Recent content by TedofChume

I know you've done endless research on this and you're a godsend for helping us all (try to) understand. However, in layman's terms simple questions need answering: - Why on earth would City have this battle over APT, when a negative outcome of the PSR case could kick it all to kingdom come...

It wasn't a penalty. Under the rules that season the referees were instructed to determine that if the ball touched the sleeve (on a short sleeved shirt), it was not handball. The ball struck his sleeve so that's that! The thing is you can never pick on one incident. There are 38 matches for...

I've been going to watch City for 42 years now, and we get a lot more now than we ever did in the past.

That's true, but rules are rules and one person will interpret them one way and another another way. That will also vary over time even if the rules don't change. I would say that all you can conclude from what you've read is that that is what happened in that instance, not necessarily what will...

You forget that the team attacking the most is in the oppositions penalty area the most. Therefore there are more opprtunities for penalties for one team than the other. If a dominant Utd have 9 shouts for a penalty in a match and a weak piss poor Liverpool have 1 shout. Then if the referee...

FMV is basically a calculation based on similar transactions with a tolerance ie historic market value and possibly subsequent market value. However, the UEFA method and EPL method of calculating it are different, as they reveal different outcomes. Neither are disclosed so we really don't know...

This sentence said it all for me: "The deluded who rage against controls, claiming to be the victims of some phantom 'red cartel', neglect to remember that English football has always been built on the primacy of competition" Is the guy so deluded that he can't see how a club like Man Utd with...

Agreed! The refs are dreadful, but they've never been any good. Keith Hackett pops up now as a sage old ref, but he was useless! For every howler that's gone against us remember there's that wierd Sterling offside goal against Watford which helped us nip Liverpool to the title or Aguero's...

I just thought it was like a traditional pre-season friendly. They all went through the motions but did the business. You can't make any judgements on this performance.

The BBC said they're training in Boca Raton, Florida today. Lynn University.

Well the CONCACAF includes Suriname, Guyana and French Guiana which are in South America, so the CONMEBOL isn't strictly all of South America. Yet many people assume it is. I should have said Latin America, although South America and Latin America are often used as synonyms. Either way it...

You have to remember Sky are a business. They don't have the rights and won't big it up if it will take viewers away. They used to completely ignore the FA Cup and World Cup years ago. Dan Roan has published an equally lamentable article on the Saudi backing of it today on the BBC website...

I think it will be big and in a few years looked back on as a tournament that changed world football. The money at steak will make it a collosal success. When wealthy investors see what they might achieve by backing participating clubs, the next tournament in 4 years time will blow the world of...

From what I've read he's had one court case against him in Spain which collapsed. Unless he's been found guilty by a court, you can't really say that sort of thing. It's like saying a football club is guilty errrrr........

That makes sense. Although I've felt for a while there might be a secret (in camera) case going on, as a result of the judgment? Edit: I've just read Damocles post so deleted this next bit [DELETED]