it’s unfortunately a different ball game entirely. i think there may even be scope for chelsea to get a strong punishment. but it will never ever happen to city. that has now entered the diplomatic sphere. it is a matter of record that the government have held talks with the UAE surrounding the...
new ffp rules. proceedings have to close in 3 months now. some people saying this has happened so quickly because leeds and burnley kicked off.
city and chelsea have much more historical charges (city’s aren’t all finance related anyway) so it will be a much longer process. still doubt either...
sticking £50 now on our marquee club-record january signing falling through due a volcanic eruption stopping flights, only for them to sign elsewhere and go on to win several ballon d’ors
it’s cheating. plain and simple. same with city. nothing will happen because the sport has utterly sold its soul to oligarchs and petrostates. they will instead use the FFP rules to make an ‘example’ of some struggling league two club already being run into the ground by a parasitic owner (which...
there was but those are only given if the player being grabbed has a reasonable chance of playing the ball.
which webster didn’t, as of course the delivery was abysmal
by no means a bad player. but he has one big error in him each match. happened in the first half today, similar situation to when he let antonio in behind and he ended up giving away a stupid free kick.
his progressive carrying is a great asset but defensively he is bang average and not...
maybe not but there’s no guarantee they need to score against 10 men. except there is because our defence is incredibly fragile, which gives teams the belief they can score, and we had no leaders out there to rally the troops.
if we were a team that defended resolutely, made ourselves thought...
atmosphere sounded decent today, but if what you’re asking for is for the crowd to almost carry the team to victory like they do at villa park or st james’, it’s just never going to happen
honestly i didn’t have an issue with him today. he’s part of a younger generation of refs, and has made a couple of howlers, but in the grand scheme of things, strikes me neither as an arrogant tosser or a total invertebrate. so no.
worst ref is unquestionably salisbury. overpromoted, well...
these things happen sometimes. what’s annoying, and what’s really cost us the game, has been the inability to kill them off and an inability to defend solidly. neither of these are new problems
i know being a man down is a significant hindrance but the implosion here has been pathetic. and whilst we’re missing a lot of our leaders, with the experienced players that are still out there, you’d expect better