It’s also constantly primary school level discussion.

“Who is better, Ronaldo or Messi?”

“Can Haaland/Mbappe/Bellingham get better than Messi?”

“Is this guy overrated?”

Planet has 8B people, every single one of them is a football fan or knows a football fan. They aren’t watching Real Madrid or Man City playing each week, many of them are watching a local team nobody’s heard of. Many of them volunteer to hang around some no-name club every week to let the kids have some fun.

But no, we need more and more content about the absolute top.

Requiring a fouled player to take the penalty sounds good, but what about hand balls? Nobody’s been fouled. Maybe whoever kicked it last?

I like the IDFK idea, it converts a lot of “I can’t believe that’s a penalty” situations into something more appropriate.

I don’t think we can move the spot back, it’s too ingrained in tradition. Also you’d have to move it a fair bit for it to make a difference.

Stuttered runs, I think do whatever you want mate, it’s your penalty. Perhaps put a timer on the kick, but for me it’s not a big deal.

There should also be a rule that stopping a clear goal scoring opportunity leads to a penalty, wherever it happened. Guy who springs the offside trap but gets flattened before reaching the box has been robbed.

Perhaps there should be an intermediate penalty such as the MLS penalties. Obvious goal scoring opportunity -> penalty as normal. Someone grazed the ball with his hand while facing away -> MLS penalty.

“Okay everybody, get your kit from 22-23 out. Don’t forget not to celebrate the players who weren’t with us at the time.”

In other news, Arsene Wenger opens shovel and pickaxe shop in India.

It depends on what they are forced to change financially. If they can just keep paying people the same wages it will be a quick holiday in the championship.

It’s possible but it doesn’t seem very likely that anything will be concluded this season.

Stripping previous titles seems quite hollow to me, people will still have the memories that they have about who won what, and it’s not actually easy to change by a paper decision.

That Boro deduction… they had a mass illness, they asked the PL if they could cancel the match against Blackburn, they were told yes, didn’t show up, then got deducted three points.

End of the season, they are relegated by 2 points.

Dumped out of the Premier league into the super league

Have to admit I’m surprised. Don’t they play each other fairly regularly, since forever?

You’d think over the years they’d have lost to Columbia, a country that has supplied decent footballers over the years, at some point. Also losing twice in a row, you’d think that would have happened as well. It’s not like it’s hard to lose a match against a league with two other world cup winners and teams with a decent selection of professionals.