Mal Bailey

Past Captain of Chorley Golf Club 2020+21. Love Everton FC. Premier League is corrupt. The missus doesn’t realise how wonderful she is.

[Lea @Lea_EFC]

Man United telling Everton to be more “realistic” over their valuation of Jarrad Branthwaite whilst spending fortunes on players like this:

Pogba - £89m
Antony - £82m
Maguire - £80m
Sancho - £73m
Casemiro - £60m
Fred - £47m.

The bare faced cheek of Sir Jim Ratcliffe needs to be studied.

[Stan Collymore @StanCollymore]

The Football Association Challenge Cup. A long read.

The World's Oldest Association Football Competition. Let that sink in.Something to be proud of as a part of English football and cultural life.

Changes to it? Yes, with one caveat. That every club who takes part in it has an equal vote as to what those changes are. Too simple eh?

But no, several high profile managers ( who'll be fucking long gone and won't give a fuck when our beloved competition has finally been finished off) and several owners will be gleeful today, another victory for maybe 6 of 100+ pro clubs, another concession to the greed, while relegating a national instution to an annoyance.

I've played for Stafford Rangers in a Cup 1st round against Burnley, hoping desperately to get a replay at Turf Moor.

I've played in an FA Cup Final between England's 2 biggest clubs.

At Hillsborough, I ran out wearing the yellow of Southend United, with 6000 travelling Shrimpers and what seemed like a million yellow balloons. The game where I felt I belonged in that esteemed company.

Playing in the back garden, bewildered as Alan Sunderland scored the winner when Arsenal beat United in a game that epitomised the beguiling spectacle of this famous old trophy.

Yeovil, Altrincham, Hereford, Sutton, Blyth Spartans, Chasetown. Names that maybe only ever pop up once in a football lifetime for the nation but to the fans of those clubs, ask them about their Cup memories and see their faces.

We're being diddled, had over, fucked about, taken the piss out of. By who? Managers who " desperately need fewer games", by owners bemoaning having to gamble their precious boys against Rochdale instead of resting up for Real Madrid, something understandable if it weren't for the luxury of 30 pros costing a billion pounds plus an academy of cherry picked youth from around the world. How many fucking players do these clubs need to play one replay every 5 years?

If the Football Association had any arsehole it would have put any decision that fundementally changes a 153 year old tournament to a vote of all participating clubs. It won't though , because it's scared to say a word to the all conquering Premier League. If you didn't believe before today that the FA wasn't fit for purpose, now you know because the organisation that administers the most professional clubs in the land, the EFL have effectively called them liars. That alone should ensure investigation by an independent regulator, along with any number of other decisions, changes and ideas the all conquering Premier League want implemented.

Fuck you to every manager who's come to these shores wanting U-21 teams and B teams playing in the EFL. This isn't Spain where they can't populate more than 2 divisions with quality teams from across the nation, this is England where we have over 100 pro clubs over 5 divisions, where a town of 40,000 like Burnley can proudly compete in the top 2 divisions regularly for over 100 years.

Fuck you to the big name managers crying about too many games. Use your fucking 30 man squads better and play the 15 you hardly use but cost more money on wages in a year than clubs competing in the Champions League from other nations operate a whole club on! And that's without the star boys who you steal from clubs for a pittance from clubs in the pyramid and overseas that you love the idea of playing but won't because " they're not ready quite yet". Bullshit!

Unless you, reading this, do something, anything by way of protesting this obscene and constant tidal wave of changes to the English game that is ruining the fabric of a delicate pyramid ecosystem, the your children simply will never get to afford to watch what we have.

A sport for everyone, not for an elite few.

It's time to fight back. Enough changes, enough greed, English football worked well for 150 years, trust it, trust those in it and those who support it.

[Mal Bailey @MalBails]

@TPybis @EvertonNewsFeed @Danjuma Follow your own players dick head.

[Ell Bretland @EllBretland]

One club has a player on the bench that cost more than the entire starting XI of the opposition here.

Yet Everton, with their £1m centre-back pairing, free transfer right midfielder and £1.5m centre forward, breached FFP.

'Sporting Advantage'.

[Ell Bretland @EllBretland]

Everton, the Premier League's only unsustainable football club, should be three points off Chelsea who spent a billion in three windows and four points off United who can operate while a billion quid in debt.

FFP isn't flawed though.

[Evertonian. @TheEvertonian78]

It genuinely is just match fixing at this point 😂 you can’t defend that

https://t.co/fpV4Aa069d

[Solo Lo Mejor @SoloLoMejor1878]

Get ready..

[Jim Keoghan @jim_keoghan]

Back in the 1960s, 8 different clubs won the title, 10 won the League Cup, 8 won the FA Cup, 15 finished in the top four. It’s depressing how much the game has narrowed and become stale

[Stu @LordStu1234]

Impartial @skysports here. Redknapp, Carragher and King Kenny’s daughter on the panel.

[Citizens of Suburbia @CitizenSuburbia]

Next time someone supporting Man City casts an accusatory finger at Everton, refer to them to the very serious allegations in Der Spiegel. The original set coincided with a charge by UEFA only thrown out at the CAS on a technicality. There is subsequent evidence emerging that Abu Dhabhi are cheating and financially doping City.

Also, in so far as the PL is incompetent, faced with a slew of evidence they are unable to pin City down. As Der Spiegel says, City don't only have the best team in the league, but the best lawyers too.

Whatever puffed up buffoons might think, City's legacy is massively tainted.

Everton, with far straight forward breaches which are in part attributable to the Stadium, are a much easier target. The supporters long acknowledged our faults and instigated change at board and ownership level.

We do not act as hypocrites pretending to be squeaky clean whilst casting aspersions on others.

So, best to keep Everton's name out of your mouths, you cheating f*cks.

#EFC

https://t.co/RvX2e39bcH…

[Culture, Media and Sport Committee @CommonsCMS]

⚽️Yesterday our Chair @cj_dinenage concluded our hearing with the @premierleague and @EFL by noting that the Football Governance Bill and independent regulator need to be introduced 'as soon as possible.'

Her full remarks 👇

[Mal Bailey @MalBails]

@TheCliqueGroup No. She may be a poor pundit but that has no relevance to ‘giving women’s football a bad rep”. You don’t have to look far for poor pundits though!

[Matty @_MattyTurnbull]

Everton 5 year net spend: £25m

Chelsea 5 year net spend: £678m

“Financial Fair Play”

[Jim Keoghan @jim_keoghan]

Everton have spent the last few years remedying the bloated wage bill, eviscerating the transfer budget, while investing in a new stadium to improve future sustainability.

It seems the League’s response to this is do whatever it can to push the club into financial oblivion

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

#EFC surely appeal Calvert-Lewin's red. He neither endangered opponent nor used excessive force. Webb @FA_PGMOL has to restore confidence of on-field refs to back themselves, deliver some consistency as worse challenges get only yellow and invest even more in improving standards.

[Lea @Lea_EFC]

Soft yes, but more contact than Jota and Diaz received to get a penalty.

Also more contact than DCL made on the Palace player to commit a foul and ultimately get sent off.

In reality, if they are all given, this is a stonewall penalty.

https://t.co/2gr8f4PGcH

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

“Prince Harry's outrage at media intrusion at the private lives of the Royal Family is only matched by his own ruthless, greedy & hypocritical enthusiasm for doing it himself…this is a guy who has repeatedly trashed his family in public…even when 2 of its most senior & respected members were dying.”

Offft, he does have a point.

[Lea @Lea_EFC]

3 clean sheets in a row.

When will the disrespect end.

[Eddie Pepperell @PepperellEddie]

Freddie is right on the money here.

And again, the fact LIV had to stump up $400m/$500m for Jon, doesn’t show what a success story it is, quite the opposite.

LIV will remain an awful product, even after signing Big Jon Rahm.