Football Thread

ihatethegeneralpublic · July 12, 2020, 4:23pm

Terrible defending from Arsenal for that Son goal but it was very well taken, looks like this could be quite a good game.

ihatethegeneralpublic · July 12, 2020, 6:17pm

Brewer · July 12, 2020, 7:41pm

Been busy watching all the football today.

Absolutely buzzing with our result today. Daniel Podence made a point to Nuno with his performance. Neves tackle and then pass for the third was world class and if Fernandes has done it at united there would be a 3 part documentary about it on Sky.

Pleased for villa to get a result today but seeing the current Bournemouth score it still may not help, and would do us a MASSIVE favour… c’mon Bournemouth!

Mush · July 12, 2020, 7:44pm

Bournouth v Leicester.
Mad game.
Pinball wizard goal just now.
Not sure what happened for Leicester to go a man down.
Watched a penalty, went out for a zoot and by the time I got back the score had changed again and the commentators are talking about a 10 man Leicester.

Mush · July 12, 2020, 7:48pm

Wow. Just wow. What am I seeing here?

Brewer · July 12, 2020, 7:59pm

Thank you Bournemouth. The amount of points Leicester have dropped this calendar year is ridiculous. How they have blown the gap they had is unreal.

nazoreth · July 13, 2020, 6:45am

What you guys think, man city champions league ban going to be upheld? Can’t see it myself, too much money changing hands

Dent_Face · July 13, 2020, 8:38am

Just been announced that the ban’s been lifted. FFP is a joke.

nazoreth · July 13, 2020, 8:46am

Absolute piss take but it was always going to happen

Brewer · July 13, 2020, 9:08am

I’d imagine there would be repercussions from whatever the decision would of been. This puts the integrity of FFP and UEFA (lol) on the line massively.

Funny how the city fan I work with was banging on about them not being bothered about the CL anyway and now he won’t shut up about it.

Mush · July 13, 2020, 9:46am

Yippee

nazoreth · July 13, 2020, 11:23am

They fined them £10 mill, absolute joke

hugo · July 13, 2020, 2:27pm

£10 Million is a lotta money though.

wayout · July 13, 2020, 3:56pm

No it isn’t. They’re set to make 10+ x more than that just from being in the champion’s league next year.

voodoo · July 13, 2020, 4:09pm

Banned breaching Financial Fair Play rules, then given such a small financial punishment to get out of it!?

nazoreth · July 13, 2020, 4:24pm

It’s nothing to them, all of their players will have cost at least double that

hugo · July 13, 2020, 4:55pm

So you think they should be fined more than 10% of what they earn?

Honestly, as far as fines go, it’s big.

Man City is a business just like any company, just because the owners can pump money in it doesn’t mean the club should be fined stupid money.

hugo · July 13, 2020, 4:56pm

But it does make the system a joke that clubs can get away with it if they can afford the fine.

anon90826813 · July 13, 2020, 5:32pm

The point of a fine is to make it difficult for you to deal with resulting in you thinking twice about doing it again. If you can easily afford the fine then you’re not learning anything.

nazoreth · July 13, 2020, 5:33pm

They shouldn’t be fined anything, they should miss out on champions league. It’s the correct punishment for cheating the financial fair play rules and would act as a deterent in the future. What’s the point now? Why should any team stay within the rules?