SebastianBlue
President, International Julian Alvarez Fan Club
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Agreed.
In the financial world this is often termed “selective regulatory corruption”, which is when an oversight body correctly applies their legal regulatory authority to address a specific compliance issue or malpractice... after ignoring similar (or exact same) infringements by other entities.
It is difficult to fight it because technically they are within their rights and just fulfilling their mandate. But, in reality, it is just another form of corruption (its usually an indication of regulatory capture, when an industry through lobbying, political influence, and/or stacking the management body “captures” the oversight entity and it begins to act on the interests of the industry it is supposed to be regulating).
In this case, correct application of time keeping rules is the selective regulatory corruption and the regulatory capture is the FA controlling the PGMOL to influence the product on the field to keep viewers interested.
After all, we won the league so early (and in such a dominant fashion, despite the FA and Premier Leagues attempts to slow us down), if not for the relegation fight going to the wire the viewership numbers would have tanked and advertising revenue would have fallen precipitously.