Midfield_General

If this is true, why didn't they say anything at the time? Why would they wait for someone else to flag it before they presented their vital dossiers? Especially Wrexham, who we last played at the beginning of April, and who would surely have raised it then when there was still time for them to benefit from getting a place in the playoffs? I smell bullshiiiiiiiiiiiiit

On public land, watching people play football on a pitch without a fence round it, like you, I or anyone else could Boro should be expelled from the league for being too fucking stupid to put a fence up

BREAKING: The two clubs are Sarisbury Sparks under-11s and Jossy's Giants, who both train on the common, just behind the swings

Bookies will always make it as easy as possible for an idiot to give them their money

That clip is exactly what needed to come out. As soon as people actually see that the guy was stood on public land, the correct side of a sign marking where the private land starts, 150m away from a pitch where they are so concerned about security that they they haven't bothered to put a single fence up so it is completely open and visible to anyone strolling past or playing golf, they realise just how utterly ridiculous this whole thing is. It's farcical. Everyone in those comments just laughing at Boro and saying it's a joke. Just show that clip to the panel.

The 14 days expire the day before the play-off final 🤣 When do tickets for the final go on sale? As soon as tickets start getting sold, there's no way they can kick us out and reinstate another club. Logistically alone it's just not possible, and they're not going to delay the final, and they're not going to delay selling tickets for the final, so if we stick to our guns over the 14 days it's basically impossible not to let us play in it. Edit: Benjii beat me to it

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?