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Winning the FA Cup twice isn’t for everyone 😏
Southampton FC@SouthamptonFC
Beating Arsenal isn't for everyone 😏
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What’s happened at Leicester is sad - and wrong. They’ve been relegated after a six-point deduction for financial irregularities whilst City are about to win another title with 135 charges unanswered 3 years later. How can this be?
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It’s a strange quirk of English refereeing that a striker touching David Luiz knee cap with his stud was a pen and red card but this here is a ‘coming together’.
thaaabs 🇿🇦@thaaabs_
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🚨 Hale End sensation Myles Lewis Skelly STARTS for Arsenal today
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Telegraph Football@TeleFootball
✍️ "It has been a strange journey for Arsenal supporters to go from fans of a venerable old club to a bunch of insufferable pearl-clutchers," writes George Chesterton. Read why George, as a lapsed Arsenal supporter, finds Arsenal fans insufferable ⤵️ telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/…
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If the FA apply a points deduction proportionate to Luton's 10-point deduction to Chelsea (based on Luton's payments to agents being £160,00 and Chelsea's being £47.5m), then Chelsea will be deducted 2,970 points.
Henry Winter@henrywinter
Good result for Chelsea: club fined only £10m and given a suspended transfer ban after Premier League found 36 separate undisclosed payments totalling £47.5m made “to 12 persons or entities on behalf of the club”. Lenient sanctions. No sporting sanctions. Yet these are serious offences, as the sanction agreement between the PL and Chelsea makes clear, stating “they were not only obvious and deliberate breaches of the rules but also because they involved deception and concealment in relation to financial matters”. Yet no points deductions. Just a manageable (if record) fine and a “suspended one-year first-team player transfer ban (suspended for two years)”. Surely they gained a sporting advantage by recruiting such players? So surely a sporting sanction should be in order? And where's the consistency? In 2008, Luton Town received a 10-point deduction for irregularities in dealing with agents (nb from FA). There still could be some further sanctions by the FA following its "ongoing investigation". PL points to mitigating factors: current owners Clearlake/Todd Boehly in May 2022 voluntarily self-reported potential historical breaches from the Roman Abramovich era. Club co-operated extensively and helped provide (with others) 10,000 documents for PL investigation. PL established “that between 2011 and 2018, undisclosed payments by third parties associated with the club were made to players, unregistered agents and other third parties”. Payments related to the purchases of players including Eden Hazard, Willian, Samuel Eto’o, David Luiz, Andre Schurrle and Nemanja Matic - there is no suggestion any were aware of the illicit payments. The detailed work of the investigators – and level of Clearlake’s co-operation – is impressive. The sanctions less so. It is a legitimate debate: should a club be punished for offences under a previous owner? Yes, most fans of other clubs would scream. It's a deterrent. And the value of those players' contribution and subsequent sales arguably still benefits the club. PL also investigated “potential breaches of the Premier League’s Youth Development Rules, committed by a former senior employee, relating to the club’s registration of Academy players between 2019 and 2022”. Again, self-reported by the club, this time in 2025. Chelsea punished with £750,000 fine and immediate nine-month ban from registering academy players from PL and EFL clubs. #CFC
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"It's a HORRENDOUS decision... they've taken three seconds, it's an absolute DISGRACE!" 🤬
Jamie Redknapp couldn't BELIEVE this wasn't a penalty for Arsenal!
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An independent Regulatory Commission has sanctioned Rodri for the media comments that he made after Manchester City’s Premier League game against Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday 1 February.
Full statement: the-fa.com/rodri-sanction
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At least we played good football 😂😂
EuroFoot@eurofootcom
🏴 Arsenal 1-5 Bayern Munich 🇩🇪 9 years ago today! Goals: Walcott, Lewandowski, Robben, Costa, Vidal x2. ⚡️
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Arsenal averaged 31.4 seconds per restart vs Brighton.
#BHAFC average 26.5 seconds per restart this season but averaged 38.7 vs Man City (H), 33.7 vs Chelsea (A) & 33.2 vs Brentford (A).
Common dominator? They won all three matches.
Context is key. ⬇️
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🗣 "There's nothing worse than thinking your team are a little bit soft. Brentford have looked at them and thought, 'yeah, we'll have you', and that's the worst feeling"
Gary Neville has described Arsenal as being "messed around" in their 2-0 defeat at Brentford 🔊🔛👇
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This is not genuine contact from Andre on Hincapie.
Clear penalty for Arsenal.
VAR officials refuse to give a penalty for this.
Shocking decision.
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