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Which is precisely why we should tell the little cunt to fuck off while we let the panel handle it.

CSI Middlesbrough starring Steve Gibbo Gibson as 'The Don' and Kim Hellberg as 'Cryin' Lil' Bitch'. Tune in for the next gripping instalment: Saturday 23rd May, 4pm, Sky Sports Main Event (Subtitles available for those watching what THB says)

Does anyone know which lawyers the club have called in to represent us in this? Because I was thinking the same thing. In a private case, trying to use the media or third parties to influence the right to a fair trial while it is ongoing is classed as contempt and can make a case collapse. I'd be amazed if our lawyers aren't gathering every single comment and article which has been issued by the staff of Middlesbrough FC, their affiliates in the press, and the wider media in order to present them as evidence that they are trying to influence the outcome of the panel. It's not like they're doing it in secret. I would love it - love it - if we came out fighting and issued a counter-suit along those lines and came at them for defamation and trying to pervert the course of justice.

Funny how he was fine about it all before the first leg, and then once they failed to break us down at theirs and it was obvious they'd blown their big chance he started crying about how evil we were, almost like he was trying to distract from the fact that he'd managed them from 2nd to 5th and then blown the play-offs. Fucking gimp.

Joking aside they did look unfit. Completely gassed after 70 mins in both games.

What do you mean, 'over'? Didn't you hear, they've got a final to prepare for Best get training while you wait for that phone call Kim 👍

Oh god, Mrs Hellberg's escaped again

This is getting embarrassing for them now. Genuinely fucking pathetic, how do these people get through life?

Exactly. I love new Evil Saints, it's about time. Anyway, lots to enjoy here: https://fmttmboro.com/index.php?threads/the-unofficial-official-southampton-v-middlesbrough-play-off-sf-2nd-leg-match-day-thread.80982/page-52 They're a bunch of fucking twats and I'm delighted we smashed them in the most heartbreaking way possible. MOTM: Harwood-Bellis MOTM runner-up: The ball boy

And then burst into tears 🤣

That is one hell of a trip

Played well

Who are the usual suspects?

So what did he say - can you fill me in?

How on earth can you know that? Are you on the panel? Have you heard the full mitigation case?

Will?

I don't think it's that black and white. The club can fess up to sending someone up to have a casual cheeky look because the training ground is in full view of some public areas, but can claim they otherwise told him to stick to the rules. If he then ignored that when he got there and went rogue in direct contravention of what he was instructed to do by the club, then it creates a greyer area where the individual takes more responsibility and probably gets fired, and the club pays a fine, but it's less serious overall because his specific, more serious actions weren't ordered by the club. That case is even stronger if the person in question admits that they were acting of their own volition and contrary to what they were told to do. Or if they were maybe somehow 'persuaded' to say that, to take the fall. Which is what I personally think will happen.

It was a false flag operation all along! They got scared they were going to lose so they sent their own guy in to do it just so they could start all this nonsense and try to get us chucked out I knew it

They're scared they're going to lose?

Fuck me do you think that's how it works It's obvious you lot are a bit special, but oh my god 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

They must have given it to three Middlesbrough women and they each asked their kids to sign it

In the same way that Boro's demands for what the punishment should be are absolutely meaningless as well. 'I found this urchin scrumping apples from my garden officer, I demand he be summarily executed by firing squad' Not really how it works is it, you thick northern divs

Smart and completely justifiable move. The more games we play/ win at this stage, the harder it is to expel us*. If we get to the final and win it, and the EFL then wanted to kick us out after that, then everyone else would effectively want to 'move up one', and they'd have all five of the other clubs clamouring for some sort of replay or compensation, plus Wrexham. It would be an absolute logistical, legal and financial nightmare for the league. It's too late for the games themselves not to be played, and Saints know that, so just need to push it back until after the final has been played to put as many barriers in the way as possible. The justification for that ('we need time to find out ourselves what happened') is a perfectly reasonable and valid request. (*Not that they will anyway, but let's just use it as the extreme worst case scenario)

I believe when today's exchange rate is applied, you actually get four Gibbos to the Drag these days. Inflation eh

Let's look at another incident. In 2007, West Ham were threatened with relegation and signed two of the best players in the world (Tevez and Mascherano), who subsequently played a huge part in keeping them in the Premier League. Tevez alone scored six goals in their last nine games to keep them up. It then transpired that their registrations were illegal, that West Ham had known they were illegal, and that they had knowingly fielded not one but two illegal players for a large part of the season, and those players had helped keep them up and relegate other teams instead. Different league but a way more heinous crime with a much more significant impact. They got a fine. No-one is chucking anyone out of any competitions when promotion and relegation is impacted by it. It means too many other clubs get involved and that's just too much of a legal and financial can of worms for the league and the governing body to want to deal with. As someone said above, they'll wait to see if we get knocked out anyway, and then if we don't, they'll give us a whopping fine and maybe a points deduction (potentially suspended) and that will be it. Regardless of whatever shite some kids pretending to be ITK might be saying on X.