The on topic thread 3.0

[Bradesmaen]

Turns out Pep needed those extra fans in. Probs why City didnt win.

Ground was near full.

 

[Venkman]

Pep should suck it up. It's not like City haven't playing some pretty awesome football without crowrds.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

This is cool by Spurs. Glad we're a part of it.

This is hilarious. Hosting a carbon neutral game against a team whose owner made his money owning an oil company

 

[RPCB]

 

[chef]

This is hilarious. Hosting a carbon neutral game against a team whose owner made his money owning an oil company

Yeah I thought it was a bit ironic, I guess you needed a high profile club.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Sad day losing a great of the game. His former clubs daresay will have a minute’s silence before kick off.

 

[chef]

Yep. Sad stuff. 125 goals in 150 odd games for us is pretty impressive. Was fantastic at Spurs too.

 

[Bostonian]

FANS of Brighton and Hove Albion are highest up the exam table as they have got most GCSEs, research found.

After Brighton, Premier League’s second smartest supporters are Southampton’s who average ten passes.

Top of the table.

Fans of Brighton and Hove Albion are highest up the exam table with most GCSEs (thesun.co.uk)

 

[go you pups]

This is hilarious. Hosting a carbon neutral game against a team whose owner made his money owning an oil company

Lel, fair bit of virtue signalling here then

 

[RPCB]

How is this for an old school newspaper clipping?

 

[Zidane98]

How is this for an old school newspaper clipping?

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Great find!! The vow to "control" his temper obviously worked well. Career finished with 123 yellow cards and 12 red cards


Good to see he is currently doing very well in Japan.

 

[RPCB]

Great find!! The vow to "control" his temper obviously worked well. Career finished with 123 yellow cards and 12 red cards


Good to see he is currently doing very well in Japan.

Found it on Reddit.

I used to play indoor soccer back in the day (1998/1999) with a few friends and one of them used to bring his younger brother, Adrian to play. He was about 7 or 8 years old and would absolutely destroy these 17-18 year olds.



Muscat is an absolute scumbag of a bloke. Could have destroyed his career.

 

[Thistle]

Muscat is an absolute scumbag of a bloke. Could have destroyed his career.

He basically did as Zahra only played 18 more a-league games after that. Muscat is a POS.

 

[Elmer_Judd]

Still believe all the breakaway clubs that joined the European Super League should have been relegated or at least start the season minus 40 points.

Absolutely gutless from the English FA.

 

[SM]

Still believe all the breakaway clubs that joined the European Super League should have been relegated or at least start the season minus 40 points.

Absolutely gutless from the English FA.

Yep, anyone saying otherwise is just speaking out of self interest. The argument that the points penalty would punish the fans not the owners doesn't wash when financial misdemeanours results in points penalties in lower divisions and other scenarios.

 

[RossFC]

 

[moomba]

Yep, anyone saying otherwise is just speaking out of self interest. The argument that the points penalty would punish the fans not the owners doesn't wash when financial misdemeanours results in points penalties in lower divisions and other scenarios.

You can't just issue arbitrary punishments because it seems the right thing to do.

Next time it happens, the FA will be better prepared.

 

[chef]

 

[RPCB]

You would have hoped so.

I wouldn't be surprised if the group stage of the European competitions have matches played almost weekly to finish the group stage by the first week of November (MD 6 is always the first week of December) and then resume when it typically would in February/March.

 

[SM]

You can't just issue arbitrary punishments because it seems the right thing to do.

Next time it happens, the FA will be better prepared.

It's not quite arbitrary though is it, when similar punishments are in place for plenty of other misadventures.

Bit of a cop out to say they weren't prepared for it when it had been rumoured for years.

 

[DBAH0]

Has Martial actually only scored once in his last 24 games?

 

[moomba]

It's not quite arbitrary though is it, when similar punishments are in place for plenty of other misadventures.

Bit of a cop out to say they weren't prepared for it when it had been rumoured for years.

Those "misadventures" were specified and penalties were prescribed in FA rules.

Give 40 point penalties (potentially costing hundreds of millions) to clubs for a vague catch all "disrepute" charge and your guaranteed to end up in court.

FWIW I think what they're talking about now, owners will be contractually obliged to commit to the league pyramid and structure. So of they go against it again, there will be a clear offence with prescribed penalties.

Better prepared, although I suspect we'll find is that the prescribed penalties will be more a large fine than large points deduction.

 

[SM]

Those "misadventures" were specified and penalties were prescribed in FA rules.

Give 40 point penalties (potentially costing hundreds of millions) to clubs for a vague catch all "disrepute" charge and your guaranteed to end up in court.

FWIW I think what they're talking about now, owners will be contractually obliged to commit to the league pyramid and structure. So of they go against it again, there will be a clear offence with prescribed penalties.

Better prepared, although I suspect we'll find is that the prescribed penalties will be more a large fine than large points deduction.

They were specified because they had precedents. This was unprecedented. That doesn't make applying reasonable and fair penalties in this case impossible and not worth trying. End of the day the clubs got off lightly because money talks and that's the start and end of it.

 

[chef]

The FA was never going to severely punish their cash cows. They need them in the league and battling for the title or their product would take a hit globally.

Money talks.

 

[Bojan KantKick]

It's not quite arbitrary though is it, when similar punishments are in place for plenty of other misadventures.

Bit of a cop out to say they weren't prepared for it when it had been rumoured for years.

The EPL / EFL love punishing clubs who can't defend themselves. Their bollocks shrink when the big boys are involved though.