Lars Sivertsen

Clubs break financial rules constantly.

Stuff like approaching players who are still under contract is technically illegal, happens absolutely all the time.

There are some forms of things that are technically cheating because it's going against the rules to gain an advantage that we're completely fine with.

But then watching someone train is so egregious that you need to chuck the whole team out of the competition.

Like, I don't get that.

That seems weird to me.

But I accept that there is seriousness to this given the whole trespassing and filming stuff.

That's really weird and unacceptable behavior.

And it feels like something there should be criminal laws against, to be honest.

In the same way you can't walk into someone's back garden and start filming what's happening there.

It's not good behavior.

I'm not defending the behavior.

And serious sanctions are warranted.

But I think given how chilled out we are at other forms of cheating in this sport, the absolutely moralizing and wailing about this feels weird to me.

I feel terrible about it because really I was looking at the betting odds for this and the betting markets seem pretty clear that it's fine.

It's like the implied probability for Spurs to go down.

It's something like 85-15 in favor of like

85% chance of Spurs staying up.

And I don't buy that at all.

That's very much not how I feel.