saint francis

All publicity is good publicity.

Excellent. Nice to have some good news for a change.

Yes and from the footage I saw, he was on the floor looking incapacitated. In mitigation it may have initially been perceived as intoxication? It also appeared pretty dark. I don't want to be the one justifying the police actions if it turns out that there were serious errors after more facts come out, but I think the criticism will end up coming down to - how long after he'd said he'd been stabbed was he checked for wounds - because in the footage I saw it was cut inbetween. If it was a few seconds, so be it. Much longer than that is perhaps a different story.

They cuffed him on suspicion of assault. Digwa said he was punched and had his turban knocked off, what we now know to be blatant lies.

I agree with this. When people are stabbed in this way external bleeding is often minimal and may not have been visible when clothed. The police are lied to constantly and after he said he'd been stabbed, "I don't think you have mate" was probably his impression at the time before checking. The police may deserve criticism for not checking for wounds sooner but I'm not convinced the rage against them is deserved.

True, plenty were expecting a fine though. I don't think any of us or anyone in the football world expected sanctions to be this harsh. It was the harshness that got us all hysterical rather than the offense itself imo. The spying was a ridiculous error but an easy one to correct. If we push on in the same way we finished this season we've got a good season ahead imo, with Tonda.

If we'd been fined like Bielsa's team was, I doubt the question would exist. Despite the shit show, he got the players playing. Deep breath. Get them playing again and fight!

I like what Tonda has achieved regarding the management of the players and I think we should be wary of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Get through this period of negativity and start again with Tonda in charge and fresh investment.

Appeal the points deduction. Sort out the absurdity that lead us here (pretty easily done I would think). Apologise to the supporters. Invest further in the team to ensure a normal automatic promotion next season.

Whatever the outcome this is an unnecessary embarrassment to the club.

We shall be....in the Championship where we belong.

We look so much more composed defensively in recent weeks.

Beaten by a deflection and a worldie. Our goal was more impressive. Never satisfied with a loss but the players and manager can come away from this with positives rather than negatives.

https://dlstreams.com/watch.php?id=108

I celebrated and then vomited.