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Totally agree - especially when you can get that same entire kit from DHgate for around £15, and they’re still making a profit from that!

Less and less people are prepared to pay it though, that’s the point. Hence why DH gate and countless others are doing a roaring trade these days. If the official suppliers massively dropped their prices they'd probably make a lot more money in the long run.

What a load of bollocks. All comes out the same sweat shops the official gear does. The real “criminal gangs” she refers to are the retailers that charge up to £100 for a shirt that costs pennies to make.

Not buying it sorry. If we didn’t believe it was against the rules and it was apparently so widespread in football why would we give a shit if they knew we were there? The disguise went heavily against us so certainly didn’t mean nothing. We made a conscious effort to break the rules, and try to hide it. That’s part of the reason the EFL went so hard on us and why the appeal failed.

Think you’re a tad confused whitey, it wasn’t an Eastleigh home game, Ipswich were training at their ground prior to our evening match with them back in April, and our intern disguised themselves as a member of staff to watch them train.

Why would Tonda care if Ipswich knew we were there if it wasn’t breaking any rules. Numpty. If you genuinely don’t think what you’re doing is wrong why bother with a disguise, just let them in wearing normal clothes. It’s likely that anyone observing training that wasn’t meant to be there would have rightfully been challenged.

Thing is he’s claimed he didn’t know it was against the rules, but yet an intern was sent to Eastleigh to spy on Ipswich and were told to disguise themselves in an Eastleigh kit. Pretty conclusive evidence of doing something we knew was wrong.

Hey, that number 7 shirt also belonged to Tomasz Hajto and Andrei Kanchelskis, have some respect for those greats.

Very much on my want to watch list, love a Nolan film. A lot of the furore around the casting choices seems to stem from the fact you have to have representation from certain demographics to be eligible for Best Picture at the Oscars these days, rather than choosing the best person for the job.

Love that crest. Wonder if there’s a sponsor less one available on dh gate.

I’d like to think that our owners have made provisions in case Tonda does get a lengthy ban, and we have someone lined up to come in on a temporary basis, or permanent if it’s necessary. Then I remember our owners are Sport Republic.

This crossed my mind too, whether somebody from the FA had given the club some kind of nod as to whether Tonda is likely to be out of the picture for a while. It’ll be an insult if he’s given a hefty ban with 2 and a half weeks till the season starts and we start the season on the back foot. Wouldn’t want to predict a punishment as that didn’t work out very well for most of us with the EFL/playoff result. Cant imagine the FA will think too highly of dressing a bloke up in Eastleigh gear to go and spy on Ipswich down the road though.

Simon Jordan mentioned on Talksport last week that when Boro first heard about it they thought it was quite funny and fairly minor, then when they realised they could use it to their advantage they fully went for it on the witch hunt. Assume that all came via his mate Steve Gibson. Maybe their fans are realising now what an overreaction the whole thing was.

Is this a further charge or just the FA announcing officially what he is charged with?

Let’s hope so. As long as it’s not a 6 month ban with Lallana taking over duties.