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Villa playing their reserves against spurs a few weeks ago are the one although I see why they did it…I seem to remember wolves getting in trouble for the same a couple of decades ago

I feel like the guy tried to pull on the shoulder and accidentally got some hair and then let go. Definitely a very weird red card for me that wasn’t deserved. Not even sure if it’s enough for a penalty. But it’s been given presumably as violent conduct which is ridiculous

I mean that goal was onside no matter how much I dislike Celtic. It was a shocking decision by the linesman to flag it off in the first place. The guy was 5 yards onside

The most they showed on tv were Hearts players being escorted by various police etc and pointing to marks on their bodies

Weird that how can the game just end like that? Not seen that in my whole time watching football

It shows how poor the teams around us are yet we still don’t seem to be able to currently compete with them. We are being saved (for now) by the form in the first few weeks of the season.

One thing I find truly baffling is that without the 6 point deduction we likely would have stayed up. I say it’s baffling because we’ve been so bad for so long that I don’t understand how with 6 pts deducted we are as close as we are to safety

And my point is that that’s the players not the manager.

What is the solution though? He has a choice between 20 or so very useless players

He can only work with what he has. At some stage it can’t always be the managers fault

So it appears that Trump took out the leadership of Iran and left a replacement who is more hardline and will try to frame this as a victory? The world amazes and confuses me more everyday!

I feel like Ipswich had a lot of half shouts for penalties in that game but there wasn’t a single one that I would say was enough to be given (my stream cut out for the last one so I don’t know about the hamza one). Also I’d be curious to see the incident with Okoli in the first half. The stream didn’t show it closely but it looked like the Ipswich player may have raised his hands to Okolis face?

But we’re not enforced initially in the way they are now. The rules were brought in because Man City bridged the gap with money and they designed something to stop it happening again. I would argue Leicesters success made them tighten the rules. ultimately all PSR or FFP or whatever other system seems to of achieved is stopping clubs competing at the top end. You can get so far like Leicester, Villa or Newcastle then you have to stop and go back down the table. That’s the reality of PSR.

Maybe but we will never know. Maybe they would have chucked money at it without PSR and none of this would have happened. However with King Powers problems in Thailand I suspect they wouldn't have been able to. Maybe they would have sacked Rodgers sooner without financial constraints and escaped the first relegation, we will never know. I suspect that we would have found trouble sooner rather than later with the mismanagement we have seen recently but I don't know whether it would have been so severe or threatened the existence of the club. It would be interesting to see what would happen to Spurs or West Ham were they to be relegated as I suspect you might see a similar spiral where they can't escape.

The point is PSR is there to stop clubs from going bust. However, in my view it is entirely possible that PSR will be a key factor in causing Leicester to go out of business. What PSR inadvertently seems to do is to make it impossible for a club to recover from particularly bad seasons and it's being seen in a very extreme way with Leicester. Has the club been horendously mismanaged? Yes. Has PSR made it a lot more extreme? Undoubtedbly.

And this is the problem the rules aren't clear and never have been. If they want PSR to be a thing there should be a written list of offences and a written list of sanctions. The whole legal progress just distracts from the sport and feels entirely arbitrary. Sporting sanctions should not be about opinions and lawyers it should be about fact based on clear rules. For me I hope every club will fight PSR as much as possible.

I think the club is being run so badly no matter what they do people will complain. In my view not appealing would be a ridiculous decision based on past cases. I reckon if we had decided not to appeal most of the people complaining would have complained anyway.

No, and multiple cases of it being decreased (Forest and Everton). Most likely scenario is to get it to say 4 points which could be crucial in avoiding relegation.

Potentially. Also worth remembering as bad as the club is being run and as disgraceful the current ownership are, the PSR rules that we broke are a joke themselves and over the last decade there has been absolutely zero consistency in them and how they are implimented. An appeal if the club lawyers (the lawyers seemingly being the only compentent part of the club the last three years) see fit probably isn't a terrible thing like some are making out. Especially as the clubs lawyers in the past have shown PSR rules aren't even worth the paper they are written on before to one of these appeals panels.

After reading this I googled it and I did too. I still think it's a good appointment but this has ruined some of my excitement.

Realistically you would need to raise a few hudred million pounds minimum to just cover the cost of the infrastructure. Then you have the cost of the brand which as it stands is not as valuable as it once was but still clearly has a lot of value and potential value. Then you have things like assets (players) to take into account. I doubt enough money could be raised to pay for 1 player let alone a whole squad. If you clear all of these hurdles then you would still have the problem firstly of King Power not wanting to sell and secondly that none of us have any idea how to run a football club. I reckon you are looking at the best part of £1bn to do something like this with a club the size of Leicester. 300 million on infrastructure, 200 million just of the players value and a few hudred million for the brand and club. Plus finding money to keep it running. Unless you can find a billionaire fan it would be impossible without financing and I for one would doubt any bank would loan money to such an endeavour. Your most realistic course of action would be to create a new club and start from the bottom and try and work through the pyramid.

Les Ferdinands cousin was decent. Ayew is possibly the third best in his family after his dad and brother. I'm sure there's other's . Paul Konchesky is vaguely related to John Terry through a marriage (not blood too) I seem to remember

Finally some positive news!

Have FIFA just given up on their philosophy of keeping politics out of sport. It's so cringey, I just want to see what teams will play each other!

There definitely needs to be a breakaway organisation from FIFA. I feel like they have ruined the game that is loved so much. Giving a peace prize to Trump during a World Cup draw is just ridiculous.