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

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

tomorrow's programme is an absolute beauty

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— Wolves (@Wolves) October 27, 2023

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

yeah it's not individual players it's professional football itself that has a serious gambling problem

Had not realised until I flicked through Danny Dorling's latest book that the UK is now the world's largest regulated online gambling market - bigger even than the US. Another grand achievement for new Labour.

The US is coming hard for the title though. There's only one sports broadcast (Apple TV baseball) you can watch that's not wall to wall gambling/gambling-lite ("daily fantasy!") ads and promos. California, Texas and Florida holding out on actual sports books is the only thing holding us back from that #1 spot.

There is quite simply only one Todd Boehly

Gotta love this team

I've said it before but every time Sa reaches for a high ball over opposing strikers I flinch

problem is, so does he

dive

Hwang an all time stupid touch but once again we're hard done by VAR

i had the sound down cos my mom was on the phone but idk, didn't look a clear and obvious error, looked different depending on the angle, Hwang's foot skidded

anyway, Sasa for the late winner

Toti playing like a number 10, Hwang I love you man

Ah shit that's us fucked til Christmas

Sasa Vs Burn the Kaiju we've been waiting for

Wolves surprisingly tough to beat for such a shit team

Same points as Chelsea lol

kicking myself we missed the opportunity to go above them

i hope we're this shit for the rest of the season. you could see those last 15 minutes without Neto doesn't bode well for November/December tho, assuming it's his hamstring

i would be feeling pretty easy in my mind about their prospects this season given some of the other turds that are clogging up the pipes in and around the relegation zone. retrench and come back with some new ideas next year. admittedly it's not a particularly gripping vision for the current season

plenty of our fans were giving it "we're doomed" before we'd kicked a ball. we look like a good shout for a top half finish at the moment so yeah, i'll take a season of steady improvement and continue to fantasize about what it'd be like if we had a proper number 9

the non harry kane team

only about a dozen proper 9s out there worldwide though, if that. Nakhchivan, we need a taxonomy of strikers inclusive of a definitive ruling on what constitutes a "proper 9". you slacker

when the season is right, and under a gardener of the right ken (mon bring such) can the big put forth his mighty branches and grow strong again, that the evergreen kevin philips may shelter and find bounty in their shade.

this has stayed with me forever

Utd lining up with Maguire and Evans in central defence again

dunno if I can do this tbh

cunt cunt cunts

there's a million of those every single game

most are better at disguising it tho

Foden's kind of a douche

Maguire's forehead is a sixhead by now

HOLY SHIT what a save

his handling is still weird but he's improving

City are s o b o r i n g

this doesn't look like last year's City

any working streams?

r soccer streams dot net

this is just sad

xp justice4moyes.net still has a few iirc

and that's the Onana I'm talking about

absolutely loves palming it back out to the opposition

when onana is off to AFCON they can put eriksen in goal, he's comfortable on the ball and great passer.

somehow, because the scoreline isn't a complete humiliation (even though the performance is), ETH is going to hold onto his job

10 games, 5 losses

Is ETH the problem though?

Or does Graham Potter deserve another chance?

#justiceformoyes

I mean the club is fucking cursed but so far ETH has demonstrated a complete inability to instill any patterns of play

and his transfers have been utterly horrendous