Hobsons Choice

List the Premier League teams who've been docked points. I've just given two examples of breaches I'm sure there are more. It's unenforced and unenforceable.

Glad you said that 'cos I've always taken s**t for liking that one. Also, I was trying to find a platform where I could buy a UHD stream of Event Horizon, which is another of my guilty pleasures. I found it pretty difficult. The only UHD copy I could find was a collectors 25th Anno. Steelbook version which was, like, £110 on amazon. Anyone know of a way round. Of course I want the directors cut, but I'm not sure I'll ever see that.

See my follow up post. FFP is nonsense.

They may have higher revenue, but they still spend substantially more than they earn, and have done for years. This is the key, the big boys can get away with it, because the Premier League as an organisation don't want to penalise the clubs who attract spectators and global audiences, else they bugger off to a Super League. We on the other hand can cite precedence in the way these guys are dealt with, and as a result the whole FFP thing is functionally useless. Every now and again the Football League will make an example of some unfashionable team, and dock them points. But there has not been (as far as I know, and I'm happy to be corrected) a Premier League points deduction for financial breaches. Everton have losses of £372M over the last three years, over the limit of £105M coverable by owner input. Spurs have losses of £150M over the last 2 years, and are in debt to the tune of £706M. Their year end is June, so when they post, and given that they have just had another net spend this summer of £150M they will be well over FFP. It's all a big farce. If Spurs and Everton don't get points deductions this season (and they won't) FFP is a massive pile of pants.

FFP means nothing. Ask Barca. It's all accounting wiff waffery.

I really rate Antonio from what I've seen of him. Same for Toney, but I appreciate that your view. It's tricky in terms of depth. I chose not to think about depth in this case, as I figure some teams play with fewer strikers than others, but you could certainly make a case that Everton, Soton, Spam and Wolves are pretty limited there. Especially the last two, who are an injury or two away from major problems.

Wes Edens (Net worth 4.3 Billion) and Nassef Sawiris (Net worth 8.7 Billion) Laugh in the face of 100,000 per week.

Yeah, 'not being strong enough to take abuse' is no kind of argument. It should not be something you have to stomach. I'm sure that was an argument that used to be used with respect to racist abuse at matches, but quite rightly that's now seen as unacceptable (as well as representing a stupid ideology that makes no intellectual sense).

IMO- Better than Bournmouth, Brighton, Palace, Everton, Fulham, Leeds, Newcastle, Forest, Soton and Wolves. Worse than Arsenal, Chelsea, Leicester, Liverpool, Man City, Man U, and Spurs. The rest too close to call. Edit- Surely you can't put St. Maximin in for Newcastle. He's a wide player, no?

I just wanted to come on here and say....Good Luck, we're all counting on you.

I did quite like the first one tbf. And I find Cumberbatch pretty watchable in most things (Sherlock being my personal favourite). I just couldn't stomach the sequel. The script was all over the place, and the pacing through me right out of it immediately. There is a trope in action films (and I think Bond is the biggest proponent of this) that it has to start with a bang, a big action sequence. My feeling is that you have to earn one of those through the story, otherwise you just don't feel peril for any of the characters. Sometimes (most cases with the recent Bonds), the film then goes on to make up for this, but I just couldn't get any traction with DS2.

That was a bloody penalty

Even if it's four years of skip fire? The country might never fully recover. Of the two it has to be Sunak. Has to be. The alternative is f**king horrendous.

Your mistake there is assuming anything about this vote is based on policy. For these MPs it's only about who will improve my career prospects. That's why Boris lasted so long.

Jesus wept. Prime Minister Truss vs. Prime Minister Sunak. The upcoming runoff will be like a mugger giving you the choice of which of your eyes will be stabbed out with a potato peeler. Prime Minister f**king Truss. FFS.

I remember this fella was out a lot before we signed Ings out of the blue (crosses fingers).

Taller than Tevez tho' (looks it anyway)

Looks like recycled toilet paper. I like the Brighton one. They always seem to do classy kits.

Is it recycled?

Yeah, pretty much going to ignore them. You're expecting to hold up a preseason game against Brisbane Roar as a paragon of tactical importance. You're gonna be disappointed.

The problem I have with the doom shit on this game, is that these days with everything televised every game matters, even pre-season. People getting hot and bothered about how we play in a game like this means it's increasingly difficult to try new stuff out, and to get the players building an understanding without the pressure of getting a result. I went to a pre season friendly in 1994 against Falmouth Town. Anyone here see it on TV? Anyone go to the game? No? Cos' no-one gave a crap about pre-season results. A single line on teletext was all there was.

I'm kind of suspecting many of the people in this thread are caring more about the result today than the players. I must say I'm in the 'who gives a shit' camp at present. It's a pre-season friendly against Brisbane Roar.

Could be like the asymmetric system I use in FM.

He always struck me as a lurker

Aptly illustrating why conspiracy theories are all bollocks.