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10 points is way too harsh considering what has been dished out for other types of offence. No way this is equivalent to or worse than, Leicester or going into administration.

Hamilton

Indivduals can report suspected data breaches.

Did I say you had ? It's not the first time Swindon have been mentioned in relation to this situation.

For anybody thinking Swindon set a precedent for this ; Three weeks before the start of the 1989–90 season, The People published revelations that chairman Brian Hillier had put money on Swindon winning Division Three in 1987, as an insurance policy for player bonuses. Two months later the allegations worsened, with Hillier accused of putting money on the Town to lose in the FA Cup game at Newcastle United two years previously (which the team lost 5–0). Hillier was found guilty and was banned from football for six months, later increased to three years on appeal. Macari was fined £1,000 for his part in the scandal—and when he chose to appeal, West Ham United forced his resignation. The People released a third exposé in January 1990, this time alleging illegal payments to players. Despite this, Swindon Town beat table-topping Leeds United to go into third place in the league, and at the end of the season, they finished fourth, their highest league position ever, to go into the play-offs. Shortly before the last game of the season, Hillier, Macari, captain Colin Calderwood and secretary Vince Farrar were all arrested and questioned by Inland Revenue officials over a tax fraud conspiracy. Calderwood was released without charge, and the others were given bail. On the pitch, Swindon Town went on to defeat Blackburn Rovers over two legs to reach the final at Wembley, only their second appearance at the ground in their history. On 28 May 1990 Swindon Town played in the Division 2 play-off final against Sunderland. In a match they completely dominated, Alan McLoughlin scored the only goal, a deflected effort, to defeat Sunderland and win promotion to the First Division. The joy was short-lived, though, as just ten days later, the Football League decided to demote the team two divisions, after they admitted 36 breaches of League rules—35 of which are related to illegal payments. The Swindon board immediately appealed, but High Court action was dropped due to lack of funding, and the fans protested, thousands signing a "1st not 3rd" petition. The FA Appeal Panel reduced the demotion to just one division, and Swindon were denied their first ever taste of top-flight football. Hillier was eventually jailed, whilst Farrar and former club secretary Dave King received suspended sentences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Swindon_Town_F.C.#1980–1991:_Fall_and_rise

Admitted 36 breaches, almost all of which were illegal payments to players, thereby gaining an advantage on the pitch for many matches.

He knows as much as anybody else outside the members of the panel.

Hampshire's top order yet again showing as much resistance as a sheet of tissue paper.

At the same time the journos do.

A puff piece full of nothing more than idle speculation and ends up drawing a parallel to West Ham playing illegal players. Weak lazy jounalistic tripe.

Other side

Where does "North" start ? We are near Lancaster but Berwick is 120 miles North of us. My yougest son says France stsrts south of the Mersey.

I think the thing with the coffee was that the hotel's CCTV recorded him in the cafeteria and somebody, between the football club and the hotel staff, joined the dots.

Here is an appropriate response

They aren't getting money because they aren't getting promoted, and that is all on them. They spent 217 days in the automatic promotion places, yet finished fifth. In the middle of January they were 18 points ahead of us, yet finished below us. They failed to score a single goal despite creating nearly 30 chances in the first leg. Lack of ability to score, and lack of ability to run around for more than 60 minutes has left them where they are, lashing out and blaming everybody but the ones that deserve it - themselves.

What for, causing their forwards to be impotent ?

Did you watch the first leg ? That's all the evidence needed. If they had to change their tactics at the last minute, we did them a favour judging by the chances created. The "spying" was not to blame for them firing blanks.

He would have got a whole lot more by winning the semi final.

Why not tell Grizzleborough to STFU.

Regarding any potential points deductions for the next season in the Championship, we were 18 points behind Boro on 26th January, and finished above them. Have faith that we can overcome whatever the EFL throw at us.

I wouldn't bother speculating on the result of the inquiry until the EFL announce the outcome. Until then it's just random bollox, often generated by AI, and forwarded by SM algorithms.

"Sky Sports News understand Boro staff spotted a man taking pictures and videos of training and approached him. He was asked to delete them, provide his identity and his intentions for being there, at which point he is said to have fled to a nearby indoor part of the training complex." The last part about the "indoor part of the training complex" is obviously bollox, as it is a publicly accessible Hotel, but perhaps the first part is factual.

How do we know there was any ? It was stated that he was asked to delete everything he had, which might have been 2 minutes of trying to get the focus correct whilst aiming his phone at an empty training pitch a hundred yards away.

"Could", "might", "believe".........how to make out you know something when in fact you know fuck all.

Daughter wants a Vikibg style storage chest, I have just finished decorating the first side ;