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We still have 5 days remaining of the 14 granted to lodge an appeal. Just saying 🙂

Yes he's now added his thoughts on the ex Boro player being part of the 3 person panel.

Plus, imagine a scenario where replays clearly show that a player dived to win a match-winning penalty in the last seconds of a play-off semi final. There is no VAR to check the incident. Everybody just shrugs their shoulders and says 'that's football'. There is no nation wide recrimination of the player or his club. Nobody calls for them to be removed from the final and replaced by the club they defeated. Nobody calls for the player to face a lengthy ban. This whole saga has been blown up out of all proportion by pundits and journos who think nothing of blowing smoke up the arses of Man City with their 115 charges.

You talk a lot of sense until one considers the total lack of integrity in football. Every team cheats in every match they play.

Agree with this. Diving to win a penalty in a play-off semi-final gains you far more than spying.

Boro at St Marys would be good.

If you believe that bullshit.

Probably not.

I could list a lot of things he did very well along with his one mistake. On balance I'd certainly let him carry on provided the FA don't ban him.

Not that I can see. There's a thread about Steve Grant suggesting that another team may have cheated - this stems from something he said on the latest Total Saints Podcast but nowhere is there any mention of West Brom. I think it's a wind up.

Have you made this up? I've searched and can find nothing about West Brom being huge cheats.

A large pinch of salt needed 🙂 Firstly, the guy's friend is not much of a security worker if he is blabbing confidential information. Second, who leaves car keys on a desk? Come on.

Unfortunately, in the harsh world of professional football support staff and analysts are expendable and easily replaced. A quality manager is viewed entirely differently. If he stays and some support staff and analysts aren't comfortable they are quite free to leave - a shame for them but that's probably how these things pan out.

Comments made by Daniel Peretz would suggest he has the support of the dressing room.

Other way round for me as I think Jander has a far higher ceiling than Charles.

Madness 🙂

He's never been a mobile player and as he gets older even less so. Much as he was a great servant for us I don't believe he is what we need in the harsh midfield battles of Championship games because he was never any good at closing opponents down or tackling.

Lucky for them we, the tax payers, help fund their stadium.

Unfortunately, I think Jander will attract a lot of bids and will be one of the first to leave.

Wow, that's a shocker 🙂

When did JWP become a leader?

Bingo!

This is my worry. No time for sentimentality.

Court of Arbitration for Sport. It is sometimes referred to as the Supreme Court of Sport. However, I thought the EFL stated there would be no recourse to CAS in this particular case. Have no idea whether they are entitled to stipulate this - seems a bit overbearing on their part.

Agree on that. If we have someone top notch working on behalf of the goons he might unearth a nugget or two.