Premier League - 2023/24

More goals Arsenal please!

 

https://twitter.com/MrMichaelSpicer/status/1776204125245427810

 

The premier league are just the clubs in it, and they voted for the current FFP rules back in 2013, as soon as the rules they all happily voted for, and presumably thought were a good idea start to get enforced, they suddenly don’t like those rules anymore and decide they’re not fit for purpose.

I mean what is the actual point, as soon as any rules they initially decide are a good idea actually get enforced, they’ll just decide they aren’t a good idea - because they’re getting enforced against them. No wonder they’re scared of an independent regulator because at the moment it’s just a case of marking their one homework and complaining as soon as their own rules need to be enforced.

The current FFP rules apparently only work ok as long as everyone sticks to them, but become automatically not fit for purpose if they don’t.

 

Holy crap, I hadn’t realised ANY of this! Thank goodness for Michael Spicey bringing this to everyone’s attention. Pulitzer on the way IMO and it’s live!

 

Was more to amuse than inform but hey ho.

 

Is it comedy? I didn’t watch. It is funny seeing ‘journalists’ and the like just noticing the impending death of football.

 

He’s a comedian so it’s a sarcastic look at how football glorifies the success and ignores the ownership. Breaks into a spoof interview of how ex owner Ashley would have been treated by the media if his shops had been guilty of murdering their employees to enhance profits. Not the funniest in the world but mildly amusing I thought.

 

Actually having listened to it all ….its really not worth the time and wish I hadn’t posted it !

 

Wolves goal disallowed I thought was a good call. Gary Linekre and Ian Wright moaning that the keeper could move? Yeah he's taking the optimal position, why should he move out of the way because the forward is blocking his movement and view? That nuts.

If you take up that position you need to accept that you'll be offside if the ball goes towards goal.

I don't get the fuss.

 

Even if it shouldn't have been disallowed I'm not sure the Wolves pen should have really been given - so two bad calls cancelling each other out in the end.

 

Mr IBP would include Palarse into that quartet.
I must say they are making a jolly good stab at it.

 

Pathetic from Florist,Wood especially.
Did that namby pamby half turn your back whilst Van de Valk or whatever he's called took aim.
Wake up.

 

Gloom.
Despair.
'I weep for Adonais,he is dead'.

 

They've already been sanctioned for two of the years.
One point deduction would be fair but since when is anything fair, especially in the lunacy of modern football?

 

Just been confirmed although they are appealing

 

I can assure you that Everton are in no way appealing.

 

Although better than the alternative.

 

It's marginal...

 

Even a point or two could have significant financial ramifications if it means relegation, though.

 

IF.
It seems a bit of a weak penalty.

 

Not hugely significant in the wider scheme of things, but each place is also worth about £2m, so as it stands their points deduction will still have cost them £4m in prize money if they stay up.

 

Oh I don't know!

 

Why don't they stay on their feet any more?
Flimsy little twerps.

 

Not Premier League exactly - but Watford now have another potentially annoying club not too far away from us up the M1(ish) to worry about.

Also another mega-rich potential Ametican investor in us scratched off the list:

"Winklevoss twins chase ‘great underdog story’ with stake in non-league football team
Billionaire entrepreneurs invest £3.6m in bitcoin in ninth-tier Real Bedford

The billionaire bitcoin brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have become co-owners of a semi-professional football team that plays in the ninth tier of the English league system.

The identical twins’ investment fund, Winklevoss Capital, has used $4.5m (£3.6m) in bitcoin to buy a 45pc stake in Real Bedford, which competes in the Spartan South Midlands League Premier Division and has an average attendance of 440.

The team is majority owned by Peter McCormack, a bitcoin investor and podcast host who has made it his ambition to take the side into the Premier League."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/busines...-brothers-bitcoin-real-bedford-football-club/