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Let’s see Paul Allen’s season ticket…

Yep. I was convinced that the way this squad had gone toe to toe with Fulham, Arsenal and City, would be able to make a real go of it next season if promoted. That’s been ripped apart from us in the cruelest of ways now. Theres no way we’d have managed to spy on that lot, so why the fuck did we feel the need to do it to lesser sides, especially with the video footage available. Just shambolic from top to bottom. Really don’t know where to go from here. All that time, money and emotion invested into watching us this season and this is how it ends. Good luck @Whitey Grandad with your fight. At least your news has managed to provide a bit of perspective amongst the madness.

If Villa finish 5th and Bournemouth 6th then Bompey qualify for the champions league. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c8r8mvl8rkro

Bugger. That’s that then.

Villa winning tonight and finishing 5th on Sunday could see Bournemouth qualify for the Champions League in 6th. Fucking Boscombe, in the Champions League. Mental.

I’d forgotten about that 🤣 purposely releasing statements after the Echo had gone to print. What a little bastard he was.

Indeed. Can only assume, aside from gross incompetence, that the club were assuming the initial hearing was going to go a lot less harsh than it did. This guy charges £5k an hour apparently. Wouldn’t get out of bed for that personally.

That was Pollo Di Canio.

He was decent at Villa back in the day, but probably a bit past it now tbf.

But conversely they never had a set punishment in place for the offence. Saints will likely argue that the punishment is too dynamic depending on the circumstances.

What Sky have referenced is that there can be no further appeal via the Court of Arbitration for Sport. What Parsons has done is to publicly mention worse crimes that have resulted in a lighter punishment, and then to put a figure on our potential losses and as such attempt to swing the court of public opinion back into our favour the way Boro have. He didn’t need to mention other clubs and punishments, we’ve already speculated on those privately on here for example. If the appeal doesn’t go our way it won’t be a legal attempt via the C.A.S., it’ll be direct legal action between the EFL and SFC, and that £200 million figure will be the crux of it all.

To say Tonda has bought the club, and the game, into disrepute would be the understatement of the century. There is absolutely zero chance he stays after this. He’ll be gone for Gross Misconduct alone, and that’s before the FA seemingly introduce their own penalties against him.

That statement actually smacks of laying the groundwork for a legal claim against the EFL IMO.

Somebody pointed out a few pages ago that by not stating the possible punishments as part of the rules and regulations to the playoff games, that the EFL had breached Consumer Rights Laws. Seems insignificant compared to all the issues going on currently but if a solicitor was willing to take the case on then yes, a class action lawsuit could be filed against the EFL for the cost of the playoff tickets to anybody that bought one. Including Boro fans.