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Liverpool supporters replacing ‘Oleys’ with ‘Cheats’ is inspired and should be picked up by all opposition fans. #LIVMCI

It seems apt that Manchester City fans adopted the Poznan, a celebration where everybody looks the other way.

UTTERLY CORRUPT

Manchester City lineup #fpl

Given #MCFC have won every league game so far this season, there is an opportunity for every club to just ‘let them win’ every match, so the PL can kick them out at any point without breaking the season. It has the happy side effect of highlighting the mockery they’ve made of it all.

Whatever happens, there will be an asterisk against everything #MCFC have achieved since 2008, and every PL season since then. The nature of the punishment will determine if there’s also an asterisk over what they achieve in future, and whether the PL remains viable.

Feel like Iran managing to force a fleet of bombers off a strategically useful base being a massive defeat for the US has been under reported in all of this (if indeed that is what the USA is admitting).

It’s just starting to hit me how broken this football season is. Everything (the title, league places, relegation cup winners) is going to have a question mark over it until the punishment is set and the appeals are done. It’s going to be a phoney war and a dreadful watch.

I guess our PM weighing in, and Etihad Airways (wholly owned by gov of Abu Dhabi) threatening to sue shows exactly why anything that looks anywhere near state backed ownership should be nowhere near football.

Fair to say that was a masterclass from the officials. Two examples of ‘minor violent conduct’. One gets a red, the other gets nothing. Then they can’t implement their own offside rule. What a mess modern football is.

I know there is no chance this will happen as it’s in the ‘turkeys voting for Christmas’ category, but how about a progressive tax on political donations? (First 10k untaxed, 10k-100k 30%, 100k - 1m 60%, 1m+ 90%?).

That’s on anyone who felt like they were entitled to comment. You didn’t have to.

Whah whah whah - Nigel Farage 2026.

Never ceases to amaze me how quickly the ‘invisible hand’ free market true believers fold into ‘well it’s all pointless then isn’t it’ in the face of a 1% tax increase.

The Argies are going to win this on pens aren’t they?

What utter nonsense is this?

Fortune favours the brave. Always failing with the handbrake on.

I guess it’s fair to say we can consign anything Farage said about the importance of a sovereign parliament to the bin.

How does a Reform voting opera singer warm up? Me me me me me!

Little bit saddened the remaining UEFA teams aren’t discussing an immediate boycott unless the Balogun decision isn’t put back as it should be.

The big problem with the Balogun decision is FIFA are asking Belgium (and the rest of us) to go through the game believing the FIFA appointed officials will be impartial. The instant they make a judgement call in favour of the US, things will get ugly. Terrible moment for football.

A PM not based in No10 is going to ‘look’ very different. You can’t argue the average voter doesn’t want ‘different’, but I’ll tell you who won’t like that kind of different. Journalists.

France think they are so smart with all these world class players on their bench, but England have gone one better still and have left world class players at home.

Reflecting on the Brexit referendum. I think, if we gave the British people a vote on getting rid of parliament, yes or no, and we’ll figure out what comes next if you vote yes, there is a reasonable chance ‘yes’ would win.

Lectern vs Podium wars.

Ref down with cramp. Game’s gone.

“All they want to be is Irish” just about sums up the quality of the analysis here. Holy crap on a cracker.

This Healey / Defence thing is the ultimate in fiddling while Rome burns. There is no universe where the UK can spend enough to keep itself safe. Our defence is a geopolitical problem, not an economic one.

Someone made a few quid on 3 reds on ADI predict market I imagine.

A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a … leader who is clear eyed and unafraid of creeping facism. Depressed this morning, but you CANNOT appeal to these people’s better natures.

You saw ‘the invincibles’. Now meet ‘the dislikables’.

FPL towers counts minutes played like Trump does percentages.

Uncontroversial opinion: If the federations vote Infantino back in as head of #fifa, every football fan on the planet needs to end both their local federation and FIFA.

Don’t imagine you’ll find a journalist keen on focussing on this aspect of the story, but the civil service leaking vetting results as a warning shot against political appointments taking the plumb jobs off civil servants seems to be the story behind the story.

Mainly sad that Legends get old tonight. Accepting of the fact it’s time for the salary and the circus around his selection to move on. The second point will soon be forgotten, the first point never will. Wish we could have prime #salah for ever more.

Errrrmmm, weren’t Welbeck’s legs in a completely different position on the freeze frame from the graphic used to show he was inside?