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Five games, five wins, top of the league. Manchester City, a fortnight after an independent commission found they systematically broke the Premier League's financial rules for nine straight seasons.
So what exactly are we all watching?
Not asking for the season to be scrapped. That's daft, and it punishes nineteen clubs who've done nowt wrong. But I'd like somebody at the Premier League to explain why the table at the top of every sports page is one they already know is wrong.
Because here's where we actually are. The commission has ruled. City lodged their appeal on October 1st. No sanction has been announced. Nobody knows when it will be. Sky are reporting that Premier League clubs themselves don't expect City to even BE in this league next season if the appeal fails.
And in the meantime, the league just carries on. Points are awarded. Positions are published. Clubs are planning January windows around a table that might be fiction.
Think about who that actually hurts. Not City, they're fine, they're top. It's the club that goes down in May by two points and later finds out the table was never real. It's the club that sacks a manager in February over a league position that gets rewritten. It's the staff at a relegated club losing their jobs over a season nobody can stand behind. Real money, real people, decided by a table the league itself can't vouch for.
And the bit that genuinely sticks in the throat. Everton got docked ten points, mid season, reduced to six. Forest got four. Both for single PSR breaches. Both punished DURING the season it mattered, so the table stayed honest.
Eighty charges over nine seasons, plus thirty five for refusing to cooperate with the investigation into it, and somehow that one has to wait.
Carragher's right. Do it this season. Whatever it is, apply it now, to this table, the way it was applied to Everton and Forest. Because every week this drags on, the Premier League is asking us to treat a standings table as real while quietly knowing it might not be.
Due process matters and the appeal has to be heard, I'm not arguing with that. But there's a difference between due process and letting a club sit top of a competition for an entire season while the punishment for breaking that competition's rules sits in a drawer.
The league's credibility isn't damaged by what City did ten years ago. It's damaged by what the league is choosing to do about it now.
Nine seasons. Then three years of charges. Then a verdict. And still, somehow, nothing.
Who's season is this, exactly? 🖤🖤
#PremierLeague #MCFC
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Happy 68th birthday to Madonna who has just dropped the album of her career, is Top 10 in the charts with a fellow gay icon, and has a hot young boy toy.
That, to me, says RELEVANT!
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Confirmed at number 8 this week, with 11,000 sales added to streams. This is Madonna’s biggest UK hit since Celebration in 2009!
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I successfully managed to avoid posting all of these silly little tip of the hat videos to the movies of the past. Maybe I'll just post one. Of course it has all of them in it. Here is what i believe the best of the best. I actually like the inside jokes that they have in many of them. 🤣🤣🤣
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Hydration breaks.
Football is a game of momentum and anyone who's ever watched a thrilling 90 minutes would agree that most players or supporters would give up a half time break when a great game is being played. Why? Stops destroy that momentum and flow of the incredible spectacle of association football.
Our sport, a 150 year old sport no less, is the world's most popular to watch and to play.
Not the NFL
Not the NBA
Not MLB
Association Football.
So a few pundits, fans and journalists doing TV and sponsors bidding by opining that hydration breaks are a good idea couldn't give one good reason as to how the game would be made better.
Coaches work SEVEN DAYS A WEEK to drill instruction into players, so in game instruction isn't needed.
Players can hydrate whenever they like. They're not fucking babies needing a feed.
The breaks CREATE a STOP OF MOMENTUM. And I've never seen one match in thousands I've watched or played in that's been better with more stoppages. Not ONE.
So to this angling for change, what makes you think you're so special to change the world's most popular sport to play and watch that's been both of those things for 150 years?
Minor tweaks? Absolutely. The back pass rule was being abused, so it was changed. A materially good thing for the players and fans.
More breaks? At a time where stops in play for diving, cheating, VAR etc are colliding with hydration breaks? No thanks.
Those wanting this are working for broadcasters and sponsors who want a bigger piece of the game. Never forget that.
Football. A simple game ruined by football illiterate fucknuts.
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Mo Salah dancing on the streets of Vancouver with fans, after he scores to help Egypt win their first ever World Cup game
Is right lad
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60 seconds on Saturday 15/06/1996 changed the course of an entire summer.
England had drawn with Switzerland in their opening match. They were playing badly but led Scotland 1-0 in their second game.
With a little over ten minutes remaining, Gary McAllister had the chance to level things from the penalty spot and potentially derail England’s tournament. David Seaman carved his place in Euros folklore by saving it, and what followed was pure genius: Paul Gascoigne flicking the ball over Colin Hendry’s head before volleying home a goal that sent Wembley into raptures and became the defining image of Euro 96.
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Parents wake up son to celebrate
Arsenal winning PL title 🥹❤️
A moment the family will never forget
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Huge day today for Madonna! "I Feel So Free" is out today on radio and we've got it every hour all weekend: iheart.com/live/pride365-107…
We're an honest-to-goodness non-profit station so help us out and tell everyone you can!
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February 3, 1989. The Mega Powers explode.
“Watching again, one is mesmerised by The Macho Man’s psycho performance,” Findlay Martin wrote in the final edition of Power Slam. “This was his show. Hogan was the enhancement talent.”
