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This is particularly the case with American sports (https://www.thefixisin.net/top-10). As sports become more and more financed by media and the more they will want to guarantee the 'entertainment' side of things. While we call these leagues "sports," they are in fact businesses. Their business is entertainment. The NFL, for one, has actually argued this fact before the Supreme Court as recently as 2010. Being "entertainment," the leagues are legally entitled to do what is needed to entertain their audience, such as the creation and promotion of certain "storylines." Despite arguments to the contrary, this makes the NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL on par with professional wrestling (WWE) as well as circuses, ballets, music acts and magicians. (https://www.thefixisin.net/the-proof-5-facts) So I think, there are many people from a wide range of perspectives with an interest to protect their investments in sport. Particularly, with the same group of people now entering the european football scene, they will have the same thought process as they do in the states.

All joking aside, they shouldn't get relegated. Unfortunately. They have scored as many goals as the leaders and that should be enough to scrape some wins together, but they have conceded more than anyone else so there is always hope. interesting side note, Mk Dons and Afc Wimbledon both in the playoffs, what a final that would be.

Bet there is some pressure on the media, to play down var at all opportunities. Don't think the authorities liked last season, being criticised about var every week.

yes, but only if they are offside.

football has the most subjective rules and lots of loopholes perfect for fixing games. Which we know has happened in the past.

the live commentators in the link above, said it was an excellent challenge at the time.

Guess this was clearly given as offside, stood in front of defender. 😂

I think how Omo has played against Portugal, Serbia and now Arsenal. If he keeps that level up, then he will at least be the equal of Hanley and Gibson. Tomkinson is also progressing rapidly.

personally as someone who qualified as a ref a long time ago, I think anytime a person gains an advantage from being in an offside position and makes no attempt to come back they remain offside. The example about a striker being in an offside position, and the gets played wide is slightly disingenuous, as the defenders normally run back and the striker comes back onside, or the striker is walking back towards being onside admittedly very slowly. The striker made no attempt to come back onside, when both the ball and the striker are in the six yard box then he must be 'active' unless a shot goes straight in. Personally, I think the officials would have ruled it out. If it was us scoring.

Just hope Kings Lynn get promoted and they can beat Ipsh*t next season

i like Pukki, but equally I would prefer a big centre forward, who can play with his back towards goal, good in the air and can finish to boot. We missed the boat on Lukaku.

Offside offence A player in an offside position at the moment the ball is played or touched* by a team-mate is only penalised on becoming involved in active play by: interfering with play by playing or touching a ball passed or touched by a team-mate or interfering with an opponent by: preventing an opponent from playing or being able to play the ball by clearly obstructing the opponent’s line of vision or challenging an opponent for the ball or clearly attempting to play a ball which is close when this action impacts on an opponent or making an obvious action which clearly impacts on the ability of an opponent to play the ball or gaining an advantage by playing the ball or interfering with an opponent when it has: rebounded or been deflected off the goalpost, crossbar or an opponent been deliberately saved by any opponent

It's Arsenal, that's why it was given

Guessing Omo getting a chance to impress before Kabak comes in. Dropping Rashica, Cantwell and Gilmour is a gentle kick to produce more end product. Always good to keep the players 'honest' and makes a big statement that no one place is guaranteed.

I would suspect that Newcastle fans, are more worried than us right now. 1 point from Westham, Villa and Southampton having played 2 games at home. It's not impossible for 5 or 6 teams towards the bottom struggling to get to 35 points. Could be a record low points tally for 17th. When you consider there isn't much between Liverpool, Man City, Chelsea, Man Utd. Tottenham, Westham look like they will pick up alot of points as well. Either way, at least if we go down we wont implode.

Considering the first 4 games it wasn't hard to predict we would be in this position or similar. Whilst there was positives against Leicester, if we can take those positives into the Arsenal game and then next four games will be crucial for the season (Watford H, Everton A, Burnley A, Brighton H). If we can get 8+ points from these 5 games I think we will stay up comfortably, will take the result pressure off the team and give a very young side confidence and momentum. 5 points or less, it's likely we will come up short. 6 and 7 points, likely to go to the last few games.

Norwich score first, Emirates goes banana's. We stroll to a 3-1 win.

particularly when your not in the 23 man squad, he was in the 30 man provisional squad. 😂

The reputation the Brazilian authorities have, i am sure someone will be making a financial offer for their release.

to be fair to the lad, at 20 and playing such an important role. There will be great games and their will be games, where he plays well but makes one or two mistakes and people will say he had a 'shocker'. But that's par for the course of developing young players. If he played well every game he wouldn't be here.

they lost 76m in the year affected by covid, but regardless of their debt. Their model is to lose money on a day to day basis and make it up with player sales. Although, they moved more away from that model when they were bought by the Chinese.

Things that confuse me about finance. https://positivemoney.org/how-money-works/how-much-money-have-banks-created/ how this is legal.

Do the owners actually put their own money into the clubs... if they are paying for it, then why is literally every club in debt. It seems like its one big "racketeering" scam. Owners buy the clubs, loans the clubs money (hence why they all in debt) and pay themselves interest.

its the hardest strategy to get working, and i would suggest it takes an enormous amount of planning/co-ordination throughout the hierarchy to even get it close to working, something that appears to be fundamentally wrong with Ipswich over the last few years.

How is that a contradiction. It's what Southampton employed to great success (Walcott, Bale etc), Us and Brentford are trying to make it work. Depends on how good your scouting and player development is.