urban.spaceman

Can't, I'm busy.

As am I.

@moore_94 is frantically refreshing the official website with the "start new thread" open in the other tab...

It still bugs me to this day that his response to the question "These Eastern Europeans, where are they all coming from?" wasn't just "Eastern Europe"

"See you in about four weeks then? How d'you like your tea?"

Exactly four weeks tonight we could be free of these parasites for a generation.

Respectfully, I completely reject this. I've said many times on this thread that the ownership and leadership at the club are culpable for a lot of mistakes. But what the club has been through in the last two seasons - inability to spend in 2022, the subsequent drop in performance and our relegation - is as artificial as Manchester City's place as champions. Manchester City and Leicester City aren't where they are because of sporting merit or chance - it's a direct result of the industrial level cheating of Manchester City and the Premier League's reticence to deal with it, alongside their submission to the "big six" clubs. We were denied our fair earnings after winning the league and then were unfairly restricted from spending it. We were unfairly denied two seasons in the Champions League. We're not a poor club. We don't have volatile batshit ownership. We have ambitious ownership who has demonstrated repeated commitment to the club and with a clear record of achieving those ambitions on actual sporting merit. This line in our club statement back in March thrilled me almost as much promotion: "We reaffirm the Club’s position that we will continue to fight for the right of Leicester City and all clubs to pursue their ambitions, particularly where these have been reasonably and fairly established through sustained sporting achievement." That signals to me that the club are going to fight their corner. And we absolutely should - the sport is in a disgraceful state and needs serious reform. As I said in my post at the top of page 168, change is coming anyway and we need to make sure we not only get back what we lost but make sure the "big six" clubs (or rather, "big five plus Tottenham") have their disproportionate money and power removed from them.

I will PISS MESELF if they get a worse fine than us.

Foxes Trust after reading this: "Nah"

5.30.

**** off Chelsea.

Gutted for Ally McBeal not gonna lie.

Ditto. I'm at the "1-0 vs Newcastle" stage.

Je Suis Ed Davey.

Might not have done brilliantly at debunking it in the debate (though he partially did, contrary to reports), but on the other hand he's got a full day's worth of headlines calling it out:

Nothing to see here, just a Prime Minister nobody voted for leading most corrupt government we’ve ever had, repeating a lie that has already been debunked, in a video that features the football ground of the most corrupt club in world football. You can’t make it up.

The Premier League is absolutely untenable at this point - in its current form and with its current leadership team. They did nothing to stop Chelsea from spending their way to glory 20 years ago, then when Man City were bought out in 2008 they sat through 5 years of their financial cheating before finally bringing in FFP rules to stop another club doing it again. Then they sat and watched Man City cheat for another 5 years before starting their investigation, which took another 5 years before they would actually bring the charges. That itself was almost 2 years ago. Two things they never anticipated: 1. That it was even possible for a club to come out of nowhere and win their league fairly. 2. The effect of their FFP rules on that club. It's bad enough that their broadcast model has been ripping off fans for 30 years - denying us the same access our foreign counterparts have AND charging us 2-3 times for the privilege. Worse - that the same deal favours the bigger clubs; gives them more screentime, more money and more exposure for sponsors and merchandising. Disproportionately more money and power to clubs that haven't earned it. The worst thing they've done was their response to the Super League. £3m per club, for breaking the league's rules and trying to destroy its business model, trying to bankrupt every other Premier League AND football league club while also destroying any chance of actual fair competition. They panicked at the threat of a football regulator by this government and so tried to introduce PSR to be more restrictive. Which has already been broken by two clubs, Everton and Forest; while several other clubs have lost ground in the competition in having to comply - Villa and Newcastle. We committed serious self-harm on our ability to compete in order to comply in 2022 yet still managed to break it anyway (inviting the absurd situation where the Premier League are charging us with gaining a sporting advantage in a season in which we were relegated); our spending was only higher than our income because our income was restricted by the Premier League's abject failure to hold ACTUAL CHEATS accountable. Then they demonstrably broke their own rules and acted outside of their jurisdiction in their desperation to punish us. I believe we have a serious case for significant compensation from the Premier League. A football regulator is now inevitable (and worse for the Premier League, they can't rely on this corrupt government to be half-arsed about it) and HAS to come in. What we need to do as a fanbase is to make sure the ministers involved in the football regulator are fully informed of the Premier League's failures, what the "big" clubs have been up to, and how it has affected certain clubs, especially ours. @Foxes_Trust @Foxes Trust Reform aim to keep the club accountable and I completely agree that the club are culpable for a lot, but this is a massive, massive opportunity for change in football and one that we should be trying to capitalise on.

Sunak basically created a lie with two massive caveats, repeated it, then challenged Starmer for not denying it. His entire basis of argument was equivalent to this:

He should add that to his list of "acheivements" on his leaflet.