urban.spaceman

Someone needs to write to Claudia Webbe and ask her to represent us. (for a laugh)

Looking forward to the internet's reaction in the last week of the year.

Megathread. If people want I could start a thread explaining the various cases (Everton, Man City, broadcast deal, FFP rules; then our administration and EFL FFP issues) for maximum awareness? This is going to get very messy going forward and it’s important everyone is fully informed and understands the whole picture.

This highlighted tweet from Swiss Ramble re Man City - I’ll post the initial tweet thread in the next post - is absolutely ****ing crucial. IF they’re found guilty, we were explicitly cheated out of two seasons in the Champions League. We could sue for up to half a billion*

Watched Ready Or Not for the second time, and really enjoyed it again.

With 10% of gate receipts going to the King.

But they cheated us. We are the victims here. We are fully entitled to stand up for ourselves, the club and community, and get justice for what they’ve done to us. And the same goes for Man City. **** their fans, their loudest ones seem completely unrepentant and want to play the victims. Absolutely **** them. We should make an example of them and GET JUSTICE.

Surprised myself with 11/15 as there were some really tough ones there

That's what she said.

Update from Lea.

Well the good news is, as a fanbase, they’re taking it really, really well.

We should absolutely, 100% go after the pair of them. I know I keep banging this drum but their cheating has explicitly cost us hundreds of millions of pounds. Possibly up to half a billion quid, as our lack of Champions League football snowballed to the point where we were unable to add to the squad without breaking the rules, the same rules that Everton broke. ACCOUNTABILITY.

“Most rules were not broken”

I was 10, and I can specifically remember that day because I went down to my barbers with my dad and asked my barber to cut it "like Iwan Roberts". That's how ****ing long ago it was.

Everton can go and suck a bag of dicks. The last trophy they won was in 1995. Since then we've won the League Cup twice. The Community Shield. The FA Cup. And the mother****ing Premier League. We upset the "big clubs" - for whom the Premier League is literally set up in their favour - SO MUCH that they tried to set up their own league to keep us out, twice. Everton have now joined the ranks of Man City and Chelsea for officially being cheats. Whatever they achieve in Bramley Apple Docks or whatever, will forever be connected with their cheating. But what's really ****ing satisfying is that they'll never see anything like this: Never. Because we ****ing earned that. It's ours, and can never be taken away. Because we're not ****ing cheats like Everton, Chelsea, Man City, Arsenal, Tottenham, Man Utd, Liverpool and Newcastle. Those clubs, every single one of them, realised they couldn't compete fairly on the pitch, so either cheated or tried to change the rules to cheat us. **** em.

Must have missed the part of Gladiator where Maximus cheated

We were investigated and eventually declared to not have broken any rules deliberately, plus the EFL conceded that the rules were open to interpretation. And it was a settlement, not a fine. We were fully vindicated.

It's amazing to me how they can hold a grudge for 20 years despite being completely and totally factually incorrect.

If any Everton fan tries to bring up our FFP case with the EFL - tell them two things. 1. The EFL explicitly found in our favour, that we had not deliberately broken any rules, and conceded that their rules were too open to interpretation. 2. The £3.1m settlement we paid was more of a courtesy, and is roughly equivalent to a 9th of Cenk Tosun.

Should be ****ing increased.

For those still apathetic about this, or for anyone who thinks we shouldn't hold Everton accountable, there are some important distinctions to be made. We were shit last season? Yes. Did we deserve to go down? Yes - BUT - we deserved to go down on our own terms. Everton have cheated, which has been proven. And that cheating kept them in the league at our expense. We adhered to the rules that they broke, and we suffered for it. ------ To add something about your point about Everton cheating us out of our Premier League status: We had our future stolen from us - a future we deserved and EARNED with our title win - but not just by Everton, by the league and the bigger clubs. The whole "competition" is a corrupt entity. I will never stop talking about this.