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They'll be strong but if anyone thinks a single one of their first team squad will stay in those circumstances they are living in cloud cuckoo land. There will be a mass exodus and a major rebuild of their squad.

Well the EFL set the bar high with us so they need to go really big to beat that. This is their chance.

Surely it goes deeper than just the 2 matches we played against them that season. Every game they played they'd cheated. On that basis they should be reduced to zero points in every game for seasons these charges apply to.

Yeah plus they sold Bazunu to us claiming he was a goalkeeper.

Should be treated the same as Rangers were in Scotland but it'll be too damaging to the brand.

As Cloughie would say, 'Collect up all your medals and chuck them in the bin cos you won them by cheating'

Simon Jordan has said it will be interesting to see what City get as punishment compared to us so he feels it has relevance. I get that its two different organisations but I'm sure comparisons will be made and rightly so imo.

Gibbo.

Shearer says, if found guilty, City will be given an asterisk next to their name. So we should have been in the Play-Off Final against Hull but with an asterisk next to our name. I'd have taken that.

This is the harsh reality but I think it actually puts the FA in quite a delicate situation. Can they afford to give Tonda a lengthy ban at the exact moment City have been hit with this?

Does this mean we are no longer officially the biggest cheats in world football? Another crown taken from us.

Typical, just when we're the major headline news City have to go and steal our thunder. Does Neil Harris have a view on this?

Shearer says Man City being found guilty of most of 115 charges would give them an asterisk - We get dumped out of potentially the most lucrative game in football and they get given an asterisk. Where's the justice.

When are the old farts at the FA going to sleep other than during the many meetings they'll be attending.

Rangers are tiny compared with Citeh.

And then you woke up 🙂

Ah, just the 9 years then. Small beer.

Has James Corden given his view yet? Henry Winter's typewriter must be red hot. What does Troy Deeney make of it all? Can't wait for the huge pile on from BBC, Sky, MSM and pundits up and down the country. What we did was like comparing a bit of shoplifting to a mass murder. It's going to be big 🙂

Disagree. The issue is that they are a cash cow for the FA, Premier League and Sky plus they create headlines. It's all about money, advertising and public awareness so the authorities will always go soft on clubs like City and Chelsea and hammer the smaller clubs like us and Leicester.

Ah, maybe it is. Wonder if we'll have a decision by then.

Presumably today's behind closed doors friendly against Villa is still going ahead and Tonda will be in charge of the side.

This is set to drag on interminably. What Alfie's statement does kind of tell us is that either no decision has been made yet so all guesses at the severity of any ban are purely guesswork or, Tonda has been given a harsh punishment and we have an appeal in place.

An 18 months ban would be completely ott.

Not sure he'd go down too well with the likes of Cyle Larin.

Too late, Watford beat you to that idea.