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Cordial reminder that PSQ - your European champions - are like Manchester City. See @tariqpanja.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/s...

Not surprised Dembele felt his hamstring. He must be knackered, playing 18 straight minutes of football. He'll be a real miss against *checks notes* Lyon, Le Havre, Troyes, Nice and L’Orient in Ligue Un.

Amazing how it’s only our job to entertain

For all this chatter Manchester City were only spending and have only spent as much as - or less! - than others...it's just not true

"They [Man City] bought all my players!" 🙃 "If there’s no respect for the rules then it’s not real sport!" 😤 Back to this classic Arsene Wenger interview on FFP 🧠

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Following the news that Manchester City FC has been found guilty of 114 breaches of the PL's rules and regulations, @josimarfootball.bsky.social has lifted the paywall on articles of ours focusing on MCFC and its commercial partners since 2018. Links follow in this thread.

We have taken down our paywall for 48 hours - for you to enjoy some of our reporting about Manchester City. First up - The men behind Manchester City: The dark side By @ncgeehan.bsky.social josimarfootball.com/2018/08/10/t...

Rooney “Arsenal were absolutely robbed tonight, there’s no other way to put it. Look at that foul on Madueke in the box; it’s a stonewall, 100% penalty.How the referee or VAR hasn't given that is beyond me, and it completely changes the dynamic of a Champions League final…..

Why did Labour drop Slapps? Well for three years a discreet group of London's top libel solicitors - members of whom have acted for clients including Russian oligarchs, the disgraced peer Michelle Mone and Jeffrey Epstein - has quietly lobbied ministers and civil servants to kill reform.

It is the marginal pricing system used to determine the wholesale price of electricty that ensures that people can't see that renewables are cheaper. This allows Farage to claim that it is renewables that are making electricity expensive when it is always gas. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/03...

As a Manchester United fan I rightly expect absolutely no sympathy for the abject state of my club. I will also say: Wenger's Arsenal overwhelmed Manchester United fair and square, while Chelsea and Manchester City didn't, and football as a whole is still paying a huge price for that.

Wenger got mocked and memed for years on end while other clubs, particularly Chelsea, had to break the law repeatedly to beat his Arsenal side. It is shameful but of course capitalism has no shame.

At least Armstrong was stripped of the titles he cheated to obtain…

Quite remarkable that Chelsea breaking rules to sign seven players (+ three unknown) who during their respective times at the club helped win a Champions League, the Europa League twice, two Premier League titles, two FA Cups and a League Cup didn't merit a points deduction

I've not been online much today, but did you guys catch the Chelsea news? Everything we thought about Chelsea under Abramovich was true and it's being brushed under the carpet. They were completely corrupt. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Seems to me that if a club is found deliberately to have made secret payments, over a long period, for the purpose of circumventing spending rules - and thereby obtaining an unfair advantage - that club ought to have any titles and trophies won in that period vacated.

MAX DOWMAN. 16 YEARS OLD. ETCH THAT INTO EMIRATES HISTORY, ARSENAL HISTORY, PREMIER LEAGUE HISTORY!

From @theathleticfc.bsky.social analysis of Arsenal’s finances and more pertinently, comparison with that of ManCity!! The chasm in wage bill between the two is significant even now!! Kudos to the team and the manager to still compete with City year after year!!

Important to lead with the headline that Arsenal are the ‘villains of the title race’ and would be ‘unpopular champions’ as they go up against the team charged with 115+ counts of cheating to gain an unfair competitive advantage over the other premier league teams.

Oh no! What’s causing that?!

Is it teams that can cross and head?

Well done to all involved. 🤦🏼‍♂️

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

These videos have become a part of my Tuesdays. Darkly informative and infuriating. We live in unjust times and we need to arm ourselves with the reality of the past, present and future. And Sarah and Mark are doing their best to do just that. Please watch and read.

I’d go further and say the majority of people have no idea of the scale of the problem because of the embarrassing job the media does of covering this topic. Kind of incredible when you think of the amount of airtime and column inches dedicated to it.