Jackie Broon

The recent case was an arbitration using the PL's arbitration process. The other court case was a dispute over the arbitration process brought under the Arbitration Act. Anyway, as my post above, manorpark is talking in definite terms about something he doesn't know enough about to know shouldn't be discussed in definite terms. Btw, I'm probably guilty of a big slice of Dunning Kruger effect in discussing this too.

No, we don't own the land it's on.

In fact in the PL era the only mangers to have won the league with previous English football managerial experience before their appointment are Dalglish and Ranieri (and Mourinho if you count his second spell at Chelsea).

That remains untested legally. Whilst there is an arbitration agreement in the PL and FA rules, part of our case in the CAT tribunal was that it shouldn't be applied to that claim (in addition to saying SJH hadn't actually signed up to it). So that isn't as cut and dried as you suggest, just like chances of winning a anti-competition case against PSR rules wouldn't be a "certain legal win".

There is no such thing as a certain legal win in a case like that, it would be complex and unpredictable. There is a public interest test and potentially a court could find that there is public interest in the anti-competitive elements of the PL's rules. The response of the Man City tribunal to the letters which you say have proven a cartel was the legal equivalent of 'meh'.

Even with their revenues, without the exemptions the PL allowed them they would have failed PSR last season. Exemptions similar to ones they didn't allow for Everton. Which is even more straight up cronyism

I don't think our owners felt that and I don't think they will settle for anything less than European qualification through the league or winning a cup this season.

Same again, one step forward and two back, no faith that Eddie can turn this season around now.

Since the only managers I can think of that it hasn't really ended badly for in the history of the Premier League are probably Ferguson and Klopp, that's a pretty safe bet.

The club isn’t really valued at 1bn, that was just extrapolated from what PIF paid for Staveley's shares, which was probably a bit of a generous golden goodbye.

Gordon wss signed 6 months before ASM left, and going by the scouting report glimpsed in the documentary, was considered a RW. Also at the time Barnes was signed Gordon didn't look like a starter, Miggy was still an important player for us and Murphy looked to have developed into a very useful player.

Because he was probably bought as a replacement for ASM, with rotation and squad depth in mind.

There are obviously a lot of christians who interpret the bible to say that practicing homosexuality is a sin. I'm not saying I agree with that, I'm not religious and not straight, but it's clearly some people's interpretation, and choosing to.interpret it that way is bourn out of homophobia.

There is all sorts of stuff that's is either explicitly a sin or can be interpreted as such from the old testament in particular that people do every day, including the gambling his shirt has two adverts for on. The reason some people chose to ignore all of that yet see fancying people of the same sex a sin is homophobia and nothing else.

They are but it specifies on undergarments, so it's not clearcut. M.28. When participating in a League Match no Player shall reveal undergarments that show political, religious or personal slogans, statements or images, or advertising other than a manufacturer’s logo. The Board may proceed under Section W (Disciplinary) of these Rules against either the Player or his Club or both for any breach of this Rule. Strips can't be altered because the rules require that they are approved by the PL. In relation to armbands the rules say: M.11. The captain of each team appearing in a League Match shall wear an armband provided by the League indicating his status as such. So they might say it can only indicate his status as captain and should not have been altered.

It was similar in 1997 before the expansion, it was easy to get tickets on general sale, even for the Barcelona match.

He's incredibly isolated in our system and constantly having to press, make thankless runs or drop back to support the midfield and he plays every possible minute that he is not injured or completely gassed out. I really don't think it's an issue with his stamina, it's an issue with the way we play him, completely isolated without support or rotation.

We really remind me of England under Southgate. We'll have a good spell then fall into our patient build up play, which involves us just aimlessly passing the ball between the back four until we get pressed into giving the ball away.

Yeah, I just can't see him turning this around, it's been one step forward and two back for over a year now. I think the only way he will survive is if we somehow win a cup, otherwise he'll be gone when we inevitably fail to qualify for Europe.

Are there any 3rds we're not struggling in? Can't think of anything we do well.

I think they could, Al-Rumayyan being employed by PIF doesn't mean that his persoal assets are state owned. But I doubt that they would do that.

Not really. It was about demonstrating, or giving "legally binding assurances" in the end, that the club would not be "controlled" by the state. I doubt this will end up in the bill for the reasons people have already gone into, but if it were to I think it would likely mean that PIF move on. During the takeover issues they could have just put the club in Al-Rumayyan or some other individual's name and saved themselves all of the bother of the issues with PIF, but they publically walked away from the deal rather than do that.

The right side is obviously a weakness, but for me our problems mainly stem from the position Bruno plays and a lack of creativity in central midfield. We generally make things happen only when players push forward out of position and create an overload, but that leaves us vulnerable to the counter. I think Bruno is our only player with the vision and ability to unlock defences without relying on creating overloads, but his position is too deep for that, and when he does often push forward it leaves us very vulnerable.