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Surely it's grounds for gross misconduct?

Agreed, but I reckon Jim White probably counts people he's messaged on WhatsApp once as 'mates'. They probably see him as that annoying bloke off the telly/radio who thinks you owe him something.

He's done a great job at them down the road, to be fair.

Fair. I'm just trying to be positive, I don't want to hate every senior member of SFC staff 😆

I knew they'd survive somehow! 😒

In fairness we do know how 'bang to rights' we really are, or how deep this is. It could be damage-limitation on his part. Or ineptitude.

It is, but they're submitting to an independant committee. They should present their case; explain their rules; explain how they believe SFC have broken those rules, and leave them to it. It's literally the point of using an independant board to determine an outcome to show that no bias or prejudice has been taken into account. Otherwise they'd just do it themselves. If the EFL have leaned on the board heavily, it's almost akin to influencing a witness.

I don't think he's a man of integrity, to be fair!

I don't mind that statement from Parsons, tbh. I can imagine the events of the past few days (and subsequent days/weeks/months) will probably take some years off his life at the end of it. You get the impression that the bigwigs had no idea what was going on. What else can he say? There's a lot of bridges to mend with fans, but one thing at a time. I do agree with him re. the proportionality of the punishments, but at the same time if we can't prove (or disprove) the effectiveness of this spying across the timeframe it was carried out, we can't therefore objectively prove we would have finished where we did, therefore it's void. Amazing just how many people the actions of a few have affected.

EFL want the income from a PO final. The right thing would have been to just award the tie to Hull, but then they'd miss out on a payday at Wembley.

Fuck, it's just dawned on me that we deserve it after I read that Athletic article. By "we" I of course don't mean the players or fans, or any other well-meaning and uninformed member of SFC staff, but the rest? It actually was too good to be true, wasn't it? Close the door behind you Tonda, you fucking goon.

Big announcement at 7pm

Law of averages suggest at least one person in this thread has guessed the outcome

He says a lot of odd things tbf.

Dear Leicester City, If Southampton also spied on you this season, and hadn't thumped you twice, you wouldn't have been relegated, so I think you have a legit claim to the EFL to not be relegated and for Southampton to take your place instead and have the 1/4 final against Arsenal replayed by yourselves, but a bye into the semis against Man City at Wembley because that's fair. Oh, and Tonda has to wear a fox costume for one week. Sincerley, Steve G