Shelly

Winter is Here

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Wishing Bukayo Saka a swift recovery. And wishing Fifa and Uefa would wake up to PFA and Fifpro warnings over player workload.  Saka’s played 144 games for Arsenal and England since August 2022, often the full 90 minutes and frequently at high intensity. Something was always going to give. Saka’s hamstring has now given way and he will be out for ‘many weeks’, Mikel Arteta says. Frustrating for player, club and country. Players are very well-paid, and get the best medical care, but they remain flesh and blood, bone and soft tissue. The intense season with more and more fixtures, and with no winter break, means thoroughbred players will continue to go lame. We wouldn’t treat racehorses like this.

[Shelly @David4Walsh]

@OfficialPDC 180

[PDC Darts @OfficialPDC]

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[Paddy Power @paddypower]

Kai Havertz correctly booked for allowing blood to stream from a gash in the side of his head.

Excellent refereeing.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The new trailer for ‘DUNE: PROPHECY’ has been released.

Releasing in November on HBO.

[Bhavs @bhavss14]

This interview of Ravel Morrison still makes me crease 😭😭

[adam @AdameMedia]

“I hope that Benjamin Netanyahu burns in hell — shame on Israel. Shame on what you've done and it will never be forgotten.”

—Irish MP Thomas Gould🇮🇪🇵🇸

👏🔥

https://t.co/up4zzUFjmF

[Wat_the_deuce 🍀🇮🇪☘️ 2 @wat_thee_deuce_]

The Warriors reenact their train journey 🎥 🚃

[westerosies @westerosies]

To this day one of the greatest plot twists in television

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

First teaser for ‘DUNE: PROPHECY.’

Premiering on Max this fall.

[The Swedish Rumble 🔰 @SwedishRumble]

There is one reason and one reason only why this case is not settled yet. When the PL launched the procedure for the 115 charges, City made sure that it got stuck in the courts for almost 3 years challenging every technical aspect it could to delay it.

A summary:
November-December 2018: The Premier League write to City requesting certain information and documents in relation to potential breaches of their rules — known as the information claim. City object to the request — after what has been published by Der Spiegel/the Football Leaks.
21 August 2019: The PL issue a complaint against City, since it has still not received the documents and information it has the right to receive under the Premier League Rules and which City refuse to give the PL access to. City responds by challenging the PL's disciplinary system, challenging a technicality (only highly regarded barristers could be elected for the commission).
22 October 2019: With the documents and information not forthcoming, the PL begin arbitration against the club seeking a declaration that they are contractually obliged to provide them. The club try to stop the arbitration by arguing to the tribunal involved that the PL had no power to start it. They also claim that the tribunal does not appear impartial.
26 June 2020: City issue an application in the Commercial Court repeating their argument that the tribunal lacks jurisdiction on the information claim and is tainted with “bias”.
2 November 2020: City’s claim that it has no obligation to to pass on the requested information and documents to the PL — is rejected. It’s clearly stated in the rules that they must do so. The order to provide them is however postponed pending the outcome of the Commercial Court case.
17 March 2021: In the Commercial Court, Mrs Justice Moulder more or less summarily dismisses the club's challenge to the jurisdiction and impartiality of the tribunal, dismantling the City’s lawyers arguments clearly hinting that it was felt that it had abused the public court system. She refuses permission to appeal her judgment.
24 March 2021: Mrs Justice Moulder said her judgment should be published, in order to reveal the lengths to which City had attempted to resist passing on information to the PL. City successfully seeked permission to appeal the decision to make the information public in the Court of Appeal. So we get another delay (I think you are starting to get the drift by now, it’s an appeal of an appeal of an appeal about a pure nonsense technicality. On a side
30 June 2021: The Court of Appeal opens its hearing into the club's appeal against publication. The Court of Appeal handed down its decision dismissing the appeal.

So it took the PL almost three years to just have it sorted out that it has the right to receive the information the Premier League Rules clearly states that City must submit to the PL. After this, we know that City made another challenge of the impartiality of an experienced barrister in no way connected to the Premier League, in KC Murray Rosen. How much delay this caused is unknown.

During this time, City was also sentenced by UEFA for failing to produce requested information and delaying procedures.

I am sure we all come across City PR people, at twitter, during City’s PCs, and so forth, telling us that the reason no decision have been made against City is because it is quote “complicated“. Decide for yourself!

[ArsenalComps @ArsenaIComps]

Daily reminder

[Wrestling Pics & Clips @WrestleClips]

It's that time of the year where we say this is the best promo of all time. #WrestleMania

[Jamie Kent @BigBearKentlaar]

This game is the single reason why I take joy from every single Man Utd defeat since that day.

Corruption runs deep in this league & this is as obvious as it comes.

[Katie Stebbins @_katiestebbins_]

every time i see fellowship, i always mark out for this complicated shot tracking the uruk-hai through the woods. i get so worked up over it. always make sure to soak it in properly each time. just, goddamn. the good stuff.

[Shelly @David4Walsh]

Ødegaard is what everyone thought Özil would be at Arsenal.

[🇳🇴 @MKprods_]

Martin Ødegaard vs Porto
https://t.co/aErPC5a12Y

[Shelly @David4Walsh]

The time wasting across this Champions League tie has been astronomical.

[Christopher Hendron @Hen1996Hendron]

This was my introduction to Austin Butler.

[Anti @Unc1eAnt]

Burnley, Sheffield United, Norwich and West Brom deserve a 5 year ban from the premier league. Sick of all of them

[Every Movie Plug @everymovieplug]

Best series in recent years. 10/10 🔥