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Now you mention it, I can see some similarities....

Unhinged. It's "unhinged" FFS. Get it right bro...

Merci beaucoup for the insights Christophe 👍🏻🙂

I'd forgotten about him... Is he good enough for Championship level football, do you think?

If they do, and it transpires that Eckert's discretions were no worse than Bielsa's (the activity thereof, not which unfit-for-purpose EFL rules happened to be in place at the time), then I hope we've still got the likes of Lord Pannick on stand by to pull the FA up on their inconsistencies. Hell, here's an idea... Maybe we should hire the De Marco legal fella that pulled the strings for Middlesbrough against us... That would be a plot twist and a half!

Yep, a good read, and echos many of my thoughts over the last few weeks... But... It's all "unhinged mental gymnastics" according to the forum Intelligentsia of course....

Ha... Full circle! It's written in the stars...

Yep, starting to feel sorry for Tonda, given this article and the 'inside info' from FF this afternoon... How on earth could the FA hand down a suspension or ban when it now seems like Tonda did less that what Bielsa did....? Other than the FA jumping on the "let's teach them a lesson" bandwagon of course...

As if by magic.... Just don't tell the missus... #beermoney

When did you buy your tickets, if you don't mind me asking? I got ours in the first members window (on the Monday before we got chucked out on the Tuesday)

I would tend to agree with that... Left me with the impression that he doesn't have any inside info.

Crazy, isn't it? Jimmy Greaves was right... "It's a funny old game, Saint"

We were wrong about Fabrice's alter ego... Turns out he was Jeremy Wilson all along...

Hear, hear 👏🏼

Cheers again FF... If that's true (no reason to doubt you) then the FA surely have to treat him the same as they did Bielsa... i.e. a ticking off and a warning not to do it again....

Fair point FF... I guess my usual 'benefit of the doubt' approach to such matters is being somewhat strained by the ridiculous situation we find ourselves in.

It turns out watching a team train within 72 hours of a match isn't a big deal after all....

That echoes my interpretation of the FA's scope / remit 👍🏻

There's no rush... It's half term holiday week FFS...!

Hearing that the CEO has gone off on holiday during one of the biggest crisis this club has ever faced tells me all I need to know about this current regime.... (But I agree with the overall drift of your post FF.... Thanks as always for sharing your insights.... Appreciated 👍🏼)

Do we know what the FA charged Bielsa with? Assume it was along the same lines, i.e. "bringing the game into disrepute"? One thing that's confused me is that, according to this paragraph from a recent BBC report, the FA seemingly only took into account the Derby spying incident, but I thought that Bielsa owned up to doing it multiple times...?

So, reading between the lines... Pochettino is coming back as manager after the world cup...?

Married?