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9, “It wouldn’t be allowed in horse racing the horses would be better protected.😊”

I’d probably have a bit of sympathy for players if they had to play giving an academy player a piggyback for the 90 minutes🙂……..Pagan

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Nil, it was far closer than that for both Derby and Sheffield, they were both going down until Cardiff equalised in the 88th minute…..Pagan

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A day off from cricket, so I got to watch the Chelsea game. Two penalty shouts for Man City, both were soft. First one the player stepped back to ensure contact with Billy the Kid, the second there was minimal contact, but nowhere near enough to make the player go down. If we keep giving penalties for such minimal contact then corners are going to look like ten pin bowling. I would suggest that Knock me down with a Feather’s reputation may have had some influence on the ref waving it away.

To answer 9, why didn’t the ref let Chelsea put Zouma on, well as soon as the physio went on he knew it was probably a hamstring and there was a good chance a substitute would be needed, my question would be why wasn’t he up and ready to go on straight away? It’s a pet hate of mine how subs aren’t shirted up and ready from kick off, it’s not like they have to worry about the laundry.

As for the offsides, once Tiny Weener starts scoring more regularly then I think he won’t be as anxious to get a jump on the defender, I just think he’s trying too hard

Tommy Tickle is doing a great job and is proving that although unpopular, Roman’s ruthlessness was probably the right decision…….Pagan

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To be honest, that’s the kind of thing that puts me off elite footy.

You’ve just lost in a cup semifinal and you’re laughing and joking on the pitch with team mates and the opposition, it just shows you don’t care and have zero respect for the fans.

Still, win or lose, underperform, you’re on £250k + a week, you’ll drive home in your luxury super car, to your multimillion £ house to be greeted by your trophy wife, why would you care about the fans who pay their hard earned cash to give you that lifestyle……Pagan

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VAR can’t and shouldn’t deal with yellow card offences, otherwise every time the ref blew then they’d have to have a review, just change diving to a straight red and at least the team that’s wronged gets an advantage……Pagan

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COVID has caused the postponement of The IPL, they really have it bad over there at the moment. The youngest should have been out there for a month returning today, thankfully she didn’t go……Pagan

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VAR can’t do anything about diving at the moment as it’s a yellow card offence, all it can do is undo a decision where a ref has been conned. If there’s one law that needs changing it’s that one, get caught diving, straight red…..Pagan

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I bet the Glazers are now sat round the table saying “this is a far better idea than the ESL” “why didn’t we put this on the table during the secret discussions”….Pagan

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9, yes Bates heart was in the right place, but without the timely intervention of Roman, we could have been in a very similar situation to what happened to Leeds….Pagan

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Chuckles, because Jose controls this site and he doesn’t want to play Bale….Pagan

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9, that’s not going to happen, rough translation

1. Give away £2 billion of your money

2. Let someone else look after another £2 billion of your money

3. Have absolutely no say in the £2 billion you don’t control, but still act as guarantor

4. Do as your told by a very small minority of the revenue stream

That’s an offer you can’t refuse…..Pagan

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Ed, within that 2 billion is the debt incurred in the purchase I presume, I would presume some of the employees of the club earn more than the owners, there’s not many businesses where that’s the case…..Pagan

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Ed, the Ladies team!!! Don’t make me laugh, they currently sit second in the WSL and didn’t exist 4 seasons ago, they didn’t have any players when they were accepted into WSL2 and then went out and bought the whole team which included international players.

Would I want the Glazers? Not in place of Roman, but he is an exception. Are the Glazers better than what Chelsea had in the 70s yes, are they better than Bates, probably.

If you had to name the top 4 clubs who have the “bought there success” label, then you’d probably go for Real Madrid, Chelsea, Man City, PSG. Who coincidentally are all in the CL semifinals.

Sport is all about being top dog, yes we’d all like to see homegrown talents playing and winning titles, but would you’d sooner spend the money and win things than have local lads playing mid table footy?…..Pagan

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Ed, Chelsea were there under Bates, the club owed millions under him, but he managed to keep the wolves from the door, and despite the huge debts growing turned Chelsea’s fortunes around, and then made his money by selling to a very rich buyer.

All the Manchester United fans seem to want is all the money they make to be invested in the club so that even within the FFP restrictions they become financially the most dominant club in the land if not world, which isn’t a million miles away from what the ESL was all about.

To be able to buy a top football club now you need to be a very rich and successful business person, and successful and rich business people didn’t get where they are by giving money away……Pagan

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Ed, so what you are saying is only very rich people that can afford to buy a club for cash can buy a football club. Let’s be honest all they’ve done is take a mortgage out to buy it, and it’s only like buying a second house to rent out where the rent covers the repayments and running costs and gives you a bit of profit……Pagan

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Ed, I don’t think Brian was saying someone won’t buy a club because it has a small proportion of idiotic fans, he was saying someone won’t stump up a couple of billion pounds to have less than 50% of it, in essence no control for a massive outlay.

If you were only interested in the team you support and it was one of the big 6, then the ESL is a brilliant idea, what the owners failed to take into account is that football fans are fans of football first and a club second……Pagan

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Strange bunch these Manchester United fans, they don’t like their owners as they have saddled the club with millions of pounds worth of debt, but when they come up with a plan to bring loads more money into it, they don’t like that either. You just can’t please some folk😂😂😂😂……Pagan

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Brian, if the fans want to go for the 50 +1 rule then they need to put in 50 +1 of any investment. The main problem with this is finding an investor to put up 50 and effectively have no say.

Currently there’s a lot of people out there who want to tell someone else how to spend their fortune, with no financial risk to themselves…..Pagan

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Yep, great result, the quad is still very much on…..Pagan

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Brian, people may laugh at the idea of European Football being in effect the domestic league, and the European Champions league becoming the world champions league, but English Football has a habit of that, we didn’t enter the first 3 world cups and laughed at the notion of the European Cup……Pagan

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