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Likewise I was in stitches thinking this was a beautifully written piece of satire.

Commentators willing a penalty for something fairly innocuous, just for the sake of adding some controversy and post match discussion.

Sample size is low but convinced this bloke is going to be a baller.

Longstaff needs to make the foul in those counter attack situations

Longstaff needs to enrol in lessons on how to win free kicks

Agree. FFP is completely flawed. It imposes rules that stifle competition. It does little to protect sustainability. It creates illogical incentives that lack economic sense. It is not, however, the primary reason why this Newcastle team lost away at Arsenal.

Agree fantasy football is ridiculous these days. Immediately switch off when my mates discuss who they have triple captained this week. Showing my age but I remember when you had to send a self addressed envelope to the Daily Telegraph to submit your team and transfers. I also remember some newspapers operated with both the premier league and Scottish league in the same competition. Think it might have been the Times. You could pick up Marco Negri for £1.5m and he was banging in 3 goals a game against the likes of Patrick Thistle.

PIF is a sovereign wealth fund. They operate in a similar way to how a large pension scheme would operate in Europe. They are an asset owner not an asset manager. They couldn't possibly try to actively manage day to day operations of every asset they own and nor would they want to.

I would criticise the entitlement of man united fans in this scenario but I expect Newcastle fans were similar when the club were trying to prise him from Brighton. However, the comparison in this thread by the likes of Froggy on the relative constraints of FFP between Man United and Newcastle is simply laughable. I am amazed that football fans comment on finance when they simply don't understand it. The alarm bells usually ring when a fan quotes 'net transfer spend' over a random arbitrary period which suits their particular argument.

Bloke has the mobility of the QE2

This ref is beyond a joke. Some of the fouls not given for both teams have been ridiculous

As an aside, we have become a very naiive team for NOT committing cynical fouls when defending transitions.

Shoot on sight policy with Matz Sels in nets

What's the opposite of a sweeper keeper?

It would have been a bit of a random and questionable signing at the start of the season but Barkley has looked consistently good for Luton all season and clearly would have been a very useful player in our squad.

This is exactly it The lino is not flagging for a penalty and wouldn't dream of doing so. They always sit on fence and leave it to the ref for penalty calls. But the fact he gives a foul means var looks at the penalty through the context a foul has already been given. Not sure that logic stacks up but can't complain as Burn was skinned and continued to foul into the box.

You have picked the wrong team to support

Injury time rules When we need to score = 4 minutes Defending a lead = 9 minutes

Am I allowed to say he has been really good second half

Isn't it Lee Dixon's job to know the rules?

Strange one. Seemed to perform reasonably well most times he played. However, barely got any minutes and most managers didn't seem to fancy him. Perhaps he was crap in training. Will always remember him for that lung busting run versus leeds that turned out entire season. Good luck to him

We are much more likely to sell Bruno or Isak because of FFP (and not the other way around).

There is definitely an argument that there should be some mechanism to prevent the club's with the deepest pockets winning all the time. FFP is not the answer to this though, because FFP is based on profit, which in turn is based on revenue, and those with the deepest pockets pre FFP have the largest revenue.

To 'prevent a leeds' you want enhanced controls that are focussed on cash reserves and the ability of clubs to meet obligations such as loan repayments, VAT, PAYE etc. For example, can all clubs meet 12 months worth of commitments in a scenario where they are relegated? FFP controls are nothing to do with cash or financial security. A club could put £1bn in a sealed escrow account to demonstrate financial security for the next decade, but it could still fail FFP.

I've seen several FTSE 250 company's finances and budgets glued together by manual spreadsheets and vlookups. They just upload the resulting spreadsheet into some flashy web based portal for the front end reports and the CEO and investors assume everything in finance is high tech and cutting edge.