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Week 14 Results Cardiff 1-3 Blackburn Juventus 2-0 Torino Leganes 1-0 Sevilla Orlando 1-1 Charlotte Central Coast 0-3 Wellington Liverpool Women 0-3 Chelsea Women Sheff Utd 1-0 Sheff Weds Basaksehir 0-0 Besiktas Lyon 1-0 St Etienne Benfica 4-1 Porto Round-up A few swaps across the table, and of course one of those is at the top once again! @Tommy regains the lead once again over @RandoEFC, whilst @6666 levels things up with @Viva la FCB just behind the front two. @Coma and @CaaC (John) is the other direct swap of positions, as the latter significantly scores lower than everyone else. Myself and @Bluebird Hewitt both top-score with 15 points and we overtake the absent @Azeem.

A 4-point lead remains intact for @CaaC (John) as we head into the final international break this calendar year. The top 3 all score 12 points, but the biggest winner and mover is @Storts who amassed 20 points to head up into 5th. He's now level with @Lucas at the expense of @6666 who drops to 6th. Goalless draws are always hard to predict, especially in the Premier League, so a shout-out to @Rucksackfranzose who successfully predicted a 0-0 draw between West Ham and Everton. @nawoo also scored very well with 19pts to make ground on the 3 above him, where there is only a 4pt gap between 8th and 11th.

This goes back to their 'mates club' thing. And the 'good process, lads' comment. And calling each other by nicknames. It unintentionally brings about some informality and I thought they nipped it in the bud, but even now on the VAR review comms that do get released they're still all so pally and overly friendly. I read a while back (and more recently due to Chris Birchall training up) that ex-players are going on courses to become referees. Part of me hopes this is a good thing in that they'll actually have experience of playing the game and therefore make more informed decisions. The other part of me thinks that a) the rules are so ambiguous and vague and grey in some areas that it won't make a difference and b) they'll soon fall in to the 'mates club' and therefore also won't make a difference. I don't think there's corruption involved as alluded to above - as said it's a huge thing to allege, let alone put into practice. If they're corrupt, who are they corrupt against? Countless times a season there's decisions that go for and against every single club. No matter how hard done we feel as fans, there's probably several examples we can point to where a decision has gone the way of the club you support, but other fans can point to decisions that have gone against. They're not corrupt, they're just poorly managed by the people in charge.

Aliens: never mind, we're going back home.

*Aliens invade* "Let us speak to your most powerful man" Us:

There's another video leaked of him snorting coke during the Euros this year.

Trump is creating a Department of Government Efficiency. He's announced Elon Musk & Vivek Ramaswamy will head it. Personally, I think it's genuinely funny that the department for "efficiency" is going to have 2 bosses. I can't think of anything that screams efficiency like creating a new department... and then appointing two people to run it.

That was 5 years ago! Point proven I guess

Fabinho's goal where Alexander-Arnold handballed it

Do people seriously think that there aren't players, managers and clubs that other referees can't stand or have had run-ins with? Coote has to go for this because that's the nature of their profession but in reality, the only real issue here is that he's got far enough off his tits to admit out loud which people piss him off. I see my own profession reflected in this. If someone got me pissed or high enough and started asking me which kids I teach piss me off and which ones I hate, they'd probably get all sorts out of me. Yet I go into work, put it to one side and try my best to teach them as well as I do with any other kids. It's really not that difficult. Therefore, I find it perfectly reasonable to believe that referees have all sorts of biases and preferences that they put to one side in order to do their job properly. Most people do tend to have some standards when it comes to their professionalism and integrity. The guy was off his face in the video by the way. Before commenting, everyone should probably think up what's the stupidest thing they've ever said when they've been in that sort of state and decide whether that should be used as the primary piece of evidence to judge your character and/or your career had it been filmed and posted on the Internet.

Reminder @Azeem @Viva la FCB @nawoo @6666

I fully understand it’s a serious allegation to call them ‘bent’. I fully stand by that allegation. How could you not? Look at PGMOL trying to hide this for 4 years, look at prem refs being paid by prem club owners massive amounts of money to go and freelance in other countries. This isn’t to mention some of the truly unexplainable decisions made in games. There’s way too much pointing towards something dodgy going on.

That's because it's true. Did you watch Trump on Rogan? His solution to any kind of issue he has with a nation is to call the president/PM/king and tell them he's going to tariff imports at 200%. Which is why the US copped so many tariffs of it's own during his term and why US companies started building more offshore factories and facilities. Similar to post brexit England lol. Turns out when you put up barriers to trade, people don't want to trade with you. That was when he could be encouraged and directed to say anything that was remotely on topic by Rogan of course. The guy has no mental facilities left.

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