Flamini Mignon

This came out in February. But the media is completely silent about it now. What happened?

That should be the last time we ever see Kepa or Jesus again

Stayed up til 5am to watch that fucking shit

Fucking pathetic

@themagic_tophat Feels like copium at this point😔

As I said, clubs are furious with Masters / Brittain. Not just Forest and Everton. Why put their jobs on the line being so lenient with Chelsea unless they need help frying bigger fish? Making a deal with Chelsea isn’t a deal with the devil anymore because he already sold out.

That is why you play your best XI. SMFH

Lewis Dunk getting a yellow and 2 game suspension for time wasting. But I thought Hurzeler said Brighton don't play like that?

@themagic_tophat What would they need from Chelsea in the near future?

The purpose of a sanction is 5-fold: 1. Protect the integrity of the league by making right any wrongs 2. Punish the culprit 3. Serve as a deterrent (to all) against future wrongdoing 4. Maintain public confidence that the disciplinary process is fair 5. Ensure consistency with other sanctions Assuming Lawton’s exclusive that the FA will not apply a points deduction is accurate, then the combined sanctions of the PL and FA will have failed to achieve ALL 5 objectives 1. The players Chelsea signed through wrongful, deceptive means were instrumental in its league position. Titles should be stripped and compensation awarded to clubs who lost out on revenue. 2. They have suffered no punishment as a club for the first team signings whatsoever. 3. This leniency serves as an incentive, not a deterrent. Rogue owners would be better off cheating before a sale now, knowing it can be priced in for a mere £10m if the new owners simply self report. 4. Absolutely no-one has any confidence in the PL or FA after this. That is clear from the discourse. Everyone thinks they’ve been corrupted. 5. Given Luton’s points deduction for lesser offences, as well as the sanctions for open offences such as Everton’s, the proposed sanctions on Chelsea for long-term, deceptive offences are absolutely ridiculous. Also, there are 2 flaws present in the sanction agreement’s rationale… The first is on the mitigation from the new owners self-reporting. We don’t know if they did that out of honesty or lack of choice. The Cyprus Confidential files were hacked in April 2022. For all we know, Abramovich was given a heads up and he told the new owners, giving them no choice but to self-report. The second is the argument there was no sporting impact because PSR was not breached. This is nonsense. It is true that Chelsea could have made all these payments via the accounts and not breached PSR. But that doesn’t mean doing it the way they did had no sporting impact. You have to ask the question; why did they do it secretly, off-book, and not openly within the rules then? 1. Parties could have avoided tax, giving them an unlawful edge… but even more importantly… 2. There was no transparency in how much they paid agents, even to the agents’ players. By paying them off-book, they could influence agents to act against their clients’ best interests, having them push their clients to Chelsea ahead of other clubs, in a way the other clubs could not because they were acting lawfully and not using bribes. And the players and other clubs would never know because they were unreported payments. The implication is those players were signed in an unlawful way, made entirely possible by the deceit. Those players afforded sporting impact. The settlement agreement and rumoured FA sanction are a disgrace. So much so, that I simply cannot believe the PL Board has authorised it without a really good reason. Something they need from Chelsea in the near future perhaps….

The refs didn't bother to check their comms during half time? Or did they fuck it up (again) at half time

"Arsenal have won 2 out of 7 in the PL, City have 5 won in a row in all competitions" the way the manipulate it to make City's record sound better

What's the point of having the best defense in the league if we concede against every first shot on target

Saka on please

@1886_blog This is how you know the media are just making it up as they go along

Am I missing something? Last week, Arsenal extended their lead at the top from four to six points. Suddenly, City are smelling blood? City face Fulham at home, we have Brentford away. If both teams win, it’s still six points. We then play before them and can extend it to nine.

You can tell how much a person knows about football, based on whether they think that 3rd goal should have been given or not

Cuck FC get what they wanted

Expectations of Arsenal from pundits:- 1. Don’t try score from set pieces. 2. Don’t celebrate goals. 3. Don’t celebrate wins. 4. Don’t defend too well. 5. Always be nice all opponents. 6. Don’t show emotion, win lose or draw.

Brilliant tactics from Chelsea. They may have lost both legs but according to all the commentators they won the tactical battle

Never knew that there could be a worse commentator than Gary Neville

They way these commentators are harping on, you would have thought Arsenal lost the first leg

Spurs out-cucking Liverpool😂

Seeing the video of Robert Sanchez telling the Chelsea fans to relax as it was only half time, made me want to talk about something that has been on my mind for a while: why football stadiums are becoming more impatient, more toxic and polarised. The pandemic changed our routines and it accelerated a transformation that was already happening in society: overnight, our lives moved onto screens. We watched sport through devices, we debated online, we consumed information in fragments and, importantly for this point, we lived inside a constant stream of opinions. And with that, something else grew stronger: extremisation. We have become less able to accept what doesn’t match our own perception. The world has turned into a place where difference is a threat and disagreement feels personal.  Even when those opinions are built on incomplete information, we treat them as unquestionable truths. The most important voice is no longer the most informed one, but the loudest one, the strongest in the moment. And football, as always, reflects society. In stadiums now, we increasingly see impatience that would have been unthinkable years ago. Fans protesting a team even before half-time. Whistling after one mistake, even teams that are top of the table. Demanding changes immediately, as if football were a video game and not a complex sport shaped by confidence, form (both appearing in waves during a campaign), injuries, personalities, the limits of a squad or the finances. We forget that coaches work every day with these players. That they know the realities behind the scenes. That progress is not always instant. But patience has become rare, because the modern world trains us to expect immediate solutions. What’s worse is that creating a toxic atmosphere no longer feels like a problem for many supporters. The priority becomes: “I want what I want, and I want it now.” Even if it damages the team. Even if it poisons the environment. Even if it turns the stadium into a place of tension instead of support. I cannot think of anything worse than your own fans chanting, “you are going to be sacked in the morning.” This phenomenon is particularly noticeable in England right now, where protests and frustration inside grounds are becoming more common. Perhaps it is less frequent in Spain, where there is still — sometimes — a different relationship with suffering, with time, with process, with football clubs and the role of fans. At Real Madrid, the whistling to the team lasted a game and it was a protest against the sacking of Xabi Alonso, or a message to the players. The following game, they had moved on. I feel that is legitimate. But the trend is spreading.  The truth is hardly any club lives in happiness anymore. And I feel it is not because football has changed dramatically, but surely because society has. The modern fan experience is shaped by constant noise, constant judgement, constant outrage. And football, which used to be an escape, has become another space where people project frustration and impatience. It’s not really about the manager. Or the player. Or even the result. What we are hearing is basically about the world we have become. Although I do feel there is another way.  I know none of this is new. But how about if we thought we might not be right. Someone else might be. Or changing an opinion. Or listening a bit more. Or considering we might not know everything. And respect our differences.