hypochondriac

No chance they do that. He could have been on the phone to anyone. Maybe they have a work and personal phone?

But if the ex sfc intern refuses to release his call logs and we don't know who he was on the phone to how could sfc be held responsible for that?

It's not a police matter though is it. The bloke could just refuse to release call logs a d it would be impossible to prove without footage of any video calls or if someone admits it outright.

If it is our argument that no one sent him and he acted alone then I suppose it will be if there is any evidence to contradict that. If not then I can't see how we can get blamed at all.

What possible reason would he have to do it off his own back if he didn't think he was going to offer the information to someone at sfc to use to gain an advantage? I don't think Villa would have much interest in the info.

I think we should be pretty scared about the notorious Middlesbrough firm.

As of yesterday his linkd in profile still said he worked for us.

Good lad. I totally get the initial reaction to be pissed off but we have no choice but to own it now. Win the playoffs and we won't care.

If Azaz spanks in a last-minute winner to send us to Wembley on Tuesday there will be plenty of joy I assure you. You absolute melt.

Some people are being ridiculous. Saying it would taint promotion? What are you on?

I hardly think that seeing how the opposition line up is going to be the reason why we've won so many games. I doubt we spied on arsenal for example.

It's this bloke. We know it's him because his profile has now been deleted.

They can't kick us out. There isn't enough time for due process and for any appeal. They could retrospectively kick us out but these two games are happening regardless.

Well we will know now won't we.

Not if it's been cooked up by a couple of lower level employees or something-it would require investigating. All speculation at this point though and more likely that we did know and thought it was worth the risk for some reason.

Explain what you mean but that.

Probably but the only other possibility is that the intern did it off his own back or it was some low level employee thing that senior staff weren't aware of. Probably unlikely though.

Tarnishing the rest of his career? Be serious.

It really doesn't. If we win no one cares about the season supposedly being tainted.

It will be a big fine I reckon. A million quid or something or a couple of points deducted next year if we are still in the championship.

It's an independent disciplinary. Not sure how they could legitimately kick us out because we'd be able to appeal and no chance they'd be able to do all that before Tuesday.

They won't be able to do anything about the playoffs either way as we have a right to appeal. Still shit though and a distraction we don't need.

No one is describing that nubbin as a snake.

OK I was saying this was stupid last night but some of the Boro fans really have gone head mental.

They essentially told us it was true without saying it explicitly. Adam has obviously spoken to the club.