Ste May

Bald head and beard

You never hear about BritBox these days. Suspect it was just a way to get Yanks to pay for British telly.

One of the most consistently excellent British bands around.

Nominative determination strikes again.

I’m from the Isle of Man. Does that mean I’m only allowed to support FC IOM or Rushen United?

Least funny thing on TV all year.

70 and 80 year old people are generally unemployable due to physical and mental decline but for some reason we allow them to run the entire fucking country.

@vinerbrian They couldn’t care less what we think.

I wonder, Jason, whether the barrage of disgust has taken the Premier League top brass by surprise, or whether they were braced for it, and consider it a price worth paying as they prepare to let Man City off the hook too - as they surely will?

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.

Netflix when they hear about this.

Before the Russian oligarch money, Chelsea hadn't won the league since the 1950's. They've cheated their way into a position of dominance and now the rules sustain their position. Even when they cheat, it's a slap on the wrist of no real consequence. What a joke.

Unconscious?

The message from the @premierleague couldn’t be clearer. If we think you’re an important part of our brand, we’ll only pretend to punish you. But if you’re Everton or Forest, guilty of a much lesser rules breach, we will try to relegate you. Transparent and indefensible

The Premier League and the FA are an utter joke at this point. They’re taking the piss out of all of us and couldn’t care less what we think. City will probably get points added on at this rate.

Yes. Those were the days when an independent regulator loomed & the PL had to look like it was cracking down & imposing financial sustainability. Now that the regulator is in place, the PL can go back to its previous approach - remember its the *members* who vote on the rules. The PL appoints a team to prosecute rule breaches. One suspects a cabal of big clubs then exercised behind the scenes influence on the PL's prosecuting strategy. Remember PSR was introduced in 2016 and things were plain sailing for SIX YEARS until Everton were the first to be hit in 2022. Why? Well, the Crouch Report was published in November 2021 and recommended an Independent Football Regulator with broad powers. Member clubs - notably the cabal pulling the strings of the PL - wanted to avoid being regulated from the outside & Everton (and then Forest) are hit hard to show that there is no need for a regulator. Subsequently, Football Governance Bill is passed and regulator lacks the "teeth" to interfere in PL disciplinary matters. So we are back to the PL - with big member clubs pulling the strings - punishing (or not) clubs on a club badge by club badge basis So I would not bank this as any kind of precedent for future rule breaches. IE there could be harsh penalties if you have the wrong club badge. This is just like VAR, but applied to off the field rule breaches.

PL so eager to demand the strictest of sanctions for Everton, Forest and Leicester. Yet it has somehow decided paying players and agents illegally doesn’t constitute a sporting advantage.

Easier to quit smoking than to stop doing a double space after a full stop.