Crock of s***, IF Douge did do what's being said it was to get at CPFC2010

I hope he didn't, I could forgive him (just) for looking after his starving family but to go out of his way to stitch us up..........................

My thoughts.

1. If Dougie is behind this (in so fas as it was he who alerted Cardiff) then I would be vastly more disgusted with him that I was when he chose to leave Palace. I can take a guy who wants a new job because he doesn't get on with his boss, but a guy who simply interferes with a club he professes to love really crosses a rubicon from which there's no going back for me. I hope this isn't true because Dougie is still my hero, but if it is...

2. Whether it's ethical or desirable or not, I would guess this sort of thing goes on every single week in football given that pretty much every team has employees who at one time or another worked for, and has mates at, the club they're playing next (that's the nature of the transfer market). I would guess that around 50% of manager's on any given weekend think they have insight into the other team's line up in advance. Big deal.

3. Caulker has already said this sort of thing has gone on at Cardiff all year. If that's the case and our game was declared null and void then we could immediately demand that every other Cardiff game suffered the same fate. That's not an option for anyone. Besides, if Caulker has know this has been common practice then presumably so have lots of other people at Cardiff yet they are only worrying and complaining about it now? The bottom line is that the crime was the leak, not the request that Moody may have made. Therefore, it's Cardiff's problem and they who should be penalised for failing to control their employees. If you shoot someone but say "he asked me to shoot them", Mr. Tan, I think you'll find it's you (as the shooter) who will end up being punished. But ask yourself this question: if your employees are leaking critical information left, right, and centre then why do you think the culture you have instilled in your company is one where such disloyalty is rife?

4. Tan is a clown. At the risk of being a xenophobic little Englander (honest. I'm not), he's acting like a third world hick who thinks he can chuck his money around and get whatever brand of justice he needs to work for him. Someone needs to pat him on his greasy head and put him out to pasture. t***.

Sydenham by birth. Selhurst by the Grace of God.

Dougie is no hero of mine. I used to like him but now he is just someone who used to play for and (briefly) manage us. I’m not saying that he wasn’t trying to land us in it, but everyone seems to be leaping to this conclusion when there just could be another, more innocent explanation. Do we even know how much of this story is true anyway?

"Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt."
Mark Twain.

That's the nuts of it. They're saying (if it's not b*llocks) that he told OGS, not the FA. If he was just "doing his duty" he'd whistleblow to the FA.

As for DF, he took the backroom team then if believed tries to cause more issue for us.. Gone right down in my eyes. Touch of jealousy me thinks.. Left Palace saying he stood a better chance of getting in the PL with Bolton, but has done nothing

I'm sure Dougie asked to receive this message out of the blue.

Employee of the month is a good example of how someone can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.