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Agree but gotta add Laporte's winner against Tottenham in League Cup Final . Even sweeter as Gary Neville thought he should have been sent off earlier in the game

Excellent post . Someone once said something like " Football is the most important of unimportant things " and I remind myself of this often ( although it always feels like the only important thing during a match ) . So much of what you say is stuff that I've been mulling over : jealousy ...

I was eight and it really hit home . Disaster coming straight into the living room for the first time . Next horror that had a similar impact was Ibrox , as I'd just started going to matches on my own, then Bradford as I was working in the hospital closest to the ground that day listening to...

Excellent read . I am staggered that the Premier League's woeful level of corporate governance isn't one widely known / scrutinized. You are right . Five board members , two of whom are executives , is simply not enough to permit consistent scrutiny / probity / checks and balances on...

Good point . He earns his living by spouting opinion , like all pundits, and has been swimming in the twin Churches of Liverpool and Social Media for so long he has swallowed the orthodoxy wholesale . His world view of earnings is distorted by being overexposed to the clicks and viewing...

VAR and it's inadequacies is the gift that keeps on giving . Football has to be a 24 / 7 attention grabber for all the industries that demand eyes on the page . The big leagues have always known that refereeing decisions create churn and controversy and it's this that can be especially...

A win is a win but be got bossed about a bit both sides of the half time break . Fowler is such a sublime player to watch and Yui likewise . I think Kelly had a reasonable game, given her lack of match fitness but happy to see the triple substitution. Some great saves by their goalie . She is...

Thanks for the heads up . About the APT case . DOI . One presenter a Blue , one an Arsenal fan but both trying to be impartial . Blue won the argument that the PL scored a PR own goal by briefing so quickly last Monday about it being " business as usual with a few minor tweaks" and now looking...

Unfortunately the FA swallowed "the easy logic of club football" thirty two years ago when they failed to negotiate a more robust and overarching financial and regulatory agreement with the clubs when the PL was formed . Too busy getting one over on the Football League to see that the cartel...

Good post . I just listened to The Athletic podcast and one of the journalists , who has been doing a deep dive into the judgement, says it's been hard to get any lawyers to go on record at this stage as so many of them are advising PL teams as to their individual positions ....and don't want...

I was also there . Terrible day . Grown men crying on The Kippax. Visceral hatred of Luton T ever since ( sister and nephew are ST holders so great at family gatherings )

Agree. I've given up listening to any commentary when City are playing . Sound off and watch highlights on City+. Keeps my blood pressure down ..but to say "Liverpool didn't deserve that" was very revealing .

Really good win ..I listened to the commentary on the City app as our and about . Looking forward to highlights later . I had expected a drop off after Wednesday night. This shows we mean business

Bunny Shaw . Cheat code .....fantastic

Shroud waving . Feels a bit desperate to me . There is a tiny hint of back peddling though . First time I've seen an open acknowledgement of a client based system ....although he still manages to distort City's determination to challenge this legally , so that it looks like we are the devil...

Sky Sports News , BBC Sports and Talk Sport all have broadcasting contracts with the PL. They will bury this latest story .They will never be impartial and can be viewed as client media . They appeal to different audiences with versions of the same message, favouring the Old Guard . It's one...

To paraphrase Monty Python , seeing as Martin Samuel has revisited Holy Grail this week "I'm not the Messiah , just a very naughty boy.."

Great analysis . Miedema kept Walsh so quiet I hardly realized she was playing .