Will be interesting to see sin bins and time-wasting making beautiful officiating together.

There’s currently a top one and some other number of competitors for 2nd.

Until City’s hegemony is broken, we’re all just trying to get CL money to make the CL to get CL money to make the CL, etc, etc

Chelsea escapes consideration on GD.

You probably have, you just may not know it.

Fully transitioned people, many of them “pass” well enough in the sea of infinite variety of people of the sex they’ve transitioned to. Which is a polite way of saying that the variety of how born-as-men and born-as-women appear is quite wide.

And before that it was blacks, but they didn’t use signs, they just killed black people and set signal fires.

If the season is doomed, no point in preparing a payout for the current manager and a new contract for the next manager.

Besides, these guys got them promoted last time they were in the Championship.

Maybe you believe the club and the manager will do better the next time around?

Finally, because neither spent anything upgrading the squad, one year in the Prem and two years of parachutes is probably all pure gravy to the bottom line.

Nah. There are 9 above and 10 below.

If you could somehow be 10.5^th then you’d truly be in the middle.

Chelsea aren’t “midtable,” they are “underperforming wealthy club.” The difference between Palace and Chelsea is that Chelsea can hope to regain their previous heights whereas Palace probably can’t compete to win the PL or the CL in the near future.

If they ever get around to actually charging City, I think they’ll get auto-relegated. Which isn’t much of a penalty as the EFL can’t sanction them against their rules because by the time they have documentation, City will be back in the PL.

But notice the first word of the previous paragraph. I think it’s still more likely than not that the confluence of international UK relations, lack of spinal rigidity on the PL and/or FA, and let’s call them “unrecorded transactions” along with a dash of lawyerly overkill will carry the day.

I’d like to see documentation on the last part.

I say toss a 20 point deduction at Chelsea and a 100 point deduction at City. And if City don’t make 100 this season, they get the rest next season in the Championship.

Premier League. Gotta slog it out over almost 10 months.

The Champions League, for top clubs, is a relatively unchallenging 6 matches, and a handful of two-legged knockouts. Granted, towards the end, you gotta beat other well-heeled clubs, but still.

That’s 21, mate. Not perfect.

This is crazy talk.

While diminished from its heyday, the FA Cup is miles more prestigious than the League Cup.

Clubs don’t even take the League Cup seriously until they stumble into the quarterfinals. And some clubs can’t even be bothered until the two-legged semis to really try.

Not for the Americans. 1230pm Saturday is 430-730am for us in the continental 48. (I don’t know what time the poor bastards in Hawaii and Alaska have to get up.)

I discount the Asian market theory because the selections are made by the domestic rights owners.

I think getting a big game on for a good time slot in Asia is a happy side benefit to the league when they go to renew/resell broadcast rights, though.

Because TV picks the 1230 match and Liverpool does good ratings.

It’s fun to see Klopp pretend to not understand this.

If anything, the extra pyramid payments should hit the top more than the bottom.

Divide the 130M into 210 units.

Winners pay 20 units, runners up pay 19 units, 3rd place pays 18 units, etc, etc, finishing dead last pays one unit.

That’s about 12.3M for (last year) Man City and 620K for Southampton.

It kind of makes a weird sort of sense. Everton got in trouble for spending—perhaps only having 22 listed players would help their budgetary troubles.

Even that’s too good for them. I say they go to the Premier League—the Northern Premier League.