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After nearly half an hour and glossing over us like we’re not even supposed to be here. Pre recorded bit with Robins aswell haha

I wouldn’t usually watch the pre match guff, but had to this time to see what shit they’d come out with. Been even worse than expected.

I love Haji, but no one who watches us could say he’s our best player. Just a case of looking at goal stats and going yeah must be the best player

You’d expect even just a rudimentary level of research, just lazy.

Small thing but I’m Getting pissed off with the tv coverage already, the EFL trophy is a legit trophy win haha

That table pretty closely follows the touches and penalty area possession table in terms of mostly the same teams from what I could find, but Leeds and Southampton both have more Pen box touches than Leicester (Southampton by quite a distance despite playing a game less). Bristol’s is skewed by...

I’m shocked he didn’t pick Kalvin Phillips tbf 😂

I Was way too young to ever see him play for us in his prime, but remember him starring in the Micky Gynn Testimonial in ‘05 and thinking what a fucking player he must’ve been. Still looked absolutely class nearing 60.

I’d take a promotion via every team above us getting massive points deductions. I am not an honourable man.

Honestly I don’t think anyone has the answer (FFP either goes too far or not far enough depending on who you ask), clubs especially can’t be trusted because they’re all looking out for themselves (it’s why they can’t be trusted to not vote on a closed PL shop, or the “big 6” to be trusted ever...

But that’s not sustainable (Billionaire Coventry analogy), for example at any point Roman Abramovich could’ve cut his funding of Chelsea during the 00sand the clubs debt to him would’ve bankrupted them into non existence. They never reached self sufficiency under his ownership if I recall...

Man Utd are probably the world’s biggest commercial team, if the glaziers attempted to buy the club now the way they did 20 years ago and saddle them with debt, it absolutely wouldn’t be allowed

the “sticking it to them” eventually just ends up replacing them though, Man City are light years clear of Utd and to a lesser extent Liverpool off field and on in terms of success over the past decade. Any club with an Abu Dhabi, Saudi or Qatar unabated and free of FFP would quickly end up in...

The FFP rules were put in because a large number of clubs were overspending themselves into a black hole, or were reliant on a wealthy owner pumping money in. FFP ensures that clubs can’t just continually take losses, eventually ending up with clubs going bust. The traditional big teams aren’t...

Outside investment is fine all clubs have an owner pumping money in, however using the connections/businesses of your parent company to inflate your income to be spent on field is wrong, and ends up with teams going to the wall trying to compete with fraud teams who just write off costs/losses.

It’s financial doping because in Leicester’s case they dealt with a third party (Telstar? Or something) who had close ties/were owned by King Power so they could artificially inflate their sponsorship revenue. They didn’t have a natural growth in support in 13/14, yet their figures tripled so...

So smaller clubs should be allowed to financially dope and abuse the system that fucks every club below them in pursuit of the “top 6”? who wins in this overall race to the bottom?

Divides in business are natural, Arsenal, Man Utd and Liverpool aren’t financial juggernauts because they rigged the system. It’s because when the premier league became the world’s premier sports league these were the top teams. It’s why their stadiums are massive tourist spots and their club...

It’s the way you go about it. I don’t begrudge teams like Man Utd, Liverpool and Arsenal monetising global fan bases and turning that into insanely rich teams, it’s the nature of business and those clubs are always going to be in the upper echelon of spending/sponsors on name power alone...