The problem is, most people still (unbelievably) think that FFP is good for the game.

When folk finally realise they have been swindled by a handful of clubs in cahoots with the league owners, they will realise they should have protested after all.

FFP needs to be kicked out of football for good and replaced with an independent football community charity/board which genuinely has the best interests at heart. PL and EFL should go rot for their money grabbing, pathetic, cowardly behaviour.

Well it makes perfect sense when you look at it i the way it was designed.

FFP was concocted by by your ‘Super Clubs’ to ensure that the likes of City, PSG and Chelsea didnt ever break the Status Quo again. If the PL didn’t enforce FFP, your ‘Super Clubs’ would have left the PL and made their own league.

So no club can now transition up (watch out Newcastle) and the PL and FL only act when they are told to act or forced to act. At least 3 other clubs in the PL have broken FFP in the last few years and they have not been punished, however, and here is the kicker for Everton fans, your club has broken FFP AND SHOWN SOME AMBITION. This has ruffled feathers as with a potential new 60k stadium and new American money they pose a threat. The PL lapdog has been told to bite and so it has.

So in this sense, FFP is working perfectly by fining and deducting points when it goes against all logic of protecting the football club.

I mean a transfer ban and a cash flow management plan would only make sense if you wanted to protect the club.

Walkers hand was in a natural position though, he was decelerating (being Walker this would be a significant slowing down process), whilst simultaneously looking over his shoulder. The forward can’t recall who it was, gave him a slight nudge (just part of the game) and so Walkers hand raised slightly away from his body to provide a balancing pivot. This was entirely normal and it’s OK that players hands move up and down when slowing and accelerate at tremendous speeds.

James also shouldn’t have been penalised in the example you gave.

This is what the rule should be, but unfortunately IFAB bizarrely changed it for VAR and TV…

But this is what is totally wrong with the new hand ball rule.

Walker doesn’t want to handle the ball, he’s running back towards his keeper who is making a clearance, as a defender the last thing you want to do is deflect the ball in anyway.

He puts the brakes on, the striker gives him a little nudge, his hand moves out naturally to balance and Ederson makes a slight miss kick and the ball brushes Walkers hand.

He never intentionally handled the ball in a gazillion years, he has zero benefit to handle the ball and clearly didn’t make any move to handle it deliberately.

Nobody, and I mean nobody had any issue with the handball rule before it got changed to accompany VAR and it should be reverted back ASAP as it is farcical.