Foxmeister

Didn't the war end before the 45/46 season?

Our 2002 administration is irrelevant, there were no sanctions at the time. It would be like Everton complaining they've been treated differently to Blackburn in 1995.

Football is a special case, what other industry penalises investment?

Yep, and the 9-0.

LCFC since 1995: won the top 3 tiers, 2 league cups, Community Shield had 4 promotions, 4 relegations, won a play-off with the last kick of the domestic season, lost another to one of the most iconic goals of modern times and got there with the last kick of our league season. Nearly went bust, joined the nouveau riche, reached the 1/4 finals of the UCL and 1/2 final of the Conference League. Everton: stayed up, that's it, for 28 years!

Without capitalism where's the money coming from to fund the clubs?

If it's 10 points per charge it'll be 1150 for Man City, they could miss out on the top 4 all together.

Not that clever if the players prove to be poor signings which to some extent they already have. The amortisation means they've already spent a lot of their available transfer budget up to 2029 and players on big wages amd long contracts will be difficult to shift. I wouldn't be surprised to see Chelsea collapse over the next few years.

Yeah, I misread the limit.

Oh, I didn't see the 3 year bit. I know a lot of stuff isn't included, infrastructure, women's team etc. but that's concerning.

In civil and criminal courts, awards and penalties can be adjusted up or down. Not sure with the FA.

That's £50m a year, well within the limit.

It's ridiculous that, should they get relegated (big if), the club that benefits was in now way affected by the breach, unless it's Burnley who would have stayed up in 2021/22 had Everton been relegated that season.

At least it's something interesting for Everton fans. Good or bad, nothing of note has happened to them in 28 years.

Edit: on reflection the post was dull

Talking of hate figures, there's a couple of the Crazy Gang from 1988 and it was Dennis Wise with the assist for Lawrie Sanchez who both contributed greatly to Peter Taylor's demise, not that he needed assistance.

It depends what you define as seeing the job through. He won 2 trophies and established us as PL club. Can't really begrudge him going to his boyhood club.

As long as he doesn't come on

Not as good as Elvis Hammond

His first touch is hideous, backs out of challenges, painfully slow, poor decision maker and a mediocre finisher.

I wonder if there's someone called Wigstonpilgrim on Plymouthtalk predicting they'll muller Leicester because of their far superior football?

I think the refs have got enough on without massively subjective calls like this.

The way referees are treated by fans, media and those directly involved in the game is a disgrace and filters down to grass roots where there are some appalling stories. Whatever the future, or lack of, for VAR, we all need to take a good look in the mirror because with every bit of abuse aimed at officials the talent pool decreases. Everybody makes mistakes and we have to accept them and move on. My vote was to go with on field decisions for what it's worth.

But you'll have to go past Middlesbrough to get to Hartlepool, why the hell would you do that?

Parking in Darlington and getting a train (£6 return) is an idea.