JP had every chance of getting his hands on the ball and may well have done, if the two players then collide then how is that an offence. Is JP not allowed to run as quickly as Gayle. If Gayle handles the ball before any collision then that is the first offence and the point at which the ref should...

Whether or not he hand balled it before or after the collision, he could see the keeper coming and the keeper had no hope of getting the ball without clearing out the man. The keeper gave away a penalty through his inexperience / exuberance. Keeper gave ref a decision to make. A ref is behind the s...

If you dont want to concede penalties, you don't rush out of your box and bundle into a player, knowing that will mean the ref will have to make a decision based on what he has seen. Every single comment along the lines of "it was crystal clear" is because you are watching on a TV with th...

However, in both cases a Reading player probably made a poor decision to find themselves in a situation where a poor decision could be made by the ref. How is Yids not tripping Gayle a poor decision? For his 2nd yellow, he tried to turn his way out of trouble when surrounded by Derby players - ball...

If you dont want to concede penalties, you don't rush out of your box and bundle into a player, knowing that will mean the ref will have to make a decision based on what he has seen. Every single comment along the lines of "it was crystal clear" is because you are watching on a TV with the...

Are you using a Nokia 5110? No. Have to agree with GWL that my first reaction is what the oxf*rd is Pereira doing racing out to the edge of his box to a striker running essentially away from goal, when he's never going to get to the ball.first cleanly. And I have sympathy with a ref not seeing a ha...

I think there pen was a pen. 2nd yellow while very soft, if he has tripped him, it is a 2nd yellow as he is in a very attacking position. Hard to tell from.that angle if he did trip him. Fine margins Have you seen the replay? It was a clear handball by Gayle. Whether or not he hand balled it before...

I think there pen was a pen.

2nd yellow while very soft, if he has tripped him, it is a 2nd yellow as he is in a very attacking position. Hard to tell from.that angle if he did trip him.

Fine margins

Because it relies on getting into the promised land of the PL. And for many investors they dont have the time commitment to get into the PL. You can't call a football team sustainable if it relies on getting to the PL and staying there a while. That literally the hole problem with the Championship....

So basically cost neutral over about a decade. not at all. with the exception of being in the PL. an almost constant loss. i.e. unsustainable. Profit / loss -17 2021-22 -35 2020-21 -41 2019-20 -30 2018-19 -20 2017-18 4 2016-17 Dai wrote off a 9m loan, so the actual club made a 5m loss -15 2015-16 2...

Obviously you're struggling here, because that's three years that have been mentioned, with about another 3-5 as roughly break even. Which adds up to about a decade cost neutral. I've done the research to settle it for you both. From c. 2000 - 2006 it was a story of consistent, modest losses in the...

Because all the players got big promotion bonuses. Taking one year in isolation is meaningless. When was last time the club actually broke even or made a profit? We made profit in both first two PL seasons. And we were roughly breaking even through player sales in the years between that and the nex...

Forget profitable, just minimal losses is good for most club. It should a club like us at least 50 years to create losses of about £150m. We've done it in about 10. We made big losses the year we were promoted under Sir Steve. Sir John "cut the cloth" Madejski whose era we all use as exam...

No, that isn't the case. With a good youth system and scouting, it's perfect feasible to run a club on modest means, making up shortfall on selling on players. We've done it before, we can do it again. This. Only caveat is football finances are even more nuts today than in out 00s heyday. Very hard...

Every person who thinks "i can't wait for a new owner to come in and stabilise things"... What they really means is: I can't wait for someone new to come in and to start taking heavy losses immediately with pretty much no prospect of ever making a return on that money, so that I can enjoy ...

Next protest needs to be outside of Chinese embassy they can influence Dai and would not be happy at him embarrassing them They wouldn't give two shits. I heard people, who seem pretty well versed in Chinese culture, say the opposite. Seemingly they don't like to be embarrassed in the wider world, ...

Knowing a little bit about insolvency protocol one massive no no is hiving off assets prior to any form of insolvency process beginning. If D*I thinks he can flog Bearwood for mega money (or any money!) and then he walk away HMRC take the dimmest view known to man on people who do that. They will p...

I mean this just isn’t true is it. The FL have pushed for Dai to be banned twice already and the Independent Commission with the final say on sanctions have refused both times. Fair point. In which case, will an independent regulator be more inclined to kick clubs out than and independent commissio...

There's a difference here. He didn't put their club into mountains of debt beforehand and the fraud part sits with him. Fleetwood Town are separate. They will go down, they might struggle in League Two but they will be self sufficient until its sold or he comes out the nick at which point he will t...

I "academically" consider Oxford, Swindon, and Aldershot our rivals, but there's no venom there. I have much more hatred for West Ham (both for Pardew and because of their Allardyce-era thuggery), Cardiff, and anyone associated with Neil Warnock. Same. Not the warnock thuggery, but the Ke...