Luton won't win the league - Premier League 2023/24

reffing in this league hits a new low every week, the general standard cannot be put down to mere incompetence

Fulham's first goal vs sheff utd was so cleanly beautiful.

I thought that too. MAYBE the keeper could have come out earlier but it was a lovely construction

bobby decordova reid one destined to be one of the ultimate 'random player whose name floats through your head' of this era

Can't think of too many professional footballers who have a blind Labour MP among their siblings tbf.

Let's win this battle of the bad!

Ffs. Completely against the run of play.

Jfc

Wolves forgetting how to defend this season is my big takeaway

That was shit to watch. Lol

i didn't feel up to watching, sounds very prescient of me

THERE WE GO

Cunha baby

Lol Cook red carded. Good baiting Hwang

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Sean Longstaff doesn't chop journalists into cubes tho??

KALADJZIC!

We wanted shooting if we didn't get the win today after they went down to 10, nice to see my apathetic fatigue paid dividends

Awful lot of players getting sent off these days, or am I imagining that?

feels like it to me, we had 2 on suspensions today

I somehow missed that West Ham had made the cat abuse guy their club captain, or perhaps "club catpain" in this instance

Gregg Turkington's Aston Villa are killing it

can't honestly believe biscuits has been rewarded for that pun by this performance

boxing match it would of been stopped

showboating now

Spurs top of the table and we're nearly in November

stfu i beg u pls we do not need any attn drawn and i mean im only hoping for top 4

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Oof, 12 point deduction recommended for Everton, not a nice week for them

Presumably this will also mean that Man City end up relegated to about 8th tier real soon!! The system works!!

wow, never thought that deduction was gonna arrive

whats going to happen with the man city point deduction?

Idk it's been ages, feels like with them if they act in a decisive timely way City's lawyers can pull it apart over an uncrossed T, if they take ages to put the case together they can drag it out and run the clock down

The smaller clubs whose cheating is more amateurish just get brutalised

there will never be a man city punishment because pep gaurdiola simply would never be involved with a club with questionable moral practices and every time another allegation comes out he confirms this so case closed

ill spell it however the fuck i like because fuck him the cunt thats why

I have been trained to hate the toffees from birth, and hope for their relegation every year, but if they get a points deduction and man city don't (or chelsea for that matter) then I am going to be livid. so getting ready to be livid I guess.

The difference between City and Everton is that City will have assembled the finest legal team possible whereas Everton use a bloke called Kenny whose business card starts with “Had a fall at work?” and ends with “also for wedding DJ bookings contact funtimekenny345@lycosdotcom”.

— BN (@BanditNanna) October 25, 2023

important question, when they list the official table, do they work in the deduction during the season or only reflect it at end?

cos it'd be wild to see the table with Everton with negative five points

it's been a fairly regular occurance for teams in lower leagues to start with negative points, it would just be the first time at this level. but by the time it's confirmed, they would presumably have more than 12 points anyway.

that's a pretty bold assumption with this year's club!

It’s a good week for my eldest to “get into football”. Watching the derby in a Cumbrian pub with a load of Reds to kick things off.

Walking along Egremont prom on a Wirral visit this week I did wonder how LFC fans in New Brighton might feel about seeing the Everton stadium every day across the river. Another nail in the UNESCO world heritage coffin.

Hm yeah, St Andrews has always been visible from a lot of parts of Birmingham City Centre, but at least there's the likelihood that will probably just fall over sooner or later

Gregg Turkington's Aston Villa are killing it

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Lol never going to unsee this

I would assume a story like this has more to do with a potential Manchester punishment than the Everton billionaire's lack of lawyers

https://theathletic.com/4375454/2023/04/06/saudi-newcastle-boris-government/

"The British government considered the possible failure of the Saudi takeover of Newcastle United to be an “immediate risk” to the United Kingdom’s relationship with the Gulf nation, an investigation by The Athletic can reveal.

Then-prime minister Boris Johnson’s chief strategic advisor even sought to find a “senior interlocutor to impress the interests” of the government onto the Premier League."

Chelsea Palestine colour shirt getting reissued

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cy0NcmOM4ya/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

99% cash grab, 99% really really really strange

tbf milo the Premier League is more than capable of supporting amoral cash grabs and defending its wealthiest members without government interference

In other sporting integrity news, after a £60 million move and 12 appearances for Newcastle, Sandro Tonali's been banned for 10 months for gambling stuff by the Italian FA, which I'm p sure applies worldwide

Nicolo Zaniolo, who is only on loan at Villa froM Galatasaray, has maintained his innocence re: actually betting on football matches

tbh must admit my ignorance wrt how gambling addiction manifests itself because my first thoughts are generally 'mate you can bet on literally anything in the world of sport except football so why not just do that'

Seems weird to me that you can have professional soccer gamblers as owners but player betting with no evidence of malfeasance is a big deal.

Yeah. And also why these players, who earn tens or hundreds of thousands each and every week, feel the need to bet in the first place xp

But I guess that's the addiction part

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Xp There is a certain amount of stuff about betting through illegal, unlicensed channels that people outside of Italy probably don't understand or particularly care about; AFAIK the bigger issue within football is that Tonali has admitted to betting on his own team's matches (albeit purportedly ones he wasn't involved in)

The amount of gambling advertising everywhere is fucking gross though

The Premier League is voluntarily stopping gambling shirt sponsors from next season (didn't stop Villa squeezing in one more for the road); the "SkyBet championship" ad hoardings are just covered in all this faux-benevolent "join us to gamble responsibly!" shit