paul cannon

Evertonian. Clinomaniac.

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Lee Anderson deletes a post in which he calls people thick for posting an AI image, when in fact it was a genuine image and the one he posted was fake. To the surprise of nobody, it turns out that he was the stupid one.

[paul cannon @jiggerrabbit]

@VincenzoGrappa Curacao away is the best kit of the tournament. Don't think it'll be worn though

[Stand Up To Racism @AntiRacismDay]

Brighton: And this is the tunnel the Nazis were stuck in…

Big mobilisations against the far right today.

But we need to build a mass movement to stop the kind of events we’ve seen in Southampton & Belfast.

Together we can stop the far right.

[paul cannon @jiggerrabbit]

@VincenzoGrappa @Jayp1281542 @WorldCupScotHQ @HMFC_1874_

[Lunwi @lunwi75]

Remember when Musk challenged the World Food Program to explain how he could solve world hunger with just $6 billion, they did, and he just completely ignored them?

[Jim Keoghan @jim_keoghan]

Calling on Burnley’s ex CEO as an impartial witness to give his opinion on whether Everton’s PSR breech yielded a sporting benefit to Burnley’s detriment

The Premier League eh?

[Alexandra Topping @LexyTopping]

I'm sorry but this is absolutely WILD. "Important witness" was David Baldwin the ex Burnley chief executive but the Premier League independent disciplinary commission were "satisfied that that did not colour his evidence" HOW? Did you give him a full-frontal lobotomy?

[Iain Crawford @CrawfordTartan]

Everton 75 years since last relegation, Burnley a perennial yo-yo club. Yet it’s the “lived experience” of the *expert witness to the panel that Burnley would have stayed up. And the independent panel were actually influenced by that!
*Expert witness ex Burnley Chief Exec.

[Terry ▶️ @TFinnAgain]

The vast difference in total cost of very different “rule breaking” for 2 Premier League clubs: 💰

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EVERTON narrowly overspending on PSR due to interest payments on a new stadium at the end of the 2021/22 season:

- Loss of league position prize money = £27m

- Compensation to Burnley = £40m

- Legal and administrative costs defending multiple cases, appeals and the Burnley tribunal = £17m

(Not to mention damage to brand, damage to squad mentality, damage to prospect of potential new signings & attracting potential managers & new ownership, damage to sponsors and massive reduction in broadcasting and commercial income)

TOTAL COST: £84m 💰

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⚪️🔵
Chelsea blatantly cheating for 7 straight years with 74 for charges for funnelling £47.5m in 36 secret, off the books payments (via shady third parties and offshore entities) to unregistered agents & player reps from 2011-2018 to grease deals for stars like Hazard, Willian, Eto’o, Ramires, David Luiz, Schürrle and Matic in order to win:

▪️ 2012 UEFA Champions League
▪️ 2012 FA Cup
▪️ 2013 UEFA Europe League
▪️ 2015 Premier League
▪️ 2015 League Cup
▪️ 2017 Premier League
▪️ 2018 FA Cup

TOTAL COST: £10.75m 💰

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CHELSEA escaped with a mere £10.75m fine for systematically concealing backhanded payments over seven years to rig transfers and gain real sporting advantage by winning 7 trophies during their 7 year period of dodgy deals.

This grotesque disparity, punishing the likes of Everton who could have - and arguably should have - been relegated with the harsh points deductions issued, while slapping the wrist of the profligate powerful, exposes football’s rotten core.. rules enforced not by justice, but by current club size, influence and the Premier League’s embarrassingly obvious selective blindness.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

It’s even more laughable when you consider the three panel members who decided to issue this ground breaking never been done before compensation claim to Burnley from Everton.. were somehow the same three panel members who dished out the harshest points deduction in English top flight history to Everton for the very same reason!?

How on earth is that allowed?

English football, rotten to the core!

[Citizens of Suburbia @CitizenSuburbia]

So: a further utterly NONSENSICAL aspect of the ruling against Everton by the independent commission is that they openly admit to relying heavily on evidence from David Baldwin to establish the link between £19.5m overspend and the 4 points extra Everton gained ahead of Burnley.

1. David Baldwin, and by the IC's OWN ADMISSION, had spent 6 years being associated with Burnley.

2. His testimony was treated as that of an 'expert' despite him admitting he was using his "lived experience". Seriously?

3. The gist of Baldwin's argument was that Everton's £19.5m overspend - which was cumulative over 3 years - could you be used entirely to support the extra 4 points Everton gained over and above Burnley in the one season, 21/22. This was without him using any mathematical, statistical or probabilistic modelling - just 'lived experience'

4. Remember, we already established that the IC thinks a PSR breach can occur at anytime, 365 days a year, during a 3 year cycle - and not at the point they are actually tested. This is 'dangerous & unworkable' as Everton put it in their statement & also highly likely why they were so angry. There is no way the rules were drafted to intend this. It also means if you were already in breach of PSR but sold hotels or your women's team to cure it, you are still in breach. Clearly a nonsense, because in several instances these "cures" have been allowed - *as long as it was done by the financial year end, when PSR was being tested*. This is a key pillar of Everton's defence - Burnley were relegated before Everton's year-end and so a PSR breach had not yet occured.

5. Baldwin's testimony is used to rebuff that; he infers that sporting advantage was gained already at the start of the season because Everton did not reduce their squad/sell players/adjust their PSR position. Not true. Everton submitted an initial PSR position showing compliance - they did not set out to breach.

[Jim Keoghan @jim_keoghan]

Burnley shit the bed at the business end of 21/22 because Everton got Rondon on a free

[The 1878s @The1878s]

The same panel that gave us 10 points have now delivered this new ruling.

The same original panel were actually criticised by the second panel when they adjusted the points deduction later on.

They made the rules up as they went along with no framework in place.

We've been punished financially and with a points deduction already. This is punishment number three.

How many times can one club be sanctioned for the same thing?

As we said before: Where there is power, greed and money…there is corruption.

[Giulia Bould @GiuliaBould]

Further info:
The same 3 person panel that gave a 10 point deduction to Everton heard this case. That sanction was negated & recalculated on appeal to -6 pts. That panel was critical of the first

#EFC now had 4 cases, 3 panels & appeal panel heard. Other cases yet to be resolved

[paul cannon @jiggerrabbit]

@Everton

[Fick Nerrari @FickNerrariLBC]

Incredible that you’re not allowed to wear a face covering when protesting a genocide in Gaza but it’s no problem at a pogrom hunting black people in Glasgow/Belfast. Two tier policing?

[Your Party @thisisyourparty]

So this is where it leads.

Awful crimes are exploited by Farage and Lowe to whip up hatred. Other politicians give ground or join them. Racism is normalised.

And it ends in gangs of masked men hunting migrants and burning homes. A 21st century pogrom.

[paul cannon @jiggerrabbit]

https://t.co/5gIbrL38SI

[paul cannon @jiggerrabbit]

@VincenzoGrappa It would never work with her. That wine is clearly not chilled.

https://t.co/PBYcJfSB0O

[Ampika Pickston @AmpikaPickston1]

Salut 🍷🍷🍷

[paul cannon @jiggerrabbit]

@VincenzoGrappa A question or THE question? #DYGHOTP