I apologize in advance if this applies to you but I sincerely believe that if you think Ronaldo was ever close to Messi, you are of an objectively lower mental status than me, something akin to a sea urchin or maybe a mussel.
Footage & detailed tactical insights they were told came from opposition training camps were used to prepare a long successful run where they were happy to pick up their win bonuses & lap up the plaudits. They knew. They are implicated. You can't get on your moral high horse now.
Takes quite a substantial leap of faith to believe that Southampton spied on Oxford in December (who had 4 wins in 21 games at that point) and then put the binoculars away until they played Ipswich in April
🚨 🕵🏻♂️ 🌳 BREAKING: Middlesbrough boss Kim Hellberg has accused Southampton of “cheating” by having a spy “hidden in the bushes” at a Boro training session:
🗣️ "I couldn’t believe my eyes or ears. I couldn’t believe it when I was told a second time, or third. It's quite clear that they - and I don't mean the players or fans of Southampton, I think they are brilliant and have nothing to do with it - but someone has made a decision to cheat.
🗣️ “I feel anger, but there has to be respect too between each other that they have totally failed in. I mean those who did it, not the club or anything like that.
So I think it’s disappointment because it’s a big game. They tried to get an advantage in an unfair way. Things can happen in the heat of the moment, like a dive to trick the referee. But this is something they’d planned — absolutely everything.”
🗣️ If the punishment is a a fine, who would get the fine? Should they pay it to the EFL?
Okay. So they see everything we do, and…what? We will see what happens, I don’t know.
🗣️”I just think it’s weird they try to cheat in this type of game. Didn’t Bielsa (at Leeds) pay £200,000 when it wasn’t a law? I think a lot of clubs would pay that amount to try and get the advantage two days before a game.”
🗣️ “Is there a suspicion they’ve done this to other clubs this season? I’m just thinking about now…and we found them in the bushes.”
🌳 🕵🏻♂️ #UTB