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That’s an interesting comparison.

I wasn’t comparing it to a supermarket buying a supermarket. What city did was not reducing competition like that. They have effectively used huge finacial flooding. Which in a lot of other industries isn’t allowed. the other observation that Amazon and Uber have done similar is a better comparison. All be it that they maybe did get away with it.

The problem is football isn’t really like other businesses/industries so it’s difficult if not impossible to compare. If the owners of Man City decided they were going to do the same model they did with the football club but for Morrisons, I think they would have been stopped under various competition and flooding laws. the equivalent would potentially be, buy Morrisons and decided to bring all the food quality up to and exceed M&S while reducing and undercutting the prices massively. Provide everyone with a personal shopper who carries your basket, free refreshments for everyone and have a limo pick up and return everyone to their house. obviously I’ve dramatised that a bit. But the investment from Man City owners and their motivations and practices would not be accepted in pretty much any other industry. A similar comparison is what the EU are going to do with Chinese cars. They are biding their time at the moment. But at some point they are going to step in as European manufacturers can’t compete on price with the Chinese state produced flood of basically slave built cars that are coming. football can’t really be compared.

sounds more like every model of communism that’s ever been implemented. all animal are equal, but some are more equal than others?

Yep. It’s beyond tedious now.

Is that bespoke? are Scotland on the adidas ‘elite tier’?!

Think you are right, but there is something inappropriate about pressing the like button on it.

Are they? I was joking, awful situation aside, it was one of those awkward laugh moment when he started moving his leg and Gordon shouted done fucking do that! it was like someone had a black eye and someone said let me have a look and poked it.

He definitely said, ‘don't fucking do that’, when the guy did whatever he was trying to do

well that’s depressing, I think I’m going to Iceland to get as many bottles of white lighting I can carry. Hopefully I will wake up on a roundabout in 3 days time wearing a just a tramps hat and not remember anything including this post.

I think this guy will be harder to keep than Bruno

This doesn’t look good

Well January deadline day was a total flop for broadcasters. If Lewis Hamilton hadn’t moved cars or whatever it was, the transfer shows would have had to talk about, well god knows what. its not exactly exciting if the PL stops being the biggest and best. That will start to bite somewhere. A lot of the international market views might start to dip first. if the PL starts to lose viewers it’s not just football fans who lose out. The PL plays its part in Britain’s ‘soft power’ across the world. I wouldn’t underestimate the tax revenue the PL brings either. I know we all think the money footballers are paid is obscene. BUT I understand that the salary of footballers is strictly monitored by the FA/PL and must go through PAYE. The amount of tax footballers and the PL is paying is massive for UK PLC. say the Saudis had been allowed to spend whatever they like. They could have by now amassed 22 players all on £8,000,000 a year. That 3,586,203 a year in tax and £164,000 NI. x22 = £79,000,000 a year tax. That a fair amount of doctors or nurses by anyones metric (if kept in the NE, I know it’s not). All of that money would also be coming directly from Saudi banks and not from the existing UK economy. the amount of money Man City and Chelsea have spent (or washed) though the UK will not be insignificant. even without those 2, a hell of a lot of money will come in from international tv sales, tourism and the soft power projection benefit. obviously im Not suggesting ffp needs to be scrapped to pay for nurses. It’s just one extreme example . but if the PL as a product starts to suffer, there are a hell of a lot of people going to lose out. no one likes losing money and the money men run football.

I know you can’t please everyone, but that would be a big disappointment for me. I prefer slightly more black and have never been keen on the more white than black kits. I genuinely think, given the adidas promotion work so far, and we haven’t even started the contract yet, we will get something bespoke.

Didn’t that break our transfer records too? Was odd as fuck.

Stuff

Haven’t read the last couple of pages, so not sure if it’s been mentioned. But willock is joint 4th (with shearer) in the all time PL most consecutive goal scorers list. With 7 games in a row. better than c Ronaldo, salah. Eat them stats

Let’s hope it’s not one of howe’s stone cold press bluffs and he’s off with him.

Have I imagined this, didn’t Ferguson know he had a severe gambling problem and didn’t like his attitude. Remember when shearer sparked him out. hindsight and from snippets here there always suggested they wanted rid.

Undoubtedly some people will go with him. Hopefully the head physio he brought in.

Yep, you get the vision for the civilian Olympics!

I’ve always thought that would be a better way of doing the Olympics. It should be people from each country are called up at random through the electoral roll in each country. Picking random people to compete in random sports would give a much better idea of which country had the best, fittest or fattest people and would be far more entertaining.

Going to be embarrassing if Ashworth is quicker than burn and we’re letting him go.

Well in my proposal they would be taxed and the money distributed by down the pyramid. The big clubs already do better out of the current deal. The ppv model should leave no club worse off would be the proposal. Some may well be better off as always. for me it’s for the fans, as usual the money element is the evil shadow. But I think it’s this day and age, everyone should be able to watch their teams home and away games as they happen and not be held back by travel, disability, costs or other demands in their life. one way around it could be the ppv is handled by the PL themselves and the money distributed at the end of the season based on equal share and a league position element. That way everyone would get a fair share. As I say, it’s not perfect and details would be complicated. But at the moment it’s the fans who can’t get to home and away games who suffer and get 9mins on motd or 2 min YouTube highlights. Even Sky’s 30 min highlights on a sat are now crappy. I’m sure you used to be able to press the red button and pick your match highlights at 9pm. Now I have to record the 30mins and it’s on at 2am or similar.

Right. So we need to start selling back room staff to Saudi teams. How many million can we get for the tea lady before liverfool start whinging? is it too late to get Derek wright and his wet sponge back, he must be worth something.