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They should wear this on their shirts in the final!

The BBC News report looked pretty damming. Just the stuff we have seen online but it comes across worse on the screen.

Or Traitors?

It’s on BBC News tonight. The final that might never happen as Middlesbrough try to get Southampton thrown out of the competition 😂

As someone said previously, they have royally f*cked up their season and need someone to blame. In truth they have no one to blame but themselves.

I’d say trying to influence a panel whose job it is to be impartial is pretty disgraceful no matter what we have or haven’t done.

Very different offences though. You can’t just put players in the pitch who aren’t officially part of the club. It is a huge stretch to say that the relative offences are remotely comparable.

If the boot was on the other foot and this statement was made from our club about them, I would be ashamed of them. If we are found to have broken the rules then there should be consequences, but they have to be proportional.

Don’t worry. I expect he will take it with a pinch of salt. 😉

Whilst it is poor form to send someone to look at training against EFL rules, I would suggest that it is even poorer form to demand that a team that have beaten you over two games fair and square on the pitch, get thrown out of the competition. Apart from the pathetic desperation, where is the precedent for such a relatively minor indiscretion? The hearing hasn’t even taken place yet so this is clearly an attempt to influence the outcome. Several steps on from “poor form” I would suggest.

Not sure about the fitness thing. You have plan A if he is not fit and plan B if he is and implement either when the team is announced an hour before kick off. You see all kinds of analysis and instructions given to subs and even players during the game. I’m sure there is enough flexibility in the process to deal with all playing members of the opposition. It just seems odd to send someone along just to see is one player is “on the grass.”

Also, if it is such a big deal, why isn’t it banned in the EPL too?

Exactly. It has been blown up out of all proportion. It is one thing to break into the manager’s office and photocopy all of the dossiers, download the vids or whatever. But from what we have been privy to so far amounts to something less than a storm in a tea cup. It just goes to show how quick and effective social media is in whipping up public opinion. For some time now actual facts haven’t mattered. Give the mob a reason to get their pitchforks out and they will happily do so. The problem now is that the “mob” has grown from a few hundred in a town square to the whole country and beyond thanks to technology. There will be people in Mongolia reading about it, looking at picture of THB’s “bins” celebration and calling us cheating bastards. Whatever the club have to say about it, either pleading innocent or in mitigation, is no longer of any consequence to most people. We have been tried, found guilty and should be hanged, drawn and quartered for our sins. There are a few voices of reason out there, but fewer people willing to listen. Millwall have turned the hatred of their club into a badge of honour. The way things are currently going we might need to learn to do likewise! If there is one concrete thing that has come from “Gibbo’s” smear campaign against us, it has got all of the neutrals rooting for Hull at Wembley and hoping that we get smashed.

I think it was more than a touch to be fair. Ayling leant into him. I don’t think it was a dive. Leo was off balance. I’ve seen them given.

It isn’t just there. It is literally all over social media! Any threads on the game the other night, the final or about us are full of hate.