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VolsLFC said:
How does Newcastle continue to get the prime time spot every weekend?
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I was wondering the same thing when I looked at today’s schedule this morning. It seems like they play the late game every Saturday. However they aren’t in that timeslot again until mid-January.

Particularly sucks for traveling supporters. Newcastle is a long way from most everywhere else in the league, but you can still reasonably get a train home to/from Newcastle after a 3 PM kickoff. Not the case for the late game though, so everyone has to either drive or stay overnight.
 
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What. A. Match.

That was fun. Both teams landing blows and the other team landing one right back. If you told me City scored 4 goals before the match, I’d say we lost 4-0 or 4-1. But not this time, the boys came to play. This is the potential this team has when they play confidence, you can finally start to see some identity, but you still see the youth showing up this game too. Just need to keep growing and gaining more composure and consistency.

That’s now 5 out of 9 points against the top 3 teams in the table in the last 4 league games. Thing is, if it weren’t for some naive play at a couple key moments, could have been 9 out of 9.
 
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C/O said:
The pressure on Cole Palmer on that PK.
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Need to eat some crow on Palmer. I never thought he was bad or anything but I was disappointed in the buy mainly because I thought, and still think overall, that we need more experience. He’s been incredible though and a big reason the attack has continued to get better. Future is so bright for the kid, happy to have him.
 
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Amazing game to send us into the international break.

Really tight at the top right now, with even Villa only 3 points off the league lead. Manchester United feel like they’re eternally in crisis, but looking at the last five matches, they’re actually the form team in the league right now. Plus Everton further above the relegation zone than we’ve been in over 700 days.
 
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VolsLFC said:
The penalty on Haaland yesterday - how many times has that same thing occurred without a penalty given?
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Really harsh penalty. Haaland initiated it by yanking Cucurella backwards to get in front of him in the first place and then falls to the ground with even the slightest grab as Cucurella tried to regain his balance and stay with him after the initial pull. Haaland knew what he was doing by falling like a sack of bricks, and it worked. Dark Arts won out in that instance.
 
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Nash_Vol97 said:
Really harsh penalty. Haaland initiated it by yanking Cucurella backwards to get in front of him in the first place and then falls to the ground with even the slightest grab as Cucurella tried to regain his balance and stay with him after the initial pull. Haaland knew what he was doing by falling like a sack of bricks, and it worked. Dark Arts won out in that instance.
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That’s how I viewed it as well. Even if Cucurella form tackled him, I feel like it happens all the time and doesn’t get called. How did Anthony Taylor even get that game? I thought he got demoted to the championship.
 
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VolsLFC said:
That’s how I viewed it as well. Even if Cucurella form tackled him, I feel like it happens all the time and doesn’t get called. How did Anthony Taylor even get that game? I thought he got demoted to the championship.
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He got moved down to the Championship, refs one game, and then comes back up to the PL and refs the prime time game of the weekend. Makes no sense at all.
 
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VolsLFC said:
Chelsea said hold my beer. Supposedly Abramovich used offshore vehicles to fund tens of millions in football-related expenses to skirt FFP. FFP is such a joke.
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Everyone knew it was happening, and everyone knows it happens at a lot of clubs. Abramovich just took it to a whole new level haha.

I’ve seen stories the past couple days about potential points deductions and that just seems weird to me. The only reason this info came out is because Boehly and the new ownership found it in the books when they took over and they themselves handed it over. Punishing the current players and the current ownership by way of a points deduction or Europe ban after they handed over the evidence in good faith would be peak FA and UEFA decision making though. They can’t get anything right.
 
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Nash_Vol97 said:
Everyone knew it was happening, and everyone knows it happens at a lot of clubs. Abramovich just took it to a whole new level haha.

I’ve seen stories the past couple days about potential points deductions and that just seems weird to me. The only reason this info came out is because Boehly and the new ownership found it in the books when they took over and they themselves handed it over. Punishing the current players and the current ownership by way of a points deduction or Europe ban after they handed over the evidence in good faith would be peak FA and UEFA decision making though. They can’t get anything right.
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I agree with you it wouldn’t make sense to punish the current regime. I just hate that there are clearly inequities, certain clubs who seem to adhere vs not, and inconsistent/lack of enforcement. I wish sports were as fair as possible. I know they aren’t and never will be, but I’m always for improvement. UEFA, FA’s, NCAA and SEC clearly rustles my jimmies.
 
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Absolute joke. Higher points deduction than clubs get for going into administration. Meanwhile City incur no penalties at all after 100+ infractions.

Whatever. If there was ever an opportune season to be docked 10 points, this is the one. The bottom of the league is beyond awful. Still think we survive this. Even with the deduction we’re currently only two points from safety. But…so much for the brief hope that we’d be having a comfortably mid-table season.
 
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Nash_Vol97 said:
Everyone knew it was happening, and everyone knows it happens at a lot of clubs. Abramovich just took it to a whole new level haha.

I’ve seen stories the past couple days about potential points deductions and that just seems weird to me. The only reason this info came out is because Boehly and the new ownership found it in the books when they took over and they themselves handed it over. Punishing the current players and the current ownership by way of a points deduction or Europe ban after they handed over the evidence in good faith would be peak FA and UEFA decision making though. They can’t get anything right.
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I am reading and hearing that it was leaked through files called ‘the Cyprus confidential files’ and were released by a group named ‘distributed denial of secrets’ The group has been involved in other things like this before. Things I am seeing are not pointing toward Boehly and Co handing it over themselves.
 
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C/O said:
I am reading and hearing that it was leaked through files called ‘the Cyprus confidential files’ and were released by a group named ‘distributed denial of secrets’ The group has been involved in other things like this before. Things I am seeing are not pointing toward Boehly and Co handing it over themselves.
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What you are referring to is from the Guardian article. This obviously got more coverage but there were reports a few weeks ago about the PL investigating Chelsea. I can’t find the source articles anymore because everything is flooded with regurgitating the Guardian piece, but here is an excerpt from 90min.com talking about it:

“The Premier League are already investigating Chelsea's finances between 2012 and 2019 after the club's new owners came forward and reported 'incomplete financial information' was submitted when Abramovich was in charge.”

www.90min.com

Chelsea could face points deduction over FFP breaches

Chelsea could be punished by the Premier League for historic breaches of Financial Fair Play regulations uncovered by a new investigation.
www.90min.com www.90min.com

It’s likely that this guardian report was initiated after the incomplete financial information was reported by Chelsea, triggering their investigation. Or they were sitting on the information but needed more before they could report it and that gave it to them. Or it’s completely different investigation separate from each other but just happens to have found the same situation. Idk.

Main point though is Chelsea handed over books directly to the PL after taking over because they found these irregularities. They didn’t do the crime and there isn’t a single upper management person still at the club that would have had knowledge of this. They are all gone. They very well could give a points deduction still, but it would just be a bit weird to do that to a club and ownership who didn’t do the crime and could have just buried it and moved on, but they didn’t.

There will be a large punishment, just don’t know if it will go beyond a large fine and probation or something else like that.
 
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bleedorange0037 said:

Absolute joke. Higher points deduction than clubs get for going into administration. Meanwhile City incur no penalties at all after 100+ infractions.

Whatever. If there was ever an opportune season to be docked 10 points, this is the one. The bottom of the league is beyond awful. Still think we survive this. Even with the deduction we’re currently only two points from safety. But…so much for the brief hope that we’d be having a comfortably mid-table season.
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Absolute horse chit
 
#6,474
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bleedorange0037 said:

Absolute joke. Higher points deduction than clubs get for going into administration. Meanwhile City incur no penalties at all after 100+ infractions.

Whatever. If there was ever an opportune season to be docked 10 points, this is the one. The bottom of the league is beyond awful. Still think we survive this. Even with the deduction we’re currently only two points from safety. But…so much for the brief hope that we’d be having a comfortably mid-table season.
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We’ve seen this before. League flexes for public show and appeal takes it to where it was always going to be.
 
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Outofmyvolcanmind said:
We’ve seen this before. League flexes for public show and appeal takes it to where it was always going to be.
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I’m not even sure Everton should appeal it, especially if the ruling isn’t going to come this season. I’d rather be deducted 10 points this year than 5 next. It’s unlikely we’ll ever see a collection of 3-4 more inept teams at the bottom of the table again.
 
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