Football Special

Rasmus is still his football advisor

A fan like P Dawson deserves to be back in the Premier League, more tv coverage to pick up on his wonderfully choreographed pre-match dance moves

Who is feeding him this info ?

Only defence i have for Tonda is he learned his trade as an analyst in Germany where I'm told these practices are common and even encouraged

Just seen this comment from a Hull fan about unknown opposition: "Why not add an element of surprise and intrigue by having Boro AND Southampton players in the tunnel then the EFL can do a heads or tails at 3.25pm to decide which team will emerge as our opponents."

Is there any way we can link this all back to Rasmus?

He'll be fine in Germany, genuinely dont think this will have harmed his rep there

Assuming media were not present for the private hearing who has been leaking all this to the press?

Sounds like we could do with you advising the amatuers at the club. Makes complete sense to me, make life as difficult as possible for EFL and Middlesbrough (being the tail that has been wagging the dog all along)

This. Some absolute dweebs in our fan base who have digested the media hysteria in full and now can't see past the narrative that we must be the only team who has ever done something like this and deserve such a mental punishment

Its a shame Saints clearly didn't have any influential media voices to lean on during Boros PR war on us to help balance opinion, too many people out of their depth at the club which has shown over last 3 years

I think if I worked in media team or ticket office I'd be calling in sick today

Yes - wrapped up thinking we knew better but unbelievably amateur, like Carry On Spying

I have no doubt that the "whistleblower" aka co-conspiritor with Gibson had been feeding them info about how stupid we are. Gibson seized on this opportunity to "catch us in the act" and working with the EFL board member knew exactly what to do and how to implement it to give their club the advantage and a backup route to Wembley. The PR war they engaged on was incredibly well coordinated I'll give them that, ensured in the court of public opinion that they were the helpless victims The whole thing stinks Makes me sick looking back spent over £160 going to Middlesborough away just for train and match ticket , what a monumental waste

Its quite a jump from Leeds 200k fine for basically doing the same thing

Punishment is disproportionate to the offence

Agree, corruption is clear

No way should we just let it go, punishment is completely disproportionate and should be challenged

Genuinely this "whistleblower" bollocks, he used to work for Boro before us, he was spying on us, needs looking into

No we fucking dont, hope their train derails on the way to Wembley

We have been well and truly done up by the Middlesbrough mafia, they'll know most teams involved in this sort of thing and we were fucking stupid enough to walk into the trap. Needs a proper investigation into: > the analyst who joined us from Boro then left earlier this season. They knew we'd be there. A badly dressed kid with an iphone learning fuck all > the board member at Boro on EFL board > orchestrated media campaign that lost us the case , I've never seen anything like it (compare Henry Winter vs Leeds ) > most draconian punishment possible for a new offence with no precedent Fuck the EFL and Middlesbrough

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/jan/16/marcelo-bielsa-leeds-spied-every-opponent

That's all true, feels like they've been whipped up into a frenzy and the whole episode has become their lives from first thing in the morning to last thing at night they go in search of rumours to convince themselves of their moral superiority and how good will triumph over evil

For anyone looking to park and get train in just need to look for somewhere on Met line or Jubilee, quite a few good options on the Wembley stadium line out to Denham really quick getting back there usually