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I fully expect that we’ll end up with this as our home shirt, swapping the blue for black. https://www.footyheadlines.com/2023/05/adidas-argentina-2024-home-kit.html

It’s a whole lot of no news really. https://www.removepaywall.com/article/current

Him and his mate Parish all kept voting for it though, they were happy to have a glass ceiling above them, so long as they had that floor below them. It’s only because they are talking about making stadium improvements count towards FFP, just when they have bought land off Sainsbury’s for their new £100m stand which they won’t be able to afford if those rules are brought in. Complaining now is like the Cow taking the Sheep to the slaughter house, and trying to argue for its own life when it realises that they kill Cows as well.

It’s an absolutely amazing move for him, although I doubt he’s up to that level. He probably has the best manager out there who can get the best out of him, and I hope he does well there. He’s young enough to still have a chance and to make himself a legend there if things click for him.

A lot of the obvious ones have been said, but under SBR when we qualified for the Champions League, we needed at least a RB, and 2 CB’s. Getting Woodgate earlier, getting Southgate, Carr a season earlier, even could have said to get Barry and we would have been set very well.

The petition got rejected.

Very loose rumours that he’s joining Toronto I think.

In all fairness, I’m not against FFP, but it needs to be implemented differently. There is no good having a ceiling of what a club can bring in and what they can spend, allowing the Sky 6 to buy who they want. Should just top the outgoings to the top teams revenue from the previous season + 10%. Any spending above your own revenues should be matched in a yearly bond held by a 3rd party incase the owner does a runner. Should also scrap being allowed to being in stupid amounts of debt, and debt should correlate to your losses. Stadiums and other infrastructure could be accounted in your costs, but you should be allowed to amortise it for 20-25 years after the completion date, so clubs can afford to upgrade their facilities. No more limits on what you can and can’t use in terms of revenue and commercial sponsorship deals.

My point is that by the same token surely you want her nowhere near the club as well.

Staveley herself comes from a Conservative family, and her father is a large land owner through generational wealth, and lineage through the royal family.

Fuck me man, got absolutely fucking whooped by autocorrect with that one, absolutely fucking done.

I know at SJP they apparently have people around the ground with power banks for just this very reason.

We’ll end up with a massively bigger tiered 3 tournament format. Elites teams get Champions League, just below get Europa League, everyone else gets Conference League, League Cup scrapped.

Yes, potentially 8th, depending on if England get the 5th Champions League spot, and who wins the FA Cup.

Going to watch Cincinnati vs Toronto free on Apple TV at 7:30pm. Toronto are now managed by Newcastle fan, and Consett native John Herdman, after he left the Canada national team position to manage them.

As one of the most expensive squads ever assembled beats another of the most expensive squads ever assembled in a competition that both clubs feel is the most insignificant competition they are in and both tried to get it scrapped 3 years ago.

The National League should be a part of League Two, with a North South split.

No record crowd then. I guess only having 2/3 weeks for tickets instead of the extended period to buy tickets the last times they have played at SJP doesn’t help.

It does in my view. If we were in the NFL or anything like that, you could say fair enough. However you have Man Utd who are at the equivalent of over 10 years worth of Premier League income in debt. It’s not like they are always getting Champions League income to say ‘Aye ok, they can afford to have such high debt levels’. It’s unlikely to happen, but imagine one of these rebuilds goes massively wrong and they go down? Or what happens when they are going 5 years or so without Champions League income and the sponsorship levels are not coming in at the same amount as before? If we and the likes of Aston Villa are not allowed to get market value deals at the same level as the Champions League clubs despite getting into the Champions League spaces because we might not stay there, then those same clubs, especially the likes of Man Utd who go through spells are qualifying for and not qualifying for the Champions League, shouldn’t be allowed the same sponsorship levels and debt tied to those levels incase they no longer keep finishing in those places. Live by the sword, die by the sword.

He’s got some things wrong, but you would hope that he’d learn from it. Burn aside, he’s usually been quick to learn from his mistakes. The club also have to take a portion of the blame. We knew we would be stretched this year. We shouldn’t have been bringing in Barnes when we bought Gordon 6 months before, and Almirón, and Murphy were the options on the right. We probably shouldn’t have been bringing in Hall, if he wasn’t going to be in Howe’s plans this season. We should probably have moved Wilson on, considering both his age, and his injury record.

Not the fucking cockney scousers.

4-4 please.

Is it just me who doesn’t get the Saka hype? People make too much of him. All he has is a little pace and some stepovers, if you have someone who can match him for pace and just ease him with a shoulder then he’ll lose balance. A good tackle early on and he’ll withdraw into himself.

We aren’t in this. The game was won as soon as they went a goal up. Arsenal are taking their foot off because they can, and they possibly have more difficult games ahead.

Top of League One. With most clubs that have fell into League One, and League Two after being Premier League mainstays, they usually did either a big slide with successive relegations close together, or been done by financial messes. It is more unusual to see a gradual slide. 10 years or so ago you could argue that Charlton were the biggest South London club. Them and Palace could have the same gap between them as us and Gateshead next year.