🚨 #SaintsFC CEO Phil Parsons' initial response to the EFL's charge on Friday 8 May said:
◉ The Club was concerned about the allegations because “the conduct described is not conduct which is part of the Club culture or conduct which it condones”
◉ A person associated with the Club was in the vicinity of the Middlesbrough training ground the previous day; but that the Junior Analyst Intern was “a very junior member of the analysis department” and he “was not instructed by any members of senior Club staff”.
◉ The Junior Analyst Intern “did not retain or transmit to Club staff any information about what he saw…. No footage was captured, transmitted, shared or analysed”. So, the Club had “no relevant documents or data”.
◉ “As soon as an analyst who was aware of the rules became aware of the incident he made a telephone call to ensure that the individual did not attend the team training session”.
◉ Unlike previous clubs who had been found guilty of observing an opponents’ training session, “senior executives and first team manager have not endorsed this”.
Off you fuck, you lying rat.