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Fair play to Brentford, financially they seem to be doing it exactly how it should be done. Sort of hope they stay up there as a shining beacon to the rest of us but you suspect they’ll be back in a season or two.
Fulham’s low average wage v their incredibly high wage ratio to income is an odd one, guess that’s down to the new stand taking so long to open.
Chelsea, I can’t get my head round.
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The Game Has Jumped The Shark on 08:53 - Apr 5 with 4433 views
There's so much sympathy for Forest among Prem fans or casual fans. It amazes me. I think championship fans know what that club was up to for years and years, but for everyone else it went totally under the radar.
Bare bones.
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The Game Has Jumped The Shark on 09:02 - Apr 5 with 4402 views
The Game Has Jumped The Shark on 08:53 - Apr 5 by Antti_Heinola
There's so much sympathy for Forest among Prem fans or casual fans. It amazes me. I think championship fans know what that club was up to for years and years, but for everyone else it went totally under the radar.
As I said when I listened to the Ferdinand podcast with Neville et al, it's like the Championship is this far off land.
Forest have taken the absolute pis for years. And while they're talking about all these grave injustices their play-off final never gets mentioned.
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The Game Has Jumped The Shark on 09:40 - Apr 5 with 4238 views
The Game Has Jumped The Shark on 07:55 - Apr 5 by stevec
Fair play to Brentford, financially they seem to be doing it exactly how it should be done. Sort of hope they stay up there as a shining beacon to the rest of us but you suspect they’ll be back in a season or two.
Fulham’s low average wage v their incredibly high wage ratio to income is an odd one, guess that’s down to the new stand taking so long to open.
Chelsea, I can’t get my head round.
Brentford will be getting big money for Toney this summer and probably Raya as well as he's only on loan at the moment. Their owner is a genius
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The Game Has Jumped The Shark on 10:57 - Apr 5 with 4002 views
The Game Has Jumped The Shark on 08:53 - Apr 5 by Antti_Heinola
There's so much sympathy for Forest among Prem fans or casual fans. It amazes me. I think championship fans know what that club was up to for years and years, but for everyone else it went totally under the radar.
Forest fan got a lot of stick on the latest episode of the Stick to Football podcast. His argument was that Forest avoided relegation last season so they were right to cheat and breach FFP.
Carragher and Neville rightly pointed out that they gained an unfair advantage over the teams that were relegated and the likes of Luton, Sheff Utd and Burnley this season.
One of the many problems with this situation is how can you properly punish clubs that have gained an inherent advantage over those that have abided by the rules.
The likes of Chelsea and Man City have basically laid the foundations and set themselves up as big clubs for years to come by cheating. Even if you relegate them they’ll be straight back and any fine is going to be a drop in the ocean for their owners.
We also now have a situation whereby clubs like Aston Villa are looking at the points deductions handed to Everton and Forest and considering whether they’re better off breaching the rules and taking a points deduction or selling a key player like Ollie Watkins.
I’d suggest that keeping Watkins is worth more than 4/6 points over a season so no prizes for the conclusion they’re likely to reach.
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The Game Has Jumped The Shark on 12:54 - Apr 5 with 3770 views
There's an article in the Times today discussing Everton's challenges with more points deductions possible next week. Currently £330M in debt and someone needs to put in £30M every month to keep them going!
I struggle to understand why there are not more grown-ups in the room to stop teams getting in this depth of trouble.
The Game Has Jumped The Shark on 12:54 - Apr 5 by Lanhoop
There's an article in the Times today discussing Everton's challenges with more points deductions possible next week. Currently £330M in debt and someone needs to put in £30M every month to keep them going!
I struggle to understand why there are not more grown-ups in the room to stop teams getting in this depth of trouble.
Thats what gets me, they lose millions every month and then get the hump saying they should be allowed to do that and lose even more money
It's absolute madness
I'd give a points deduction for the following year, if you are say West Ham and are in danger of losing 6 points this year you probably take it as it means nothing but losing it next year and starting the season 6 points behind everyone else that has a big impact on who wants to sign for you, and the sort of season you are going to have
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The Game Has Jumped The Shark on 13:36 - Apr 5 with 3606 views
The Game Has Jumped The Shark on 13:34 - Apr 5 by daveB
Thats what gets me, they lose millions every month and then get the hump saying they should be allowed to do that and lose even more money
It's absolute madness
I'd give a points deduction for the following year, if you are say West Ham and are in danger of losing 6 points this year you probably take it as it means nothing but losing it next year and starting the season 6 points behind everyone else that has a big impact on who wants to sign for you, and the sort of season you are going to have
Problem with that is the relegated teams who may have finished within 5 points of West Ham would definitely have the right hump
QPR - "shit but local"
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The Game Has Jumped The Shark on 13:57 - Apr 5 with 3553 views
I hate greed and corruption in all forms and there's so much of that about. So I find the reports on the shocking malfeasance in football depressing.
Back in the day when as a kid I fell in love with the game, football wasn't squeaky clean but it was light years away from what it is today. What was a sport for the ordinary person in the street has been turned into money laundering or a political tool.
The rich have ruined the game we love.
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The Game Has Jumped The Shark on 20:57 - Apr 5 with 3284 views
I'm baffled by It all to the point whereby I don't care when In reality I do.
All I ever wanted to do Is watch football on a Saturday afternoon and If I could make the journey after work sometimes the mid week games.
I sometimes watch the Prem goals on the old laptop because It's free from those awful people at Sky, but invariably when It's finished I just sort of grunt, yes I've mentioned this before but the morning after we last got relegated I was on the phone to Sky ranting and raving whilst cancelling my subscription and blaming them for us getting relegated.
I've never been back to Sky and never will, I don't know much about nothing really but stating the bloody obvious football Is obsessed with money nowadays and that Is not a good thing.
I don't have any answers or solutions either.
They're you go.
My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.
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The Game Has Jumped The Shark on 22:58 - Apr 5 with 3096 views
The Game Has Jumped The Shark on 08:53 - Apr 5 by Antti_Heinola
There's so much sympathy for Forest among Prem fans or casual fans. It amazes me. I think championship fans know what that club was up to for years and years, but for everyone else it went totally under the radar.
F**king deluded. That’s what winning two European cup before half their fan base was born. Used to have a soft spot for Forest but a bit like Leeds feel they have a devine right to be in the premier league despite having spent a combined total of 30 odd years or so of not being in it.
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The Game Has Jumped The Shark on 00:23 - Apr 8 with 2690 views
The Game Has Jumped The Shark on 13:57 - Apr 5 by dmm
I hate greed and corruption in all forms and there's so much of that about. So I find the reports on the shocking malfeasance in football depressing.
Back in the day when as a kid I fell in love with the game, football wasn't squeaky clean but it was light years away from what it is today. What was a sport for the ordinary person in the street has been turned into money laundering or a political tool.
The rich have ruined the game we love.
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Was reading yesterday that Spurs sell a thousand Son shirts every matchday. It really brought home to me the chasm between us and the likes of Spurs now. They're global brands and I don't see how you put the genie back in the bottle. A club like Everton can't compete, yet they were winning titles as recently as the 1980s.
A European Super League looks inevitable, which will then become a global one.
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The Game Has Jumped The Shark on 11:07 - Apr 8 with 2430 views
The Game Has Jumped The Shark on 09:39 - Apr 8 by Wegerles_Stairs
Was reading yesterday that Spurs sell a thousand Son shirts every matchday. It really brought home to me the chasm between us and the likes of Spurs now. They're global brands and I don't see how you put the genie back in the bottle. A club like Everton can't compete, yet they were winning titles as recently as the 1980s.
A European Super League looks inevitable, which will then become a global one.
And yet - we've won more trophies since Spurs last won a trophy.
The Game Has Jumped The Shark on 09:39 - Apr 8 by Wegerles_Stairs
Was reading yesterday that Spurs sell a thousand Son shirts every matchday. It really brought home to me the chasm between us and the likes of Spurs now. They're global brands and I don't see how you put the genie back in the bottle. A club like Everton can't compete, yet they were winning titles as recently as the 1980s.
A European Super League looks inevitable, which will then become a global one.
There is no real gain for a European Super League for English clubs, they currently have a massive advantage with the tv deals and commercial money over other European teams, to leave that behind and join a league without that advantage would be stupid
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The Game Has Jumped The Shark on 13:28 - Apr 8 with 2252 views
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