Following on from that Proclaimers link earlier - 10 years ago tomorrow...[Link]

Delivered Flowers to June W, would've been around '03-04ish. As Spit said, she lived in the Grange. A few years later, on the Ridgeway, she recognised me and said hello. Nice lady.

Spit - third, third & third scarves?

Cancel PO final, promote Hull & Boro.

It's the vendors of the half and half scarfs at Wembley i feel sorry for.:-)

You would think they’d know or at least have some awareness WBM - but if the coaching team had just said “we think they’re gonna set up like this” and “they tend to do that” then they could be innocent victims as well.

Not much time to prepare programmes! Maybe they should show Hull plus Soton & Boro?

Trigg - they’re prepping early for the tough games against Spurs, Lincoln, and Wrexham next season…

Surely the players knew too? Manager must have some point said "Middlesborough will be playing 3-5-2 and XXX will be playing upfront" "They will be targeting our player XXX to stop him playing through balls so we will do XXX to combat"

Southampton players are in a training session at the moment. That’s gotta be motivation-sapping being put through your paces and drills all the while not knowing whether you’ll be playing the actual game.

Thanks Meadow - presumably the Scottish fans’ anthem this year again….

Doobs - I think I am older than you think (63), so would prob be oldest player if I played. Played at OPL and SP, so tempted to add NPL, but feel am prob too old.

6m$ - risky scenario - Club A risk being expelled from their League if caught doing this, so would be a ery 'brave' thing to do.

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CW - over my head that one I’m afraid… 😬

DO - a few playing spots still available, one mascot and one assistant manager. Fancy?

As ever with this sort of thing, ultimately the only people who will suffer are the supporters as players, managers and owners come and go. The supporters of Hull, Middlesbrough and Southampton are all being messed about by this. Buying matchday and train tickets, trying to get refunds (some train tickets may not have that option), not being able to plan, etc. Could a Southampton supporter with a ticket still just turn up on the day? Why not? I doubt they would want to but they have a ticket, especially if they are a neutral who got a ticket in that end. Middlesbrough supporters will have to pay extortionate train ticket prices because of the short notice.

A4e-Bathgate no more, Irvine no more

Do managers and players actually make material changes to their team selections and tactics based on spying on a training session of the opposition? It's beyond stupid to do it. They might spot somebody getting injured but that applies to a game and they could recover. If Southampton are truly sorry they should sack their management team, who instigated this. If this goes right to the top, i.e. the owner sanctioned it, then that needs to be made public and not hang an intern out to dry as at some point his or her identity will become known.

OI - is it Wrexham (see what I did there…)?

Weirdly, AI (don’t trust it…) reckons she was in Bathgate Road from the early 1980s until she moved into a care home - my parents moved from the next road in 1982, so I guess that’s possible, although I thought it was earlier as we used to see her pottering in her front garden (not a euphemism!!) when walking past…

There is only one team in the playoffs who hasn't lost or cheated. Promote them!

Before that she lived in Bathgate Road, on the corner of Somerset Road (like I say, 1960s to early 1969s).

To clarify - my 'many people' not referring to posters on here.

Incredibly many people who should know better are claiming that the Saints punishment should be less because they did not win any of the three games they spied on. If a 100m runner who hadn't won any races failed a drugs test - should their punishment be any less.