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Well worth a read: x.com/themagic_top...

SOme Analysis by Magic Hat. substack.com/@themagictop...

Check Oliver’s bank account 3 diabolical calls in the first 6 minutes of the 2nd half.

I wonder why we need financial regulation? Probably Arteta's fault... or the Red Cartel... 🙄 Majority of clubs on edge of 'financial disaster' - regulator - www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

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The SFO and HMRC should be both conducting an investigation into the club and the auditors. It's been announced today that Deloitte's in Cyprus, Abrmavitch's auditors, cooked the books enabling him to hide his assets. I feel City's auditors must have been complicit.

NEW: Our brains create shortcuts, and those shortcuts are the only thing that stopped you from loving Noni Madueke on a day when he was Arsenal's most dangerous player:

— Enzo offside for winner, unanimously ruled error by KMI — Bruno G denied pen (+ Maatsen second yellow), unanimously ruled error by KMI — Phantom pen against Konsa, unanimously ruled error by KMI — Gravenberch sent off for two soft yellows, 0:0 becomes 3:0 It's a lot so early in the season.

These tnt AI graphics and analysis are pretty cool……..

Trust the Process 👊🏻 This is a lovely announcement video from Arsenal 🔴⚪🥹

TH14 🤝🏽 PV4! ❤️🤍 What a sight to behold! 🥲

"Manchester City is run by, and in the interests of, the United Arab Emirates, a state whose appetite for conflict and violence is matched by its contempt for rules and norms." New op-ed for @josimarfootball.bsky.social by @ncgeehan.bsky.social of reboot.fifa and @fairsqprojects.bsky.social.

Gus Fring’s impact: 🍗 Built Los Pollos Hermanos into a success, creating jobs 🤝 Supported local law enforcement & community 📈 Generated millions 💵 🧹 Maintained some of the cleanest restaurant in America 🩺 Helped contributing Walter White's cancer treatment. Legacy bigger than a drug mafia.

Exclusive (if you didn't read last weekend's FT) 😉

From 2020, an alliance of three major US airlines and aviation staff unions argued that Etihad Airlines was receiving enormous subsidies from the Abu Dhabi government, which, they claimed, distorted fair competition. Not sports, not Man City it's Aviation space, same rulebook. 😂

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Martin Samuel’s has been quiet over the last day or two hasn’t he?

40 trophies have been won by 2 cheating teams since 04-5. One admitted to cheating; the other has been convicted of it. 13 PL's, 10 FAC, 11 LCups: by cheating. This goes to the foundations of football in England. Either we have a competition, or we don't. PL, act accordingly.

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.

Why is it that the *opinion* of a billionaire tax dodger who hates his country of birth is deemed worthy of a full-length feature on the website of the public broadcaster?

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Do you know what could make Konsa’s tackle even more enjoyable? Ben White’s reaction to it. Just wait for it. 😂🔴⚪ via. Arsenal [IG]

Via Gabi's IG 😢❤️ Good luck our adopted Hale-ender. #Arsenal 🔴⚪

Nigel Farage filmed celebrating illegal foreign donations Undercover footage reveals plot to break the law by funnelling offshore funds through a UK donor. Donations funded a series of widely reported polls boosting Reform ahead of the local elections channel4news.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

If you've got an hour in the next day or so, I'd recommend tucking into this before all the madness swallows us all up again: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I58-...

Bring on Meslier.

Masterful presentation and analysis from @swissramble.bsky.social. One of the very, very best football newsletters around. open.substack.com/pub/swissram...

G'mornin! 🔊🥰 ❤️🏆🤍

I don’t want them fined I want the cheats to have permanent asterisks.

They cheated, they got away with it. Can't imagine what Everton and Leicester fans will make of that.

This reminiscing about Baresi has convinced me that Channel 4 needs to bring Gazetta Football Italia back. I mean all of it. Reruns from the early 90s *and* a modern update, presented by James Richardson of course.

The American Outlaws implore @ussoccer.com to reject the FIFA Forward proposal. Stand up to this gross overreach of greed. Protect our sport from those who think they can own it. #USMNT  #USWNT #FIFA #WorldCup #fansfirst

Strongest possible statement from UEFA as they threaten boycott if Infantino presses ahead with his plan

Uefa have already released a statement on the Fifa plan “This crosses a line”

Homan saying failure to comply with laws carries a death penalty? Bookmark this for his trial.

This made me both laugh and cry...

Rice receives the news he's playing.

New! Ny! Every World Cup is meant to have a legacy, this one could be the moment when the process of reclaiming and reforming the governance of football begins. By @davidgoldblatt.bsky.social josimarfootball.com/2026/07/14/d...

A Miami-based businessman wanted in Albania for allegedly laundering drug money is suspected of faking the deeds to land where Jared Kushner (Trump’s son-in-law) wants to build a multi-billion-dollar resort, the country's organised crime-fighting agency said in case files reviewed by Reuters

If you’d like to join our class action lawsuit against corruption in FIFA, which we are planning to make the biggest in history, please click here - rebootfifa.com/sign/ - and please share.

UEFA response to FIFA's Balogun decision www.uefa.com/news-media/n...

Exactly the question I have put to a couple of them. Both *think* that, yes, there would be a case to be fought, as the USMNT may de facto field an uneligible player. We're not talking about a can of worms, but a full barrel, a firkin!

This is an excellent post. The country that brought down the last FIFA president for…..corruption, is now corrupting the laws to benefit itself.

Statement from the Belgian FA pointing out that the appeals process is a scam so FIFA can keep their decision but pretend that there was a fair ruling. www.rbfa.be/en/news/upda...

Presume you’ve seen this from the other place? Amazing.

From speaking to a few legal people etc re Balogun, there's a consensus that: 10.5 is clear - cards are issued by the referee. They are not "disciplinary measures" so 12.7 should not apply The object of the FIFA disciplinary code it is to do with infringement of rules, not on-field offences...

This is just pure, unadulterated corruption. Nothing against Flo Balogun obviously, although I think it was red, but you can't pick and choose when rules apply. Belgium should be furious.