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Help is always needed to change things for the better at West Ham. Whether it be the protests, improving the atmosphere or ensuring fans get a fair deal - we always could do with an extra pair of hands. Don't just leave it to others. If you want to make a real difference, then join up and join in: @HammersUnited2 @CrossedHammerPG @Chris_Mills_ @IWA1895

Utter AI shit. Just cos you can, doesn’t mean you should

Remember a Premier League football club never “needs” to raise their ticket prices for any competition they are in. #AVFC

Wireless 2015 Glastonbury 2020 02 London 2021 Brixton Academy 2022 (2 deaths) Wireless 2022 Just a handful of events that saw people gatecrashing. There are many more examples. I must have missed the tailgating at music events legislation.

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@AVFCOfficial Shocking.

Aston Villa can confirm ticket details for our UEFA Europa League quarter-final second leg against Bologna ⬇️

Disgraceful prices (again) from @AVFCOfficial

It already is a criminal offence. The only difference is that now the police will be able to apply for a 3 year Football Banning Order

What I do with some of my ‘spare time’ Thank you @WestHamWayCom @markcarlaw 👇🏼👇🏾👇🏼👇🏾👇🏼⚒️⚒️ youtu.be/eAmsDY-YLNE?si…

Our FAB Co-chair gives our verdict on the latest FAB meeting. Plenty of questions got answers. Not many of those answers will make supporters happy mind. youtu.be/eAmsDY-YLNE?si…

@CouchPotatoUK 🤣

At the London Stadium, the person complaining would get escorted out for standing up

BREAKING: Morocco have been crowned the Africa Cup of Nations winners following an appeal which overturned Senegal’s victory. Everton have also been deducted 10 points.

BREAKING: Chelsea fined another £10.25 million for hiring Liam Rosenior.

For those who are displaced by Leeds fans for the QF, we'd encourage everyone who wants to create atmosphere all game to get their seats in the Bobby Moore Lower between 145-148, and the Trevor Brooking lower 142 corner. Rather than scatter the noisier fans about the stadium, instead we can transfer that atmosphere and combine it to make one large area. Spread the word! COYI ⚒️

We are going to produce a series of short pieces about the actual outcomes from the recent Fan Advisory Board meeting a couple of weeks back. That starts in the next day or so. Our job is not only to get the questions that supporters want asking asked, but to get real answers

@KieranMaguire Chelsea - dodgy payments for world class players who go on to win loads. A fine they can easily pay and no transfer ban. Sheff Weds - idiot owner, screwed fans over, wages not paid. No one, even Chansiri, benefited a thing. Huge points deductions, transfer bans and wage caps. 🤔

Interesting that in the Everton points deduction verdict the Premier League said “A financial penalty for a club that enjoys the support of a wealthy owner is not a sufficient penalty” and that “the requirements of deterrence, vindication of compliant clubs, and the protection of the integrity of the sport demand a sporting sanction in the form of a points deduction’. Presumably the Chelsea fine (which ultimately is just a deduction from what billion dollar Clearlake will pay to billionaire Abramovich from the £150m held back at the deal date) is then neither punishment, a deterrent or protecting the integrity of the sport? If I was an Everton or Forest fan would not be happy with this outcome.

@HLTCO Damned Utd

A question for my followers… If you could only recommend one football book for people to read, what would it be?

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

City Point Felt like a Win #epl #westham #mancity youtube.com/shorts/AjSZLxO…

🚨In the Forest PSR case, the Premier League submitted: "that the 50% discount suggested by Forest is too high: it gives too much credit for admission and cooperation and would be both disproportionate to the conduct being rewarded" Yet in Chelsea agreed co-operation as mitigation for NO sporting sanction.