Sheaf Saint

And, crucially, still alive.

That actually sounds like it could be the name of a real legal firm.

Ah, the ace up our sleeve.

Is that because of the hidden salt?

You don't put cream in it do you? Heathen.

It worked for Boro.

He makes a good point about the disproportionality, but if our entire appeal case is essentially "it's not fair! Please let us back in" then we might as well not bother even turning up.

But the fact that the EFL expedited the hearing and refused our request to be granted sufficient time to conduct a full internal review might come into play here.

"If the glove don't fit, you must acquit".

The way I see it, it's like catching and stopping a burglar from robbing your house but expecting your home insurance to pay out anyway. Boro were not cheated out of a place in the final, because they caught our spy and ejected him before he could obtain any useful information. Therefore the reward of being granted a free pass to the final as part of our punishment makes no sense whatsoever.

Ah yes, that famous porn star that plays for Wrexham.

That being the case, how can we possibly accept that the timescales here can be legitimately described as 'following due process'? I get that they have the right to expedite their 14-day rule in extreme circumstances, but introducing new, additional charges (on a Sunday) ahead of a hearing 48 hours later is surely not legal?

Exactly. They lost to a team that had broken a rule off the pitch, but that had no influence on the outcome of the tie. So to say they were cheated out of a place in the final is erroneous. The wording here is interesting. If they had said that they had awarded a retrospective 3-0 win to Boro for the home leg then it might have made sense. But that's not what's been decided. The ruling is that Saints have been expelled from the playoffs altogether. Therefore it's factually incorrect to say that Boro have been 'reinstated', and there's probably a strong case to render all of the playoff results this far null and void and start again with Boro playing Hull and Millwall playing Wrexham. They've shoe-horned Boro into the final to make sure their showpiece event still goes ahead, and it's highly likely to have opened a whole barrel of worms.

Airlines do it all the time.

Suing our own manager, for our own failure to supervise his activity. Can't see that getting off the ground. What an utter fucking shambles.