Simon Price

[Simon Price @Sipotoon]

@Arsenalcore2 Why can't arsenal just pay up for a player who is only 26 and in his prime.

[Simon Price @Sipotoon]

@augustogrinner If that was a card then there would be no Argentina players left after 25 minutes

[Simon Price @Sipotoon]

@MotivacionesF Nobody deserves to be put through this shit for another 120 minutes. If you don't turn up the first time what's to say you would attend the replay

[Simon Price @Sipotoon]

@LMXChipotle Assist for Molina ?

[Simon Price @Sipotoon]

@Sriash99 This is a straight red card. Look at his face he has no intention of stopping. Although he looked tired so probably wanted off

[Simon Price @Sipotoon]

@nocontextfooty Understand it is AI but it's not far from what they actually tried to do.

[Simon Price @Sipotoon]

@GabrielAlfie15 Someone needs an atlas.

[Simon Price @Sipotoon]

@FabrizioRomano At what point did they compete

[Simon Price @Sipotoon]

@Pampa139 Strange to see an Argentine with fight

[Simon Price @Sipotoon]

@CarpetaMillo_ There should have been 3 red cards for Argentina in the 90 minutes. Argentina always play the victim when they are the instigator

[Simon Price @Sipotoon]

@Nicocantor1 It sums up Argentinas world cup, they have been classless throughout and it didn't change after the final whistle. Spain came to play football Argentina didn't.

[Chris Webb @Chris_Webb1]

Before #FIFA start pumping the propaganda tonight and telling us all how amazing this #WorldCup has been, let’s remember they oversaw:

- highest ticket prices ever and took a cut from resale sites.

- did nothing about Somalian referee and dozens of staff who were banned from entering the US for no legitimate reason.

- stood by as Iran were forced to train outside the US and travel in on match days.

- overturned red cards after phone calls with the president.

- Americanised the beautiful game with hydration (TV) breaks and 25 mins half time in the final

- guided Argentina through the tournament with less travel, VAR support and blatantly turning a blind due to their aggression and foul play.

[Simon Price @Sipotoon]

@FabrizioRomano Cost his country a world cup 😂😂

[Simon Price @Sipotoon]

@FabrizioRomano Just doesn't show up for the biggest games shocking performance

[Simon Price @Sipotoon]

@FIFAWorldCup How disappointed you must be

[Derek Rivers @DykaRivers]

PSR was anti-competitive. SCR is arguably worse. Here's why the Premier League's financial rules don't protect competition — they protect the established order. 🧵👇 (all in one post)

SCR lets every club spend 85% of football revenue on their squad. Sounds fair, right? Same percentage for everyone.

Except 85% of £700m is £595m. 85% of £300m is £255m. The rule doesn't level the playing field — it takes the existing revenue gap and writes it into law. The clubs who built their revenue advantage decades ago (much of it in the pre-regulation era) get to spend from a permanently bigger pot.

And here's the part nobody talks about enough: revenue in football follows success. You grow commercial income by winning things and playing in Europe. But to win things you need to spend, and you're only allowed to spend what your current revenue permits. It's a closed loop. The Big Six's moat isn't talent or ideas — it's regulation.

Now look at what happens when a club actually breaks through:

🔴⚪ Newcastle. Ended a 70-year domestic trophy drought, qualified for the Champions League — and their "reward" was selling academy graduates before a June 30 accounting deadline to stay PSR compliant. Pure profit on homegrown players sold not for football reasons, but for spreadsheet reasons.

🟣 Aston Villa. Champions League quarter-finalists. Their prize? Forced player sales every June and UEFA fines, because European qualification drops your squad cost ceiling from 85% to UEFA's 70%. Read that again: succeeding LOWERS your spending headroom relative to your domestic rivals who didn't qualify.

That's the glass ceiling. Win a trophy, reach the CL, do everything right — and the rules snap you back to your "correct" place in the hierarchy.

The league had one genuine chance to fix this: Top-to-Bottom Anchoring, which would have capped everyone's spending at a multiple of the bottom club's TV money. An actual competitive-balance mechanism. The clubs voted it down.

So we're left with a system that calls itself "sustainability" but functions as protectionism. Owners with capital ready to invest are barred from doing so. Challengers are forced to sell their best young players to fund ambition. And the same handful of clubs get regulatory cover to stay on top forever.

Competition law exists to stop incumbents rigging markets against new entrants. English football has done exactly that — and called it fair play.

[Simon Price @Sipotoon]

@SkySportsNews Estimated retail value of 5 authentic shirts

[Matty @CoopzFM]

Massive credit to Blyth Town who may be the first football club in HISTORY to have a deep fat fryer in the men’s toilets. Fantastic facilities. #NonLeague

[Wynner 🇩🇪🇦🇹🇪🇺 @EuroWynner]

Trump managed to turn a World Cup that was honestly turning into a major US PR victory into a total national humiliation. Genius.

[Lee Forster ⚫️⚪️⚫️⚪️ @LeeDForster]

From ASDA to the Azteca 🖤🤍🖤🤍

#England #NUFC ⚫️⚪️⚫️⚪️