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  1. Football is fundamentally broken. No amount of witch-hunts and court cases is going to set it back on the path to right without way more stringent rules on spending being enforced across the board. So you go and get City and charge them and win. Great. Now what? You've got so much financial doping going on everywhere because its a popular entertainment avenue that you can't just put the genie back in the bottle. It may seem stupid that there's a huge disparity between clubs with rich owners and ones that don't have them but the time to fix that issue has long passed. When the first signs of it started showing up the FAs of the world looked at it with their eyes in wonder "omg we're going to get so much money". Then the TV networks came along and realized what kind of cash cow they were about to inherit "omg so much more money". Then FIFA went and did its little song and dance and once again "omg we're about to get way more richer than we can ever dream". These systems don't care about your cities and the clubs that are an offset of them, all they see are gooses that lay eggs which are golden and expanding avenues for merchandise and services to be sold. What's probably even more amusing than the system of football is how clubs think they are going to get justice of any sort by going to the very people who want this to stay the way it is. We can all sit here and blame the clubs that went and did all this for spoiling the sport but the truth is that it stopped being a sport a long time ago and is now effectively a business that just happens to facilitate a form of sport.
    5 points
  2. Actually I lied, it was 2 packets of Muffins (8 Muffins), I have noshed 5 already and wee Kaiden has had 1....so far
    3 points
  3. After Birthday treats, our son has arrived with a few cans of lager and a bottle of wine for me, wee Kaiden arrived with our daughter and got me some Kit-Kat Bites and muffins, heavy night ahead
    3 points
  4. Me, washing down the muffins, Kaiden noshing down Pizza's with his 'Uncle Butt Face' as he calls him, our son.
    2 points
  5. Surprised the missus has not come down hard on you John...
    2 points
  6. If he's banned does that mean whilst banned he can bet, since he's no longer a player?
    1 point
  7. In its written reasons explaining its sanction, published on Friday, the commission said Toney had admitted repeatedly lying during his initial interviews with the FA. The FA initially wanted to impose a 15-month ban on Toney because he attempted to conceal his betting, knowing it was against FA rules. This included betting through third parties and deleting relevant messages from his mobile phone, it said, then knowingly giving "clearly false answers" during his interviews with the FA.
    1 point
  8. Already on the second bottle of plonk too
    1 point
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  10. Are you on your way to the Moon or something
    1 point
  11. Don't get me wrong, I've loved the past two seasons and this one has been ok albeit, the weakest of the three. However, I really feel like they botched up Nate's character arc. That big flip if making him the bad guy at the end of Season 2 was brilliant and although we've seen hints of that in a couple of the earlier episodes this season, its not really felt developed on and feels far too simplistic the way they have handled Nate's likely u-turn back to Richmond. Why did we not see the moment he quit/resigned from West Ham? Would have been good to see him stand up to Rupert. Why have the Richmond players come looking to bring him back so easily after what he did? we never really got to see why they had a change of heart. How has Nate just let go of that dark side he had? Was it because he found love? Again, we don't know, none of it has really been gone into. I just feel like they haven't made great use of the story arc they had initiated at the end of Season 2 with Nate and it's all a bit disappointing how easy its been to fall back into place.
    1 point
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