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If he's banned does that mean whilst banned he can bet, since he's no longer a player?

I think it is incredible that Newcastle have been out of the Champions League for 20 years and in that time only 3 new English teams have managed to qualify. In 20 years! Only a US based style system can fix the revenue disparity that has killed the ability for someone else to have a go every now and then.

Have I missed something or are you just referring to the non-Executive Chairman of Newcastle United, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, whose name has been on the takeover since day one and was on the pitch at full time? Co-owners Jamie Rueben and Mehrhad Ghodoussi were taking part in a half time challenge on the pitch as far as I am aware. The Saudi state owns Newcastle United via the Public Investment Fund which is headed up by Al-Rumayyan. He's the face of it. In all Western business press all the time. The man cutting the deals. His face is going to be wherever Newcastle's success is because that is the point of it all. To enable business deals, to enable the PiF to grow its fund to over $1trn by softening up businesses to dealing with the PiF. I'm not really sure what is supposed to be covered up? Nothing says he has to hide away. The deal with the Premier League is that PiF are not allowed to control Newcastle United. Not that the Saudi state don't have the ability to. Hence shareholders Amanda Staveley and Jamie Rueben are the executive directors. How you ever prove PiF are running the club is the difficult part. As Masters alluded to. It seems to me that the rules have been specifically written so this should be done like this. As a mechanism of some sort of control over input values. If this was 1996 John Hall would have to plaster Metro Centre branding all over a training kit so we could buy Shearer.

Football, like life, is about the journey and not the destination. Man City aren't really in a journey anymore and so we see a tepid fanbase, as we also saw with Man Utd under Ferguson. It doesn't just apply to champions though. It applies to every position. The only way out of the rut is a spell of failure.

It's great to be back in Europe. The first 15 years of my footballing life we were nearly always in Europe. It was a defining feature of that generation. I'm glad for the poor buggers who've only ever known Mike Ashley that they'll get to see Newcastle in Europe and not be trapped living the Nottingham Forest effect of 16 year old lads clinging onto an identity from before they were born.

I can well see that happening here to some extent. Despite being in power, the ground level, the grassroots, the public conversations have been nothing but miserabilism. What happens to that when it's no longer curtailed by being in power? It will ramp up even more. You've also got parts of this country where the ground level right wing is increasingly talking about things like the so called "war on cars", low traffic neighbourhoods, ultra low emission zones, a slippery slope to climate conspiracy. There's an opening there for a right wing leader, inside or outside the Conservative party. Climate is the new topic, the new immigration. If anyone things the right are bad now, wait till they're not moderated by power. It will be the first time in the social media age that we won't have a right wing government.

They are not set to lose power over policies or being right wing. In the vacuum that will ensue each faction will claim failure is the result of not following their thinking. Promoting their values. This is the story of these coalitions. That part is at least predictable. Who comes out on top I'm not sure. A lot will depend on who survives as an MP. It wouldn't be a surprise if we get culture wars ramped up.

Labour is a coalition of all over the liberal spectrum of the centre and left. The leadership shifts from different factions of that coalition. Conservatives are the flipped mirror image of that, just switch left with right. Both parties hound out authoritarian and social Conservatives. Hence parties like UKIP, Reform or the Social Democratic Party exist separately. Lib dems are a middle class protest party for people who are too uptight to swing between the above two parties. The Greens are left wing activists who don't like having to water down their views in a coalition so go it alone.

Bottom 3 sides aren't dysfunctional for 38 games. No one is, except the rare occasion someone is bottom of the table woeful, thats never all 6 or 7 of the relegation scrap. Performance form, like for every team in every position will ebb and flow throughout the season. You can be ok and still not deserve to have won the game. Chelsea had wins that could have easily been draws. Had they been so then what they have descended into now they'd be in the mix. Before the money disparity a club could win the league and be in the bottom half the next season. And vice versa. Money is not a coincidence here. The money clubs can finish top 6 and everyone say how shit they looked throughout the season. Whereas for Brighton to finish top 6 they're never allowed to be shit for anywhere near as many games. That's the money disparity which causes that. Bailing bad teams out all the time. That's the floor. Whether 2nd or 7th Manchester United seem to always be in or one game away from crisis. Moaning all the time. £1bn spent and in two cup finals but they still want the owners out. This is because they're not actually any good anymore but they can buy being up there. In another era where income didn't cause such disparity they'd be nowhere near the top post fergie as they've never had a good team. Only good teams would make the top in a well balanced league.

Evertons line up is not really an expensive one or tipping money in all the time. Chelsea don't deserve many of their wins. They'd be bottom 3 if not for superior players.

Money provides the floor. Coaching and management provides the ceiling. Our floor has been raised. Manchester United and Arsenal for example should have been bottom half maybe even relegated at least once in the last decade, but their floor won't allow it.

Matt Ritchie gave him a pretty public talking to at the end

A subbed sub. He was taken off to kill time with 30 seconds to go so not sure what his problem is. Weird reaction.

Might be a glitch in the sofa score app but did a Roy Hodgson Crystal Palace really just have 31 shots against you How did Leicester board let it go this far

For me if we get a left back we don't need a centre back. Dan Burn can be next centre back in line. Maybe replace Lascelles with a prospect.

Made sense in the 70s but would be a joke if done now unless no one but the Champions actually gets to play in Europe.

There should be a mileage cap on games. You can't be adding more and more emissions. Champions League needs to be regionalised in the early stages.

I've been there twice and both times it's been hairy. Stand needs pulling down.

Seems you can drive out to a ring road and into another section yeah. Oxford council had to release this statement yesterday to debunk a lot of the fake news pumped out on social media by alt right and far right donkeys. When you read it you see just how badly these muppets online are crippling discourse in our society with their inability to comprehend anything or know how to know. Here's a council that wants to make buses run smoother and people around the world are talking about it, what the fuck. https://www.oxford.gov.uk/news/article/2332/joint_statement_from_oxfordshire_county_council_and_oxford_city_council_on_oxford_s_traffic_filters

Assuming you don't consider the BBC nutters > https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-63794200.amp

When the alt right find out about the toxins in the air they breath they'll all immediately suffocate themselves.

If Aldi sells out of tin foil you'd have to walk to Lidl. No wonder the alt right are panicking, they'd have to pass a few 5G masts unprotected on the way. I can see it now, tin foil rationing that means people having to wear hats they've already used for their cheese toasties