@themagic_tophat If the merits can’t be argued in City’s favour the next best thing is to soften the outcome, that can be a delayed release and a negotiated punishment.
After all that’s what top barristers do, they do settlement deals
@themagic_tophat You are also forgetting the part lawyers play in this strategically.
The lawyers would have multiple strategies and one could be to slow it down to allow a squad re build.
@clivepafc@joshrobinson87 Because he (Scott) and his team mates had not played in 21 days and Rice had played in Champions league (AWAY) 72 hours before the game V Bournemouth.
Context is important.
@themagic_tophat@HLTCO For Arsenal to have (on average) the 5th highest wage bill over the last 4 years and NOT finish outside the top 2 is super impressive 👏👏
@themagic_tophat If Arsenal have 20% better availability next season, particularly from Kai, Saka, Od then they will get to 90 points and nobody will beat that
@tobyasky On the other hand, the foul on Raya is something I have not seen before this season, where a player literally holds the keepers arm as he is about to catch the ball.
As De Zerbi said… ‘it’s not controversial, it’s not 100% a foul, it’s 200% a foul’
@tobyasky Look, if you separate the Trossard, rice, WH 28 fouling Havertz, they are all identical to incidents at almost every corner in every game, every week, so at that rate the VAR would be giving penalties at EVERY corner in every game
@KieranMaguire Corporation tax is small buns, the 40% income tax the players pay every year will be in the billions.
Plus the tourism the premier league brings, would also contribute billions to the UK exchequer.
Then add suppliers of services to clubs.
@DaleJohnsonBBC@J_Reck90 But the ball was in play for "part of it"? Silva was holding Rohl to stop him getting free, that holding continued while the ball was in the air. it was a foul full stop. Dale stop being an apologist for PGMOL
@Tonytonz14@Rory_Talks_Ball This destroyed the integrity of the league because Spurs players and fans knew they could not hand Arsenal the title by beating City.
If the spurs game had been swapped, they would have played City in early April, week before the season ended
@Tonytonz14@Rory_Talks_Ball 3 years ago, city had 2 cancelled games, Brighton and Spurs, they played the Brighton game first (per the rules) so the only slot left was the last midweek for the spurs game.
We all know how that game went down
@SimonLester2468 It happened 3 years ago when city played spurs (son miss)
The premier league refused to play it earlier because city had to fit in a cancelled game v Brighton
@SimonLester2468 Premier league rules are you play the games in the order they where cancelled so it’s Palace on the 13th and Bournemouth on the 19th because the Europa league final is on 20th
@DougieCritchley@TMuk_news But in those “five years” Liverpool have close to £500m higher wage bill over spurs and Arsenal and probably a billion more than forest and West Ham. To be fair you should show ALL player expenditure
@kloppomanic@Emzyl_ What!! In 2023 and 8 points clear in February, Saliba and Tomi got injured and out for the season, then Partey got injured in March and missed 8 games. Last season Timber missed whole season and Partey was out Sep to March.