Today’s Football 2022/23 Season

[Shibbywiggles]

No VAR in the Championship, Boro just won a corner even though the ball had already gone out

Would have been controversial if they’d gone on to score

Var wouldn’t get involved with that anyway tbf

 

[Walken]

In fairness, PSG, Madrid, United, the RS, and Barca have to a degree been more egregious over the last few years. Last few summers City have brought in a net spend which is either negative. The kopites in particular have spent obscene fees across their team

I wouldn't disagree, they are part of the closed club. When you pluck literally any replacement you want and pay them 500k a week on your dodgy sponsorship deals, net spend is nothing to be lauded.

 

[tsubaki]

4-0

this is deserved

 

[Billy Dean]

Beautiful

 

[ToffeeTim]

Very easy, a bit too easy really

 

[Tommy Chong]

4-0. We are officially better than Real!

 

[neil999]

Officially Evton better than madridz

 

[Shibbywiggles]

Lol imagine being able to bring on Foden and Alvarez to combine like that

 

[kenada_blue]

Well they were found innocent by a independent court. Also guilty of what? Exaggerating their sponsorship revenues so they could spend money they actually have to give them a level playing field with the established clubs spending money they don’t have with debt.

It’s all just money, always has been, we used to be the Mersey millionaires, it doesn’t mean a rich team can’t fail but it’s highly unlikely that a team without money can win. Uefa tried to close the door on teams like PSG and City to protect their traditional cartel and City got round it. Boohoo I say.

They weren't found innocent. The court agreed that most of the breaches were time barred which mean they happened too long ago for UEFA to do anything about them, so over turned the ban and fined them. They've now got 100 rules to overturn for the League.

End of the day, rules are rules. If we'd broken some back in the day then I'm pretty sure we'd be tarred with the same brush and be looked less fondly of.

Money wins things. 100%. No doubt.

Personally just won't be bending over backwards to give credit to a club who lied to become the biggest commercial clubs in world football and annihilate the field

 

[Big Sams Undies]

Pep has bummed our Carlo silly

 

[Blue83]

we're better than Madrid then

 

[NorthernBlue]

Get Carlo back here

 

[carolinablue232]

For whatever reason, losing by 4 seems so much worse than 3.

 

[ChesterBlue]

I wouldn't disagree, they are part of the closed club. When you pluck literally any replacement you want and pay them 500k a week on your dodgy sponsorship deals, net spend is nothing to be lauded.

That’s a fair point, but that said most of the “elite” clubs pay stupid wages. What annoys me is FFP has arguably made football less competitive (not that the money in the sport isn’t disgusting)

 

[Blue83]

For whatever reason, losing by 4 seems so much worse than 3.

Because it is and losing by 5 is worse than 4