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On the more important matter of Saints (ironic name considering they're the greatest villains football has ever produced) cheating...

Why would any Saint fan be arsed? It's just avoiding another season of watching them lose every ****ing game.
Well you'll be surprised to read that I'm not.

Perfect season for me really, loads of memorable games, 4 months unbeaten, still get to go to Lincoln.
 
Apart from one great side that won the league and then European Cup they’ve done nothing for about a century. Horrible ****s along with Birmingham but surprised they’ve not won more along the way.
 
SKY News showing more of the Aston Villa fans celebrations than they showed of the Arsenal fans yesterday, love the bias ****ery. Prince William <laugh>
 
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Now you see why Bayern Munich win every game.
its the same with PSG in the french league to be honest, and El Classico in Spain and Celtic and Rangers in Scotland.
The PL is still by far the most unpredictable league.
Every other league has teams that have won 5, 6, 7 titles in a row. The fact that 4 in a row is the English record for back to back titles (and even that took untold billions to achieve) shows you how competitive it is.
 
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This is clearly the best and most obvious solution.

Saints cheated, have to be penalised.
If they weren't, Boro appeal.
Boro lost, so shouldn't be in the final.
If they do go into the final and win, Hull will appeal.

The championship may well want their showcase game but, tough ****e, as the appeals and legal action that inevitably follows all this will be more of a ballache.


Reinstate Southampton, file our spying offence in the same intray as City's 115 financial irregularities, and everyone wins imo.
 
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Reinstate Southampton, file our spying offence in the same intray as City's 115 financial irregularities, and everyone wins imo.
I'm wondering if the Southampton lawyers will take this matter further, though Southampton openly admit spying the EL measures have financial implications, and if the FA are investigating as well there could be more punishment coming their way.

As far as I can see there was nowt in the rules saying you risk being kicked out of a competition, it's not like Southampton are doing a Juventus and weren't involved in financial irregulatorities such as false accounting or as you allude, City.


Is there even any evidence that Southampton gained any advantage from this nonsense, afterall all games these days are recorded somewhere, places such as Youtube or some sports channel.

Suppose the only problem is legal action can get costly and Southampton are probably happy to just get on with it.

Every single football game sees someone cheating, what the Saints did was just comedy value and a major over-reaction, because governing bodies and the third parties involved feel empowered in this nonsense world we now live.
 
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I'm wondering if the Southampton lawyers will take this matter further, though Southampton openly admit spying the EL measures have financial implications, and if the FA are investigating as well there could be more punishment coming their way.

As far as I can see there was nowt in the rules saying you risk being kicked out of a competition, it's not like Southampton are doing a Juventus and weren't involved in financial irregulatorities such as false accounting or as you allude, City.


Is there even any evidence that Southampton gained any advantage from this nonsense, afterall all games these days are recorded somewhere, places such as Youtube or some sports channel.

Suppose the only problem is legal action can get costly and Southampton are probably happy to just get on with it.

Every single football game sees someone cheating, what the Saints did was just comedy value and a major over-reaction, because governing bodies and the third parties involved feel empowered in this nonsense world we now live.
It is bullshit really.
I dont really know what advantage you get from watching another team do drills and play 5 a side games. Its not like the Saints had bugged their changing room and was listening to the managers proposed tactics. Surely you would get more information from just watching your upcoming opposition play an actual match?!
The punishment is ridiculously harsh for such a nothing transgression. This could cost Southampton potentially hundreds of millions of pounds.
Chelsea had all kinds of shady **** going on under Roman (and I am betting so do 90% of PL clubs) and got a fine and a finger wag in the face.
City basically ripped up the rule books and did as they please and so far have seen **** all consequences.
Southampton had a guy sitting in a bush taking notes and its cost them a small countries GDP!!
The punishment doesnt fit the crime for me.
I am completely neutral in all this. I have no strong feeling for Southampton one way or another, and this is bullshit!
 
I'm wondering if the Southampton lawyers will take this matter further, though Southampton openly admit spying the EL measures have financial implications, and if the FA are investigating as well there could be more punishment coming their way.

As far as I can see there was nowt in the rules saying you risk being kicked out of a competition, it's not like Southampton are doing a Juventus and weren't involved in financial irregulatorities such as false accounting or as you allude, City.


Is there even any evidence that Southampton gained any advantage from this nonsense, afterall all games these days are recorded somewhere, places such as Youtube or some sports channel.

Suppose the only problem is legal action can get costly and Southampton are probably happy to just get on with it.

Every single football game sees someone cheating, what the Saints did was just comedy value and a major over-reaction, because governing bodies and the third parties involved feel empowered in this nonsense world we now live.
I bet all those berks that dressed up in Camouflage and binoculars feel pretty stupid right about now.

You can almost hear the Pompey fans warming up their lungs.