Mark Godfrey
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Mark Godfrey
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The last turkey in the shop
Katılım Ekim 2019
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🐕🦺 We spent a great hour or so chatting to @MrAndrewCotter for the latest episode. There was even a cameo from Olive! Out soon.

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We are recording again this week and we'll be joined by @MrAndrewCotter
Out next week!
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Imagine going to In N Out and randomly seeing Michael B Jordan with his Oscar
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Michael B Jordan on stage with his Oscar
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@Chelsearory Could have ended this tweet at the first full stop.
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Chelsea are a disgrace. This ridiculously-named ‘project’ has failed on every conceivable level. Run by incompetent, arrogant morons, they have eviscerated the country’s most successful football set-up this century in just a few years. They openly mock our club’s fans, history, culture and are dead set on erasing all of that. BlueCo are the worst thing to ever happen to Chelsea and anyone associated with them or supporting them should be ashamed.
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@jdot_bizzle @jim_keoghan Find us the court records and we'll have a look.
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@TheAthleticFC @SJohnsonSport When his tenure inevitably comes to an end in October, he'll look back at this as an absolute highlight.
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Liam Rosenior has hinted Chelsea will stop doing a team huddle over the ball in the centre circle before a game kicks off from now on.
More from @sjohnsonsport
nytimes.com/athletic/71223…

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The self-exceptionalists have moved into new territory.
30 Years Red@30YearsRed
When Anfield boos, I always think it means a little bit more. Not done lightly.
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@andyj60 @henrywinter We'd all be happy if Chelsea went out of business. Malevolent force in English football since your Russian friend came over to clean his cash.
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@henrywinter You wouldn't be happy unless they forced the club out of business
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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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@Chris78Williams Flat-White and Cappuccino sounds like Chelsea centre back transfer targets.
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Here they are with their Hodgson delusion again. What are they like, eh?
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@GorgonDr Was waiting for a few people like you to comment. I sat through the Hodgson days easier than watching this Slot side.
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@petermorris1878 @daviddownie17 We would probably be better off if Beto scouted Stevie Wonder!
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@thatmarkgodfrey @daviddownie17 Yeah. Did Stevie Wonder scout Beto?
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We’ve made some horrendous transfer comings and goings, but selling Onana for £50 million was outstanding business. #EFC
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@AndyBodfish @colinkeose Two great players with the world at their feet around 1991 but, arguably, neither fulfilled their massive potential for a variety of reasons.
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