urban.spaceman

LONG

GOLDINGS ALIVE

Unfortunately only the good die young. Evil ****ers like Musk and Trump are like cockroaches. Even Farage survived a ****ing plane crash. Proof to me that there’s either no god, or there is one and he’s just a ****. I still stand by my belief that Trump will not serve his full term, one way or another, though.

Absolutely unhinged.

Having said that some of the memes were ****ing elite.

I do like the guy personally but it still irks me that they had the absolute gall to go on global television - a literal Prince and his multimillionaire wife - to tell a billionaire interviewer in the garden of their billionaire friend’s mansion, in the middle of a global pandemic in which billions of people had lost loved ones, or jobs, or homes, to tell us all they’d had a really, really tough time. I mean I know it’s relative but for ****s sake, have a bit of self awareness.

Knowing us that is absolutely what will happen, but I would PISS MYSELF if we managed to stay up instead. Simon Jordan might actually explode with rage.

We are such a profoundly absurd football club and I ****ing love it. Imagine supporting anyone else.

Upheld by the September ruling. No longer a claim, it’s a fact. From September’s ruling: 15. In the following year, using the power conferred by Section 392 of the Companies Act 2006, LCFC prepared its audited accounts for the year ended 30th of June 2023. It is not suggested that there was anything untoward in its changing in its accounting reference date. Those accounts complied with the requirement in Rule A.1.8 that the accounting reference date should be between 31st of May and the 31st of July. 37. Para 53. The Commission observes the LCFC specifically chose the change accounting reference for period T to end of the 30th of June that turned out to subsequently to be a date after it was relegated and ceased to be a member of the PL. Mr De Marco KC acknowledged at the hearing that whilst it was not LCFC‘s intention to circumvent PL rules by moving the accounting reference period from May to June, had it not done so its accounting reference period for T would’ve been completed before its relegation and thus any argument regarding temporal jurisdiction would fall away. We accept LCFC were entitled to change accounting reference period and did so properly in order to try and comply with the PSR’s, however The Commission considers the fact that LCFC‘s financial year end fell after it was relegated is irrelevant to the issue of whether the LCFC remains liable for an alleged breach of the PSR‘s for the 2022/23 season. The process (and ongoing obligations in respect of that process) of compliance with the PSR’s commence before LCFC ceased to be a member and was a process that continued until LCFC provide its final accounts on the financial year ended 30th of June 2023 which you eventually did in April 2024 From Swiss Ramble: Before we start delving into the club’s finances, it’s worth noting the technical impact of the change in the year-end from May to June, which means that their 2022/23 accounts covered 13 months, compared to only 12 months in the prior year. This brought Leicester in line with the vast majority of other clubs, but the extension also gave them an additional month to book player sales, which allowed them to include James Maddison’s big money move to Spurs. However, this change also resulted in an additional month of expenses, while there was little impact on revenue, as there were no matches played in June. Excellent question. It’s a truly absurd situation created entirely by the extreme negligence of company in charge of a multi-BILLION dollar business. If the EFL DO claim we were in their league and privy to their rules in a season in which we didn’t play a single game in their league, how can anyone take them or their rules seriously ever again? Both leagues have completely destroyed their own credibility. I agree. I’ve said many times on here I am deeply, deeply angry with the failures of Top, Susan and Rudkin and the board’s multiple and repeated failures over many, many years that have led to us being in this disgraceful mess. But having said that, they have challenged both league’s blatantly outrageous behaviour through the proper channels and won, every single time. I mean we’re literally 4-0 up and it’s probably not even ‘half time’ in this process. It will kick off again, big time, when the Man City case is finally resolved, and I think the Premier League will be in such a vulnerable position after it that change will HAVE TO happen.

You’re in for an even bigger ****ing treat.

Did a double bill at the cinema on Sunday. Warfare and Sinners. Went in completely blind, only knowing a handful of things about the actual plots, but I’m a fan of both directors output so trusted that I’d be in safe hands. I was not wrong. Warfare (Alex Garland - Ex Machina, Annihilation, Men, Civil War) was an intense examination of a group of US soldiers under siege in a house in Iraq during the war in 2006. Co-written and co-directed by Ray Mendoza, who was one of the actual soldiers in the true story. The film isn’t overtly political and doesn’t have much to do with why the soldiers are in Iraq or the US government, but the plot was directly allegorical to the war from start to finish and was edge-of-your-seat tense from start to finish. Sinners (Ryan Coogler - Fruitvale Street, Creed, Black Panther 1 & 2). To say ANYTHING about this would give a hell of a lot away so I’ll be careful... Set in 1930s Mississippi, twin crooks (both played by Michael B Jordan) return to their hometown after years away, reconnect with family and their community as they set up an African-American-only “ juke joint”, recruiting blues musicians (including their cousin Sammie) to perform at the opening night. And I have to stop there. What happened next was unexpected, transcendent, hilarious, heartbreaking and utterly unique. It had SO MUCH to say about music and culture, race and racism, poverty, community, REDACTED, and life itself. Brilliant performances from everyone, particularly Wunmi Mosako, Michael B Jordan, Miles Caton (his first acting role), Jack O’Connell (who drops into his SAS: Rogue Heroes at times), and ESPECIALLY Delroy Lindo. It won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, especially some of the wild twists and turns, but I LOVED every second of it. An absolutely exhilarating cinematic experience.

138 pages. That’s the best we’ve done for a long while. See you in the next one.

Worth a try though; if only for Simon Jordan’s meltdown. As far as I can tell there was nothing in their rules pre-2025 that would legitimise any claim that we were an EFL club in 2022/23, even for the last two weeks and especially not anything that would beholden us to their PSR limits. As I said before though, they will absolutely try. It’s a complete and total minefield and surely our situation has proven that the rules are not fit for purpose. Especially considering that this grey area existed for a full decade before we fell into it.

They cannot seriously suggest that we haven’t cooperated with them. We’ve cooperated so much that we’ve helped them understand their own rules! If anything we should be rewarded with a points bonus! The EFL surely won’t be able to claim jurisdiction over us in a season we didn’t play a single game in their league. I mean they will absolutely try that, like they did last season. All that was proven last September was that we ceased to be a Premier League club before the end of our accounting window. Neither league have a leg to stand on over that season and neither can they claim we exploited a loophole. We just read the rules.

I will never, ever forget that Sevilla tifo unrolling. Absolutely stunning. The ****ing noise that erupted when the Champions League music finished. It set the tone for the night and what happened, happened. Keep up the great work, @Union FS.

There is absolutely nothing behind her eyes.

The EFL’s statement from last April: EFL Statement: Leicester City 12 Apr On 22 March 2024 Leicester City Football Club announced they had commenced urgent legal proceedings against the EFL and the Premier League. This followed the Club’s referral to an independent Premier League Disciplinary Commission for an alleged breach of the Profitability and Sustainability Rules (P&S), ending in financial year 2022/23. The Club had also been placed under an EFL registration embargo, in accordance with Profitability & Sustainability Rule 2.10.1, after filing its 2023/24 P&S calculation. One element of the Club’s legal proceedings involved an application to a League arbitration panel under the EFL Regulations in which it accused the EFL, amongst other things, of acting ‘unlawfully by conspiring with the Premier League to use unlawful means and to procure or induce a breach of contract by the Premier League’ in relation to its proceedings against the Club. The Club made an application for an interim injunction to prevent the EFL from imposing a sporting sanction in the current 2023/24 season. Leicester City sent no letter before action and issued the proceedings without notice. The core issue in question was whether the EFL has the ability under its Regulations to apply a points deduction in its competition if ordered by a Premier League Disciplinary Commission. Having taken legal advice, the EFL has confirmed to all parties that whilst it would want to respect any decision of a Premier League Disciplinary commission (and vice versa) to deduct points in the EFL, it does not have the power under the Regulations as currently drafted. On the basis of that confirmation, the League Arbitration Panel held that the Club’s application for an interim injunction was neither necessary nor appropriate. The League Arbitration Panel dismissed the Club’s application accordingly. Click here to read the decision. It remains a matter for Leicester City to comply with the P&S rules in all circumstances. In accordance with the League’s established processes, the EFL will continue to apply the P&S rules to ensure all Clubs meet their financial obligations so the competition can continue to operate in a fair and consistent manner. By changing the rules yesterday (EFL) and last month (Premier League), they’ve just proven this segment: One element of the Club’s legal proceedings involved an application to a League arbitration panel under the EFL Regulations in which it accused the EFL, amongst other things, of acting ‘unlawfully by conspiring with the Premier League to use unlawful means and to procure or induce a breach of contract by the Premier League’ in relation to its proceedings against the Club. Absolutely spot on. Both leagues have proven themselves to be corrupt, and hostile to a club that was trying to comply with their (by their own admission) incompetent rules. Take the disastrous transfer and wages dealings out of it for a minute. We tried so hard to comply with the rules that we deviated from a successful strategy, harmed our squad and the progress we had made, and ended up relegated because of it. We were then pursued by two leagues, breaking their own rules multiple times, and ultimately proved we had broken none of theirs. Yet now we’ve been relegated for a second time, and they’ve gone and changed the rules AGAIN to further harm our chances to get back to where we were before. These new rules give them new powers to control our ability to compete in the transfer market. Meanwhile, another club who DID exceed PSR when they came up and were given a points deduction the season after, are possibly on the brink of qualifying for the Champions League. So what the **** is the incentive for complying with their rules? One club who did break them has ended up progressing into Europe, while the club who DIDN’T break their rules, has ended up in a Kafkaesque nightmare of the league’s making. How are we supposed to compete?

(and Helly R further in the background is the ‘big’ clubs just doing whatever the **** they want)

Sorry about the long post. Here is a gif representation of how I feel about the matter: Dylan G is us just trying to compete. Seth in the background is the Premier League doing their best to prevent that.

OK the spoiler tags won’t work so **** it, there’s the whole thing

I’m fully aware of how much I post about this topic and I’ve been trying much harder in recent posts to stress that the club is culpable for a hell of a lot of what’s happened in the last 3 years; I tried to outline as much as I could in these posts the other day: (spoilered cos they’re very long posts) The thing is, we were THE model of perfection between 2015-2021. (Don’t laugh) We’d developed a strategy of trading one big asset for a huge amount of money (Kante, Drinkwater, Mahrez, Slabhead, Chilwell were profits of 25m, 37m, 60m, 60m and 50m respectively) in exchange for a large number of players that would improve the squad each time. It has HIGHLY successful, culminating in our FA Cup win and Europa Conference semi final. What happened to us between 2020-2022 was a series of events, most of which beyond our control, that uniquely affected US as a football club far more than anyone else, that has had truly devastating and catastrophic consequences for us. — COVID is a massive one as you point out. Completely killed our momentum on the pitch and ****ed up our income off it. — The pandemic UNIQUELY affected King Power’s finances which lost the company BILLIONS. — Failure to qualify for the Champions League in 2020 and 2021. — Basic prize money just for appearing in the Group Stages is 400% higher in the CL than the EL. — And that’s before you add in the gate receipts, broadcasting money and greater exposure to more lucrative sponsorships and merchandising deals. — MAJOR injury crises — Ricardo and Justin missed 58 and 98 games respectively — Fofana missed most of his second season due to a deliberate and malicious foul — Evans missed 50-60 games over his time here — Ndidi has missed about 2 months out of 4 of the last 5 seasons — Barnes and Maddison both missed significant parts of 2-3 seasons each — at some point we literally had 4 players missing due to ACLs (Ricardo, JJ, Alves and Braybrooke), AND had a major COVID outbreak that resulted in us playing 15-16 year olds. — We beat Liverpool with a back 4 of Castagne, Amartey, Ndidi and Luke ****ing Thomas!! — Changes to PSR rules which turned our previously successful transfer strategy into an immediate vulnerability that meant we had no choice but to do some serious self-harm in order to comply with. — The Premier League’s behaviour here has been unrelenting shocking. Read the posts above. It should be a ****ing scandal. — Forced change of sponsorship to comply with APT rules — King Power signed up to sponsor our stadium and shirts on a 10 year deal in 2010. When that expired the club did a deal with Thailand’s tourist board for the COVID season. — APT (Associated Party Transactions) rules tightening (designed to mitigate Newcastle’s new owners cheating like Manchester City have done) meant sponsorship deals linked to club’s owners were under far, far more scrutiny, even further restricting what owners can invest. — For people wondering why the club signed up to the dodgiest of sponsorship deals, this is why. The Premier League literally made it the only alternative to the owner putting in his own money. — Man City successfully challenged the APT rules in court last October (3 aspects of the rules were ruled illegal) and are going again on the subject as we speak. ———— None of the above absolves Top or Rudkin or Susan of any responsibility for their own mistakes. But they had a perfect storm of unprecedented problems that affected us more than any other club, some of which caused by a demonstrably incompetent (by their own admission) and corrupt league’s actively hostile behaviour towards us, as well as their blatant preferential treatment towards other clubs in their PSR calculations AND their decades long failure to hold other clubs accountable for brazen cheating (Manchester City and the other ‘big’ clubs, plus Tottenham). All of this has cost the club close to a billion quid in potential lost earnings. — The Champions League would have brought in HUGE amounts of money through gate receipts, basic prize money, broadcasting, sponsorship and merchandising; — Getting relegated the first time saw £150m+ walk out the door for way, WAY below its value and required a rebuild by the same useless twats who have gone on to make the same ****ing transfer and wages mistakes — The loss of Premier League money - prize money, broadcasting, gate receipts, sponsorship and merchandising and having to enter the far, far stricter financial controls of the EFL. The only thing giving me any hope is the wording of the statements the club released each time they won a case against the EFL or Premier League: From September: The Premier League first referred the Club to an independent Commission in March 2024 for an alleged PSR breach relating to the assessment period ending 30 June 2023. The Commission dismissed the Club’s initial challenge to its jurisdiction to hear the case, but the Club’s challenge has now been upheld by an independent Appeal Board, which reversed the Commission’s finding. The full decision has been published at . Leicester City welcomes the Appeal Board’s comprehensive decision, which supports our consistently stated position that any action against the Club should be pursued in accordance with the applicable rules. To avoid any misunderstandings which may arise in light of the statement which has been issued by the Premier League in response to the appeal decision, Leicester City wishes to emphasise the finding of the Appeal Panel that, when considering the wording which is actually used in the Premier League rules (in accordance with established principles of English law) the Club did not breach the Premier League PSRs for the assessment period ending 30 June 2023. In its decision, the Appeal Board (which was made of up a panel of three experienced, senior lawyers, two of whom are former Court of Appeal judges) identifies flaws in the drafting of the Premier League’s rules. In challenging the Premier League’s attempts to charge Leicester City, the Club has simply sought to ensure (in the interests of providing consistency and certainty for all clubs) that the rules are applied based on how they are actually written. And last March: LCFC today releases the following statement. LCFC notes the publication today of the decision of the League Arbitration Panel (LAP). As the LAP decision records, the EFL wrote to the Premier League on 20 March 2024 (the day before the PL brought its PSR complaint against LCFC), stating that the EFL would ensure that any sanction imposed by a Premier League Disciplinary Commission against LCFC would take effect while LCFC was in the Championship, whilst also noting that any points deduction sought by the Premier League would need to be applied before 4 May 2024. However, after the Club challenged the EFL’s intention to act outside of its rules, the EFL subsequently unconditionally accepted that it does not in fact have any power, from any source, to impose a points deduction in the EFL which has been ordered by a Premier League Disciplinary Commission in relation to PSR. LCFC continues to try and co-operate constructively with both the Premier League and the EFL to reach a lawful resolution of any issues relating to PSR, in accordance with our consistent commitment that any charges against the Club should be properly and proportionately determined, in accordance with the applicable rules, by the right bodies, and at the right time. And the day before: Leicester City is surprised at the actions the Premier League has taken today. The Club is extremely disappointed that the Premier League has chosen to charge LCFC now, despite the Club’s efforts to engage constructively with the Premier League in relation to the matters that are the subject of this charge, even though LCFC is not currently a Premier League club. LCFC remains willing and eager to engage constructively with the Premier League and the EFL to seek the proper resolution of any potential charges, by the right bodies, and at the right time. The Club continues to take careful advice about its position and, if necessary, will continue to defend itself from any unlawful acts by the football authorities, should they seek to exercise jurisdiction where they cannot do so, as occurred earlier this year. LCFC has repeatedly demonstrated its commitment to the P&S rules through its operating model over a considerable period, achieving compliance while pursuing sporting ambitions that are entirely credible given the consistent success that the Club has achieved in that time, both domestically and in European competition. As we continue to represent the Club’s position, we will continue to fight for the right of all clubs to pursue their ambitions, particularly where these have been reasonably and fairly established through sustained sporting achievement. The Club thanks its supporters for their understanding in this matter and for their continued support for our team, whose success on the pitch during the final weeks of the season remains our primary focus. ——————— They ARE fighting for the club. They stood up to the EFL and Premier League last season when they were brazenly breaking their own rules. We took them both to arbitration through the appropriate channels and won, every single time. They WILL come after us again next season. But the club are standing their ground strongly in the face of corruption and aggression as well as the media’s complete and total failure to report any of this honestly. YES I want changes at the club. YES they are responsible for a hell of a lot. But the Premier League and their pet clubs are too. Far more than, in my opinion.

Welease Wudkin

Both leagues have broken their own rules multiple times and all they’ve achieved is managed to prove we’ve broken non of theirs.