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Liverpool v City. Sunday. Anfield. Look at who's in charge 👇

🟨 Referee: Chris Kavanagh

Feb 2022: Kavanagh was VAR at Goodison when Rodri handled in the box. No penalty, and no monitor check. Refs' chief Mike Riley later apologised to Everton. City won 1-0 and took the title by a single point.

Nov 2025: Kavanagh refereed at the Etihad when Van Dijk's equaliser was ruled out at 1-0. We lost 3-0, and Liverpool complained to PGMOL. He also refereed the game where Stones' winner at Wolves stood, with Bernardo in almost the same spot.

🚩 Assistant: Dan Cook

In the VAR room at Spurs in 2023 when Díaz's onside goal was wrongly chalked off. PGMOL called it "significant human error" and he was stood down.

And it's City's first league game since being found guilty on 114 of 115 charges.

Not saying it's fixed. Saying watch closely. 👀

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@FabrizioRomano Jordan Henderson with a brace for Chelsea.
Still scoring goals in the Premier League while some people act like he was finished years ago. Fair play to him

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@FabrizioRomano Carrick's right, but the bigger issue is precedent. Whatever the panel decides becomes the template for every club charged after City. That's why it can't be rushed or fudged

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@FabrizioRomano Everyone wants it dealt with quickly. The question is whether anyone will accept the outcome. 👀

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@FabrizioRomano Honest question: if titles are ever reassigned, does it mean anything without the day itself?

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@LFC Not great news but we have some unbelievable players to fill those gaps. COME ON YOU REDS #LFC

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@FabrizioRomano Wise words. Patience is easy to say, though. Fans of every club have waited a decade for this

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@ManCity

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@old_trafford_11 @ThatsFootballTV It’ll be way more relaxed in what they can say and talk about

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@TheAthleticFC @JamesPearceLFC Two points. Two. And Rodgers' legacy at the club looks completely different if that season ends differently

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Anfield v City. Win / Draw / Loss

Drop your score prediction in the comments 👇

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@premierleague Three weeks without it felt like a season. Anfield v City on the 11th, can't come soon enough 🔴 #LFC

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This is the bit that still does my head in.

They didn’t just get lucky with sponsors. While they were running those sham contracts and hiding the real numbers, their revenue shot up from a quarter of Real Madrid’s to nearly three-quarters of it.

Take the dodgy money out and they drop to 10th. That’s not organic growth. That’s the whole foundation of what they became.

And somehow half the internet still wants to pretend it’s irrelevant.

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

While it would take until 2022 for Manchester City to top the football world in revenues, their growth during the years they were breaching rules was huge.

In 2008-09, the last before the disguised funding scheme commenced, City’s £87million revenue was just 25 per cent of Real Madrid’s. Nine years later that figure was 75 per cent, and City were football’s fifth-highest earners. Strip out the £135m in 'disguised funding' that year, and they would have been 10th.

In part two of our series looking into the financial scandal, @CWeatherspoon_ explains how City's commercial operation mushroomed and had a profound effect on the club.

🔗 https://t.co/OWJphhqzKl

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@footballontnt Delusion at its finest… or he’s got a nice pay check to spout this shit

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@ThatsFootballTV That tells you everything. A club found guilty of systematically cooking the books for years and he’s still happy to be part of it.

Either he’s completely deluded or the money is doing all the talking.

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@Romeo91298251 @Ask_of_Bigshaq @FabrizioRomano @CorSport The Premier League was massive long before City started writing their own rules.

It’ll still be massive if they ever leave. The idea that one club built on financial engineering holds the entire league hostage is pure delusion.

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@JacobsBen He’s either completely delusional or being very well looked after to say that with a straight face.

Found guilty on virtually every charge and still spinning it like nothing happened. Incredible.

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@talkSPORT Bought the club, stabilised nothing, and already looking for the exit less than two years later.
Everton just can’t catch a break with owners. Same old story.

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@FabrizioRomano Glasner’s right.

The longer this drags on, the more the integrity of the whole league takes a hit. Fans need to be able to trust what they’re watching.

Just get the final decision done.