So your view is that he's not biased, just completely incompetent Yep, and he's still one of the best in the country which is why he's a PL official. We've seen ourselves what they have in the Championship and L1. And when you see clubs facilitating abuse and conspiracies like Forest are, and setti...
WRTTOP, when a goalkeeper makes a routine catch and throws themselves down on the ground, ball in hand. It seems to be endemic now, and serves no purpose I can see other than to waste time.
Yeah that's outrageous. Hopefully a huge fine and their club account banned from social media posting. The PGMOL also have some questions to answer if they knowingly used a VAR who supported one of the teams that had an "interest" in the result. I think they should sue Forest for defamati...
There's also a problem that the decision given affects the game from that point on, whereas with cricket the ball is dead and they can judge things at their leisure. If a linesman flags for offside the game stops, so if VAR proves that decision was wrong then how do you recover from stopping a promi...
How did we do it before these guys came on board. Never saw any problems or issues prior to getting these guys in. Very little has changed n the ticketing world other than adding tickets to respective phone wallets. Maybe the old system didnt work on a smartphone? If this company charges like £5k a...
As with most things in the world, it would be much easier if people were honest. The PL don't want their team to play less games, they just want them to play different "higher value" ones. As has been said, the FA and PL have just decided this is the way forward without obvious consultati...
For further context, Everton's stadium is costing £500M - although I suspect it may have gone up a bit since then. So £3B is just a ridiculous estimate.
Given the last few years I'm not sure we should really be lolling at clubs with batshit mental owners seemingly intent on screwing the club into the ground. That said, £3 billion? Just how could a stadium cost that much unless you're using it for money laundering purposes? Tottenham's stadium cost ...
It’s got me thinking that transfers should be financed as … 1. All base fees paid up front with no stage payments 2. All add ons placed in escrow 3. All fees and taxes to be paid in full within 14 days, otherwise the registration is cancelled, meaning the buying club still has to pay the player, bu...
Leeds owe 180 million in unpaid transfer fees. :o You know the more I read about these clubs the more angry I get knowing that we have continually been kicked in the nuts. Yes we broke rules but the likes of Leicester, Leeds, West Brom all seem to go under the radar. I guarantee they will get a red...
Next season it should start from 138 and be updated weekly on how many more points we still need to finish top. Standards must be raised. The temptation to set it up as: Champions - 138 Promotion - 138 Play offs - 138 Survival - 138 And track all 4 is there. But keeping it up would be a mammoth bal...
Yep it's been coming for years but it's closer and closer now. Another of the aims of the big European clubs is to go global, so there'll be a local version of Barca, Juve, Liverpool and so on in every territory worldwide. The main clubs in Europe will use the South American, US, Middle East or Far-...
https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2024/04/09/relevent-fifa-legal-fight-deal FIFA and U.S. promoter Relevent Sports have reached an agreement to “end their legal fight over the ban on big European football leagues and clubs playing official matches in the US,” Relevent yesterday told th...
It'd be a brave (or extremely expensive) lender that would take on sales for a club in our financial predicament when you consider that if we go bust or into administration it's the credit company that has the contract with (and so the liability to) STHs, but would only be a teeny tiny creditor wit...
Makes me f*cking sick that the points deductions are so light. The PL could and should have followed the same as the EFL. 12 points reduced to 6 if they follow budgets set with salary caps and transfer embargos. Break that set budget and the other 6 points come off. The PL have f*cked this up so ba...
Someone on Twitter has noticed the Premier League have started running attack ads regarding a regulator for football: https://twitter.com/sgfmann/status/1777242796086227366 The one found was oddly placed in the middle of an article about David Cameron going to the US in an attempt to get military a...