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Brits would spend as little as they could get away with on him.
Probably hoping he'd been found and plugged by his former comrades

They could have found him if they wanted to, from todays Irish Times -



Scappaticci, though, had lost none of his chutzpah. He rejected MI5's offer and flew straight back to Belfast where he sought a meeting with the IRA. The IRA, he calculated, had every reason to support his denials.

He gambled that Sinn Féin, by now engaged in the peace process, could not afford to admit publicly that he had been a spy. If so, it would undermine their official line that they had fought the British to an honourable draw.

Any such admission would provoke the rank and file into questioning whether the IRA had been pushed into peace, paralysed by the penetration of agents like him.

On his return to Belfast, Scappaticci met two of the IRA's most senior representatives, Martin "Duckster"' Lynch and Padraic Wilson. Ten years earlier, Wilson had said he suspected Scappaticci was an informer.

Now, Wilson, Lynch and Scappaticci came to an understanding: Scappaticci would issue a firm denial which the IRA would not contest. To this day, this has been the IRA's official position.

As my aul teacher used to advise..... "If you believe all you read, you'll eat all you see !"

Brits would spend as little as they could get away with on him.
Probably hoping he'd been found and plugged by his former comrades

Already buried supposedly

Paul Flynn is  a hard listen . I nearly drifted off  to sleep when  he was on  last night

Why not just turn him off?

Arsenal a great team to watch but some of their diving, time wasting and whining is ridiculous.

Highlight was that w**ker Robertson getting a slap from the linesman

Why didn't he go down and roll on the floor like they all do ?

Making for a great end to the season again, Pep has been here before so I think City will win it.

Newcastle away going to be a big one too ...

Fury will eventually be beaten...by himself. He ll go off the rails. Not give an F about training and will be beaten by a lesser opponent as a result. And....he ll not give an F ...

Hearing Morgan played for his club in a friendly the other night !

Don't know what it is as he is a fantastic player and scores a lot of super points but Darragh Canavan seems to miss an awful lot of 1 v 1's with keepers.

Yes. His da probably sick of dragging him by the lug and making him watch his 05 final goal

Why did  Morgan not start ?

Ulster intermediate club league title for Clonoe
Surely they will make an quick return back to senior this year
Who's over them this year

Joe Hagan

We'll see some purge when Itchy and the Shinners take over

Not really but just even things up - it's called being neutral.

There's a great photo of Tubbs pre-interview with leaders of FFG and then one with O'Neill.

The body language of Tubbs is a giveaway!

Can you post it?

Sam Alderdice

Some rant by Conte, now 1/5 to be next premiership manager to be sacked.
  Southampton 3-3 Tottenham: Antonio Conte's furious media conference after Spurs let lead slip - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/65004422

Listened to it and he's not wrong. Whether Levy and Co want to be reminded of their own shortcomings in public is another thing.

If they do sack him, expect it to get messy.

He's not wrong.

But about 4 miles down the road a manager with no big reputation, has spent similar amounts of money to Conte  turning what was a weaker squad than Spurs into likely PL winners, and doing so while playing attractive football.

So what Levy want to do, can be done.

ENIC just have this awful habit of picking managers who aren't suited to the job. like Conte, probably the biggest fraud in the history of management.

Refuses to change his team, until forced by injury. Refuses to change his formation to suit what's available. Concedes midfield in every game, regardless of opposition. He's getting paid over a million a month to manage Spurs and every single player has gone backwards apart from the bombproof Kane.

He's an absolute con man.

Conte gone, so who will Levy turn to now? Lampard....

Conte gone ?

Sooner we get rid of Logan & dooher the better.

Well Scout ....what you reckon now ?