I think that our appeal is precisely why they added that to the punishment. They'll remove them and make it look like they've been fair to us by doing so
Saints expelled from Play Offs by EFL
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This. The FA and EFL have set their own precedent by being far too lenient on other forms of "cheating".
They broke the rules on multiple occasions, we have to take our medicine, nobody likes cheating.
The keeper thing is an advantage, and fine if you get the info from match footage, but not if you watch a team practicing them in the days before a match.
What offences! Hull City have been the most well behaved in this debacle!
And?
So we don’t play on Saturday and we start the season again in Aug.
I’m fine with that, whilst believing the punishment is way over the top, well no one died did they.
I won’t lose any sleep over it.
But keep up the fantastic work, is hilarious and very rage inducing
Hull fan. Wouldn’t have minded who we played tbh as long as it’s Saturday, probably got more chance against boro. By spying you were trying to take boro’s chance of promotion and £200 million away from them so therefore you are fairly being removed of the chance to get promotion and win £200 million. Also, you haven’t just spied on three teams because why on earth would you choose Oxford!!! You’ve decided to admit spying on Ipswich because they’ve gone up don’t doesn’t really matter and Oxford because you lost. Just trying to say to the efl that spying didn’t aid you in anyway but your covering up many more. At best you’ll get the points deduction removed but by appealing it’s giving the efl more chance of increasing the punishment if you’re further found guilty. And your manager should get a long long ban
As I said many pages ago.
Saints are big enough to make an example of, small enough that no one will care.
They'd never ever do something this major to a club like Newcastle/Leeds. Not a ****ing chance
Is it? We have blatantly cheated (badly)with the sole aim of getting promoted. The punishment is to not allow us to get promoted. Sounds about right to me. The galling thing is that all the other infringements in football never seem to get the punishment they deserve.
I think we should all just go to bed soon (not together) and see how we feel in the morning.
It’s not the rules were different, there was no rule. We did it in January not before a play off game.
In the mean time, Man City go another month unpunished
Thats what I said about 100 pages ago
I doubt that. I think the EFL will argue that this is the real sporting punishment. Take the promotion element out and we have really only been kicked out of a knockout tournament for cheating. What they probably should have done is award a 3-0 win to boro in the first leg and called it. Same result, harder to argue unreasonableness.