Sergei Gotsmanov

We are surrounded in shame but we should be scrutinising the conduct of others. What does Henry Winter really think? why has his opinion changed so dramatically. Was he put up to it? Is that in the spirit of the game.... Lets take a few of these people with us....

I think we had won 4 games in 52 games in September and were still playing in front of full houses. Nobody ever gives us credit for that but if it had been Newcastle of Man City.....

Very sadly. My eyebrows were raised though when he told a reporter that he could not talk about it now but would have lots to say about it later. Could he have some revelations for us that indicate that he was not the one pulling the strings?

Sean Dyche is one of the few people who could come in and change the mood of the club. If we make another smart arse appointment then we really are doomed.

The second leg should have been suspended if there was a chance of us being slung out. Why should the supporters have to pay to see a game that could be invalidated. We were led to believe this was a minor infringement.

This is a big issue. I don't care about the booking fee but in the circumstances I am damned if the club is going to benefit after what they have done.

The whole point is that it is very easy to say oh it had no impact on the result and of course it probably had no effect. Unfortunately our analyst was caught bang to rights filming their training and breaking the rules. You cannot just say yeah yeah bit it made no difference lets just crack on.

Think like a lawyer

It is very unlikely to have had an effect on the match in fact it probably fired Boro up but it could have had an effect and we broke the rules and it has to be assumed that it had some impact.

O think you underplay the significance of this and how it would have been harnessed.....

I think that it would have shaped how we prepared for the game in the days before......

What was it Nicky Butt said Fergie would do in Europe after training before a big game. Would always have a couple of key players leaving the training pitch with ice packs on their calfs,,,,

Do you think he would have seen that Hayden Hackney was not training?

I think spying is a can of worms for the EFL to open. I said at the time to my son that if I was wanting to find out if their striker was fit to play I would have asked one of my players who had some kind of connection with the Boro dressing room to discretely ask the question. I remember going to a talk from Kieran Bracken on the rugby world cup win shortly after the 2003 world cup win and he mentioned that Woodward hired a team of ex SAS to try and crack their line out codes. It was rife even in those days to check rubbish bins for evidence or any way they could to glean information.

Go easy on Colonel Sanders.