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@WolvesFPA @MattMurray20 My heroes right there.

.@MattMurray20 meets. Part 1. His Wolves mentor and the club’s most used goalkeeper…Mike Stowell. Two of our finest between the sticks!

These people are halfwits. The game has never been worse, let's carry on regardless.

Lawrie Madden. Wolves centre back when I was old enough to go down the Molineux. Legs had gone but the mind certainly hadn't.

VAR is no good. It's just not. It doesn't need tweaking or resetting - it's just no good for football. Referees make bad errors every now and but so does this billion pound tech overlord bullshit. What have we gained? Nothing. What have we lost? Live football.

thousands of games happen across England every weekend, TEN have VAR. A world without VAR is not some kind of crazy thought, it's a reality in nearly all other games.

Premier League fans deliver damning verdict on VAR. 75% of 7,946 fans polled by the Football Supporters’ Association “didn’t support the use of VAR”. Too long, too forensic, too much of a joy killer, fans say. Findings shared with Premier League and PGMO. 92% of fans surveyed “agreed” that “VAR has removed the spontaneous joy of goal celebrations” (82% of them “strongly agreed”). 85% of match-going fans “strongly disagreed” with the notion that “VAR makes watching football more enjoyable”. And 83% of those watching on TV. 85% of match-going fans “strongly disagreed” that “VAR decisions are generally resolved in a reasonable amount of time”. Echoed by 83% of those watching on TV. Only 18% agreed that “VAR has improved the overall accuracy of refereeing decisions”. 72% are “concerned about the expansion of VAR beyond its current remit”. 79% “strongly disagreed” with the suggestion “that the match-going experience is better with VAR”. 67% “strongly agreed” that they preferred “watching games that are played without VAR to games with VAR”. 84% “strongly support” goal-line technology. 34% “strongly opposed” to the idea of a challenge system (two per game per team). “These findings back up the FSA's previous survey in 2021, where fans expressed misgivings about the introduction of VAR,” says Thomas Concannon, @WeAreTheFSAPremier League network manager. “The vast majority are reporting the same concerns five years on - the loss of spontaneity when celebrating goals, and an overall worsening of the match-going experience. We have shared the survey results with the Premier League and PGMO, and look forward to discussing its findings with them.” Fans surveyed of all PL clubs and all ages (Under-18 to 65+).

Agree?

17 March 1999. Rod Hull died (aged 63). He always appeared with Emu, a mute and highly aggressive arm-length puppet. Hull died in a tragic accident while trying to adjust the TV aerial on the roof of his bungalow, then slipping and falling to his death.

@MikePetalengro Out of darkness. Still pgmol ltd though. Although they do like a blue eyed boy.

Dystopic. The whole Wolves mentalscape at the moment is a dark place but me and Wayne strangely looking forwards to Championship footy. The Premier League is a shadowy place.

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.

@paddypower No, pgmol ltd stopped booking all our players in the first 10 minutes.

Wolves really woke up one morning and decided they were going to ruin everyone else's season for a laugh.

Chelsea and City cheated their way to the top of the football pyramid. The years of subterfuge and skullduggery helped them to subsequently win in years where deception wasn't judged or found. It all stinks. The PL isn't fit for purpose. Everton/Forest got points deductions.

Quite remarkable that Chelsea breaking rules to sign seven players (+ three unknown) who during their respective times at the club helped win a Champions League, the Europa League twice, two Premier League titles, two FA Cups and a League Cup didn't merit a points deduction

£47.5m is more than double Everton's breach that led to a Premier League record sanction of 10 points being deducted (it was recalculated to 6 on appeal) While this is a different charge, the commission said EFC "gained no sporting advantage" but still agreed a deduction.

Chelsea found massively in breach of the rules but of course, and to the amazement of absolutely nobody, no points deduction from the craven @premierleague. Spineless at best, corrupt at worst, all hidden in plain sight

Paragraph 135 of the judgment in the PL v Everton ‘…a financial penalty for a club that enjoys the support of a wealthy owner, is not a sufficient penalty’. Chelsea get a financially penalty. Of course they do. City will get same. Corrupt. @premierleague

@AdamCrafton_ It's nothing new. Just they have a greater reach these days.

That Louis Theroux documentary: v watchable and jolting but a bit too much ‘look at the dangerous weirdos’ and not enough ‘why are there so many dangerous weirdos and what’s the path out of the dangerous weirdos’ imo.

The world has lost all semblance of sense for money.

Hwang Hee-Chan is the lowest-rated player (6.17) in the Premier League this season (1000+ mins). 😬