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Danny retweeted
This is really poor by @FA. The governing body is supposed to protect players. It should be disputing this regulatory commission verdict by members drawn from the FA judicial panel. Max Dowman could have suffered a bad injury to his standing leg from a dangerous challenge which went unpunished. Arsenal 16-year-old shouldn’t have reacted but his frustration was understandable. Some other players might have rolled around and ensured a bad challenge was punished. Dowman didn’t. He doesn’t stay down. The FA should have shown some understanding towards Dowman. Instead, it has suspended him for three games. FA priorities all wrong: tolerating a poor challenge and some weak refereeing but punishing a kid who objected to a bad challenge that could have dealt him a serious injury. Protect players. #AFC
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My attempt at discussing what has driven violent riots & wanton destruction in France (not without interruption). I was also reacting to unhelpfully labelling Kemi Badenoch's mention of challenges of migration y'day, as a Trump-like dog whistle #PoliticsLive
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UAE bots are out in force, spreading their false narratives.
The terrible financial state of English clubs is nothing to do with a “red cartel”. It’s because non-commercial clubs like Man City / Chelsea artificially inflated the market and the rules are too crap to address it.
Silva, Tevez, Toure, Zaboleta, Otamendi, Aguero, Milner, Joe Hart, Nasri, Walker, Mahrez, Sagna, Adebayor, Clichy.
All made TOTY during that period at least once.
The last EIGHT were in TOTY for other clubs and then instantly bought by City.
And then there’s the next 8 years.
Arteta just bought a dog and hired a pickpocket
I watched the F1 film with Brad Pitt the other day, and there’s a moment where his character asks to add something to the car that isn’t really in the rules. The FIA punishes it, but the team can still race with the earlier car. It made me think.
In F1, the best teams live at the edge of the regulations. Sometimes the FIA allows what they’ve found, and sometimes it says that goes too far. Occasionally the rules are rewritten afterwards.
Now, City. I’m not defending them. A commission found they entered into sham agreements and broke the spending limits. A sham is an arrangement that isn’t what it claims to be, so that’s a different thing from using a gap nobody had spotted.
City deny it and will appeal. But I find it useful to ask/reflect on how people inside the club see it.
From their point of view, PERHAPS they believe they were doing what elite competitors do: looking at the rules, finding the limits, challenging interpretations and moving faster than the regulatory system.
From the outside, you might look at that and say, “That’s cheating.” From inside the organisation, they might say, “We found something nobody had thought of.”
If you believe you’ve found a way to bring money in, more or less within the rules (and the commission said it was not in the rules and it was cheating), you might tell yourself you’re just being a sharp competitor.
We are all asking “did City cheat?”. But I find this question interesting too: “how did City come to believe they weren’t?”
And understanding a mindset, or trying to, isn’t excusing it.
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Manchester City were found guilty of 114 out of 115 charges by an independent commission. The comparison made is not in the same ball park to the level of rule breaking Man City have committed.
premierleague.com/en/news/472777…
Danny retweeted
If you find comedy offensive, then DON'T FUCKING WATCH IT. But stop treating the rest of us like children who must be carefully protected from anything remotely controversial.
BBC removes 11 Mitchell and Webb comedy sketches from iPlayer bbc.in/4799EIB
If McDonalds served you a carrot bag instead of a Big Mac, would you be happy if the other people on the restaurant called you insane for asking for the burger you ordered? 😂
