Sheaf Saint

If we've only been charged over the Boro incident, then it's irrelevant. At worst it could just give extra weight to the accusation that this wasn't a one-off, but unless he's got concrete proof of written instructions from a senior member of SFC staff to analysts to spy on teams within the 72 hour embargo, which I seriously doubt, it's meaningless anyway.

They have to add that caveat, because otherwise they could be perceived to be pre-empting the outcome of the hearing, and that would open an entirely different can of worms. It doesn't for a second prove that they have already reached a verdict. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Yes, I would imagine we would be seeking significant damages if anyone at the club ended up deformed as a result of their actions.

Yep, spot on. I have to do yearly refresher courses on this at work because the consequences of an unauthorised leak of personal information, however minor and insignificant it might seem, are absolutely huge. The golf club and hotel is a distinct legal entity from the football club. Even being owned by the same person doesn't grant them the right to share personal information without the explicit consent of the individual in question. I am sure that Gibson and the management team at the hotel will be fully aware of this, so I suspect the leaked report about the credit card transaction is just a bluff, intended just to put extra pressure on us to fess up. The publication of the photo, on the other hand, is another matter entirely. If Will wants to, he could take Boro and the Daily Mail to the cleaners for distress caused by misuse of personal information.

I really don't want to know, but I'm guessing it had something to do with getting his twanger out.

You mis-spelled tool. It's an easy typo to make though cos F is just below T on a standard keyboard.

Hiding in a cave in Tora Bora?

If that's the case, and they are the designated away side, I expect they will play in their full away kit as they did at SMS. Feels like we never get to be the designated home side at Wembley. I genuinely can't remember the FA Cup semis against Chelsea and Leicester, but I assume we would have worn our home kit against them no matter what. But all the other games I can remember in recent years - EFL final, playoff final and cup semi recently (although that was our choice), we haven't worn our home kit. The only time I can definitely remember we did was the JPT in 2011.

Yeah we wore our home kit when we went away there earlier in the season. There's no clash so it makes sense.

Stockport cruising to the L1 playoff final. 3-0 up on aggregate against Stevenage. A number of people on here were calling for us to try and get Dave Challinor in to replace Will Still. He's done a great job there and they must be firm favourites to be promoted now.

I think this just strengthens our 'rogue analyst' narrative really. If the club had actually instructed him to carry out the mission, does anyone really believe we wouldn't have briefed him better on how to avoid getting caught?

Can someone please send this to that utter melt Boro fan who tweeted that THB was guilty of a 'hate crime'?

So the kick off time is confirmed, and the tickets window information has now been released. As if this wasn't already certain, there is zero chance now that we won't be taking part in the final.

Yeah indeed. Gibbo may own them, but you can be certain that the company that runs the hotel will be an entirely separate legal entity from the football club.