielsa I'm pretty sure he wasn't charged at all and issued with a warning instead.

It's worth remembering that he's not even been charged yet, they're still at the investigation stage. That means there isn't really any updates to give at this point. If he is charged (which I presume will be under E3 for improper conduct) then we'll hear more about timelines etc I imagine. I highly doubt they're in a huge rush either, the EFL one was obviously extremely time sensitive.

I suspect it's more about contract length than the salary we're offering. He may not find anyone willing to pay him more than what he's on here but if they're willing to offer him 2-3 years it could still work out more in total. At his age and with his injury record I wouldn't blame him if he is thinking about security more than anything else. For similar reasons I'd be surprised if it wasn't sorted one way or the other before the World Cup.

Tonda Eckert is the man He sent a spy to watch your nan Dragan said he's staying at at the club And now he's taking Southampton up

Everywhere we go Everywhere we go It's Southampton spies, making Boro cry Everywhere we go

To the tune of Adams Family: We're spying on your mother We're spying on your brother We spied on all the others Tonda's red army

FFS. This might be the worst post I've ever seen on here. This touched more lives because people couldn't attend a football match? Yeah that's much worse than a smaller number of children being sexually abused you utter dinlo.

The points deduction isn't getting dropped now. Those proceedings are over.

Not sure how anyone can read that statement and think we might take legal action. Seems pretty clear to me that we're wanting to draw a line under it and move on.

Sorry but I don't care how much he loves the club or how committed he is. Absolutely miles out of his depth and his position is untenable. Can we have a poll?

If you heard about another football club you'd barely believe that they could genuinely handle it that badly. When its Sport Republic's Southampton though it's incredibly believable and not at all surprising.

Laughable that they're essentially owning up to not bothering with their own due diligence at the time.

The problem is the EFL clearly don't think it's a stupid rule and neither do the clubs who wanted it in the first place. If it's a widespread belief that it's a stupid rule then it'll get binned this Summer...

If clubs want rid then it'll go, if they don't it'll stay. Not sure why this incident will changed the mind of clubs who wanted it in the first place though.

Does anyone remember that 'silver goal' rubbish they tried out? If a team was winning at HT in ET then the game ended there.

Could probably speed it up by removing two players from each team every 5-10 minutes until you end up with 5 a side. Not entirely serious but do think it'd become harder to not concede in that situation.

Who's paying for it for the likes of Crawley Town and Gillingham?

Well a majority of EFL clubs were clearly happy with the 72 hour window when it came in.

I know it doesn't. My point is Arsenal publicising a single training session doesn't mean they'd be happy for the world to see all of their training sessions. Yes they brought it in after Biesla as EFL clubs thought it was a big enough issue to have its own. If they didn't it wouldn't have come in.

I didn't think I needed to be when we were specifically discussing the EFL and your assertion they'd dug a hole for themselves. I thought it was pretty obvious I was discussing sanctions the EFL would implement in their competitions. Why would I dispute a point about the EFL by talking about a competition they don't run?

Wanker might have been one of the nicer things we called him.

I don't get the comparison to the Arsenal thing at all tbh. If you're doing an open session you're evidently not working on anything tactical. Otherwise why not stream every training session? It is weird that it's not a rule elsewhere but enough EFL clubs wanted for it to be brought in so they obviously felt that was an advantage to be gained.

I'm not going to pretend I've gone and looked at every instance because I haven't and have no inclination too. My memory suggests though that it's a pretty standard way of doing things when a team is kicked out and I'm struggling to recall a situation where that hasn't happened. Re the 2 leg stuff they really should have done is postpone the second leg to give time to deal with it, that way they would have options on sporting sanctions for the first leg which didn't affect the second, giving us the opportunity to make it up in that game. As the bias stuff I highly doubt that the mush who played a single game for them in the 90s was biased. I agree though that you'd think they'd want to avoid even the suggestion and Saints should have challenged it, if only to delay things.