Katalinic

Strolling around like a pre-season friendly. No tempo, ponderous, crab-like football.

The first 2 lines have got the makings of a decent song tbf...last bit needs some work though 😁

Manager's and Players player of the year I believe

https://www.insideworldfootball.com/2026/06/03/arbitrator-in-saints-spygate-appeal-linked-to-efls-legal-team/ Hmm

Thanks FF. Interesting and I'm sure you wouldn't have posted unless interested parties comfortable with you doing so.

Or he could have done a bit of surveillance for us.

I very much doubt we will have the budget for sentimentality in peripheral coaching staff/cheerleaders.

Peretz just said he loves the manager which I was surprised about tbh. Also interesting that Spors delivered the news about the appeal to the players - perhaps Tonda has been suspended.

Whatever the opposite of a blinder is, he has played it.

Well it shows what I know. They absolutely should have sacked him before the hearing after the internal investigation.

Christ

And Garner didn't think to tell him?

Far worse goes on in football on and off the pitch - the hypocritical media frenzy is ridiculous. But we still knowingly broke the rules - for what gain we don't really know - if there was no advantage why did we continue to do it, and lets face it, it would have been more than 3 times.

That and the fact that under the rules we have systemically cheated.

I agree with all of this and the Parsons comments - honourable, but so naive. Football is so corrupt no place for good guys. The media moral outrage is something to behold given everything else that goes on in the game.

Impossible for him to stay and why would anyone want him to if he has fucked everyone over?

That might be best case scenario

To who though? We are damaged goods.

If this report is true, which I think it is, then Parsons has been incredibly naive. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/05/19/spygate-scandal-english-football-southampton-middlesbrough/

The way things are going we may soon be rattling buckets asking Bournemouth to put a few quid in.

It seems convenient but you may be right. The final report will make depressingly interesting reading.

Why do you think they were the ones they fessed up to? This was systemic, those 2 additional games were selected as low impact in terms of result and league positions.

Agreed. I think he would have resigned or been forced to resign. It would help our case mitigation i.e. "we've dealt with this". Dragan has £200m at stake and as much as he and we love Tonda, that would be his main focus. I'm confident therefore Tonda wasn't directly involved.

The "1 week to go" post by the club and silence over the past 48 hours from the Boro client journos suggests to me that all parties know the outcome, or at least what it isn't. Hopefully anyway.

I'd love the conspiracy theories to be true, not least because the lashings of humble pie from the media, ex-pro's and twats like Corden would be delicious. Sadly, the simplest and most obvious explanations are usually the right ones.