Chris Gates

Absolutely no punishment for this tackle yet Struijk gets red card for cleanly winning the ball with no intent to hurt opponent. Refs making the rules up yet again #lufc

@JObiedzinski Agreed, if it was Arsenal they would have hit the deck screaming and rolling around!

@GatesyChris I bet if Pascal went down holding his head, it’d probably be over turned. But then again, it is us

How is that not a foul!! Anywhere on the pitch that is a high foot! Once again refs proving they make it all up #lufc

@henrywinter It wasn’t me! Absolute joke there is no level playing field anymore just another case of so called big club favouritism #gamesgone

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

Does Carragher actually think anybody is interested in his constant droning on about nothing. Get rid of co commentators they’re not required! 😴 😴 #LIVTOT

For the good of cricket come on the @BLACKCAPS #T20WorldCup2026final

@mattylufc_ I will take yours if you don’t want it

Nice of Leeds to stick my season ticket up £77 quid again. £490 for 22/23 to £709 for 26/27. Cheers lads. Scandalous

@Lea_EFC Agreed, also CH now blocking forwards when they are running to close GK down, pretty sure that used to be obstruction but that rule doesn’t seem to exist anymore, just all the new petty made up ones we have to endure

@Lea_EFC Why is commentator praising this as it’s something he has practiced, like the perfect free kick or penalty or bit of skill! This is basically enabling all of this nonsense, making football unwatchable right now #gamesgone

Just watch Gabriel here 👀😂 ❌ Gets between Welbeck and the flight of the ball ❌ Waits for Welbeck to get close to him ❌ Dives 🤿 ✅ Wins a free kick Dark Arts FC in all their glory

@GrahamSmyth I’m sure the USA fans will love the Sunderland game as they are used to sports with continuous breaks

Leeds United to face Wrexham, Sunderland and Liverpool in the USA this summer. #lufc yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/football…

@JacquiOatley @GrahamSmyth Oh and the screaming that probably happened as well, any player that screams should immediately be booked it’s embarrassing for in most cases barely being touched or in this not being touched at all! If think this is wrong you’ve clearly never played any level of sport!

So much scrutiny on referees to get every decision right. But they’re having to contend with this kind of deceit every single match. Surely retrospective cards for when it’s this blatant?

@FBAwayDays @LewisDeighton17 One seat getting broken yeah maybe..but whole rows of them! Did the police or over zealous stewards (in a lot of grounds now) just stand and watch them do it?

The way Femerbahce fans left the Nottingham Forest away end last night. Absolutely no need at all… 🤬

@SJF_LFC @BBCMOTD I totally agree the game has completely gone mate, in no world ever is this even a booking never mind a straight red. These officials need banning as not fit for purpose

@BBCMOTD There are times when i wonder why i watch football today. This a joke decision.

@TheAdrianDurham Totally agree if the game is stopped for the GK or any player laying on floor regardless if trainer comes on, then that player or captain for GK has to leave the pitch for 1 min, in every game players sit on the floor, ref stops game, they then get up when ref comes over!

Preston GK goes down late on, tactics seemingly delivered from the PNE technical area, Blackburn then go and win it at the very end. Justice. Football needs to do something about keepers pretending to be injured. Hard to believe medical depts at clubs are comfortable with this

Not sure what this team Leeds have out there tonight, Bogle is a RB not a midfielder and looks complete lost in there! Just play players in their positions! #lufc

After that disallowed goal at Anfield and your a football fan, we just need to burn football down at its no longer a sport it’s just ruined by idiots on a screen 200 miles away!! #LIVMCI

Wow this young lad Sooryavanshi is some player he is only 14!! #indveng #U19WorldCup

RIP John Virgo, great character in world of snooker as well being a good player in his day. His commentary will be missed #rip

This referee for the Newcastle v PSG is either very bad or corrupt! #UCL

@marsh97_john @GrahamSmyth I feel you and me might have been queuing up to do that mate! I would that to so many of these idiots these days regardless and then just walk off without looking at the ref! 😡

@GatesyChris @GrahamSmyth I’d have waited a few minutes and then put martinelli in the front row at the next opportunity and got my own red😂

The behaviour of a pathetic little man.

@marsh97_john @GrahamSmyth Lucky is not the description I would use! These players do it themselves all the time, done against them and react like that 🤷‍♂️

@GatesyChris @GrahamSmyth Could have easily been sent off. Dive trying to win a pen, dropped the ball on Bradley and then tried to push him off the pitch. Lucky lad!