It'll be like when they find an east European shot putter doped in the 70s and award someone who is now a school teacher an upgrade to a bronze with no ceremony and no impact and probably no medal, maybe one line on a BBC website page.
Just watching the Man City "incident" for the first time.
Yes, the Ref could have played advantage but he chose not to.
Haaland's reaction should have been a straight red, there will now be thousands of kids doing that at the weekend. He is the "biggest" star in the Premier League currently.
He then went onto X and shared a video of the footage with "WTF" as the tag line but the FA have deemed that doesn't bring the game into disrepute and there will be no further action taken against him.
I thought we were cleaning up treatment of referees? This completely undermines the Respect campaign.
I see Al Hamadi is tonight having another game making goals and scoring seemingly at will. But I'm sure one of our own 15 goal a season strikers will soon be catching him up....
Hard to know exactly what has happened here and why it differs to Barnsley. Surely they will need to give a full explanation. Only thing I can think of is that they checked something with the FA and were erroneously given the green light for something that should not have been allowed.
@EwanHoosaami I think you are right to an extent, the Premier League is not going away (31 years & counting) & unlike the majority of top flight divisions across Europe, there is at least 6 & possibly now 8/9 teams that can realistically compete for the honours; this creates a huge swathe of meaningful matches for the neutral/tourist supporter to watch in person or via their Sky subscription, boosting Sky's & the PLs coffers. The new arrangement between Sky & the PL, hottish on the heels of the recent "solidarity" payment agreement with the EFL, means a bit more money will filter down through the EFL helping to offset the loss of punters through the turnstiles etc.
Sadly the long-term prognosis for Leagues 1 & 2 along with the NL are bleak as revenue streams dry up as other sports & leisure activities become more attractive to sponsors & TV execs as being more inclusive or relevant than men's senior football outside the ultra-elite level. I suspect by the time the PL is celebrating its 50th birthday, L1/2/NL will all be semi-pro with average gates in the low thousands at best. I hope I am wrong but...
Funny how those things work out, there was a similar thing with legendary British football managers from a fairly small part of Scotland. Busby, Shankly and Stein within a few miles of eachother , Could be wrong but think Ferguson not miles away.
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Well yes, a decision in this lifetime, before they hoover up another 30 or 40 pots would be decent.
It'll be like when they find an east European shot putter doped in the 70s and award someone who is now a school teacher an upgrade to a bronze with no ceremony and no impact and probably no medal, maybe one line on a BBC website page.
At least we have the comedy of Man City fans complaining about corruption.
Barcelona vs Atletico Madrid on ITV4 now, if anybody wants another helping of 'three at the back/playing out of defence' action.
Just watching the Man City "incident" for the first time.
Yes, the Ref could have played advantage but he chose not to.
Haaland's reaction should have been a straight red, there will now be thousands of kids doing that at the weekend. He is the "biggest" star in the Premier League currently.
He then went onto X and shared a video of the footage with "WTF" as the tag line but the FA have deemed that doesn't bring the game into disrepute and there will be no further action taken against him.
I thought we were cleaning up treatment of referees? This completely undermines the Respect campaign.
I see Al Hamadi is tonight having another game making goals and scoring seemingly at will. But I'm sure one of our own 15 goal a season strikers will soon be catching him up....
If he carries on like this he'll pay for their replacement.
Good Lord, how is Raya keeping his place in the Arsenal side? Another appalling bit of goalkeeping for Luton's equaliser.
Fair play to Luton they are not letting Arsenal play how they want, though it is all a little agricultural at times.
FFS Raya also at fault for Luton's third, though not sure how the defence let him get there but its one most keepers would save
England's women win 6-0 against Scotland but fail to qualify as Netherland win 4-0 (including 2 in added time).
England had other changes in the second half to get what would have been a decisive extra goal.
Mildly surprised that England didn't manage a much bigger score against an utterly woeful Scotland side
Arsenal score in the 97th minute against Luton (shame)
I felt extreme jealousy there. All I could think was "we used to do that".
Looking bad for our sister club Snottingham Forests.
Forest Green and Scarborough are going to replay their first round tie.
Ridiculous, throw em out and get on with it.
You'd be fuming if you were Barnsley wouldn't you? facupfactfile on twitter reckons this is the first time a tie has been declared void and replayed.
Yup
Hard to know exactly what has happened here and why it differs to Barnsley. Surely they will need to give a full explanation. Only thing I can think of is that they checked something with the FA and were erroneously given the green light for something that should not have been allowed.
Villa absolutely battering City tonight. This is mad: https://twitter.com/OptaJoe/status/1732506867350266147
Emery is somehow still underrated.
Whisper it quietly but City not very good at the moment by their own standards
I'd love it if Villa somehow won the league!
Love that the Forest travelling fans roared their support for Copper tonight despite the loss tonight
@EwanHoosaami I think you are right to an extent, the Premier League is not going away (31 years & counting) & unlike the majority of top flight divisions across Europe, there is at least 6 & possibly now 8/9 teams that can realistically compete for the honours; this creates a huge swathe of meaningful matches for the neutral/tourist supporter to watch in person or via their Sky subscription, boosting Sky's & the PLs coffers. The new arrangement between Sky & the PL, hottish on the heels of the recent "solidarity" payment agreement with the EFL, means a bit more money will filter down through the EFL helping to offset the loss of punters through the turnstiles etc.
Sadly the long-term prognosis for Leagues 1 & 2 along with the NL are bleak as revenue streams dry up as other sports & leisure activities become more attractive to sponsors & TV execs as being more inclusive or relevant than men's senior football outside the ultra-elite level. I suspect by the time the PL is celebrating its 50th birthday, L1/2/NL will all be semi-pro with average gates in the low thousands at best. I hope I am wrong but...
This is pretty impressive https://twitter.com/Millar_Colin/status/1732541448422101470?t=lgkczth9DJR1h8aDHVFoGA&s=19
Funny how those things work out, there was a similar thing with legendary British football managers from a fairly small part of Scotland. Busby, Shankly and Stein within a few miles of eachother , Could be wrong but think Ferguson not miles away.
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