PurpleCanary

I don't know. But given how the club struggled (and that is a polite word) with its first ever serious dealings with the Takeover Code and Takeover Panel, it would not at all surprise me if the club has equally been flummoxed by or at least unprepared for its first ever dealings with the EFL's fit and proper ownership test.

One or two Youtube "Karen" or "Sovereign citizen" clips might be possibles...😍

I am not sure that was always the case with Attanasiogate, but perhaps it became apparent that some posters here, particularly in terms of the debt/interest etc, were very knowledgeable, and so notice was taken. I made the point before that another key Attanasiogate discussion here has been about corporate governance, or arguably the lack of, but I had never seen any mention of what might have seemed an abstruse subject in the pink un until Southwell, quite correctly, raised the question at the AGM.

The words were carefully chosen. For example, mere "angry" didn't seem anywhere near strong enough...😜

Until he got injured that was the plan.

I don't have a dog in this fight, but my deep knowledge of human nature tells me that anyone told to "Calm down, bro" is likely to become more choleric and disputatious rather than less...🤩

I agree with all that. Yes, the current system tends to entrench the top teams in the Premier League, but scrapping whatever FFP is called now would also tend to entrench the sides that would have a chance of being promoted from the Championship and certainly then those that would have any hope of staying up.

I have just finished a German mini-series on Netflix called The Signal, which is as much a land-based conspiracy thriller as sci-fi. Three excellent episodes and then it pretty much fell apart in the fourth and final episode, although redeeming itself at the end.

As said at the time on the match thread, Sainz's decision-making is getting better. Which can be interpreted as meaning he is becoming less selfish...🤩.

Sainz’s decision-making seems to have improved.

In danger of getting overlooked, but it was better than many more spectacular and highly praised saves.

A pocket dynamo. RIP.

The Turkish 1. Lig. Sakayaspor to win at home against Altay. Sakayaspor, 4th, have a 7-4-2 home record, and have won their last two at home, against the teams in 6th and 11th places. Altay, 17th, have a 1-1-11 away record, and their only recent win was 1-0 at home against the team 18th and bottom. The odds are 1/6. - For the match bet I suggest a double of Pearson to be booked and Sainz (his probable intended target) as an anytime goalscorer. Good luck to all!

An early suggestion for the match bet is a yellow card for the delightful Ben Pearson...

Underrated: Long. A decent keeper. Overrated: Quick takeovers of football clubs. Where’s the fun in that?

...and some in which he is a footballer and some in which he is not

Absolutely. Who needs promotion? It only brings relegation misery...🤩

At the outset I remember the feeling was Jacob was the more talented. If there is a surprise it is that despite the players Newcastle have brought in he is still an important member of their squad.

Well done, Tilly!

Selling off council houses was not a good idea she took to an extreme. It was - as predicted at the time - an entirely bad idea, based on using greed to win votes and ignoring the disastrous long-term consequences.

And some of these ‘hills’ posters are willing to die on look much more like holes in the ground they are digging for themselves…

‘We’ didn’t. Robert Chase did.

Shakespeare signed his name several different ways and if I remember right the one way he didn’t sign it was how we spell it now…

I noticed that even at 5-0 down the Rotherham manager was still using a hand to cover his mouth when talking tactics with his assistant. It just seemed a bit of a superfluous precaution by then…

Two critical points. Rotherham fans may be even more concerned. Secondly, Breakspear was the name of the only English pope.🤩