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Man City win the league, commiserations to Fulham, West Brom and Sheffield United. But I primarily made this thread because I wanted to chat about Dalian Atkinson who was murdered by PC Benjamin Monk, who it was found out in court today tasered Atkinson for 33 seconds, and then kicked him twice in the head so hard his laces left imprints. loving oval office.
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# ? May 4, 2021 15:58 |
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 07:30 |
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this season has sucked and also i hope that cop goes to prison for the rest of his life
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# ? May 4, 2021 16:47 |
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vyelkin posted:this season has sucked and also i hope that cop goes to prison for the rest of his life same and same at least there was the time where there was no football and big gary and big jamie publicly buried sky tv and graeme souness
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# ? May 5, 2021 01:30 |
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FullLeatherJacket posted:same and same You guys are on course to win the Europa League. That's pretty cool.
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# ? May 5, 2021 02:13 |
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Eric Cantonese posted:You guys are on course to win the Europa League. That's pretty cool. Oh, absolutely - ownership notwithstanding, we've improved a lot this season and it would be nice for Ole to win the UEFA Cup (even if it's piss and poo poo) as he's a good lad who manages well, I don't think it's been a bad season for United at all. I'm thinking more in the sense that I'm not planning on staying up to watch the episode of Premier League Years where City walk the league by winning 87 games in a row, where the bottom three was decided in *checks notes* August, and where City vs Chelsea for the European Cup is in real danger of happening. I mean, if there's a game that would feel comfortable in front of no fans, it's that one, but still
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# ? May 5, 2021 08:29 |
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the premier league are investigating city for the same thing UEFA did except the main difference is there is no statute of limitations https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/sports/soccer/manchester-city-premier-league.html
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# ? May 5, 2021 12:43 |
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https://twitter.com/SouthamptonFC/status/1389943176941690881 Another shocking VAR decision overturned.
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# ? May 5, 2021 15:45 |
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Frankston posted:Man City win the league, commiserations to Fulham, West Brom and Sheffield United. The body had boot prints on the head and the bbc still puts 'kicked' in scare quotes.
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# ? May 5, 2021 15:49 |
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Would be a big fan of Leeds finishing in the top half. Not a fan of poor Dalian getting brutalized
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# ? May 5, 2021 16:07 |
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TheRat posted:https://twitter.com/SouthamptonFC/status/1389943176941690881 Are there any stats on how many VAR-assisted red cards are being successfully appealed? Because both West Ham red cards given after consulting VAR (Soucek and Balbuena) this season have been overturned, and I legitimately can't remember more than one or two reds being successfully appealed for an entire season before VAR came along.
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# ? May 5, 2021 17:04 |
It’s pretty cool how VAR has somehow been worse than the older system of “just let some oval office make a call.”
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# ? May 5, 2021 18:18 |
Sandwolf posted:It’s pretty cool how VAR has somehow been worse than the older system of “just let some oval office make a call.” Turns out letting two cunts make a call doubles the chances of loving up when they're as up their own arse as prem refs are
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# ? May 5, 2021 18:45 |
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Sandwolf posted:It’s pretty cool how VAR has somehow been worse than the older system of “just let some oval office make a call.” Very cool how quickly they went from "only to correct clear and obvious errors like sending off the wrong Arsenal player" to "spend ten minutes scrutinizing a normal tackle frame by frame to determine if a player's stud scraped another player's toe and he therefore deserves the death penalty"
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# ? May 5, 2021 18:54 |
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# ? May 5, 2021 20:28 |
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https://twitter.com/ChronicleNUFC/status/1390379238566604801 Ashley not wanting to lose his status as - if not worst - dumbest owner in the league is going to try and sue the EPL for restraint of trade because of the Fit and Proper test. Interestingly none of the coverage of this seems to include any quotes from experts in contract and/or sports law presumably because they're all too busy laughing or furiously masturbating over the amount of money they're going to earn from this.
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# ? May 6, 2021 22:42 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://twitter.com/ChronicleNUFC/status/1390379238566604801 on the one hand yeah i agree but on the other the PL have let a ton of cunts buy clubs that then went bust and had no problem with city being bought lol
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# ? May 7, 2021 01:00 |
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The Emirates aren't great, granted - for that matter Ashley and almost every other PL owner isn't a fit and proper person by my standards - but also aren't currently engaged in a genocide and hadn't very publicly assassinated a journalist just as they were filling out the application forms.
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# ? May 7, 2021 01:31 |
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Reminder that the Glazers buying Man Utd through a leveraged buyout that would have caused them to do a Leeds if TV money hadn't exploded beyond belief was considered fit and proper.
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# ? May 7, 2021 06:18 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:The Emirates aren't great, granted - for that matter Ashley and almost every other PL owner isn't a fit and proper person by my standards - but also aren't currently engaged in a genocide and hadn't very publicly assassinated a journalist just as they were filling out the application forms. The UAE was enthusiastically involved in the war in Yemen and didn't pull out because they were upset about war crimes or genocide. Admittedly they weren't actively engaged in genocide when the fit and proper persons test was being applied prior to the City takeover but they aren't just lovely to their migrant worker underclass.
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# ? May 7, 2021 07:46 |
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Arsenal are bad and Arteta must amble.
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# ? May 7, 2021 16:06 |
I'll accept Arteta going if the Kroenkes go first Otherwise you're just dealing with the symptoms and not the root cause
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# ? May 7, 2021 16:16 |
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blue footed boobie posted:Arsenal are bad and Arteta must amble. its going to be great watching another manager be unable to make arsenal good. hopefully its an actual good manager who gets his reputation ruined
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# ? May 7, 2021 18:34 |
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Jose posted:its going to be great watching another manager be unable to make arsenal good. hopefully its an actual good manager who gets his reputation ruined They're going to drive a truck full of cash to bielsas door and he'll be sacked within 6 months when he expects arsenal players to do some light cardio
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# ? May 7, 2021 19:18 |
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Imagine the loving weakminded nonces at Arsenal vs Bielsa. There would be mutiny within a week.
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# ? May 7, 2021 19:33 |
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https://twitter.com/GerryCox/status/1390709125718413322 Fair play to Burnley.
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# ? May 7, 2021 19:47 |
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Jose posted:its going to be great watching another manager be unable to make arsenal good. hopefully its an actual good manager who gets his reputation ruined We’ll simply hire Rafa
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# ? May 7, 2021 20:35 |
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Jose posted:its going to be great watching another manager be unable to make arsenal good. hopefully its an actual good manager who gets his reputation ruined this, but out pops a smiling harry redknapp
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# ? May 7, 2021 20:47 |
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blue footed boobie posted:We’ll simply hire Rafa think eh's had enough of backroom shenanigans
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# ? May 7, 2021 21:58 |
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Hodgson imo
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# ? May 7, 2021 23:01 |
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TheRat posted:Reminder that the Glazers buying Man Utd through a leveraged buyout that would have caused them to do a Leeds if TV money hadn't exploded beyond belief was considered fit and proper. The Glazers have pulled shady poo poo with their NFL team over the years, but that's mostly been them gaming the NFL Salary Cap system to avoid spending money when they weren't competitive.
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# ? May 8, 2021 03:12 |
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The issue with the glazer wasn’t whether they could but Manchester United. It was how they did it. Apparently there’s a level of richness you can achieve where you can buy stuff based on the promise that you’ll own it, and then you can get paid for owning it.
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# ? May 8, 2021 03:28 |
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blue footed boobie posted:The issue with the glazer wasn’t whether they could but Manchester United. It was how they did it. Apparently there’s a level of richness you can achieve where you can buy stuff based on the promise that you’ll own it, and then you can get paid for owning it. Yeah the trick to a leveraged buyout isn't knowing how it's done, it's having the connections to borrow that much money.
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# ? May 8, 2021 03:56 |
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vyelkin posted:Yeah the trick to a leveraged buyout isn't knowing how it's done, it's having the connections to borrow that much money.
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# ? May 8, 2021 04:17 |
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Yeah, leveraged buyouts is definitely a thing that should be banned imo.
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# ? May 8, 2021 05:19 |
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quote:Manchester United lose £200m training kit deal over fans’ anti-Glazers campaign https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/may/08/manchester-united-lose-200m-training-kit-deal-over-fans-anti-glazers-campaign
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# ? May 9, 2021 01:45 |
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# ? May 9, 2021 02:02 |
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# ? May 9, 2021 03:43 |
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They'll just get a different deal with shadier sponsors for more money. Fans will gnash their teeth and write angry tweets and put out dramatic tiktoks and nothing will happen
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# ? May 9, 2021 03:52 |
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if they can keep loving with home games they've got a chance at driving out the glazers at least, imo
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# ? May 9, 2021 16:03 |
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 07:30 |
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https://twitter.com/amarjourno/status/1391282663789670407?s=20
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