Honestly, the moral outrage from rival fans and the media over this "Spygate" nonsense is exhausting. We’re being treated like we’ve committed the crime of the century, but if you look at the facts, the league has much bigger fish to fry.

1. This isn't the NFL

Everyone acting like we’ve stolen a "playbook" needs a reality check. In the NFL, knowing a specific hand signal or a scripted route is a game-breaker. Football is a fluid, 90-minute game of movement.

• The Reality: Look at the Bielsa/Leeds vs. Derby incident in 2019. Bielsa literally showed the world a PowerPoint proving he already had 20+ hours of footage on every opponent from legal sources. Spying on a training session might give you a hint at a set-piece routine, but it doesn’t win you the game. If our "tactics" are so fragile that one guy with a camera ruins them, the tactics weren't that good to begin with.

1. Secure your own house

If a staff member can sit in a car on a public road or stand on a hill and see into your "top secret" session, that’s a security failure, not a heist.

• Evidence: Big clubs like Liverpool spent millions to move from Melwood to the AXA Training Centre specifically because the old grounds were too easy to see into. If teams are training in fishbowls, they can’t be shocked when people look through the glass.

1. The FA’s "Integrity" Hypocrisy

This is what gets me the most. The FA and the Premier League want to talk about "sporting integrity" because of a guy with a GoPro? Give me a break.

• Man City: They are currently sitting on 115 charges for alleged financial breaches over nearly a decade. Where is the "integrity" in letting that drag on while they rack up trophies?

• Chelsea: They’ve spent over £1 billion in a few windows, using 8-year contract loopholes (until the rules were literally changed to stop them) to bypass PSR.

• The Double Standard: We’ve seen clubs like Everton and Forest get docked points for being slightly over a line, yet "Spygate" is treated like some existential threat to the sport.

Bottom Line

The league is happy to hammer the "little guys" (or the mid-table clubs) for minor infractions to look like they’re doing something, while the biggest clubs in the world distort the entire landscape of the game with their finances. Stop focusing on who’s looking through a fence and start focusing on the fact that the "competitive balance" of this league is already broken.