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Admitting it did get us a point reduction in each instance. There’s 100% more to this saga though than them randomly stumbling across our analyst and knowing about previous spying missions. Clubs didn’t come forward to them about it but a certain pissed off ex employee did… the same ex employee who tipped Saints off about the lack of security around the Boro training ground. We were morons, irrespective.

Good point haven’t thought of that.

You’d need a real laser focus to see anything worthwhile 😂

Conveniently glossed over by a particular media group, coincidentally.

The stoic performative silence killed us. The Bielsa approach would have been far less damaging.

True, I could. But I you never know whose watching these days 👀

As I’ve said we’ve got to own it ultimately. We fell for it because we were stupid and arrrogant enough to think we’d get away with it. and as I said in my main post: people are your friends … until they decide they’re not. We got turncoated, big time. But Boro’s conduct was abhorrent and they’ve actually benefitted from it.

Fuck it, for those conspiracists who like a deep dive, I might do a timeline and piece it altogether properly, with reports, names etc…

The moment Parsons slithered over to Gibson and admitted it in front of EFL members at the Riverside we were fucked. We potentially could however fuck them up down the line if my summary and suspicions are correct. Wed have to have some compelling evidence, as heightened as my suspicions are they are only that 😂 you can see the dots joining together though…

A lot of this nonsense is from The Sun … from the northeast journo Gary Stonehouse who broke the ‘lack of security’ suspicion and then somehow, 2 days later, says Middlesbrough have ‘new evidence’ and guess who gary works for? The Sun

Yeah, just have to read the NE grotrags - ‘Boro suspect they’ve been spying on other teams as well’ I mean…. Unless they’re tipped off with our movements, and why would they not care to report it during the season if it was the for integrity of football, like they said?

Ultimately, it’s on us. We’ve been doing it and the besmirched ex employee stitched us up, knowing we couldn’t resist. for anyone who might think it was coincidental: - ex employee tips off analyst about the lack of security around their training - we don’t get nearly 30 mins in and he’s ‘spotted’ from the main building - club photographer on hand to take a closeup of Salt - boro security sneak around out of sight of the spy and try to seize him by surprise - boro just happen to be working on certain particulars which they later claim they felt enforced to change because we had spied - Gibbo and NE journos go into overdrive - boro man on board of EFL, board propose expulsion. - ex employee also highlights Ipswich and Oxford to boro - who report it (remember the reports saying boro suspect they’ve been spying on other teams - how the fuck would boro know specifics like that!?), we come clean 4 days later about it. Salt confirms when giving evidence

It’s all performative from these charlatans. This pretend stoic silence. Truth is, they’re not leaders - they just shrivel when any pressure is applied.

And all this talk of a ‘whistleblower. That’s who it was. The Boro and Saints ex employee tipped us off. We were set up somewhat, but we walked right into this mess. Then made a complete cock up of our defence. the person who broke that story is a journo in the north east, so it’s not an X rumour.

Go now, you out-of-depth, slithery, cucky hoover-botherer.

That’s what I am alluding to in my post. We were tipped off about the security, remember the initial reports? that part is barely mentioned now

I found that when I went into management. They promote idiots out of the way.

Would have had plenty more respect for Parsons just sticking the nut on Gibbo and telling him ‘we spy where we want’ than this charade of cuckery, bullshitting and nonsense. The outcome would have been exactly the same other than parsons would have got to have lived every opposition fans dream.

Thats what I mean in my post. Just fucking own it if you’re a leader, even if if you didn’t know - you let that culture thrive. It’s on you. Fucking own it.

Worked for Dyson. Seems we got suckered in.

Maybe not, I read on - Oxford grassed 😂

it sounds like we actually just offered this up to them, FOC. ’oh by the way, we spied on these guys too - but look - 1 point from 6!’

Not on this occasion.

Having been a leader, I find our scrabbling around trying to find excuses, deflect using other clubs misdemeanours and pressurising interns (being young once myself, wouldn’t have had the cojones to say ‘no’) totally deplorable. I think the EFLs handling of the matter disgraceful and unprofessional and Boro’s conduct repugnant and abhorrent. But… it’s a situation of our making and we need to fucking own it. And Solak needs to stop continuing to surround himself with charlatans and grifters or he’s going to end up as penniless as me.