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Nah, that's just a conspiracy theory, not allowed to put stuff like that on here because Boro are squeaky clean in all this. Mind you, all good points that need answering 🙂

Gibbo is Gibbo. Parsons is Parsons. Think of chalk and cheese.

'Hello Johannes. It's Gibbo here. Listen, we're interested in Taylor Harwood Bellis' 'Get fucked' 'Is that a no then?'

Did we do no background checks on this guy? Bit of a silly question really 🙂

Rather than come here for a career in football why didn't he just join MI5?

Not sure but I don't think it was Salt because I believe I read he refused to do it. Might be wrong on that.

Ah fuck it....off with his head!

None of this gets mentioned in the press. I wonder why.

Oh I think they worked hard to find the judges they wanted.

No, I'm still in the absolutely fuming mode.

The reason I say this is because it's widely accepted this spying goes on among young analysts at most if not all clubs. It seems that it's almost an unwritten law that nothing is done about this, it is just tolerated as part and parcel of the game (and I've been told this by someone I know who started as a junior analyst and worked up to a high level position at a Premier league club). Therefore, the fact that Boro set this up and then reported it to the EFL and carried out their feeding frenzy of the press means they have blown this whole shit storm up for their own gain.

So the entrapment part of this is fine with you then?

No but it creates a shit storm for Boro to answer.

You missed out the main shit Boro got up to - it was a clear case of entrapment instigated by them so they could make mischief. And haven't they milked it for all its worth! Shysters. Worse than anything we've done.

I said at the start of this we should have done a forensic check on Salt's phone to find out who he'd been talking to and texting.

I honestly don't think the EFL is aware of this and, for whatever reason, we didn't make it a huge part of our defence.

He was there thanks to the tip off from the Boro guy who we sacked in December. This is the spot they chose for their photo opportunity and the rest is history. We walked into the trap but not sure why we aren't kicking up about this.

Not sure how this hasn't got into the public domain and been discussed on Talk Sport who have been across just about every aspect of the case except this.

Because many of us suspect that there is much more to our intern turning up at Boro than has been revealed. Agree we have behaved like rank amateurs but there are strands of this that leave a lot of questions unanswered.

Assume you mean Salt but you make a good point.

Gibbo would have just whipped out Orville and pecked his head off.

Probably typical big business strategy - promote a duffer above his ability to keep him away from the real decision making.

Yeah, he should never have sent kids up chimneys in this day and age.

I'm not sure our lawyer directly came up against Di Marco. Having said that I'm sure it would have helped us immensely if we'd had Pannick on the case from the start. By the time he got in the room the horse had bolted. Poor from the club but what we are used to with the SR goofs running things. Dragan really does need to take a chain saw to this set up.

There's a couple of big ones there if you read what he says.