Matthew Le God

£500k is 2% of Pompey's turnover for example. It is a significant amount for many Championship teams as gecko says.

Is it? How so?

Take your mind off spygate. Officially licensed FIFA World Cup coming to Football Manger on 26th May...

Their feelings are irrelevant. It is between Saints and the EFL and ruled on by the independent commission. There is no obligation to give Middlesbrough anything.

Flynn Downes was retrospectively red carded vs Swansea. The 3 match ban did not benefit Swansea. Resolution with the wronged party was not a factor in that, nor is it in Spygate.

Or we just spend £5m less than would without the fine on transfers

I didn't say it was precedent. I was answering his question regarding has anyone been kicked out of a competition for off field offences.

If I bite your ear off that is more significant than pulling some hair out with my hands. The former deserves a bigger punishment. Same with sporting advantage, cheating a big sporting advantage warrants a bigger punishment than a small sporting advantage. Expulsion is a big nuclear style punishment if the sporting advantage was minimal.

Swindon in 1990

Because you were asked for clarification as what you said doesn't appear to be true.

I lost count of the ifs, buts and maybes in that article. A purely speculative fluff piece with little to no substance!

Or a knife! "That’s not evidence, this is evidence"

Why would that happen? If we get a points deduction, it won't be a massive one. Even if it was -6 for example, that wouldn't stop an automatic promotion chase, let alone a playoff one when 8th gets you into the playoffs next season. If anything, we'd actually lose more players after a promotion as we'd need better players to have any chance of staying up!

Where? Not on the club's website or X account. The local paper did, but the paper isn't the club.

Exactly!