Son needs another Son to pair with

First time?

Corruption. You’re asking for it when you allow gambling in sports.

This is going to be a controversial game. Caicedo gets away with a 2nd yellow after 2 back to back foul’s worthy of a yellow, then an arguably soft pen gets given to Chelsea

Brain dead decision

It would void everything that was achieved during the relevant periods. Financial doping is what it is, doping. If you cheated to win in a sport, you didn’t win, and you may as well have not played at all.

It’s a case by case basis, depends on the player and the circumstances at the time but what tends to be mutual and consistent is that we wish whoever makes the switch nothing but the worst (at club level).

Christ, it’s like people just throw this out to virtue signal. YES we all know how notoriously hard sexual assault cases are to prove and prosecute, but you can’t use that to smear everyone that is accused. You have no idea how many of those 97% of cases were true, and you can’t prove a negative. We can’t operate a society where you are guilty until proven innocent, as admittedly broken as the system is.

The eyes of the footballing world will be on this. The Premier League better not fuck this up and effectively legitimise financial doping after FFP rules were introduced.

I believe this anti-VAR narrative is coming from groups interested in a return to the days of rampant bullshit decisions, and you can all speculate as to why that would be something that anyone would be want.

The fact is that we get more decisions right because of VAR, and should be working to improve the process in order to lessen the negative impacts it is having, which are still better than the negative impacts that wrong decisions have on the sport.

There will still be a lack of consistency between and even during games, so this will just add yet another layer of ambiguity and controversy.

Oh great, another tool for the ref’s to dictate the flow/results of games. At a time when fans want less subjective decisions determining the outcomes of games the powers that be want to introduce more. All we need is semi-automatic offsides and an improved VAR process.

So give the ref’s another tool to dictate the flow/outcome of games. What could go wrong.

Release it to who? A sanctioned individual? And you sure as hell can’t just take the money without turning the heads of all the other billionaires who use London as a laundrette.

Christ, yea lets make sure to bring in people who have long and deeply ingrained biases, that’ll improve things.

Something like that, but then they realised it takes many decades for grassroots investment to take effect at the professional level, and by then all they’d have achieved is making foreigners stupidly rich with no guarantees that Chinese born players will ever be as good. It’s better to just invest in grassroots football and wait, it’ll be a lot cheaper, more rewarding, and politically much more popular.

What losing to Luton does

It depends on injuries. Everything has to go right for Arsenal or Liverpool, whereas City can cope with an injury to just about anyone besides Rodri, so they’re best equipped for the marathon that the season is. KDB is still to come back, Salah and Partey (currently injured) will be going to AFCON, Tomiyasu and Endo will be going to Asia Cup. All signs point to City winning their 4th in a row but it’ll be close. Arsenal took points off City, Liverpool drew with them away, if both can make sure they aren’t just tripping each other up but also presenting a challenge to City then we could have a new champion.

Football is such a well balanced and fluid game, I don’t get why people want changes made to it. Penalties are perfectly fine, they discourage fouls in an area which teams can score from, an area which is also difficult for teams to advance the ball into and maintain possession in. It’s as much a deterrent for defenders as it is a reward for the attacking team. Football is a notoriously low scoring sport because it’s difficult to score goals, it’s difficult to march the ball up field and craft a shot on goal that leads to a goal, we don’t need less goals, we don’t need defenses being incentivised to snuff out chances illegally because the punishments are less severe.

Low expectations. If the expectation is that they’ll be relegated and not win many games then you have to judge what a successful season is another way. It helps that the other promoted teams are similarly poor and the other Prem teams haven’t performed so poorly as to provide much hope. Things might change if Luton continue to win games but right now people are just knee jerking after their 2nd win, which if it wasn’t for Everton’s 10 point deduction, would still leave them in relegation.