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Yep, much the same rule as the EFL relied upon back in Bielsa's day...

Yeah, the more provincial the airport the more basic the lounges tend to be. At Exeter, for example, you get biscuits, fruit, pastries and cereals, and that's about it... Still plenty of beer etc on tap though...

You're not allowed to compare with other leagues FFS! Keep up...

I usually pay c.£30 -£40 a head to go into one of the airport lounges... Depending on the lounge, you can get some decent "all you can eat" food and unlimited drinks (incl beer and 'fizz'). Also get decent seats, usually a good view of the planes and gets you away from the riff-raff.... ( ) That said, I think more and more people are cottoning on to how relatively reasonably priced these 'pay per visit' lounges are, as the ones I use at Heathrow have been pretty rammed the last couple of trips (that said, you still get a nice comfy seat and table even when busy)

Why do people react to 'putting things into context' with: "that's not the point"...? Somewhat ironically, they're missing the 'point' of the concept of putting things into context...

Nothing would surprise me in this whole saga anymore... But you're probably right...

Hands up... That conspiracy theory had occurred to me previously... And, maybe, it's not so far fetched as it might seem... We now know that Tonda had 'previous' for spying... So, given Middlesbrough knew we were promotion rivals, they thought "send a mole" to work at Southampton for a few months would be a useful 'insurance policy' for the end of these season... Yeah, I know... Bonkers stuff!

Which, ironically, is our biggest 'faux pas' in all of this!

Yeah, fair point... I guess 'coercion' is indeed a potential differential here... Damn...!

Given we didn't win any of the 3 games that we've admitted to spying on beforehand, we probably can't use the results to conclude whether it happened under Still or not

What makes you think the FA will treat him differently to Bielsa who, based on what we know so far, carried out / sanctioned many more spying missions than Eckert has? (Please don't refer to the EFL rules being different... The moral seriousness of the act of spying is the same, regardless of the underlying rules, which aren't FA rules anyway... Surely the FA is guided by it's own rulebook in such matters...?)

Indeed.... If only there was a way of refraining from clicking on this thread so we didn't have to read it...

Well, his head's got to be one of the first on the chopping block in that case, surely, give how woeful our communication has been throughout...?

How high up in the Dyson managerial chain was Parsons? And how did that qualify him to be CEO in a high profile / public facing industry such as professional football...?

Is Sibley definitely our "Head of Comms"...? I'd always assumed he reported into such a person rather than being the head honcho in that department... 😳