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Ha... Nice idea

Yeah, I guess that trumps my hunch... It's just that the events of the last few weeks have started to make me view everything through a pessimistic "FFS, what next?" prism!

A good read @SaintlyAnd👍🏻 By the way, does your ex-analyst friend still stand by what he told you the other day, as per your post below? i.e. that we're probably not alone in doing this kind of thing...? (Turns out he was wide of the mark regarding the manager's involvement, in our case at least!) Cheers

Precisely... One can only hope that the suspicion that other clubs have also done this kinda thing keeps a lid on matters....

I still think there's a viable possibility that the Middlesbrough lawyer (De Marco) deduced that another couple of examples was enough to convince the EFL / hearing panel to throw the book at us, whilst holding back evidence of additional examples to potentially use in the future should they want / need to do so... Given all the 'unbelievable' twists and turns we've seen over the last few weeks, I don't think that's a particularly bonkers hypothesis...

Careful.... You'll have the "But there was a different rule in place!!" brigade on your back, conflating 'the act' with 'the punishment' as per usual....

Probably... Doesn't stop me having a little niggle of a concern at the back of my mind though....

Did the EFL and/or the panel see all of the WhatsApp messages, or just the ones that Middlesbrough chose to submit to them...?

I think you've answered you're own question there... Also, if we got more point deductions as a result then it would benefit them...

Yep, if the players don't want him then all bets are off, regardless of what the FA might hand down. As you say, the longer we do t hear anything the more likely it is that the players want him to stay. In fact, if the players didn't want him to stay then surely he'd have gone immediately...?

That would be fantastic shithousery! Also, I reckon all the single figure squad numbers should have '00' in front of them...

I do have a genuine concern about that... Wouldn't put it past him to have kept back some other spying examples from his whistleblower to handover to the EFL if they didn't get promoted....

I've already printed it off and put it on the wall above my downstairs khazi... Oh.... You said the Louvre.... Sorry.... My bad... 😂

Please Lord, tell me Sky have some footage of the pair of them when Hull scored.... 😁