Jon Newton
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my smart watch recorded i did 6 activities yesterday. i didnt do any. i just went to watch leeds united. fuck knows wot it would have said if i had hung around for extra time and penalties 😂
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@HLTCO his debut goal for barcelona should be played on a loop on a giant tv screen in a museum non stop 24/7. a work of art
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When they taped the bird’s head back on and gave it to the blind kid
cinesthetic.@TheCinesthetic
when did you realise you may be watching the greatest film of all time?
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#OnThisDay in 1989
32 year old Gordon Strachan signed for Second Division Leeds United from Manchester United for £300,000
What an inspired signing that turned out to be
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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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@pwjay1 i was in the suite opposite that gym last march/april. i didnt use its facilities. i was too busy draining the all inclusive. enjoy mate
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knowing 3 wins more or less guarantees premiership football nxt year you try and win your home games. forget wot they did. for 70 minutes we were far too negative. and we got wot we deserved in end. awful
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