Dale Johnson

Staff Appleton is still not acknowledged anywhere across their official website, socials, anything that this has even happened.

It's as though the game on Saturday is going ahead as planned and there's been no scandal that is happening in the background or not in the background anymore.

So I just think that failure to even engage, the only reason we know they've appealed is because the hierarchy of brief journalists.

They're not even saying that this has happened.

And I think that's just incredible.

The only thing that Southampton can peel against is the fact that the punishment's too harsh.

I think in terms of what happens next, I spoke to the EFL earlier and I asked about, that's very questioned, about what happens if other clubs are suddenly trawling through there, trawling around CCTV.

looking for a man in an Eastie tracksuit or whatever he might be wearing or inside their cafe and they wouldn't really be drawn on it to be honest but I think it's fair enough to say that other clubs are going to be looking at this I mean Erexim are saying today that they're considering their options in terms of the legal process and you've got to think there are going to be a lot of clubs that are going to feel quite hard done buying this I mean

Oxford and Ipswich, even though Oxford won the game and Ipswich drew the game and ultimately it didn't actually have an impact on their season, they're going to feel sort of damaged themselves, the fact that their preparation has been affected.

So I don't think this story is going to be over.

I think the football generally is really quite disgusted by the behaviour.

So it would not be a surprise if over the next couple of months there were suddenly extra charges.

I think it's difficult because obviously that's a prediction that you're going to beat Hull in the final.

So while you're not going to have that playoff final, you're not saying there's guaranteed wage increases, guaranteed bonuses that aren't going to be paid.

So I think it's...

I mean, you can never rule these things out, can you?

But I think at this stage, I would be surprised if there's going to be legal actions from within the club.

So this is just another example of this really complicated handball law where the general fan can't really be expected to keep up with these things that are in guidance and aren't even written in the laws if someone were to go and look it up.

We've got to get you in season three.

We've got to do it.