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Dark Arts and cheating when it’s Arsenal Clever, smart, brilliant play when it’s anyone else Sky, The FA & PGMOL are in each others pockets. Until you get rid of these biased people the game will get worse and worse

Sport has a corruption problem. A helicopter carrying the former South Africa cricket captain, Hansie Cronje, fell out of the sky, killing him, after he tried to stop fixing matches. Tennis has had its scandals too. Cricket and tennis responded by setting up the Anti-Corruption Unit and Tennis Integrity Unit. Football has a betting problem. Look at Ivan Toney. Look at how many players are bankrupt within five years of retiring. Fifty percent. That’s not down to bad investments alone. I happen to know for a fact that a household-name former referee was internally reprimanded by PGMOL for breaching betting regulations. Now we have a PGMOL whose referees make up their own interpretations of the laws from week to week with no regard to consistency. We have a PGMOL that engages in open conflicts of interest like appointing Liverpool-based and Liverpool-supporting match officials in a game involving their next opposition. With inevitable consequences. We have a PGMOL that draws its match officials almost exclusively from the north of England. Almost exclusively - to the point of the exceptions to this rule being tokenism - from white, working-class backgrounds. Contrast this with the teachers, lawyers and accountants who referee in Uefa competitions. This homogenous absence of diversity would be sanctioned in any corporate structure. We have a PGMOL whose once-effective governance function does not function at all after almost a dozen years of no-oversight, one-man rule by Mike Riley. Who replaced him? One of his closest mates, Howard Webb. See: x.com/matt5cott/stat…. Who watches these watchmen? Where is English football’s ACU and TIU? Where is the independent oversight of an organisation exposed to the biggest year-round sports-gambling market in the world? And one whose serial champions are being held to account for more than 100 alleged breaches of financial regulations? I am accused of conspiracy theory. There is nothing conspiratorial about identifying a clear and repeated failure of governance. This cancer will destroy the Premier League and it will destroy English football. Yet everyone cheers it on from the sidelines because it’s Arsenal bearing the brunt of it. It isn’t. It’s all of us. Because the game we all love is dying from within. 🔴⚪️

@FedeItaliano76 Darude’s is better.

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Aston Villa X Spurs combined 11 #AVFC Thoughts?

@NathanAClark Dripcharlison

Me: Richarlison you have to stop. You smoke too tough. Your swag too different. Your bitch is too bad. they’ll kill you Richarlison:

A reminder of some of the standout signings we’ve made this Paratici joined #thfc. 💰💫 🇦🇷 Cristian Romero (loan + £42.5m) 🇸🇳 Pape Matar Sarr (£14.6m) 🇸🇪 Dejan Kulusevski (£10.5m loan + £25m) 🇺🇾 Rodrigo Bentancur (£21.6m) 🇭🇷 Ivan Perišić (free) 🇮🇹 Destiny Udogie (£18m) 🇪🇸 Pedro Porro (£6m loan + £33.5m) 🇮🇹 Guglielmo Vicario (£17.2m) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 James Maddison (£40m) 🇳🇱 Micky van de Ven (£43m) 6/10 of these are from Serie A and every single one has been a great signing. Dragusin to follow soon, let’s hope he’s just as good! 🤞

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@premierleague @Arsenal @SpursOfficial Steven Gerrard

Who will slip first... @Arsenal or @SpursOfficial?

@Crypto_Maximal @Billie_T

@Billie_T Barely won against 9 men and the worst refereeing performance every seen in the league, I'd be surprised if you scrape top 4 once you get injuries Embarrassing to celebrate yesterday as a win, bang average team

It’s mad how we are an irrelevant club yet we’ve broken two fansbases in the space of a week, both sucking each other off waffling about us for the foreseeable as well. Little old Tottenham

Its about stopping Liverpool & helping Man City. Spurs aren't even relevant, they just happened to be our opponents on the day Man City lost.

Bootlicking because the corruption happened to favour your lot this time. We'll see what happens if the status quo you are caping for remains and costs your team points.

Liverpool have vowed to "explore the range of options available" after claiming sporting integrity was undermined after Luis Diaz's goal was ruled out against Tottenham for what the PGMOL described as "significant human error".

😮 Marco Reus verwandelt einen Freistoß zum 3:0 für den BVB! 🪄 Wenige Augenblicke später erhöht Thomas Meunier nach einer Ecke auf 4:0! #SDLBVB 0:4

60 | Marco is clinical from the set piece 🎯 #SDLBVB 0-3

@RichardPBailey_ That’s awesome. You rock, SANDAG.

Of the $25 billion SANDAG expects from the per mile road usage charge, SANDAG plans to spend $0 on roads or highways and nearly all of the $25 billion on transit.

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