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If done for a positive outcome I don’t think it’s pointless. if he broke the rules while under FA jurisdiction then they must investigate to send a clear message it won’t be tolerated. where the outcome has to be positive is not destroying the guys career or making him more likely to relapse or ruin his life with a new non consecutive ban. what they should be doing is using him as an example to existing and upcoming players. You break the rules and we will come down on you. BUT if you have a problem with gambling and if you are betting on games stop. Come forward and tell us, we can work with you to get help and support. Come to us and you get help and support rather than harsh punishments. the problem is the same as many addictions, if the law is punishment you’ve criminalised addition, which I know many in here dont believe is an illness. But punishing and driving illness and problems further underground doesn’t help. It 100 percent needs investigating, the outcome is the important bit and what message the FA end up sending out.

Do we eventually find out what his 50 offences are?

Didn’t say he was the worst, I was jovially implying it’s a bit hysterical to say tonali is the worst signing we have ever made….

I don’t know, I still prefer him to Stéphane Guivarc'h.

I was only 9, but it felt like a massive shock compared to my blue star/mcewans tops when it was revealed. I wasn’t sure from the pictures from the pre-order brochure, maybe due to it being so different compared to what I had always known. however, on delivery it felt extremely special and a different class of shirt. I don’t think there will ever be such an iconic shirt, as it really felt like such a change in terms of style and materials. I don’t think that’s really possible these days.

Wow, £85 or £120 for the fancy one. That’s just ridiculous. I can see why so many talk about dhgate. £65 per kid for a top. Jeez.

Kier starmer has called for Nike to change it back. so rishi is going to have to out do him and demand a portrait of the queen is added to all future kits.

Those stats flatter him too. Maybe my brain has scrambled the memories. But at the time it felt like we had some incredible luck and Jammy wins.

Jeremy vine didn’t like being called a ‘bike nonce’. https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/joey-barton-jeremy-vine-crowdfunder-32360054.amp

was the decision not to call it the English premier league made back in 91/92 then on that basis? I actually find it annoying that in the last few years the EPL is suddenly being used as it was never called the EPL, always the FA prem league, the prem or the PL. the term EPL seems to have been pushed massively in the last few years.

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.