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Yeah but that’s the opposite of what you said, unless I’ve completely misread your initial post. You said that Man Cuty would win the case and that would go against the Big Six cartel. Edit: oh I sort of see what you mean. You would still have to consider Man City as separate from the Big six though.

Ach, was just suggesting that Man City being stripped of their titles and/or demoted a few divisions couldn’t possibly be good for Man City. Football stinks in general. FFP in principle doesn’t stink, because it was introduced to try to address some real problems, but it has obviously been corrupted and exploited. It’s especially frustrating for us because we saw Chelsea win the lottery, and then Man City win the lottery, while we worked like crazy for several years to build it up from the ground. We’re obviously part of the “Big Six” now.

Yeah I presumed he did too

Stop! Unbelievable said that if Man City won the case then that would be against the Big 6 Cartel. Then…presumably he doesn’t think Man City are part of the big 6 cartel? That’s all.

I mean, I don’t think it’s a red card, but what was he trying to do with his right leg?

Yeah, but if he included Man City then what he wrote was nonsense.

Tbf the game’s been OK, I’m just finding it hard to give a shit.

Everton looking the better side. Fancy them to have a run in the FA Cup this year for some reason.

Was just about to post that Danjuma was an absolute nothing of a player

Fair yellow card tbh.

I really wanted to watch a match and was happy there was a game, then realized who was playing.

Wasn’t concentrating and thought Palace were Everton for the first 30 seconds.

Was worried I’d be the only one watching this. Might not be a thriller. Hoping for a bloodbath.

Goes back to what that ref said on the BBC feed a week or so ago (Clattenburg?). The teams and refs and FA need to sit down and thrash out a solution re: handball/offside and then all stick to it.

Hang on, who are the PL’s “big six cartel”?

Anyone still think the Saudi League is going to be a big success? Early days I know, but the sixth highest average attendance (7854) is less than the number then went along with me to Orient v Wycombe the other night. Al-Hilal are top with 53pts from 19 games, 2nd place is 46, 3rd 40, 4th 34. 19pts clear of fourth after 19 games. Isn’t this all exactly what most of us said would happen?

Football highlights/review shows that put the final score up at the beginning of each match. Sky do this for their SPL/lower league reviews. Just removes one possible little bit of entertainment for the viewer for no reason at all.

Even more gutting for West Brom - Villa poached him from them a couple of years ago.

Very much this. Every team is the same, more or less. Some fans are gung-ho every week, some fans are pessimistic. I tend to be more pessimistic because I’ve been a fan for 50 years and I know how much it hurts to lose so I’m trying to protect myself. It’s just a coping mechanism. I’m no less of a fan. I’ll still scream and shout and pray for a win. FWIW I thought you’d beat Man U and said so. I thought you’d lose to Liverpool and that they’d generally get the rub of the refs. That’s just objectivity .

Not watching that: Darren Bent is baffled by pretty much everything so whatever he’s baffled by in this particular case will not add anything to the world.

Rewatched the game yesterday (well, had it on while I was cleaning and watched some). I hadn’t realized at the time how bizarre the discussion of Salah was. They really do talk like this is his last game for Liverpool - to the point where I had to check if that was actually the case and he’d agreed to go to Saudi Arabia in Jan: https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/13040570/gary-neville-liverpool-owe-mohamed-salah-a-title-race-jamie-carragher-harvey-elliott-dominik-szoboszlai-can-hold-fort They “owe him” a title race. He might only miss one league game.

That’s West Ham. Their game plan is defend and try to score on the break. Brighton were trying to avoid that. They still had 70% possession and 22 shots to 8, but were careful not to over-commit…so that’s what happens if you can’t break West Ham down.

2-0. Another great goal.

Celtic scored already cracking goal too.

Yeah it’s easy for me to be a bit more blasé after the last 15 years