urban.spaceman

It's honestly amazing to me how utterly incompetent the EFL have been on this. We're literally 2-0 up against them.

ثبت أن الدوري الإنجليزي الممتاز ودوري كرة القدم الإنجليزي كيانان فاسدان.

Rick Parry is the CEO of the EFL. He was previously a Liverpool CEO. He was also the founding CEO of the Premier League. In 2020 he colluded with Liverpool and Manchester United to try and set up Project Big Picture, which would have given the "big" Premier League clubs more money and power, under the guise that it would have given a bit more money to EFL clubs. The EFL is not being run by a fit and proper person.

The candidate:

Soon to be adapted for the big screen by Denis Villeneuve, after he's done Dune: Messiah, Cleopatra and Rendezvous with Rama. Should probably make this one first before the actual war starts, if he can get it done in time.

What is the ****ing point in bothering to compete any more?

So, you can only compete by spending money that you earn, But the money that you earn, especially from broadcast and commercial, is significantly higher if you have more games broadcast. And the number of games broadcast is selected on purely *perceived* popularity by broadcasters, which gives those clubs the argument to sign more lucrative contracts with sponsors and merchandisers. We spent most of 2019/20 & 2020/21 in the top 3, yet had fewer games broadcast than clubs who finished below us This is such an unrelentingly anti-competitive system that quite literally outlaws sporting merit yet rewards ****ing Tottenham. Utterly corrupt.

Our "last minute wins" that season, if we're counting "last minute" as the winner being scored 85+ mins: Villa 3-2 at home. Norwich 1-0 at home. That's literally it. Spurs last minute wins: Watford 2-1 away Palace 3-1 away (Alli's "wonderstrike" they still spaff over came in the 84th minute so I'm including it)

Hussain is now an advisor to Liz Truss.

Any opportunity to post this again.

@Jattdogg

Might start a 'sack him now' thread

This is a top vs bottom game with absolutely massive stakes for both sides, and yet the commentary is making it sound like it's an early season 2nd round League Cup game only being broadcast in Azerbaijan.

Not aided by a half empty stadium either. It feels like I'm watching a pre-season friendly

Streams gone down. Anyone got any good ones?

Peter Higgs, who predicted the existence of the Higgs Boson, dies aged 94. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68774195

Disagree. UEFA enforced the ban, but it was overturned by CAS on the technicality that it was "time barred" because UEFA took so long. And UEFA took so long because Manchester City refused to cooperate with ANY authority on the matter. The Premier League didn't even bother investigating Manchester City until 2018 and didn't bring those charges until February 2023, in which time (extending to the end of 2023) they won the Premier League 5 times, FA Cup twice, League Cup 4 times, Community Shield twice, a Champions League, a Super Cup and a World Club Cup. Trophies that Villa, Watford, Sevilla and Fluminense could have won (specifically not mentioning the other clubs they beat to those trophies as they're just as corrupt) if they had been participating in a fair competition. Even now, sixteen years after they started this industrial cheating, they're in a manufactured 3-way title race, an FA Cup semi-final and a Champions League Quarter Final, all against other equally corrupt clubs, and the people that have lost out are those whose ambitions have been killed dead by rules that were designed specifically to protect the same corrupt clubs. The Premier League destroyed the sport to placate cheats.

For 15 years worth of industrial cheating, it would be ideal.

It should be the central argument of our case. We're being punished by the Premier League because we've spent more than we've earned. We spent in order to qualify for the Champions League and in both seasons spent the majority of it in the Champions League places. 5th would have been enough to qualify in both the seasons Manchester City should have been banned. Here's the second season we should have been in the Champions League: Basic participation in the Champions League is 330% higher than Europa League before you even get to bonused for winning a match or progressing to knockouts. Neither does it include the potential sponsorships and merchandising deals we would have been able to make. Our argument needs to make it very, very clear that if the Premier League had dealt with a club that had been explicitly cheating - not overspending based on ill thought out rules - I mean explicit, brazen industrial cheating for 15 years, perhaps Leicester City would not have been in danger of breaking these demonstrably absurd spending rules. That then puts the Premier League in a position - given how they've treated Leicester, Everton and Forest, they absolutely cannot let Manchester City off the hook. They HAVE to throw the book at them, and I mean at the very least expulsion from the Premier League and a 500 points deduction. Anything less would cause outcry in the rest of the sport. Which will then put us in a position to sue the Premier League and Manchester City for what they have done.

On the contrary, I think as Kieran Maguire's tweet points out in @moore_94's post, the Premier League have displayed complete and total incompetence throughout this whole affair, and that's just if you're being kind. I believe they are downright corrupt. With us they've proved they don't even know their own rules and are willing to act outside of them, and their strategy with punishing Forest and Everton is completely incoherent. I don't think we'll shithouse our way out of trouble, though it would be hilarious if we did. I know I keep banging this drum but this is a real opportunity to make a point about their anti-competitive behaviour. Pursue this legal action against them and invite Forest, Everton and whoever else wants to join in.

Nick De Marco to the Premier League and the EFL:

I didn't say they would have.

Further to this. An excerpt from today's report: The Premier League has already been caught acting outside of their own jurisdiction and rules, as have the EFL, in their pursuit of us. I have no faith in their ability to enact their own rules fairly.