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If he stays, we might just stay up and his stock would be so high that he could well be in line for a good job and not another relegation scrap.

I reckon Rooney is going to be the new Allardyce.

Regardless of the methods of amortisation, selling the ground, etc it's obvious that wages being 120% of revenue of whatever they were is a hugely risky proposition. They're definitely not the only club in the championship doing that though.

Burnley showed what can be done with sensible spending and a plan. Although sensible financial management seems to end up with being bought by American venture capitalists so fuck knows what that tells you.

Burnley showed what can be done with sensible spending and a plan.

You get Sean Dyche. That's what happens.

True, having the best manager in the Premier League does make things a bit easier.

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Rafa sacked.

Were you genuinely suggesting that it took arsenal to 'benefit' from covid cancellations for anyone to notice? Apologies if I'm misreading something, but if not that is tangibly untrue and genuinely hilarious...

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Agreed. Everyone knows that it was because Burnley benefitted that people took notice.

I know this has been done to death, but this is one of the better ones:

https://twitter.com/luka_afc/status/1482601121634045954?s=21

Reading FC have sacked their captain, makes a difference from sacking the manager I guess

Got anything to match this collection of headlines https://www.reddit.com/gallery/s59un9. ?

All immediately in response to Arsenal's legitimate request. Any media interest in Liverpool's false positive miracle?

Take it or leave it as proof of anything wider but "tangibly untrue" and "genuinely untrue" is just rambling nonsense.

Seriously? I mean, there have been thousand of articles, op-eds, interviews on the radio, outraged talking heads and many comments on here discussing the covid cancellations and criticizing teams for it. Those articles are pretty frothy, but to claim no-one had been taking notice until the arsenal match is similarly so.

It is no surprise to see Arsenal using the covid excuse especially as it was used so spectacularly by Liverpool, Man Utd, Leicester, Tottenham, Everton and Wolves. The rules are plainly open to abuse. Fans who have sought to justify it, illustrate the moronic bias all us supporters have. Would be nice to see a pre-match request denied and we will soon see teams fielding a team to preclude the risk of a heavy default loss. The weak excuses such as 'closed training centre for 32 hrs'; 'assistant manager's dog has covid'; 'mascot has covid'; 'think of the coach drivers' will soon be a thing of the past.

How would you propose to enforce this? Compulsory independent third-party testing?

"The COVID excuse"

Obv. polygraph testing with Mark Lawrenson doing the tests.

What has been strange is that some clubs have games postponed on the flimsiest of excuses whereas others with considerably ore basis for postponement have had requests denied.

OK, so that's the league challenge well and truly buried for this season (and it was probably buried even before the game. We are still in with a shot of lifting five trophies this season. One already in the bag. Three trophies would be nice, four or five nicer.

Roberto Martinez quite likely returning to Everton, with Thierry Henry as assistant.
Belgium shorten odds to win the World Cup.

Lukaku to Everton

There seems to be a slight suggestion from Middlesbrough that Derby were cheating
https://www.mfc.co.uk/news/club-statement-derby-county

Them and the EFL have both issued statements in the last 24 hours that read like they're trying to save face with the claims and delays. The pressure is put on by fans and groups who are making themselves heard and the discussions has been raised in parliament today.

Boro's claim is about our finances for a season where they lost 4 of their last 5 fixtures to reach the play-offs. No doubt if we weren't "cheating" they would've won all those matches, qualified for the play-offs and got promoted...

They're claiming themselves as a football creditor (required to get 100% of money owed in a administration agreement), but they don't qualify as this at all in the letter of the law. The EFL's statement yesterday agreed that their own rules were vague and open to interpretation. They haven't got updated in line with UK insolvency laws that came into place in 2020.

The EFL isn't fit for purpose. Boro money men need to wind their necks in and Wycombe are an unnecessary distraction.

Whilst all this is going on, rumours of Rooney to Everton are gathering pace and no doubt we'll go from one problem to another.

Rooney has definitely shown he's the right man for a relegation scrap.