The Spygate Saga

[BarberSaint]

41 minutes ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

Neither does Parsons. The bit about the initial response is pretty damning. Stating the CEO had made urgent enquires which included Tonda and it “remains a mystery” how these answers were given incorrectly. Remains a mystery is basically a polite way of saying “fucking lied”. It went in to add because of that there was no mitigation on the Boro offence. 
 

They say they were “unimpressed “ with some witness’ claiming they didn’t know it was illegal, specifically mentioning Tonda. Again “unimpressed “ is a polite, “they’re bullshitting”. 
 

Whilst we may want to keep Tonda, they stated that FIFA thought the Leeds punishment too lenient. That’s a big Indicator that the FA will ban him imo…

 

 

 

It's not illegal. Nor is it unlawful. It's a breach of the rules of a competition. Small fry. 

[Weston Super Saint]

My take on this is our analysts are fucking useless.

Three times we spied and gained zero knowledge from any of them, useless twats.  Worse, we even said for definite that one person would be playing and didn't, not even in the final.

Sack the fucking lot of them.

[Lord Duckhunter]

1 minute ago, BarberSaint said:

 

 

It's not illegal. Nor is it unlawful. It's a breach of the rules of a competition. Small fry. 

Shit, we should have had  you on the legal team, we’d have pissed it. All charges dropped…

[sfc4prem]

Having that BBC article that summarises but offers nothing new, the original EFL report from earlier and our response, I'm of a mind that this is all so fucking silly.

How could we be so naive?

How could the EFL be pressured so easily in plain sight by a fellow member club?

Why are the media sensationalising the story to extremes?

At the end of the day, I want Tonda to stay. I hope the FA's response enables that possibility. 

 

[Midfield_General]

Weird, confused, mealy-mouthed statement. 

Sounds like it might be the end of Half Term Phil though, so that's something at least. 

[Saint NL]

Sounds like things would have been different if Parsons didn't own up to everything when he spoke to Gibbo at the first leg of the playoffs.

If he had said 'no comment' or 'we are doing a thorough internal investigation' then they'd have very little to go on.

[Football Special]

1 hour ago, Saint NL said:

Reddit not taking the news well 😂

I have never been on Reddit but clearly whoever the fuck those people are they wont be  anywhere near as knowledgeable as this place 

[Patrick Bateman]

1 minute ago, Football Special said:

I have never been on Reddit but clearly whoever the fuck those people are they wont be  anywhere near as knowledgeable as this place 

I have no idea what reddit is, but those people seem like wobbling willies. We fight on! 

[Window Cleaner]

12 minutes ago, BarberSaint said:

 

 

It's not illegal. Nor is it unlawful. It's a breach of the rules of a competition. Small fry. 

Doping isn't illégal in most countries, it's against the rules of sports and you get chucked out and suspended if you get caught.

The EFL makes the rules, clubs agree to them and if you transgress you get sanctioned.

[Football Special]

9 minutes ago, Patrick Bateman said:

I have no idea what reddit is, but those people seem like wobbling willies. We fight on! 

For me the best thing to come out of this whole saga is the club might be able to offload some of these wobbling Willies amongst the fanbase 

[Doctoroncall]

1 hour ago, obelisk said:

The punishment handed down looks even more draconian than it did previously if this is all they have. Why the hell didn't Saints fight it?

It seemed clear that the punishment was already set and there was nothing Saints could have done to mitigate it. 

[BotleySaint]

So, they are lining Parsons up to take the fall and trying to protect Tonda?

[Willo of Whiteley]

Southampton statement:

We recognise the situation BUT, BUT, BUT, BUT…

Shambolic PR.

No accountability.

No recognition.

No apology.

Guessing the club don’t want people to renew this season. 😂

[benjii]

Reading the appeal, a couple of things stand out.

I) The May 8th statement was disastrous. Which fuckwit signed off on that? Why so eager to send something without the facts? Just object in the strongest terms to the timeline and say we need longer to deal with it.

2) Sounds like we volunteered the Oxford and Ipswich evidence? Surely not. It's still unclear who exactly said what and what evidence was provided.

3) It seems pretty clear we weren't aggressive enough in the initial hearing, and just assumed expulsion wouldn't happen.

4) No mention anywhere of raising the impartiality of the panel members. Why  not?