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Ipswich have just been awarded a penalty identical to the Calvert-Lewin/Burn incident from our last game when we didn't get a penalty. Literally hilarious.

0-1 Ndiaye. Should have been our third goal after Calvert-Lewin missed a one on one and McNeil took a touch too many inside the box earlier. Ipswich should have had one before as well mind.

Bad sprint qualifying for those of us who want a battle or for Norris to win the WDC. I think the Mclaren has pace but it isn't looking driveable or well set up, same with the Mercedes which could well be the fastest car. I expect Mclaren and Ferrari to have good race pace. The rest of the weekend will be interesting.

£10 > £20.20

Edited mine. Ferrari looking decent again in practice and Piastri a bit off the pace.

We should be going to Ipswich and winning to be honest. Not that they're pushovers but we won plenty of these fixtures last season and we need to have a mid-table mindset rather than a relegation battle mindset otherwise the latter will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. These aren't pushovers and it's not good for us that they're winless so far because they'll be viewing this as a must-win if they have hopes of staying up.

DeadLinesman NOR NOR VER PIA 14th 40

Whiskey: Pole: NOR Race: NOR, PIA, LEC Random: P12 Bonus: 34

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LEC LEC NOR VER 13th 40

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Saturday 19th October, 2024 Luton 2-2 Watford, 12.30 Athletic Bilbao 2-0 Espanyol, 13.00 Como 1-0 Parma, 14.00 Celtic 3-1 Aberdeen AZ Alkmaar 0-3 PSV, 17.45 Sunday 20th October, 2024 Seattle Sounders 2-0 Portland Timbers, 02.00 Wellington Phoenix 4-1 Western United, 04.00 Hull 0-1 Sunderland Leicester Women 1-2 Everton Women Nantes 0-1 Nice, 16.00

Second leg came in (just). One corner short for me in the end. Fine margins.

Croatia exactly 3 corners

£10 > £19.10

I only saw the last half hour but England looked even worse than they did during the Euros. Almost bailed out by individual quality again. Carsley's tactical approach was clearly a bit rogue. He doesn't have the experience to manage the players and egos in that England squad. You need a proper manager if you want to get the best out of Bellingham, Foden, Palmer, etc. all in the same team. It's certainly do-able. Southgate and Carsley are not close to that standard as managers though.

Some bookies already have it odds-on they'll have another leadership contest before the end of 2025 because their final candidates are both so awful. Labour really need to sort themselves out. Some of this gift/donation scandal is actually scandalous but now the media are nit-picking over concert tickets that they've declared because in terms of declarations, Labour are doing things above board. Angela Rayner was invited into that DJ booth in Ibiza for a laugh but she still declared it as a gift of a few hundred quid because that's what a normal holiday-maker would have to pay that much to go into the booth. The next day the media report that "Rayner accepts £800 gift for Ibiza holiday". You can never defend corrupt or dishonest politicians but when the media act in such bad faith to generate clicks and drama, you can see why some politicians take their chances with not declaring things if they think they can get away with it. Starmer has made a poor start overall though. I don't actually have a problem with the pensioners' fuel allowance. It's means-tested, it isn't being taken away from those who need it, but retired pensioners living in £500,000 houses with gardens, spare rooms, etc. don't need £200 a year to pay for their heating bills, let's be honest. It's so frustrating though that when Labour have won such a big majority and have so much political capital to play with, they haven't tried to be more radical by increasing taxes on the richest people to start filling the huge black holes in the funding of public services. The state of the NHS, public transport, schools, policing in the UK are an absolute disgrace for a developed country.

This is pretty much true in much the Premier League and probably most of the elite clubs across Germany/Italy/Spain/PSG. I don't know if Germany has gotten quite as bad though outside of Bayern and Leipzig, so maybe this will go down a little bit worse. His role in German domestic football was the one of the genius manager who guided Dortmund to taking down big, bad, monopolising Bayern. When you look around though I think you're right that we all have to accept that football is heading in one direction only. Even since 10 years ago when we thought it was bad with all the oil money, we've had this epidemic of multi-club ownership, court battles and financial breaches that are almost impossible to understand as a normal fan. Elite English and European football is a great advert for grassroots and lower league football at the moment.

I mean it's easier to see it from the outside and I did/do believe he probably has left-leaning sensibilities overall but the bloke was the king of playing your fanbase like a fiddle while he was Liverpool manager and saying what you'd all want to get behind at every turn, so it's always hard to know how much of it was genuine and how much of it was slightly calculated.

Bad news for people who simultaneously think Red Bull are the root of all evil in football and Klopp's socialist, man of the people credentials are purer than the Pope's knickers.

I have no sympathy for the Premier League after last season they appointed their own CEO to an "Independent Commission" to make a judgement on our first PSR case and then dished out a punishment larger than what you'd get for administration. I have no problem for Man City either though. The rules were there. Teams that broken them should have received a punishment. Not as harsh as what Everton got originally last season. If Man City actually have a valid point in calling these rules "illegal" then they should have appealed against them and gone through all this when they were initially implemented. What needs to happen here is a sizeable punishment for Manchester City. What also needs to happen is that Richard Masters and everyone at the Premier League who has overseen the absolute shambles of these rules, from the politically-motivated heavy-handedness directed at Everton, the incredible technicality that let Leicester get off without any punishment, to this mess with Man City, all need to be removed and replaced with a new independent regulator as a matter of utmost urgency.

This is so boring now. City trying to get off with the charges regardless of their innocence as you'd expect. The Premier League trying to spin a narrative because their authority hits all-time lows every day. The rest of the clubs in the league lining up on one side or another depending on whether they want to undermine PSR or encourage it, none of them because it's what they actually believe in but all depending on what benefits them the most. Why other clubs are even getting involved in this is beyond me. They honestly just need to introduce some sort of cost cap without all the grey areas or scrap the domestic financial restrictions altogether. Genuinely think I'd rather see Newcastle buy an elite squad and start competing for the title than have to try to read any more tweets about third party sponsorship deals, interest on stadium loans or amortisation.

How many of the 115 charges does this relate to?

Wolves have picked up 5 points in 22 games I read. I haven't checked but Gary O'Neil is very lucky to still be in a job if that's even close to being accurate. They could be in trouble because I think Southampton are the only ones who have come up that are properly hopeless. I'm not taking Crystal Palace seriously as a relegation candidate yet. I think we should be fine but I'd feel more comfortable if the likes of Forest and Brentford hadn't racked up so many points already.

Saturday 12th October, 2024 Chesterfield 2-1 Notts County, 12.30 Arsenal Women 2-0 Chelsea Women, 13.45 Croatia 2-0 Scotland, 17.00 Cyprus 1-1 Romania, 19.45 Serbia 1-2 Switzerland, 19.45 Sunday 13th October, 2024 Columbus Crew 2-1 New England Revolution, 00.30 Liverpool Women 1-3 Man City Women Andorra 1-1 San Marino, 17.00 Austria 3-2 Norway, 19.45 Greece 1-1 Ireland, 19.45