Football

What next? AAR?
Amortization Assitant Referee?

Middlesbrough’s owner, Steve Gibson, has been particularly aggrieved, after his club missed out on a play-off place by one point behind Derby last season, and he is understood to have sued the league over the stadium sale.

Fuck derby.

It's not about the valuation it's about selling to a company under the same ownership.

Villa did the same (or very similar), but the valuation of Villa Park was half that of Pride Park I think.

And rightly so. Birmingham is shit.

Anyone catch that Saracens just got a 2nd 35 point deduction of the season over in the egg chasing league....hope the football league is watching

Saracens broke the rules quite clearly. Derby had their accounts checked and signed off by the EFL. Now they’ve changed their minds and are looking to punish Derby for it.

I’m pretty certain that we won’t get punished after it goes to court. Certainly not to the extent that’s being reported.

I wonder what former footballer Gavin Peacock is up to nowadays?

https://twitter.com/GPeacock8/status/1216797888140832770?s=19

Oh.

I like the way he's interspersed the batshit mental stuff with big match between Newcastle and Chelsea at the weekend.

Won't stop me repetitively claiming it's the same until everyone puts me on ignore.

Reading also sold their stadium to another company owned by the owner. Madejski Stadium was valued at £27m as opposed to £80m for Pride Park. Also some suggestion that Derby backdated the value to a previous accounting period.

What's that?
Football finances are lies?
What next, pro sports is full of drugs?

Pride Park was valued at £80m as the plans are to update it to be more than just a football stadium that is used about 30 days per year. The plan is to use it for other events that would increase revenue and the value of the property by getting use out of the venue for up to 100 days of the year.

I’ve not heard anything about backdating, I think that’s being confused with Villa or Wednesday who did something like that.

Also, Hull... >>>>>>>>>>

And Leeds 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I'm a little concerned about James Maddison. He spent a large part of today's game falling over for no reason, he must have some kind of vertigo or something.

Grealish>Maddison.

Surely Grealish has to be picked for Euro2020?!

I have suspected for a while that Maddison is the new David Bentley.

Great weekend of football

My fantasy team sucks balls though, it's so hard to predict this season!

Given Southgate has never included him in a squad, that's unlikely, no?

Walcott.

That's not exactly a good example.

It’s a great example. Never picked, taken to a big tournament.

My fantasy team sucks balls though

Our "Last Man Standing" prediction thing had people picking Man City, Chelsea, Arsenal Spurs and a single person picking Leicester.

So with none of them winning we're all back in the game. Hurrah for immense bedwetting.

Where he might as well have gone to the beach for the duration, given his role when he got there.

Don't know what Southgate has against Grealish, but if he's not picked for the next squad it will be a fucking travesty. He's currently the best English midfielder, with Maddison close behind.