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Building the narrative that we're guilty, but were let off due to government pressure...

No, hence why it's still a thing...

It's this simple... Any debt where the repayment is over ⅓ of a clubs annual turnover CAN'T be levied against clubs, & MUST be levied PERSONALLY against the club's ownership. The thought of bailiffs taking off the door to an owner's mansion, will certainly protect clubs by ending profligate...

Like pre-FFP football in 2009? What a novel idea! :-)

PMSL!! :-)

Yaya was a defensive midfielder at Barça, but played CB in the CL Final because of injuries & suspensions. He was superceded in Barça's midfield by Busquets...

This is what I've been stating since I took a step back, & adopted a global overview stance... "In short, the old days of deference to the 'specificity of sport' appear to be numbered. As a result, fans are likely to continue to see their favourite clubs fighting their battles in the courts, as...

Kinky was a diamond in a pile of mediocrity. I doubt any one player could have saved us with Alan Ball at the helm...

Agreed that Fernandinho was coming to the end of his career at City, but starting the final without Fern or Rodders was a huge mistake, & Pep's subsequently admitted so. We'd practically won the league, were in the CL Final & FA Cup semis, & I sensed Pep took his foot off the gas by messing...

Gundog has been special in his own right, but imo he's never been best as a specialist No 6 for us. Ilkay came into his own when played as a No 8, albeit he could fill in as a 6 if needed. We saw what happened in the CL Final when both Fern & Rodders were inexplicably left on the bench for...

"Best" vs "favourite" for sure, but there's also a special category for "most important", & that for me only has two candidates, Fernandinho & Rodri. We've had to cope for periods without all the other greats, but the absences which affected us the most imo are Rodders & Fern, such was their...

I hate being beaten, but if there was a match for us to lose this season, it'd be in the early rounds of the Carabao Cup. And right on cue, my fuckin Spuds family are lighting up my phone, presumably to take the piss over a match I'm truly not arsed about! \0/

BUT, who was more important to the team? For me there should be a Crucial Unsung Hero category of two, for Fernandinho & Rodri. Without either, we weren't the same team.

Yes I meant City, but what baffles me is why France Football would tell anyone the results in advance. It kinda defeats the object of having a vote where the result is to announced as part of a glitzy ceremony.

Why would they tell us?

Chinese whispers are Chinese whispers mate. Real actually didn't turn up, so how did they know for absolute sure? This has echoes of everyone knowing the verdict in the 2014 FFP witch hunt against us, before the tribunal had started. It's like we're Blackadder, UEFA are General Melchet & FFP's...

Oh dear.... Oh well, the best laid plans & all that. :-)

It's unbelievable that Real spat their dummies out the way they did. It's pathetic behaviour that you wouldn't expect from a child... ALSO, has anyone found out how Real knew the result prior to the award ceremony? THIS is the issue that needs investigating, because it stinks...

But don't you think the relative starting points of these eras has a serious bearing? Silva, Kun & Yaya followed Jo, Vassell, Barton, Corradi & the Stuart Pearce era. It's said the first is the hardest, & for me that was in 2011 & beating ManUre in the FA Cup semi, & then going on to beat...

This is what enrages them! They just don't get why I don't rub their noses in our successes & their failures, because if/when it was the other way around, that's why they lived for football. A few years back, a rabid Rag mate of mine got seriously pissed with me because I didn't want to talk...