Thought the moderators on here did not like political posts on here!

Meadow - no such people as Palestinians. Perhaps you mean Jordanians? Or even Trans-Jordanians?

They have barely mentioned the Hull City fans, thousands of whom have presumably booked train tickets, hotels, and days off work - and the club hasn’t even been able to sell tickets yet…

Soton should forfeit the first leg of the playoff semi 3-0 and hence Boro go through on aggregate. Would be difficult for Soton to appeal as there is no alternative direct precedent (Leeds were punished when there was no specific law against spying).

Just saw that Sanchez clip discussing his views on AFCW, franchise and WFC. This topic comes up from time to time. Most people don't give a shit anymore. However, given he was around back then, he seemed to really struggle with dates of when AFCW was formed and if he thinks MK is only 30 miles up the road then he needs to brush up on his geography. The common misconception about 2004 (not 2002) is it was not simply a name change for franchise. The new name was for a brand new legal entity as WFC was liquidated. WFC was never renamed. This new club then had new colours, a new badge, played in a different part of the country in as new stadium in front of different supporters, with different owners. A few players and staff may have TUPEd across from WFC to Inter-MK or been offered new contracts but its only connection to WFC is it used its demise to steal its league position. That is all. He could not see the difference between WFC ground-sharing at Selhurst Park (when there was still the possibility of returning home one day, albeit a slim one with Hammam as the wheel constantly trying to relocate us, which OGEM fully supported because he was a bit of a dick) and relocating permanently to another part of the country to no longer represent the town whose name it bore.

That's an interesting quote from the Spanish Prime minister. As I've said before I'm not antisemitic but I despair of the actions of the Israeli state. No they shouldn't have put up with the horrors that they indured, but nor should they have imposed the suffering on the Palestinians

“ We don't eat pigs You don't eat pigs It seems it's been that way forever So if you don't eat pigs And we don't eat pigs Why not, not eat pigs together? ”

“Those who consider waving the flag of a state to be “inciting hatred” have either lost their marbles or been blinded by their own ignominy. Lamine has merely expressed the solidarity with Palestine felt by millions of Spaniards. Another reason to be proud of him.“

OI - As for it slowing the game down, I mean come on. Haven't they got plenty of things that do that already? One more won't make much difference.

Wonder if Neufville will stay at Bradford. Would you have him back?

Lurker - Not my idea. Someone on here mentioned it. I thought it made sense.

Bolton score!!!

Bradford score!!!

Broadcasting live from multiple locations including team hotels, supporter hubs, and Wembley Way, the programme becomes a live hub for all the latest build-up featuring club legends, fan reaction and live updates as both teams prepare to arrive at the stadium. Joint top-scorers in this season’s competition Lyle Taylor (Chelmsford City) and Liam Atkinson (Longridge Town) will also join the show before Steven Gerrard and Joe Cole offer a deep dive into the tactical matchup taking viewers into the journeys of the two finalists and how the final will be won.

I hope we never try it cos we all know who they’d send.

The sad thing is that if the EFL properly hit Southampton hard and remove them from the playoffs it still wouldn’t stop other clubs spying in future.

In your view Lurker but not mine. pete has the only sensible suggestion for marking in that the referee does it but that slows the game down. The sensible option is just to reverse the throw if it is being taken from clearly the wrong place, not introducing yet more complications to the game.

Pete even better idea

OI nope I told you how it works.

The EFL added a rule on spying after the Leeds incident in 2019. Regulation 127, which states that "no club shall directly or indirectly observe (or attempt to observe) another club's training session in the period of 72 hours prior to any match." The problem is that the punishment is an ambiguous "significant penalties" including Points Deductions and / or Financial Penalties.

Clubs have loads of hangers on these days they can just say he was freelance and deny responsibility

Also, if the EFL haven't got rules in place to ban Southampton, they should just fine them like they did with Leeds(?) a few years ago and then make up a new rule for this sort of thing from now.

Has it been proven yet whether the "spy" was actually anything to do with Southampton ? I haven't seen anything myself to confirm he was. Could it not have been a member of the press/media.

Yes the EFL may well stand back but if not Hull are entitled to compensation, they have done nothing wrong to have their bank holiday visit to Wembley ruined. Wembley is also booked up the following two weekends so the match would presumably be moved elsewhere. Clobber Southampton with a points deduction and big fine when they are in the EFL and let the game go ahead.

The bloke who use to present picture box if you went to school has popped his clogs