Richard Taylor
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Richard Taylor
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The world according to Trig, its as simple as that.


🚨 Michael Jackson will be Burnley’s interim manager until the end of the season, club statement confirms. Follows Scott Parker leaving with immediate effect.









😤"Chelsea cheated to achieve outcomes!" 🏆 "Abramovich has shown the club to have cheated their way into winning tournaments!" Simon Jordan insists #CFC's trophies under Roman Abramovich must come with an asterisk after PL breaches revelations! 👀




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

BREAKING: Chelsea have been fined £10.75m by the Premier League and handed a one-year transfer ban suspended for two years 🚨 They have also been given a nine month Academy transfer ban.


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What on earth is happening with refereeing in the Premier League right now? Every weekend it feels like the bar for consistency gets dragged even lower. Take yesterday alone. Newcastle’s penalty saga was farcical. The first one goes to VAR, there’s "minimal contact", yet the player gets booked for diving and the penalty is waved away, even after a VAR review. Minutes later, there’s even less contact in a similar situation, and this time the penalty is awarded and Dan Burn is sent off. You genuinely could not script it. Then there’s the Liverpool game. Robertson ducks out of the way, does nothing to interfere with play, yet somehow VAR finds him guilty of “making an obvious action”. The same referee, Chris Kavanagh, once overturned a similar offside decision involving Bernardo Silva after checking the monitor. Same scenario, same official, completely different outcome. How can that possibly make sense? We are told VAR was meant to bring clarity and eliminate controversy, but all it has done is hand out confusion and chaos. The PGMOL under Howard Webb looks more like a circus act than a governing body. These are professionals with access to every angle, every replay, every rulebook explanation, and yet they still cannot apply the basics evenly. Fans are losing patience because it’s not just about one call anymore. It’s about trust, fairness, and the feeling that the biggest league in the world is being officiated like a Sunday park game. It’s embarrassing, and it’s killing the joy of watching football. Something has to change.







A disappointing evening as the Dragons are defeated at home. #OneClub #WeAreUnited


