@DanielGarb Did Ryan have a line of sight on this, or was he blindsided an hour before kick off? You’d hope for his sake internally this was the plan a while out. Brutal but inspired.
Of all the financial shithousery that’s gone on in football, from World Cups in Qatar to Man City’s 115 charges, a punishment is finally served, on Palace for a bureaucratic detail that no one benefits from. You can’t help wonder if this world protects the super-wealthy a bit.
I can’t get the image out of my head of Ben Stokes, wearing a champagne-soaked bucket hat, tweeting this at 4am while eating a kebab, smoking a fag and grabbing cans for the cab ride home.