urban.spaceman

At some point nobody will know what’s real any more.

Vidu was able to make Syston’s Knitting Banxy’s latest project: Do this in 4 seconds: vidu-video-2785402278503108.mp4

Next season: ”Premier League and EFL charge Leicester with overspending on PSR by £6m” ”Also in the news, Chelsea sell Frank Lampard’s shed back to themselves for £127m”

Apparently, yes. You’re not the one who should be sorry though

We didn’t vote for FFP in 2013 as we were still in the Championship yet were hamstrung by Short Term Cost Control rules that explicitly restricted our spending power after winning the league. I (and a few AI apps) can’t find any publicly available information that we’ve ever voted in favour of rules like these.

It’s Liverpool. They will never be held accountable for anything. This means more etc.

Apologies for the late reply, was busy last night and this got lost in my notifications. I’ve stated repeatedly on the forum in multiple threads how angry I am with the club and their decision making, and how I’m desperate for serious consequences and change at the club. I appreciate you might not have seen that but here’s one post, that quotes two others, where I set out my pov on the matter. I DO share everyone’s anger at the club but I also believe there needs to be pushback on the ‘100% our fault’ narratives being presented on here. Thankfully a few other posters are doing the same, but not enough IMO. The behaviour of the PL and EFL has been utterly disgraceful and should be plain for everyone to see. What is less clear or well known, is the barriers that were put in place to prevent clubs like ours from growing in the first place - a structure of rules that adversely affect clubs like ours, communities and regions like ours, and directly rips off fans and consumers. People can complain about the club hierarchy all they want - and I agree with them - but the game has been utterly broken by the powers that be and we’re all being ripped off for the privilege of watching it. That has to change.

This is Brexit and democracy in action. Labour said they would negotiate closer ties with the EU and that’s what they’ve done. It doesn’t take us back in the single market, customs union or accept freedom of movement. Fishing rights have remained the same but instead of being renegotiated every year like the Tories deal would have done from 2026, it’s extended to 2038 which will give the industry stability. Red tape for food and drink products is being greatly reduced and will make it easier for companies to export to the EU and much quicker. The Irish Sea barrier between Northern Ireland and GB will be removed. Basically the deal was designed reduce barriers to trade which will benefit every company that exports/imports to the EU, while still keeping the one benefit of Brexit we’ve only found which is to be able to put VAT on private school fees.

What the **** is going on with the fella’s face in the middle?!

If only we were part of some sort of trading bloc where countries could collectively hold mega corporations accountable.

The ‘aggravation’ of demanding the Premier League and EFL stick to their own rules instead of just lying down and accepting a punishment they had no right to give to us. Unfit to govern.

If only they’d run fast they would have still been with us.

AI’s the next massive technological advancement that will change everyday life for the whole planet, in the same way the internet and smartphones have. People still aren’t ready for what’s coming - it will be revolutionary and jarring. People are already using it now in a similar sort of way to a spell checker or fact checker when writing documents, or for creativity or recreation like image or video generators. I’ve already used ChatGPT to help visualise my next tattoo which will help me explain to the artist the kind of thing I want. It can be very useful to implement it in your normal workflow - I got it to create a writing schedule the other day and it created a calendar file that I could just open straight in the calendar app. Yesterday I uploaded a picture of one of my tattoos to a video Ai generator and IT MADE THE INK MOVE. Incredible and quite chilling at the same time. Made me feel like Maui off Moana The biggest problem we have is the people in power in the US at the minute. There are serious questions around copyright infringement for artists, musicians, writers etc whose livelihoods are at stake. The writers/actors strikes in the US in 2023 both had serious concerns about the use of AI in the industry but seem to have resolved that for now. VFX artists are going to be ****ed even more than they are now. I’m ambivalent about incorporating it into my writing work but if I stay out of it completely others will still use it to thrive anyway. The political damage it could wreak is deeply troubling - Musk’s Grok has been accused of serious misinformation in the last few weeks: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/20/business/grok-genocide-ai-nightcap (Worth reading). We have the worst possible people in the US government who couldn’t give a toss about accountability so the safety measures that should already be in place won’t be, and by the time responsible adults are finally able to govern it will be too late to do anything about it because the Ai companies will already have too much power. Still, the tattoo video was fun.

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Richard Masters:

The EFL charged us in 2023/24 for failing to provide a business plan which was then proven they didn’t have the authority to demand. This may well be a similar situation of jurisdiction and the leagues (again) overstepping the mark. Neither league have a shred of credibility.

Simon Jordan surprisingly a bit more conciliatory towards us and takes a bit of aim at the absurdity of the Premier League and EFL’s rules. The irony here being they also discuss the finalists of the Europa League, one of whom lost £85m MORE than us over the same period but were given a £40m COVID allowance that no other club was allowed.

That’s an allegation that hasn’t been proven, and they have a history of demanding documents they didn’t have the authority to demand

This might be a good time for another episode of PSR & Order.

Sorry but comparing us to other clubs with PSR is a mistake; at the times the rules were changed to be so restrictive, we were the ONLY club who had been challenging the Top 6 and had spent - within the rules - to qualify for the Champions League. THAT is why they’ve hit us the hardest. It’s absurd to compare us to newly promoted Fulham or a Southampton who had been circling the bottom half of the league for a decade. The Premier League and EFL’s mismanagement of football finances has gone on for a quarter of a century now. They’ve proven themselves incapable of holding anyone accountable, have repeatedly admitted their own rules were poor, and have repeatedly broken their own rules. They’ve broken the game beyond repair. I agree. I strongly disagree.

They tried to fast-track our case in when we were in the Championship because they changed the rule to do so after we were relegated. That was one of the many, many cases we won against them. The Premier League themselves stated this in their failed case against us in September: 49. The PL submits that the PSRs for a particular season involving accounting process and must continue to apply, however, long it takes for the accounting process to be concluded. It further submits that a breach of the PSR‘s in a given season has a detrimental effect on other clubs in the competition in that season, that effective enforcement of the PSR is important, and that it would not accord with the purpose of the PSR’s if they were construed in such a way that’s a breach became “untethered from the season in which the adverse effect on competition was felt all the PSR failed to affect over spending incurred in an unsuccessful attempt to avoid relegation” That’s the same Premier League who ignored Manchester City’s brazen rule breaking for a full decade, has taken SEVEN years to investigate and charge and STILL not concluded a case that has had a blatant detrimental effect on our club’s ability to comply with their PSR they also admitted were poorly written.

I’ve not yet seen the detail of that allegation, but just for context: Last season in the Championship the EFL determined we were going to breach their PSR rules and demanded we submit a business plan to demonstrate how we would comply with their PSR. We appealed to an independent panel stating the EFL didn’t have such powers to make such demands, and the panel found in our favour. Nothing the Premier League or EFL do can be trusted.

IIRC Man Utd were given a COVID loss allowance of £40m whereas every other club it was just £1m.

The Premier League Dale has jurisdiction over that season and they are corrupt bunch of *****.

Yes. In the same way the PL and EFL made allegations against us before which were then proven wrong.