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I disagree, it's still law, civil or criminal. The point of the analogy is just that if you commit offences and get punished for those offences, you can't commit more offences later with immunity. The FA seem to be looking into this to see if there are any new offences that haven't been covered. The example you give of being on remand/time already served - that's missing my point IMO: You seem to be making an argument about appropriate sentencing for an offence, & I don't disagree with it, but my point was that if there's then a new offence it still needs to be looked into. So in your example, your fella on remand doesn't get a free shot to commit more crimes later just because he's already getting punished for the first ones. Here there's been an investigation into specific betting offences. There has been punishment given for those specific betting offences. If there are then more betting offences committed afterwards that weren't dealt with by that investigation and punishment, you can't just ignore them because he's already been punished for previous similar offences. That's what I'm saying. So I don't think the FA can do him for the things he's already been punished for [i.e double jeopardy]. But if he has potentially committed new offences outside the scope of his current ban then they have to be looked into. Also I'm not saying his ban should necessarily be increased. As I said: "If there are more offences though it could be that punishments already imposed are taken into account when deciding what new punishment is appropriate." If there are more offences & the FA charge him, they absolutely might take the current punishment into account. Eg. they could punish him with a fine & suspended ban. But that's a sentencing issue based on the facts of the case, you need to go through the proper process to get to that point. Imagine if the FA does investigate and it turns out he bet on Milan to beat us in the Champions League...

He hasn't committed one general offense of betting on football - every single individual bet is a separate offence. The Italian FA can deal with any offences [bets] in Italy and apply a punishment. The FA can look into any extra potential offences in England. And they should do to be honest. It's a general principle of law that you can't just pick and choose who they apply to. That just allows corruption. Bit like if someone got punished for speeding offences in Italy, they move to the UK and get caught speeding here, they can't go 'well you can't punish me for speeding now, I've already been punished for when I was speeding back in Italy.' If there are more offences though it could be that punishments already imposed are taken into account when deciding what new punishment is appropriate.

Or compress the hell out of it.

Good plan! And even if people cotton on and we can't play him I bet he'd be a brilliant tea lady.

Milan were definitely keen to sell him, but then they are owned by American moneyballers now, so while selling a local fan favourite could be sus, it could also just be they thought it was a good price and moneyballers gonna moneyball. https://www.goal.com/en-gb/lists/ac-milan-europe-masters-moneyball-destined-to-fail/blt984a0d51702e6c9d#csf15a588fc393a646

Yeah, though it's not like it was a bargain basement fee mind. £55 million is a crap ton of money and was a record sale for an Italian. At the end of the day every player has his price.

We can spend what we want on infrastructure, training facilities, youth team, tea ladies etc. It's that we're spending hundreds of millions more on transfers and wages than we've got coming in that's the problem. And owners are only allowed to bankroll a little bit for that stuff.

Yeah he can, infrastructure spending doesn't count for FFP.

He still has lovely hair, so... there's that.

Assuming fitness I can't imagine Howe will move away for his most standard back four. I'd be very surprised if it's not: Pope Trippier Lascelles Schar Burn Longstaff Bruno Big Jow Miggy Wilson Gordon Of course Willock played well Wednesday and he is ex-arsenal so may have an extra point to prove - I think Howe does consider stuff like that - but he's only just back so I imagine he'll be on the bench. Tough game this one - they were a clear level above us last season and I think still are. But at home, I reckon fairly similar odds for all 3 outcomes. Maybe draw most likely. Hopefully Big Jow has one of his games where he harnesses the power of Grayskull. We can beat anyone when he's on one.

Nah, I am actually a new poster, this isn't an alt-account - I was on here many years ago for a bit back in the Pardew era but I can't remember what that account was even called and certainly don't want a reminder of these times to go looking for it so figured I'd start afresh.

Tough talk, but I think you're underestimating how fast I will run away.

Thanks. Ole was a great player, but as a manager he's not fit to knit Guardiola's turtleneck.

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