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But they may not have been aware they had been spied on at the time, and it’s only in the last few days that they would have gone back at looked at CCTV from the 2/3 days before we would have played them to see if they could spot anyone out of place (made even easier now they know his name/what he looks like etc.).

Don’t have any ITK on this. Club are keeping very tight lipped. I’m guessing we’re trying to go with the complete opposite approach of Boro in that sense and look to use that as a legal tactic of ‘they’ve been leaking to the media whilst we’ve tried to follow the proper process of disclosure’.

One of Boro's reporters checked with the EFL yesterday morning and that's what he was told.

As of yesterday, a date still hadn’t been set for any independent commission hearing.

Stefan Borson on TalkSport yesterday said he doesn't think the judgement/sanction will come until next week, which would surely be too late for play-off expulsion from a logistcal point of view (tickets, police, Wembley, EFL plans) as we would have the right of appeal to any sanction imposed, which you'd assume would add another couple of days on at least.

We're in the home kit with black shorts. Hull in home kit too.

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Unless of course he knew about it happening/agreed to it, in which case he’d have to be suspended too.

The book is going to be thrown at us sadly when it’s proven we have done this more than once.

Prediction is it’ll be 3 points deducted next season (equivalent of one game) and a huge fine (£1m plus). No doubt it’s not the first time we’ve done it but if other clubs had evidence of it, they’d have made a complaint themselves by now.

Defences win play-offs. It's tournament football effectively and as poor as we were at the top end of the pitch, we did enough to come away with the clean sheet. They will know that was a big opportunity missed. Stewart and Matsuki in on Tuesday.

Sigh.

Fun fact 1. Referee is Elliot Bell tomorrow night. In his last 30 games, there's only been 1 away win. Fun fact 2. 2023/24 was not the only time Bristol City ended a long unbeaten run of ours (25 games). Back in 2011/12, we were one game away from going an entire calendar year unbeaten at home and, of course, we lost 1-0 to City 2 days before the end of 2011. How many games was that? 25, of course.

James Bell refereeing. We've won all 6 games he's taken charge of us in his career.

Mind the stampede!