jdckelly

iirc they tightened the ODT a bit a few years ago, the early version seemed literally just a rubber stamping exercise as evidenced by the number of owners portsmouth went through while still in the prem in one season

forgot welbeck played for watford tbh

Haven’t they already relented with the anti piracy measures they have put in place. Yeah he mentioned that and it's certainly a start. He said ideally the best thing for SA to do is kind of build a relationship with Bein and play by the book. (allowing Bein to have broadcast rights in SA for example) However this is highly unlikely due to the massive political issues between them. It's all very confusing and yoi can see why this is taking an absolute age to get passed by the PL. What a load of bollocks, political relations between 2 country’s has fuck all to do with the premier league and the O&D test, and shouldn’t have even been mentioned by the premier league to PCP and the PIF, I hope they absolutely rinse the PL if this takes much longer all part of the fun when nations are allowed to buy football clubs

but then they wouldn't get as much money from sky/bt/whatever is their logic. Personally I wouldn't see the harm in giving terrestrial tv one game a week (last pick obviously) but it ain't happening without the uk government forcing it via legislation

most of the league falls into that bracket at the moment

There is actually. which clubs have been getting around by selling the grounds to the owner for big money which filled the gap in the clubs ffp finances to avoid punishment. pity for Villa they already pulled that trick so they're fairly screwed if they go down after spending 140m to probably go back down

Liverpool have been decent. looking less and less of a feat by the week with how incompetent everyone else is

ha get in west ham

actually happy to see that as I do actually like Moyes

edit wrong fucking thread

if nothing else I'm glad for the reminder about how much I fucking hate VAR

oh fuck off VAR go into the dustbin of history you nitpicking piece of shit jesus fucking christ I hate it

is that really interfering with the goalkeeper?

Or the strength of it. Strength of it? It's piss poor from 5th down man could go further up, not as if leicester or chelsea have been that good this season, major gap between Liverpool and City and everybody else

All the PL's finance comes from the broadcasters. Sky Sports apart, BeIN are the PL's biggest broadcasting partner in terms of how much money they give to the PL. It's perfectly understandable that they have to keep them happy.. even discarding Qatar's reputation for large-scale corruption of football officials. In the context of the fit and proper persons test I just don’t see it. maybe but nothing occurs in a vacuum especially this one as BeIN are the victims of beoutq which is the deciding factor in this debacle its no wonder the prem would take their opinion seriously

nobody has the foggiest idea

fyp

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jun/30/premier-league-to-move-or-postpone-leicester-home-games-if-needed-local-lockdown-coronavirus

for once it really isn't anything to do with Ashley, doubt he can give much more info than is publicly available atm

would depend on how the contracts written but iirc China back in december or something didn't show an Arsenal game they were going to after Ozil had the temerity to criticize them over their treatment of Uighur Muslims so not beyond the realms of possibility if your a market the premier league doesn't want to piss off

why would that be the case for anyone who isn't a newcastle fan?

fair play to liverpool etc etc but jesus its kinda feels an underwhelming title win and half feels down to the general incompetence of everyone around them and everyone below man utd being all fairly terrible. Its strange at a time when premier league clubs have had more tv cash than ever that the league in generals quality has dropped so significantly

how can the barca board be that bad at running the club?

maybe they might be deflated and meekly surrender on sunday? or more likely they've written off the title 6 months ago and just want to win everything else

Arsenal aren't going to compete