Boey_Jarton

You are probably right. What usually happens on problems like this is a company will buy some bespoke modelling tool for lots of money and which integrates with their financial ledger and which outputs lots of flashy charts that look good for the monthly reports. After a few months the financial controller will realise it doesn't quite work or is not flexible enough, and so instead resorts to a manual spreadsheet that he or she is comfortable with.

Ha. I appreciate my username is not a good choice for someone who dislikes Joey Barton.

Behind the veneer of the wannabe working class socialist hero, the veneer of the quirky Nietzsche quoting wannabe intellectual, the veneer of the Morrissey loving mod. Giving off the pretence that he is an NUFC legend despite only having a very brief purple patch and doing nothing else of note for us despite going to prison. His faux hatred of the mackems. The bloke creates an image to try and mask over his inadequacies.

Behind the veneer is a deeply horrible bloke.

Dummett rocked up straight from love island like? Looking fresh

Who told Sunderland to play out from the back against a premier league pressing team ? Batshit tactics that plays into our hands

Ref basically not being objective and deciding not to book Sunderland players because he would prefer them to have 11 men. Joke refereeing

Almiron immense. Nice to see against a set of fans that are convinced he is the worse player in premier league history

Longstaff so out of form. He looks like he will cost us goals at every moment.

FFP has nothing to do with preventing a Portsmouth/Leeds. If it wanted to do that it would apply 'going concern' style controls where the club needs to demonstrate security through an ability to continue to meet its commitments over a set period. These controls could be enhanced so they set a higher bar than normal going concern tests applied to every company through an annual audit and so that they consider some of the unique challenges that face football clubs. In those tests, the source of security, whether it be ongoing profit or capital commitments from owner should be irrelevant. Debt should be fine too as long as the club can demonstrate it can meet its repayments under sensitised scenarios (e.g. missing out on champions league, relegation etc.). Equally, similar tests could be applied to check the club can meet its other commitments (wages, HMRC etc) in sensitised scenarios. All clubs could be required to get these tests independently signed off by an auditor. All the above would never happen of course because the real reason we have FFP, is not to demonstrate long term financial security, but to lock in the status quo as much as it is possible.

At the risk of going all Arsenal, you could make an interesting montage of decisions at Anfield against us in the last few years... Just off the top of my head: -Two pens yesterday -Dummett 'penalty' on Salah -Two players down with head injuries when a Liverpool goal scored - Ryan Fraser Penalty not given -Ref obstructing our player to assist Trent - 10 minutes of added on time facilitating late winner - Isak 'offside' Most of those decisions made diddly squat difference as Liverpool generally so much better than us at Anfield.

On the longstaff penalty appeal - if the same ball falls to a more technical player then they can engineer the situation far more effectively. Longstaff regularly collapses after miscontrolling the ball or a poor touch.

There are certainly mitigating circumstances but we have to be able to set up more organised than we did today. Liverpool didn't have to do anything in order to be clean through on Dubravka

We are playing so open at the moment. Unrecognisable from the tight unit and organisation from last year.

Amusing that we are 1-1 despite Liverpool being far superior to us but impossible to enjoy as we cannot possibly hold on.

Anfield crowd appeal for anything. They don't even know what they are appealing for half the time.

Yep. When he is off the pace he just randomly appeals for phantom fouls and free kicks to disguise mistakes.

Need to borrow Liverpool's throw in coach

Jason Koumas. Saw him play live early on in his career and was convinced he was the on track for the Balon D'or. I was wrong.

Cue the obligatory fight at the final whistle to show the players care

That 30 seconds somes up out season. Almiron making the wrong decision, and not making a foul when we are being counter attacked when any streetwise team could manage it.

Playing like we have an excuse to lose.

Ironically it was the one time we needed him to be on his right foot

The introduction of Ritchie makes no sense. He is not even acting as a body because he can barely move. I struggle to think of a less effective player in those particular circumstances. This is not a criticism of Ritchie himself as it is not really fair on him to put him on the pitch.

I think Shane Ritchie has have athleticism these days